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Solo Kazuki2 years ago

Of course it's Your decision what to do, but 1MB ChipRAM is not same as ECS. You can have 1MB ChipRAM in OCS machine and still it's OCS machine. Moreover to have more than 0,5MB, You must after all have extension card, and hardly any today have only 0,5MB - it's rather collector's thing. Most of extensions for A500 nowadays have at least 1MB to use it also with A500+.

You found it Yourself that hardly any plays GB on  A500 with just 0,5MB extension, so It's maybe right time to force somehow collectors to put out from A500 0,5MB extension  and insert at least 1MB one. ;)

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Dante Retro Dev2 years ago

Yes, it's like a joke on you that everyone demands your game to run on A500 512KB chipmem but in the end everyone plays on expanded A1200/4000 machines with lots of RAM and CPU.  Check my Castlevania AGA demo, it was made more as an exercise: to see that it's way easier to do CASTLEVANIA SHARP X68000 on A1200 (or equivalent) than to do GREEN BERET on A500. No comparison. Green Beret was a nightmare development that I hope to not repeat. Castlevania AGA demo was a dream in comparison.  Oh, by the way, you're right, there is 1MB Chipmem in OCS machine (the Commodore CDTV was like that).

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Solo Kazuki2 years ago (3 edits)

It's not joke, It's "demand for demand". Some people tend to demand everywhere where demand is possible (and sometimes even where's not). You should get some clues from this, I think. There's one old sentence: "Still is no born anyone who content everyone". Remember that even God's son didn't do that!
For me people who demands this plays most times on UAE. Or they are collectors with opinion "It should run on (let's say) basic configurations or it's not count". Why? Because hardy one today have A500 with just 0.5MB, what I've said already. It's configuration which was obsolete already in 80's and everyone who wants to play everything what needs more than basic settings bought bigger RAM extension. And try to buy JUST 0.5MB of RAM today, almost impossible, everything's 1MB or more (not to mention powerful accelerators). So they're collectors with rare 0.5MB extension in use or they're lie for themself playing "basic settings" on... emulation.
Just saying.

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Dante Retro Dev2 years ago

Well said.  Also there's the motivation for doing something that feels legit from the day, let's say it was released on the Amiga's heyday: it'd be probably an A500 game with similar specs as this.

I have an Amiga 500 with A501 expansion just like I had back then. Actually there's the fact that I wanted to see it running on "my Amiga". This wish is far from a joke, in fact (that was a bad choice of words.:))  Here's a photo of my A500 with some of my games:


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