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Re: Classic Amiga titles, free to download

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Post by unwind »

Wow this is really cool!

Epic to see that it has "No Man's Land" [0] and really really weird feeling to read the readme. No idea why it's listed as a "17 Bit" title though, perhaps they distributed it at some point but they certainly were not involved in creating it. Source: I wrote it. Fun times.

Edit: formatting.

[0]: https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/17bit/17bit/1423

Re: Classic Amiga titles, free to download

#13

Post by maffydub »

andrea76 wrote: post #12

From webpage I read: " Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing." But Amiga has a 16 bit CPU... or not?

It's a bit complicated and it depends on what exactly you're measuring. The 68000 CPU has 32-bit registers internally, the address bus is 24-bit, and the data bus is 16.

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Post by catoc »

andrea76 wrote: post #12

From webpage I read: " Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing." But Amiga has a 16 bit CPU... or not?

I think most Amiga’s had 32-bit registers, but a 16-bit bus.

(So to everything around the CPU they were 16-bit even though internally they could do 32-bit computations)

Re: Classic Amiga titles, free to download

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Post by [deleted] »

unwind wrote: post #11

Wow this is really cool! Epic to see that it has "No Man's Land" [0] and really really weird feeling to read the readme. No idea why it's listed as a "17 Bit" title though, perhaps they distributed it at some point but they certainly were not involved in creating it. Source: I wrote it. Fun times. Edit: formatting. [0]: https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/17bit/17bit/1423

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Re: Classic Amiga titles, free to download

#17

Post by doener »

andrea76 wrote: post #12

From webpage I read: " Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing." But Amiga has a 16 bit CPU... or not?

"From a developer's point of view, the 68000 provides a full suite of 32-bit operations but has a 16-bit external data bus and is implemented using a 16-bit arithmetic logic unit, so 32-bit computations are transparently handled as multiple 16-bit values at a performance cost. Also, while addresses are 32-bit, the chip is limited to 16 MB of physical memory using the lower 24 of the address bits.[35][36] The later Amiga 2500, Amiga 3000, Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200 models use fully 32-bit, 68000-compatible processors from Motorola with improved performance and larger addressing capability."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

Re: Classic Amiga titles, free to download

#19

Post by lstodd »

maffydub wrote: post #13
andrea76 wrote: post #12

From webpage I read: " Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing." But Amiga has a 16 bit CPU... or not?

It's a bit complicated and it depends on what exactly you're measuring. The 68000 CPU has 32-bit registers internally, the address bus is 24-bit, and the data bus is 16.

This is so for A500, but the definitive Amiga is A1200 with 68EC020, AGA and only limited by 24 bit address bus (=16 MB ram). From that on people just installed 030 with MMU and later PPCs if they wanted.

Re: Classic Amiga titles, free to download

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Post by mjg59 »

unwind wrote: post #11

Wow this is really cool! Epic to see that it has "No Man's Land" [0] and really really weird feeling to read the readme. No idea why it's listed as a "17 Bit" title though, perhaps they distributed it at some point but they certainly were not involved in creating it. Source: I wrote it. Fun times. Edit: formatting. [0]: https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/17bit/17bit/1423

17-bit distributed a lot of redistributable stuff - in this case it's listed as disk 1423 in their collection
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