tasty new amiga groovebox just dropped

[cognessence@social.linux.pizza]

@oscillik @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee I'll be honest - I just put my favourite games on there. "16 bits" was a bit loose when it came to the video.

(Though some ARE 16 bit, I tell ye!)

[oscillik@mstdn.social]

@Cognessence @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee if you ain't playing Commander Keen with PC-speaker sounds only, you ain't playin' right.

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@Cognessence @oscillik @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee 16 bits and bobtails, you could say

[cognessence@social.linux.pizza]

@oscillik @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee
Thems were the days.
I played every Commander Keen.

[oscillik@mstdn.social]

@Cognessence @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee I was slumming it with these all the way up to 2005

[cognessence@social.linux.pizza]

@sean_ae @oscillik @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee

Isn't the Game Boy Advance a kind of perfect example - technically a 32-bit system with its 16 bit game flavours? (Might be misremembering that though.)

[oscillik@mstdn.social]

@Cognessence @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee I vaguely remember the GBA being a 32-bit ARM CPU

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@oscillik @Cognessence @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee really?
really?

[oscillik@mstdn.social]

@sean_ae @Cognessence @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee yeee just looked it up, ARM7TDMI

[cognessence@social.linux.pizza]

@oscillik @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee Woah. ️

Gorgeous to behold!

Just imagining playing these wonderfully grey, thick-block-like sounds on them:

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

(www.youtube.com)

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@oscillik @Cognessence @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee bloody hell, TIL

[cognessence@social.linux.pizza]

@sean_ae @oscillik @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee GBA is my justification.

Thank you, Nintendo. Thantendo.

[oscillik@mstdn.social]

@Cognessence @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee they served me through from my Pentium 166MHz (overclocked to 200MHz) playing DOOM and Quake II in a 320x240 window, up until my AMD64 build for DOOM 3 and Half-Life 2

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@Cognessence @oscillik @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee oh I just can’t with this GM shit man

It’s so bad

[oscillik@mstdn.social]

@sean_ae @Cognessence @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee yeah, I was heavily into Psion PDAs and Nokia Symbian-based smartphones at the time, so I was chuffed I was getting another ARM based gadget

[cognessence@social.linux.pizza]

@sean_ae @oscillik @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee Oh, you don't like it? Ok ok, it wasn't the best example.

But doesn't it work on this one? isn't this something special, in a way? maybe? -

- YouTube

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.

(www.youtube.com)

[oscillik@mstdn.social]

@sean_ae @Cognessence @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee James Paddock's remix of DRUNNIN2.MID for MyHouse.wad is fucking genius though

[emenel@post.lurk.org]

@Cognessence @oscillik @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee i feel my splines reticulating already

[sean_ae@post.lurk.org]

@oscillik @Cognessence @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee wow psion I rem those things, not heard that name in years

Could you make music on those things?

[cognessence@social.linux.pizza]

@oscillik @sean_ae @elifyalvac @Rushup_Dee Ahhhh, so nice to read this.

I was in the same boat. I remember the excitement of getting an 8mg 3D fx graphics card, too.

The original Unreal is really underrated imo. Like it even more than DOOM, Quake II, or Half Life.