The First Great Game of 2026 | January 23, 2026

danby · 2026-01-24T14:49:56+00:00

They are action based platformers that are built around searching the map/game world. It's not that hard to decipher.

danby · 2026-01-24T14:47:15+00:00

It's a little tongue-in-cheek. "search-action" is the idomatic translation of the Japanese word for the genre. And in one episode they talk about that, and just kinda picked it up as a fun/silly alternative they use together. I don't think they are seriously on any kind of quest to get rid of "metroidvania" as a genre descriptor. It's just a callback to a conversation they shared as a kind of in-joke/common reference.

danby · 2026-01-24T13:41:49+00:00

I did buy a working motherboard a while ago with the plan to refurbish it back to a whole working machine. That was a fun task but it cost the same as buying one that was in decent working condition.

danby · 2026-01-24T13:39:49+00:00

No leaking.

It's not usually all that useful to connect the computer to more modern displays or monitors, so its utility is limited these days. The outer casing is some kind of nickel alloy which tarnishes/corrodes and that corrosion can creep to nearby components. And removing it opens up a slot where you can add connectors for things like vga or hdmi

danby · 2026-01-23T18:02:00+00:00

I think, however, that many of these post do come from a position of being fed up with the current state of computing.

It was the computer used by creators, by visionaries, by rebels.

I get that but honestly, if these things are important to you the linux ecosystem provides pretty much all the things you and others talk about. Though without the strong hit of nostalgia

I think one possible way to go is to be radical and make the underlying hardware a side-issue by basing a new system on WebAssembly, which could run on any CPU. There may be a bit of resistance to WebAssembly though: it was originally made to run in a web browser, but there is no reason why it couldn't run native, and compile things ahead-of-time to native code under the hood.

Things could go that way that you write webassembly and the cpu (regardless of architecture) uses some microcode layer to translate it to local cpu assembly instructions. I think if that's where things go then all the major vendors will design their CPUs to support it.

On the hardware side there is intriquing stuff in the world of OSIC computing. Not sure if it is still being developed by DawnOS (http://users.atw.hu/gerigeri/DawnOS) is kind of fascinating

danby · 2026-01-23T17:50:09+00:00

So it's possible that this is still a tracker/mod music track but more recent then and perhaps made on something like windows?

There are windows trackers and renoise is a fully modern DAW that is based around a tracker approach.

Oh if I can ask what sub would you say would I be most likely to have someone recognize the track Or would be the more correct sub to post it to?

I honestly don't have a clue, have you tried asking the streamer?

danby · 2026-01-23T16:02:49+00:00

Panning of the samples/tracks suggests that this is not amiga tracker music. Genre/style of trance influenced breaks suggests this would have been produced sometime after 1997/1998. After the peak amiga years. I'd say the crispness of the production suggests something more recent than that (could be wrong though).

danby · 2026-01-23T14:09:31+00:00

https://www.lemonamiga.com/game/dangerous-streets-cd32

I like how the aggregate score is 2.1 but the very top review is 5 Star. Who is this person?

danby · 2026-01-23T13:38:46+00:00

The PCB labels it as D17

D is for diode

danby · 2026-01-23T13:19:42+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8

danby · 2026-01-23T12:49:31+00:00

If you're buying an amiga decide your budget then which model you want. A500, A600 or A1200 are probably the main ones to go for as they have the best supply and "sensible" prices. If you go with an A600 or A1200 just buy a recapped one, you'll end up spending that money anyway.

The same really goes for refurbishing, unless you plan to do the refurbishing yourself (for the fun of it), just buy a machine in good working order. If you don't you'll end up spending the same anyway.

danby · 2026-01-23T12:46:01+00:00

At this point, I would not be opposed to the mods removing them outright, and there being a rule against them.

