It's time to have an Amiga party as throughout the Commodore Amiga Facebook they are celebrating the 'International Amiga Day 2026' for May 31st, which celebrates over 30 years of Amiga fun! The retro community want to keep the Commodore Amiga name alive and what better way to do that than an anniversary to the day dedicated to that great system with all the games being played, and hardware being used from the A500 to the A1200, to the CD32 to the A4000. If you lived during that era of gaming then it was one of the greatest moments in our retro history.
In 2014 when the party came to be, it turned out to be a global event with people from all around the world turning on their retro systems either to play them once more from their childhood or just to give them a new look with a mod or retrobright. However with fantastic news came sadness as the original creator Dragon “Gyu” Gyorgy sadly passed away at the beginning of 2015. He was both a friend to me and to many others, so with this news, lets not just celebrate the Amiga but celebrate the great Dragon Gyorgy who was the inspiration behind the original Amiga day.
On Amiga Day do any of the following Amiga activities:
- - You must switch on at least 1 Amiga computer.
- - You must run at least 1 Amiga game (emulator is accepted).
- - You must „whiten” a yellowed Amiga.
- - You must give your non-working Amiga to a technician, who can make a working machine out of the non-working ones. Lather on the reborn working Amiga must be donated.
- - In case you are a technician you must make at least one Amiga working from non-working Amigas.
- - If you have an Amiga T-Shirt, you must wear it.
- - If none of the above you can make a photo of yourself with an Amiga and share it with your friends on any social networks.
- - Or whatever Amiga related activity you like...
I feel like the Amiga (rightfully so) is the most popular retro computer, probably because the Amiga was always ahead of curve anyway.
ReplyDeleteIn celebration of this year's Amiga Day, i made a text adventure :)
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I will do all of the above. I'll break an amiga to be able to fix it again, while running a game on the emulator, pouring acid on the plastic while wearing my amiga t-shirt, making sure I'm taking a pic of that. Then I'll play on the repaired amiga.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I am wearing an Amiga Floppy Disc T-Shirt today and I have just finished Hero Quest 2 on the Amiga CD32. Oh and my A500 still look nice and white with matching keyboard :)
ReplyDeleteAmiga was way ahead of time and I think it was the starting point for most games.
ReplyDeleteAmiga forever!
ReplyDeleteMy 500 has passed away, but I can legally emulate on the 500 mini. I also have an Amiga sponsored Chelsea football jersey I outbid everyone for £46 quid on eBay over 20 years ago, and I live in Kansas, US. Had to compete with local fans in the UK. Plus has anyone ever beat Stryx? The ROM copy was poisoned with the programmer’s diabolical in-house variable write speed that made the game impossible, Even if you lived long enough dodging extra enemy soldiers spawning, and find the exit, it won’t open. Only original disks on original hardware will work. Then it’s still almost completely impossible to beat. I saw a UK player on YouTube who was able to make it to more domes than I even could, and he said he knows of no one who has come close to beating it on the Amiga version. Psyclapse was diabolical, and the intro said there was an amazing 500k victory screen that no one knows anyone who has seen it.
ReplyDeleteYou got your money’s worth with Psygnosis and Psyclapse games lol