Amiga 500

Commodore 128, again, because it's taking advantage of the larger system memory.

Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, and Mac.

So can't run this on the Atari 8-bits, can't run this on the Commodore 64, left behind things like TRS-80 and so forth, because...

These are bigger story files doing a little bit more behind the scenes.

Does that matter to how we interpret what who this guy is and what he ultimately does? Was it all life experience by committee? Because when we get to the epilogue, and there's a lot, I've been surprised.

The discussion about this game, I've noticed in the time that I've played it, because unlike Nick, I did not have a Commodore 128.

I had to play it in the 90s on my Amiga 500 for the first time.

And for a while, I was playing it every 12 to 24 months just because I was like, this is mind-blowing.

that graphics card sounds awesome i like that i like the sound of that a lot um but my oldest pc that i've got in my collection is 386 so probably not what i'm after for that but yeah cool project The 286, though, my mate's dad had a grey-looking 286.

I think it was possibly a Compaq when I had my Amiga 500 and we played when we were allowed on it, right? We played Ports of Call on it, but we also played Battle Chess, which...

Looked and sounded better on my Amiga, given his 286 didn't have a sound card, as many didn't.

It certainly, I think, if you're playing against a computer, made decisions faster than the Amiga, but graphically and sound-wise, yeah, the Amiga 1, hands down.

Correct.

Yeah, as far as experiences with it, I think I've talked about this maybe on the last round of Q&As.

My neighbors had a 286.12 And so it was a good place for me to do DOS game tourism and was basically exactly the spec of machine that I could afford if I had sunk the money that actually went into my Amiga 500 system into a 286 instead.

So I really got a good like, all right, my life could be this or it could be this.

It looks pretty good.

Um, it says that, uh, that this is, uh, it's available on an unexpanded Amiga 500.

And it's got a Mesopotamian theme.

And it uses, check this out, it samples authentic Iraqi instruments for the soundtrack.

Uh, this looks great.

I mean, this is your typical puzzle platformer game, uh, with, it looks like you've got a whistle mechanic, uh, which is interesting.

Um, and it's designed to run on a plain Jane Amiga 500 equipped with five 12 chip and five 12 of other Rams.

So I'm glad to see that the, uh, the scale is, uh, or the, the, uh, the requirements are low and, uh, you know, Hoffman rarely disappoints.

Yeah.

He's like, "Oh, you can have them for nothing." And he goes, "In fact, there's a box underneath that desk if you want it too." And, and I was like, "You sure?" I looked in there, and there was, uh, two boxes, right? One boxed Amiga 500 with as many disks as you could imagine, external hard drives, a U.S.

Robotics 56K modem, and all sorts of stuff.

And then next to it, still in its packaging as well, all the styrofoam and everything as well, is a Dragon 32.