Thanks for making this fun comparison video, I really enjoyed it! My first Amiga was a CD32, and I had Simon the Sorcerer, which later became one of my favourite games. Sadly, because I'm deaf and the CD32 version has no option to display text as well as speech, I had to wait for many years before I could play it and understand it. I wish there was a way to hack it and activate the text as well as the speech, because (with my hearing aids) I still enjoy the sound of the voices, especially Chris Barrie, even though I can't understand what they're saying.
Excellent episode, and useful as I was considering getting the Mini. I won't, as I have been spoiled as one of the PCMaster race by very high quality graphics. But it does give me a viable option for a Xmas present for a friend's young boy.
I might be against the grain here, not sure but your CD32 via S-video completely destroys the A500mini via HDMI regarding graphics quality imo even though the CD32 was hooked up to an LCD. I'm not a fan of over pixelated graphics, game designers back then made graphics for lower res connections and CRT in mind. Massive difference looking at Project X (the dithering sticks out big time = horrible) and Alien Breed, however I do prefer the colour reproduction of AB3D on the Mini but all the 2D games are far better on your CD32 for colour. It would have been interesting for you to try the scanline options and graphic smoothing on the Mini, I think it would make a big difference for improvement imo.
Nice to see the comparisons Paul 👍🏻 Sorry but I’m a person who just prefers the real thing over the FPGA. But as you say it’s a nice thing to have just for the TV. A lot of talk on EAB about the mini and how Workbench and extra WHDLOAD games have been side loaded onto it thus far.
Thanks for watching! The A500 Mini is an ARM-based machine, and uses software-emulation - I think I'd prefer an FPGA solution over it, just so that the feel was right. I'm more than happy with my Commodore Amigas, though remains to be seen how much life the original hardware has left in it. If this was my A500 Mini, I'd definitely try to get a Workbench installation running on there.
@@amipal24 Thanks for the confirmation. From what I have seen with the mini, sysinfo reports the system as a 030 running I think at 50mhz. So on par with a A1200 with a Blizzard or Apollo 1230 👍🏻
@@amipal24 Agreed 👍🏻 Keep an eye out over on the EAB forums as there are lots of discussions about modding the Mini at the moment. Including Whdload content 😉
I’m amazed you can jump up the walls at all on Zool as I haven’t managed to do it at all yet. Switched to a WHDLoad CD32 version and like you say the controls are so much easier and intuitive.
How do you find the smoothness of A500? I for the life of me cannot get my winuae to go full smooth, but I don't know if it has to do with having a crt
If you're using WinUAE for PAL games then you will need to change your monitor/video resolution to 50hz refresh rate (regardless if CRT or LCD) for your Amiga (PAL) games to be silky smooth.
@@vertigoz Display properties in WinUAE: Right hand top corner, select 50Hz PAL, underneath Resolution autoswitch select PAL and underneath that put a tick in box and make sure it's 50.0000. Turn off G-Sync, it doesn't always work best, even for PC games, I mean it's still good but not always perfect. Change refresh rate to 50Hz in Nvidia settings, if 50Hz doesn't show up then change to a lower resolution but it normally shows up for 1080p. Keep in mind not all Amiga games are butter smooth/50fps, it depends on the game. Hope that helps :)
@@off1k It seems to do the trick! Thanks, another who should have an impact is having it scaled only integer auto scaling so it remains at the right ratio
Nice reference to Father Ted. 😁 Interesting comparison too. Whilst the content is interesting, for me the video is spoiled by the fact that, along with your voice, the thing you can hear most clearly is the constant clicking of the joypad. It's very nearly as loud as your commentary. It's also the primary sound when you're not talking, whilst the games' sound effects and music are a distant third. 🙁
Any opportunity to get some Ted in there! :) Yes, the AGA version of Chaos Engine is much more colourful than the original OCS/ECS Amiga version. I remember reading that Dan Malone of the Bitmap Brothers much prefers the original palette - certainly more of a Steampunk feel to it.
Thanks for making this fun comparison video, I really enjoyed it! My first Amiga was a CD32, and I had Simon the Sorcerer, which later became one of my favourite games. Sadly, because I'm deaf and the CD32 version has no option to display text as well as speech, I had to wait for many years before I could play it and understand it. I wish there was a way to hack it and activate the text as well as the speech, because (with my hearing aids) I still enjoy the sound of the voices, especially Chris Barrie, even though I can't understand what they're saying.
Well done on the 500 subs!
Many thanks, and thank you for sticking with me since the beginning!
@@amipal24 I am diabetic now thanks to all the sweet content. That should be a Patreon tier......
