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This emulator enables a masochistic nostalgia meta-game - pick a grimy EGA port of a popular 1980s Amiga title. Pick an hateful, underpowered & obscure hardwar

This emulator enables a masochistic nostalgia meta-game - pick a grimy EGA port of a popular 1980s Amiga title. Pick an hateful, underpowered & obscure hardware combo that is the box claims to support. The game is just to work out the CONFIG.SYS, HIMEM & drivers to make it launch without graphical glitches & sound crackles. Enjoy!

xenophonf 7y ago
I think I enjoyed tinkering with EMM386 and QEMM parameters or fiddling with device driver load order more than I did actually playing the games!
- A4ET8a8uTh0 7y ago
  I can't honestly say I enjoyed it, but it felt like a win, when something that did not want to work started working after you squeezed everything you could.
- rzzzt 7y ago
  I was very impressed when I first saw QEMM's quickboot feature working on a friend's computer (it skips POST and boots straight back to DOS when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del).
Twirrim 7y ago
I remember the pain of trying to get just that last few bits of LMA necessary to get "Frontier Elite II" working. IIRC it needed something like 600k out of the 640k to be available, something that was nigh on impossible with the standard MS-DOS mouse drivers available at the time. They'd take up some 20k or so of the LMA, leaving my system at about 590k of free LMA, no matter how you tried to get them to use UMA. I got given a mouse driver by a cousin who'd bought a new mouse that came with a driver that put most of itself in HMA and only a couple of k of LMA. That finally made it easy to have sufficient RAM left over. I had a few minor issues with that driver, so I'd keep two copies of autoexec.bat around, one for when I wanted to play Frontier, and one for when I wanted to do anything else.
aswanson 7y ago
I really wish I would have realized how Moore's law diminished the relevance of electronic knowledge back in the late 80s. Would have made life so much easier and happy.
jandrese 7y ago
I got the "Sierra Space Quest" bundle in a Humble Bundle or something. So I fired up Space Quest 4 like we had on my old Mac and was assaulted by the crappy DOS era color palate. Since I originally played the game on a Mac the graphics were really disappointing. On the other hand, the game played smoothly and quickly, very much unlike my old Mac LC. I know there are some quicktime[1] events in the game that were hilariously easy on the old Mac because it ran so slowly. [1] The "Press X to not die" kind, not the Mac video format.

xenophonf 7y ago

I think I enjoyed tinkering with EMM386 and QEMM parameters or fiddling with device driver load order more than I did actually playing the games!

A4ET8a8uTh0 7y ago
I can't honestly say I enjoyed it, but it felt like a win, when something that did not want to work started working after you squeezed everything you could.
rzzzt 7y ago
I was very impressed when I first saw QEMM's quickboot feature working on a friend's computer (it skips POST and boots straight back to DOS when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del).

Twirrim 7y ago

I remember the pain of trying to get just that last few bits of LMA necessary to get "Frontier Elite II" working. IIRC it needed something like 600k out of the 640k to be available, something that was nigh on impossible with the standard MS-DOS mouse drivers available at the time. They'd take up some 20k or so of the LMA, leaving my system at about 590k of free LMA, no matter how you tried to get them to use UMA. I got given a mouse driver by a cousin who'd bought a new mouse that came with a driver that put most of itself in HMA and only a couple of k of LMA. That finally made it easy to have sufficient RAM left over. I had a few minor issues with that driver, so I'd keep two copies of autoexec.bat around, one for when I wanted to play Frontier, and one for when I wanted to do anything else.

aswanson 7y ago

I really wish I would have realized how Moore's law diminished the relevance of electronic knowledge back in the late 80s. Would have made life so much easier and happy.

jandrese 7y ago

I got the "Sierra Space Quest" bundle in a Humble Bundle or something. So I fired up Space Quest 4 like we had on my old Mac and was assaulted by the crappy DOS era color palate. Since I originally played the game on a Mac the graphics were really disappointing. On the other hand, the game played smoothly and quickly, very much unlike my old Mac LC. I know there are some quicktime[1] events in the game that were hilariously easy on the old Mac because it ran so slowly. [1] The "Press X to not die" kind, not the Mac video format.