Oh man, I remember my friend at school had this on the amiga and I had it on the PC and I didn't realise how much better it was for me. It still took my old PC a minute or so to load the battlescape but at least there was not disk swapping marlarky
Yeah... this is one of those Amiga games that is best played from HDD, as rare as it was to own one. The AGA version however is pretty much a direct PC port.
But this is the version I finished a few times, with only 2 disk drives. Sort of painful to even watch now.
Wow, I am glad I had an A1200 with a 420MB HDD, 50Mhz 68030 CPU, and 10MB of RAM when I played this! (power!) Think I had the AGA version too, as I don't remember the graphics being that bad - then again could just be my memory giving out on me.
First, the creator of the video runs it from FD-s, instead of HD, wich is much slower. With a HD there is no diskswapping and slow loading.
Second, this version is optimized to run on 7,14 MHz (base clock rate of A500), if you try to run the IBM version on a 8 MHz 386 it would be even more slower than this.
And alex76gr already mentioned the turbocards and the AGA version wich only misses the shadows and that's Microprose's fault, not the Amiga's.
Really interesting to see what the Amiga version is like. I didn't play it back in the day because I had shifted from Amiga to PC gaming by that point and I'm glad I did by the look of those loading times.
The lengthy loading aside this is still a great game. I love it for the way it tapped so effectively into the alien conspiracy subtext that seemed to permeate so much of the mid-nineties popular culture. I'm definitely going to dig out my old PC copy so I can play it again.
Most people who had a clue had moved on to a hard drive and would install the games on them so no more swapping or delays at the time this game came out.
@bat7j This version of UFO/X-Com can be installed to the hard drive as well. However, many Amiga users had only one or two floppy drives, so installing the game wasn't an option for them. Playing the game from the hard drive does fix the issues with loading and disk swapping, although the ground combat still suffers from slow gameplay at least on standard A500 without accelerator cards or similar expansions. If I remember correctly, since it has been over a decade since I played this version.
I used to play this on my 600, I had TWO floppy drives, yes count them... TWO! So no disk swapping for me, well not too much, but then I installed my own hd and installed it on there, with my own custom installer, it worked a dream.
This A500 version of the game really does look incredibly poor and it's fairly pointless played from floppy.Take a look at how this looks on A1200 AGA instead
Christ, what ya running that on a A600 lmao, back when this was a new game I was running the AGA enhanced version from my A1200 with hard drive so never noticed all the loading time issues. This game was the only reason i changed to PC forever... one of my mates got a Dx66 rig and showed me this (Oh and Doom but that didn't intrest me anywhere near as much) so few weeks later flashed out for a highend Pentium 75mhz rig and this game and its sequels later all blew my mind.
@m14g I never had an amiga myself, but a friend did... and the system was just years ahead in "arcade" game quality. Generally the music was considered better quality than DOS counterparts and the visuals were often smoother and better quality. YouTube Dune II (Dune 2) for both DOS and the Amiga - although the DOS was WAY more popular, the quality of the Amiga was much higher. (although released a few years after the DOS version)
@TheJazzdogg SF2 was a 8 disc game, 1 disc for each person and 1 disc for each level. just to have 1 fight you had to use 3 discs and the load time was so long.
@Beaksterboy Yes, I'm now aware of this... but I'm not an Amiga user at all... I went to great lengths to understand how to even get this software to run. All I knew is that the Amiga had it's own version of X-Com and I wanted to inspect how it ran, then I figured it'd be best to share the experience anyway. Even now I'm not actually sure how to install an Amiga OS.
@TheJazzdogg why are you comparing something you've just admitted you have preconceived ideas about, you didnt even bother with preliminary research. Your opinion is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Please leave the internet.
@TheJazzdogg Well jacksawild was a bit abusive in his post and i will not do the same but "any" game running from floppy on "any" system will have long load times and disk swapping and if the game was ran on the PC without a HD install it would be monumentally worse. As everyone has stated, there were new Amiga's released in 1992 that featured something call the AGA chipset which enhanced the Amiga's abilities so you are best to check out that one instead ;)
@blade004 Negative shit? There's quite I like about this version... and sure I'd review it but I don't have the software. If I could obtain it, sure I'd take the time to review it for histories sake!
