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can someone tell me how to get my miiverse icon back? one day i opened my 3ds and it was gone

Wolf3D actually did use a bitplane mode of VGA (not mode 13h). The real advantage (besides the increased CPU power) was that VGA contains a bunch of useful hardware bit operations such as masking and parallel writes, so a clever programmer (i.e. Carmack) was able to turn the planar mode into a performance advantage. If you look at the Wolf3D source file WL_SCALE.C[1] (which draws the billboard sprites), you can see genius utilization of VGA's planar write mode, in the ScaleLine function. It always writes 4 pixels at a time, but it works out (through efficient table lookups) a bitmask, based on which of the 4 pixels need to be written and which are transparent. So there is no need to ever _read_ from video memory just to calculate the byte value to write back, it's all done in hardware. I'm not familiar with the equivalent hardware on the Amiga, but I would guess these masking operations on the VGA hardware are what made the difference between "can run Wolfenstein" and "can't run Wolfenstein". [1] github.com/id-Software/wolf3d/blob/master/WOLFSRC/WL_SCALE.C#L249

I keep looking at the games list on Game Pass and there just isn't anything I want to play.

You are not right saying Phil should stop to communicate with fans, with the Xbox audience. He must continue to do that. But the problem is there - he is lying almost all the time, Xbox is lying. What they, Phil and Xbox, must do right now is just to stop lying. To tell the truth and stop being corpos with the fans. Direct communication itself is a great feature which differentiates Xbox from competitors, Sony and Nintendo.

What killed the Amiga for me was internet browsers. My 1200 didn't quite have the requirements to enjoy the internet to its full potential. I loved the Amiga nearly as much as the C64, but I really had to switch to PC.

After XBOX and Playstation 3 and XBOX360 I stopped playing console games because as you have mentioned. XBOX and PS5 is dead the only console I now have is the XBOX ONE X wich i use for my DVD and BLU-RAY movie watching!

"the gameplay itself isn't very special" - that's the reason for the Amiga's death right there. You can name a bunch of good Amiga games but considering the whole library, it pales compared to the library of any Japanese system, even the 8 bit ones.

When i introduce my son into gaming no way in hell i'm going digital only. Can imagine the reaction of my kid giving a card with a code vs a box with media. I want him to feel like the owner of something that was the product of this behaviour / work.

80s and 90s programmers were waaay better then those from 21st century

A full video explaining the difference between the Amiga's "weird" graphics mode with planes and the PC graphics mode would be interesting. That part got me very curious and confused, like "wait... you can't just write a value to a memory adress and get a pixel on the screen?". I didn't think VGA mode 13h was "special", I thought it was "normal", I found it very interesting that Amiga works in a way that's so readically different.

<sigh> amiga was a dream machine that just missed the boat.

Been a gamer since the 80s and what you say makes a lot of sense to me!

dude, Diablo I was officially released for Apple Macs in 199s, and I *own* such a CD, played it for days n nights back then on my Macintosh Performa 6400 and later on Blue&White G3 -so the statement “Diablo was released only for Microsoft Windows” is false, just false

And yes eventually amiga got a proper doom port

Still play amiga games on my pc via bstocera front end

Damn i really like gamepass, I've played a lot of games that I wouldn't have discovered if the service hadn't existed. But i do understand the issue of missed sales (although you can't count every gamepass game downloaded as a missed sale)

I really like this channel.

Not sure I agree with the title of this video. All anyone could talk about in Amiga circles around that time was how to compete with Doom. Gloom, Fears, and Alien Breed 3D all came out within months of each other and were all Doom clones, attempting to replicate similar lighting, variable floor heights, non-orthogonal walls and textured floor/ceilings - all of the things that made Doom such a significant step up over Wolf3D. I don’t recall the Amiga scene getting excited about Wolf3D any more than Catacomb 3-D, which was showcasing the same tech on PC in 1991.

These days it is all about Doom (Wolfenstein) as heralds of new gaming age, but it is forgoten than X Wing on PC with flat shaded polygons was equaly impressive and equaly far from Amiga's reach and still we don't even have a tech demo for Amiga. Star Wars were still un-spoiled and fresh in early 90's and X Wing created a lot of buzz. Also, amigists already knew and longed for Wing Commander 1 and 2 on PC, knowing that it was out of Amiga's reach. Wing Commander eventualy came to A500 but with no less than 5 frames per second and in some casess just 1 or 2.

One of many nails in the Amiga coffin. The Megadrive and Snes were also partly responsible.

Great video as always! Thank you! Rip Amiga. You'll always live in our hearts!

Grind is a continuation to the project "Dread". Very promising.

It's fascinating to hear you talk about such incredible framerates, like 15! It certainly brings back memories of times when the notion of running full 3D environments at 60fps, let alone multiple hundreds high-end PC users are used to now, felt like pure fantasy.

Truly disappointed with this generation, next time i will probably move to PC where i can adjust my game video quality and frame rate and don’t need to pay for a membership.

Well as a kid I never even heard of the Amiga. Only played on Macintosh. Or PC. And l remember playing Wolfenstein 3D . I didn't find out what Amiga was until I was an adult.

Microsoft with Xbox and creating a game dev monopoly will lead to them doing an Atari and causing yet another video game crash

Man imagine if the Amiga had won over the PC....^^

When I was 14 I read a book in the Waterstones bookstore called Flights of Fantasy that had programming techniques for mode 13h, 3d matrix routines, polygon drawing, etc. I couldn't afford it (£30) but by the end of the day I'd prepared a plan to steal it by memorising the shop layout and the movements of the staff. By the end of the week I'd successfully shoplifted it. Was it the wrong thing to do - yes, but nothing was going to deny me that knowledge. Kids these days have it easy with all the info on the internet.