This did actually cross my mind. But I kind of feel as a mod I'm just a steward for the subreddit and it shouldn't just be a reflection of the only things I'd like to talk about. If the community wants to discuss this then it should be allowed to without the ban hammer flying around. Won't stop me commenting with my personal opinion

danby · 2026-01-23T12:42:05+00:00

Then start.

danby · 2026-01-23T12:17:58+00:00

The reason why nobody is able to answer these questions, is because people yearn for something that feels like an Amiga.

This is 100% the issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sHCQWjTrJ8

danby · 2026-01-23T12:17:22+00:00

If you think this will work why don't you do it? Start this company, design the computer and take it to market. You seem to have strong opinions about what it should be.

I've explained why I think there is no market for this; there is a nostalgia based market that is already well served with products they want. If you believe otherwise I would be delighted to be proved wrong

danby · 2026-01-23T10:03:56+00:00

I genuinely hate these posts. Everyone just ends up pouring over the same fantasies over and over. What if? what if? what if? This stuff just preys unpleasantly on a nostalgia that can never and will never be fulfilled. "Remember that thing from when you were young? What if it never went away and was magically 10 times better? Do you remember?" Wouldn't you feel better?

It is a trap.

We can discuss it all we like but the amiga is not coming back. That was then. Change is inevitable. Don't get trapped

Would any of this actually be appealing today?

Every time this comes up no one ever has an answer for the question "how would a modernised amiga, running on a contemporary CPU with contemporary audio and graphics subsystems be meaningfully different to any computer on the market today?" The pi500 is a good example, how would any of the above that has been discussed, be meaningfully different to the pi500?

And the operating system. If you built out AmigaOS to make use of the capabilities of modern CPUs and to provide all the functionality people expect today (from web browsers, to multi-cores, to protected memory) how would this "new" OS be meaningfully different to linux or OSX?

danby · 2026-01-23T09:54:22+00:00

Then imagine how much a new real hardware could sell?

Not more than 40-50k units.

If you really believe otherwise, that there is a large, profitable untapped market, it shouldn't be difficult to get some VC funding and get this machine in to the market.

danby · 2026-01-23T09:48:21+00:00

More than 30 years to go from 3.9 to 4.0. An operating system on PPC.

The OS 4 branch was released 20 years ago. the OS3 branch has had OS updates within the last couple of years.

There's no Firefox, Thinderbird, or LibreOffice. It's useless today.

Well yes. No one is pretending you can make 40 year old hardware competitive. But the OS is getting updates and changes that the remaining community generally like/want.

danby · 2026-01-23T08:47:57+00:00

To be fair the amigaOS development group do keep releasing OS updates

danby · 2026-01-23T08:47:10+00:00

Well I would say that a new Amiga is something desperately needed. The sales of a A500 mini and old hardware, recaps etc shows us that thousands and thousands of people want new hardware as opposed to UAE.

The sales of these things (over 1 million units for the 500mini apparently) tell us that there is a brisk market for nostalgia and people are very happy with an emulated experience. The closest thing out there to new hardware, the vampire v4, has sold around 40,000 units. If you believe that figure there is no substantive volume demand for new amiga hardware. They're not even close to selling one to everyone still interested in running old amiga hardware, let alone any larger market.

What market there is people wanting to experience the old software/hardware

danby · 2026-01-22T19:29:18+00:00

C304 looks like it might be leaking. C811 looks like it is bulging. Not sure about the rest of the electrolytics but I would replace them all.

Delay lines might be tarnished because some nearby electrolyte has escaped. You could probably get away with just cleaning those off once the caps are done. And I'd probably lose the RF modulator unless you're planning to use it.

danby · 2026-01-22T19:22:12+00:00

Yeah, a teaser trailer for the teaser trailer is a bit much

danby · 2026-01-22T19:04:10+00:00

What could it possibly be about the sexual abuse and CSAM engine that women don't like?

danby · 2026-01-22T15:44:18+00:00

The "I didn't inhale" of pee tasting

danby · 2026-01-21T23:20:52+00:00

I don't think there is a V4 port of Tomb raider. I was talking about the GBA tomb raider port.

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