How is a Vampire Amiga not an Amiga ? the only difference is faster cpu and RTG ? The Amiga had these features in the 90s
He means it's not a "gaming" Amiga. Of course they had faster CPUs and RTG back in the day, but how would you have felt if any game released back then stated "68040 and RTG required" ?
Of course if they imposed such requirements they'd have near-perfect arcade conversions even in the late 80's-early 90's. And their audience would be like 1% or less of Amiga owners.
A conversion respects the common specifications of the common people's machines, save perhaps a modest upgrade.
For the A500, the limit was an extra 512 KB of ranger RAM. Thanks to Commodore, it wasn't even practical to ask for 1 MB of chip RAM in a game's specs (although the A600 somewhat changed that).
For the A1200, perhaps 4 MB of fast RAM. And perhaps a 68030 in later years (1995+) as they became more commonplace.
So no, this doesn't make up for the original horrible OutRun conversion. This isn't even a conversion per se, as it runs the original arcade code.
It's good it exists, it's even better someone brought it on the Amiga and kudos to all people involved, but let's not confuse terms.
True ingenuity would be if someone sat down and balanced the arcade game's demands with the standard hardware's capabilities and came out with something playable where it matters (in the case of OutRun or pretty much any similar racing game, smoothness/fluidity of motion and responsive controls).
That would have made up for the horrible original conversion because it could have happened back in the day too.
Now everyone has a Vampire or an 68060+RTG or a fast PC with WinUAE or whatever, but this "now" couldn't have existed back then.
And let's not fool ourselves, we're in this whole retro game mostly for the "back then" and not for the "now"
(whoever uses a Vampire Amiga or an 68060+RTG big box Amiga or even a PC solely running WinUAE as their main machine, raise their hands.
Noone?
Thought so).
