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unwindabout 1 hour ago
Wow this is really cool!

Epic to see that it has "No Man's Land" [0] and really really weird feeling to read the readme. No idea why it's listed as a "17 Bit" title though, perhaps they distributed it at some point but they certainly were not involved in creating it. Source: I wrote it. Fun times.

Edit: formatting.

[0]: https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/17bit/17bit/1423

Lercabout 8 hours ago
Fish disks were an incredible contribution to the Amiga community. The impact of a dedicated and contentious curator cannot be understated.

I think a lot of platforms today could be transformed if they had someone doing a similar contribution to Fred Fish.

I wouldn't be capable of such an effort, I think few people are, and I'm not sure if it can be done in any monetized way. The motivation has to be purely for the quality of the job.

danielheathabout 7 hours ago
Debians apt repositories come to mind.
andrea76about 1 hour ago
From webpage I read: " Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing."

But Amiga has a 16 bit CPU... or not?

maffydub39 minutes ago
It's a bit complicated and it depends on what exactly you're measuring. The 68000 CPU has 32-bit registers internally, the address bus is 24-bit, and the data bus is 16.
catoc36 minutes ago
I think most Amiga’s had 32-bit registers, but a 16-bit bus. (So to everything around the CPU they were 16-bit even though internally they could do 32-bit computations)
urbandw311erabout 8 hours ago
Always fun to go and look up the very first software I sold in this archive.
aphraxabout 6 hours ago
Don’t keep us in suspense :-)
harelabout 6 hours ago
which was it?
romerstomerabout 7 hours ago
First 2 games I tried it didn't have Lotus turbo Buggy boy

Not obscure games

whywhywhywhyabout 5 hours ago
Appears to be Public Domain games, sort of thing you'd get on magazine disks
Dweditabout 4 hours ago
A magazine disk was the first time a game containing Sonic the Hedgehog was released. He was thrown into a game as an enemy character in a platformer game (Adventures Of Quik & Silva) without any regard for copyright law. This happened before the actual Genesis/Mega Drive game released.

(and no, that game is not on this site)

tiahuraabout 7 hours ago
Does anyone know of a source of the pre-release eagle demo?