Congrats on the 500 subs :) and thanks for the shout out for my channel ;)
Excellent episode, and useful as I was considering getting the Mini. I won't, as I have been spoiled as one of the PCMaster race by very high quality graphics. But it does give me a viable option for a Xmas present for a friend's young boy.
Cheers Chumbles! It's a really nice device, much more accessible to young ones who know not the trials of physically swapping game disks/discs.
Congrats on the 500+ subs! Up to the next 99500!!!
Cheers! I'd best get working on some new Sweet Content! :)
I might be against the grain here, not sure but your CD32 via S-video completely destroys the A500mini via HDMI regarding graphics quality imo even though the CD32 was hooked up to an LCD.
I'm not a fan of over pixelated graphics, game designers back then made graphics for lower res connections and CRT in mind.
Massive difference looking at Project X (the dithering sticks out big time = horrible) and Alien Breed, however I do prefer the colour reproduction of AB3D on the Mini but all the 2D games are far better on your CD32 for colour.
It would have been interesting for you to try the scanline options and graphic smoothing on the Mini, I think it would make a big difference for improvement imo.
I agree, Project X looks absolutely terrible on A500 mini. 😫 Gonna purchase a CD32.
Nice to see the comparisons Paul 👍🏻 Sorry but I’m a person who just prefers the real thing over the FPGA. But as you say it’s a nice thing to have just for the TV. A lot of talk on EAB about the mini and how Workbench and extra WHDLOAD games have been side loaded onto it thus far.
Thanks for watching! The A500 Mini is an ARM-based machine, and uses software-emulation - I think I'd prefer an FPGA solution over it, just so that the feel was right.
I'm more than happy with my Commodore Amigas, though remains to be seen how much life the original hardware has left in it.
If this was my A500 Mini, I'd definitely try to get a Workbench installation running on there.
@@amipal24 Thanks for the confirmation. From what I have seen with the mini, sysinfo reports the system as a 030 running I think at 50mhz. So on par with a A1200 with a Blizzard or Apollo 1230 👍🏻
@@cullmaster7361 A 50Mhz 030 isn't too shabby!
@@amipal24 Agreed 👍🏻 Keep an eye out over on the EAB forums as there are lots of discussions about modding the Mini at the moment. Including Whdload content 😉
I’m amazed you can jump up the walls at all on Zool as I haven’t managed to do it at all yet. Switched to a WHDLoad CD32 version and like you say the controls are so much easier and intuitive.
It's ruddy hard, isn't it?
As I said on the video, I'd not managed to get up that wall before on the version supplied with the A500 Mini.
How do you find the smoothness of A500? I for the life of me cannot get my winuae to go full smooth, but I don't know if it has to do with having a crt
If you're using WinUAE for PAL games then you will need to change your monitor/video resolution to 50hz refresh rate (regardless if CRT or LCD) for your Amiga (PAL) games to be silky smooth.
I think it should be my LCD then, I have g-sync still I doesn't get that butter smooth experience
@@vertigoz
Display properties in WinUAE: Right hand top corner, select 50Hz PAL, underneath Resolution autoswitch select PAL and underneath that put a tick in box and make sure it's 50.0000.
Turn off G-Sync, it doesn't always work best, even for PC games, I mean it's still good but not always perfect.
Change refresh rate to 50Hz in Nvidia settings, if 50Hz doesn't show up then change to a lower resolution but it normally shows up for 1080p.
Keep in mind not all Amiga games are butter smooth/50fps, it depends on the game.
Hope that helps :)
@@off1k It seems to do the trick! Thanks, another who should have an impact is having it scaled only integer auto scaling so it remains at the right ratio
I feel the same with chaos engine, it’s not the same, think I prefer the original 500 version.
Nice reference to Father Ted. 😁 Interesting comparison too. Whilst the content is interesting, for me the video is spoiled by the fact that, along with your voice, the thing you can hear most clearly is the constant clicking of the joypad. It's very nearly as loud as your commentary. It's also the primary sound when you're not talking, whilst the games' sound effects and music are a distant third. 🙁
Yeah, sorry about that. Proximity of the pad to the mic I'm afraid.
Father Ted anyone ? LOL
3 mins ?!?!
Chaos Engine was very saturated.
Any opportunity to get some Ted in there! :)
Yes, the AGA version of Chaos Engine is much more colourful than the original OCS/ECS Amiga version. I remember reading that Dan Malone of the Bitmap Brothers much prefers the original palette - certainly more of a Steampunk feel to it.
So wouldn’t a terrible fire upgrade have been appropriate for comparison against any 500 mini? Do the other video vs a tf1230 accelerator