Amiga tribute thread - 25th Anniversary

[NJ5]

MikeB said:

@ NJ5

How well did it run? Any screenshots/benchmarks of Quake running with those minimum specs?

Mimimum specs would be a 020 like found in the Amiga 1200 (many times slower than the 25 mhz 040 in my A4000).

With an AGA chipset from 1992 (running the most demanding PC game of 1996!) it looked like this:

On an 020 Amiga 1200 you would certainly have to make the screen smaller (non full screen), never tried that.

If anyone wanted to play it on a cheap Amiga 1200 it would be better to upgrade. Obviously this game was not designed for classic Amigas in mind (inefficient coding compared to classics and not designed for the custom chips):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao7haFa2iQk

When Quake came out it also worked on older PCs. For a real comparison you'd have to run at the exact same resolution, and compare the frames-per-second (assuming the games have the same detail, texture quality and effects).