Nostalgia Sucked!
Dec. 3rd, 2005 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsSo, I have UAE, the Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, up and running on my desktop at home (the laptop is just too slow to play anything) and I've been going through my collection of disks to see what I have that I can copy into the system and play. The list of licensed software that I used to own was quite remarkable: I had both C compilers, the desktop publishing suite, and the CrossDOS subsystem, as well as about a half gazillion games, including the original Lemmings, Gauntlet II, Llamatron, Flood, Nuclear War, Revenge of Defender, Sim City, Space Ace, Tanx, Archipelegos, Populous, Powermonger, and all three Bard's Tales. I've managed to get Lemmings and Full Metal Planet running so far, and I have to say that I'm disappointed: they aren't as fun as I remember.
There is, I suspect, a limit to nostalgia. I've tried running Stella, the Atari 2600 emulator, and that was awful. I'd forgotten just how bad the Atari 2600 really was. Although (and there's that "but", doncha know), Adventure was a really fun and interesting game for its time. I played it for a while, but put it away.
But Full Metal Planet was incomprehensible without the manual, and I'd forgotten just how stupid the AIs really were. (It turns out that it is, for it's time, a relatively strong conversion of a French wargame from the late 1970's.) Lemmings was really slow; it took way too long to get to the actual game. And don't get me started on The Bard's Tale: once I'd played the game obsessively, but now, it's shudderingly poor: no depth, poor graphics, mind-numbing music. I liked this game?
Still, there are other things to experiment with before I chuck it all out the window. And I'd still like to see if I get Marketroids (I used to have the source code to that) and Llamatron running.
Oh! One other piece of weirdness. The only program for manipulating Amiga Disk Files, ADFOpus, is written for Win32. It just feels very odd that I should have to run a Windows™ program under Wine (and it runs great!) on top of Linux in order to format archives for programs I'm going to run under UAE on top of Linux.
There is, I suspect, a limit to nostalgia. I've tried running Stella, the Atari 2600 emulator, and that was awful. I'd forgotten just how bad the Atari 2600 really was. Although (and there's that "but", doncha know), Adventure was a really fun and interesting game for its time. I played it for a while, but put it away.
But Full Metal Planet was incomprehensible without the manual, and I'd forgotten just how stupid the AIs really were. (It turns out that it is, for it's time, a relatively strong conversion of a French wargame from the late 1970's.) Lemmings was really slow; it took way too long to get to the actual game. And don't get me started on The Bard's Tale: once I'd played the game obsessively, but now, it's shudderingly poor: no depth, poor graphics, mind-numbing music. I liked this game?
Still, there are other things to experiment with before I chuck it all out the window. And I'd still like to see if I get Marketroids (I used to have the source code to that) and Llamatron running.
Oh! One other piece of weirdness. The only program for manipulating Amiga Disk Files, ADFOpus, is written for Win32. It just feels very odd that I should have to run a Windows™ program under Wine (and it runs great!) on top of Linux in order to format archives for programs I'm going to run under UAE on top of Linux.
