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Re:Psygnosis (Wipeout, Lemmings etc.) co-founder Ian Hetheri... by donorman on Thursday December 16, 2021 @03:16PM (#29583302)
I did actually play Shadow of the beast on my beloved Amiga the other day, not that fun but a great technical show off.

Lemmings is real fun though, can't believe the first Xmas Lemmings was released 30 years ago :-)

Re:Psygnosis (Wipeout, Lemmings etc.) co-founder Ian Hetheri... by tluyben2 on Thursday December 16, 2021 @04:39PM (#29584312)
I just switch it on for the music; not the same without the game graphics for the atmosphere. These 3.5 disks are robust; my disks are really old by now. They seem to hols better than cds.
Re:Psygnosis (Wipeout, Lemmings etc.) co-founder Ian Hetheri... by Erwin on Thursday December 16, 2021 @05:02PM (#29584594)
I just started playing the Shadow of the Beast soundtrack on Spotify -- Allister Brimble was quite prolific with several hundred games scored.

It's interesting to compare the Amiga 500 with its 640x256 resolution and 4096 colors driven by a 68K processor with 68k transistors (coincidence?) and my current 4K screen driven by a 3080ti card and 28.3 billion transistors. Certainly the computing and graphics power has increased greatly, but not so the music output.

Re:Psygnosis (Wipeout, Lemmings etc.) co-founder Ian Hetheri... by tluyben2 on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:13AM (#29591154)
Ah Allister Brimble; another great one. SotB I is David Whittaker though or maybe you had a different point.