Yes, I remember the A500 version of UFO (which this is) being heavily marked down in the magazine reviews for the appalling loading times, which were unacceptable even back in 1995 (when this version was released). This version got 36% in one magazine (66% if the A500 had a hard drive), compared with the AGA version's 85% (which still wasn't perfect on loading times, but far more bearable).
@jamessnee1 No one wants to hear a high pitched dweeb chat on like a crazy nerd, so the voiceover was recorded at 48khz and played back at 44khz on purpose, as well as some basic EQing.
God that looks painful with all the loading. I hope this game was intended to be played from a hard drive.
The MOD music is definitely better than the FM cards back in the day. I'd even say better than GM cards since the midi was clearly designed for FM. If you play it on something like a Roland SCC-1 or a Yamaha DB50XG it just sounds weird in many parts.
@andrewwright99999 Totally agree! I'd love to see a remake for the iPhone / iPod Touch platform too, in addition with some multiplayer battlescope features over Bluetooth!
Not that I'm aware. I'm fairly sure the files on the PC floppies are installer assets... compressed data files that need to be decompressed to the hard drive before playing.
In addition, X-Com: Terror From The Deep (also known as TFTD) had a CD version that featured animated sequences... a big deal back then, but massively downer animations if you're to watch it now =P
I've heard that, but to even get a copy of this game I had to sell my soul... Hours of hunting around on the internaughts at the time of publishing this, where I found one website was willing to share the executables for Amiga if you did like five quizzes... that took forever and sucked majorly, but I really wanted to do a YouTube publishing of the game!
If you happen to have the AGA version of the game, would you be so kind to drop me a line? =)
Oh and bless you my ozzy friend for showing this on the AMiga. I would not have the patience to disk swap every 3 minutes. I'm glad back in the day on the old PC it was load, install and play atleast I'm pretty sure that's how it was. This was the greatest game to come out for the PC back in 1992 or 1993 along with Masters of Magic. You should review that one too! :D
At the start of the game don't shoot down a scout follow them until they land! Then do the ground battle take out the 1 alien and you get to research Ellerium-15 from the get go. Just my old strategy, wish this game would work on my current PCs.
Dude, DosBox is free look it up, or if you don't want to go through the hassle, Direct2Drive has the entire X-Com Collection with standalone Dosbox based launchers, for about $15 total. works perfectly in XP and Vista.
I had UFO on amiga as well but my version lookd exactly like the pc one. On geosfere i still had day and night but in battles only day mode. My wersion was 3-4 disks, I dont remember exactly but with one aditional floppy disc drive I didnt have to do any iritating swaping. also graphics were like in pc version.
I bought it from Antics in Worcester (not there fault lol)
Didn't get to one tactical mission. Couldn't be bothered..it was REALLY awful. From the station screen to tactical took eleven and a half minutes, then back to base about four.
I was more concerned about my disk drives (I had 2) getting fragged to death.
I am now imagining that each of those clicks and beeps is the Amiga going "what is this I don't even" and weeping profusely. The end result still looks rather decent, as long as you don't mind swapping disks incessantly. I'm not sure if your average user these days would put up with any of that.
I remember discovering and playing this game on the CD32. I can't believe I got far enough through the game on the CD32 version to sucessfully battle Ethereals....
On the CD32 version you didn't have to faff around with all the disc swapping, but if you were firing an Auto-fire shot at an alien in the distance, you could go away and have a cuppa whilst you waited for it to finish the turn, it was that slow...
I remember childhood memories of nightmares from those friggin' terror sites. I HATED hearing the civilians screaming and the sound when the Alien's would attempt mind control... makes my hair stand on end every time I hear it! I think X-Com is the only game that has scared the living life out of me as a kid... I think the music and sound has a lot to answer for. *ahem* Hmm, harden up princess...
Disk swaps remind me of Shaq Fu, Mortal Kombat 2 & Primal Rage. Classic game this UFO. Makes me wanna play it all over it again. Tell me how you keep so calm and reasonable with the disk swapping. hehe. (Yoga?) Thanks for uploading up the review. Well done.
Try the AGA version. It's the original and definative UFO X-COM game. All other versions including this one followed the AGA one. The backgrounds are black and white due to the 32 colour limit on the graphics hardware. The AGA version also has different and better music, more subtle.