Game passes, paywalls, loot boxes, microtransactions, pay to win, overpriced DLC and many other things are all part of the symptoms of what the games industry is experiencing right now. It's not just on XBOX, the whole industry sucks at the moment. It's focus is entirely on revenue and not on the core experience itself. If Baldurs Gate 3 can release without all this microtransaction money grab crap then so can other games. It finally seems to be slowly happening that gamers are finally turning away from all these greedy practices. The only way they will listen is to hit them right where it hurts, in the wallet. To be honest I really wouldn't mind another video game crash like we had in the 80's. Something needs to give and a total reset and reevaluation of the industries practices seems to be the only thing that will fix it. We need more bedroom coders like we also had in the 80's. Some of the most amazing games ever made were made by one or two guys in a bedroom wasting free time seeing what they could make. Games aren't made by gamers anymore, they're made by executives and they always kill everything they touch, from movies to music. Bethesda and its horse armor has a lot of explaining to do.

One of my first memories of DOS and PC gaming, here in Australia, is going in to my local K-mart (yes, K-Mart!) and seeing 286 and 386 PCs on display, setup, running AND usable! (different times, to be sure) And what did they usually have running on them? Wolfenstein 3D of course. Made me want a PC so badly.

Anyone playing arcade games could understand that the future of gaming was 3d, from the time of SEGA's superscalers dominating the arcades. The Amiga died because Commodore was incompetent. SEGA consoles died for the exact same reason. If I was Commodore, I would have released a totally new Amiga in 1987, one that could play Outrun/Powerdrift/Afterburner/Galaxy Force/Space Harrier with full sprite scaling and rotation, but not with a hardware sprite engine, but with a 3d vector graphics engine and texture mapping unit. And I would have added emulation of the original chipset through software/hardware. And that would allow Wolfestein 3d/Doom on the Amiga as well way before the PC even thought about it. It would be so jaw dropping at the time, that even at a hefty price it would sell really well. If that was around back then, we would all have Amigas today :-).

you just need to look what microsofts strategy is with it‘s client und server operating systems. i know it‘s not directly comparable, but there you already „own nothing and will be happy“. cloud first mobile first with heavy mandatory cloud only accounts. buying office? sir, are you kidding? you rent office365 and will be happy.

Is that the same voice actor in MK4 as the announcer in Gauntlet Legends?

Like I said - publishers saying players should be comfortable with lack of ownership should become comforable with profit falls. As for people responsible for unquestionable talent being fired I believe consequences should be taken by the stakeholders. I would be furious if a series of expensive acquisistions would result in destruction of those assets.

Doom is just a Wolfenstein clone.

Great video, thanks.

That loading of geometry as you approach certain areas happens in Source, too. Maps (are supposed to) contain sections where lines of sight are blocked, so that things can be loaded without pop-in.

My first system was PS1 i miss that era i still have my PS2 plugged into my tv. Resident Evil 3 is better on ps1 than the remake

Once again, capitalism ruining yet another thing that everyone was happy with

"This is almost a lost art form" If you want to see somewhere this still happens, look at Scratch programming. There are lots of users finding weird quirks to get around the limitations of the system. For example: no in built case sensitivity in string handling? Use the fact that sprite names are case sensitive to build case sensitivity. Then there's Griffpatch's sprite ordering algorithm that uses the way that sprites are rendered in order to determine which ones should be in front based on their position. And there's whatever the hell all those 3D engine programmers are doing.

Let’s be real… when Commodore failed as a business the Amiga had no chance. I think a lot of weight was thrown behind PC’s in the 80’s and its dominance in the 90’s was inevitable. It would have been great to see Amiga continue as a platform into the future, but like everything else… it probably would have ended up using x86 or Power PC architecture eventually like most things.

The leap between Amiga models simply wasn't big enough. What killed the Amiga was Commodore itself.

Yes

My wanting to get into PC computing from my A600HD, was after I went to a mates place and he was playing Doom.

why nobody invented CHEAP amiga-to-ISA interface?

This kinda demonstrates why DRM feels fundamentally flawed to me. It's basically trying to guard against a MITM attack, but one where the intended consumer and the attacker are the same entity. The device is owned by the consumer, and breaking DRM is really only a question of difficulty and ingenuity, not possibility. At least, until we get into dystopian worlds where you e.g. can't play the games you own without some cloud service giving the OK, which we are getting ever closer to.

08:25 man, I could not agree with this more. The majority of Japanese games companies approach PR this way and they are almost never embroiled in some ridiculous twitter drama. If an unpopular decision is made, devs and execs chatting shit online doesn't exacerbate it. Look at Fromsoft, you never hear a peep from them until they say: "game is in development", then "game releases on X date", then "game has released, enjoy".

Isn't this on brand for Xbox? From the start the entire brand always felt like a corporate project without any creative or artistic vision. This is just more of the same.

It still blows my mind that you can get an Amiga online in the 2020s with little effort!

It's a double-sided coin. On one side, you have passionate developers who just want to create something, and on the other side, you have corporations that couldn't care less about what's being made. They don't care about the people working hard, missing time with their families. The only thing on their minds is a product. Then, when that product ultimately fails, they point the finger at the studio and not themselves. They're horrible leeches.