It's good to see this Jazzdogg, it was a great game. It's worth reiterating what others have said though; the A1200 version was a bit better looking- 'shaders' for night time, more colourful etc. Also, the main globe screen had different music to the A500 version we see here. Thanks for uploading this though!
I remember UFO looking quite a bit nicer than this on Amiga so it must have been the AGA version.This can be installed to HD of course so no faffing around with loading so much
So A1200 HD is a better choice if you want this for Amiga
You're right. OCS version had 5 disks and AGA had 4 (I own them), so it looks like TheJazzdog is cheating us:P. AGA version looks much better, so compare IT to PC/PS version.
AMIGA version is also very interesting - the soundtrack is great - LOVE all soundtrack versions - FM, MT-32, AMIGA or PSX - I am using it even today on my cellphone :-)
Youtube seems to be blocking the url... try dubdubdub dot xcomufo. dot com/ x1music.html . Damn youtube for making it so hard! Have a listen to "Battlescope 2" - bought back so many nightmares I had as a kid as a result of this game :P
Well, I had the AGA version - and the AGA version is graphically identical to the PC version, the music was superior to both the PC and standard Amiga, hard drive installability, and no loading in the middle of levels (more memory available under AGA.)
I've been playing the PC version under dosbox and the music makes me sad. Miss my Amiga. :(
You wouldn't have a version of that xcom disk anywhere, would you? Seems rare as hens teeth... Someone needs to upload it to preserve it's presence is gaming history! :p
I surely do. Even if I don't find it in my disk image archives, I have the physical floppies. They *might* even still be good! :) I'll report next week.
What a game! Played it to death on the 1200. When you got to the later missions on veteran it took like an hour for the aliens to make their moves. I would go and make a cup of tea and watch telly, come back for my go. Bloody ridiculous. Happy days.
Really? Thats nuts... I played it back on a 386 and it never took that long to process... mind you I never got right up to the end missions and never played on veteran... How is it possible to play on veteran? Easiest was bloody hard as it was...!
Oh absolutely hey... whats worse is that theres a bug in it that can stop you from finishing the game, and I think it's happened to me... VERY IMPRESSED as I've been playing it on and off since 2006...
For the sake of the player the developers should have made the game only HD installable... disk load times like that was just not acceptable. (Remember Indyana Jones and the fate of Atlantis on 10+ disks?)
Yes indeed, I'll opt for the PC/PSX version... but the Amiga version did have a few advantages... like, err... being super old school... or something.
Yeah, I never got past the space part... if I remember right. Last time I played it was 11 years ago :P Now I'm playing X-com on my computer. I played it before, but Guava's Let's Play on the something awful forums made me pick it up once again.
This is the ocs/ecs (500/600) version, if u want to engoy the Ufo on the amiga, then play the AGA (1200)version and install it onto the hard drive, boot via no startup (and ntsc if playing on original hardware) and launch from there.. the Amiga AGA version for me is the best Ufo(xcomm) version. if i play it i allways play the amiga aga version rather than dos/psx...
It was hard enough finding ANY Amiga copy of the game, mind a 1200 version... many people speak of installing it onto the HDD but I didn't have any OS to help me install the game. I'm no AGA expert... used one as a kid, but thats as far as my knowledge goes in Amiga OS I'm afraid... :(
maby it's answered before but at 6:37 you didnt saw the allien thats because you started the mission at arround 22:00 and thats considered night mission arround africa (and you can't really see the night in your video) humans (you) dont see alot on night, alliens can see FURTHER at night (more on day) :) thats why i always try to avoid as many night missions as possible.
Thats a very good point. It's hard to tell if its day or night without light shading... I never knew Aliens could see further than Humans at night - I thought they just moved into range, then walked back out of range so they could see you, but not being able to see them (cheap bastards! :P) Thanks for the heads up.
I had problem playing this game on xp it crashed like crap and its so irritating..I tried Dosbox before but I dunno how to configure the screen resolution and sb sound..it uses autoexec shit and hell how should I know >_>
Try downloading a GUI front for DOSBox then, simplifies the setup a heap for users who don't understand dos prompts and the DOSBox prefs file. For about 6 months or so they've had the Auto speed feature which works really well... that as well as a GUI forefront makes it drop dead easy to enjoy your old dos games again!
God I love Xcom still to this day. I have the collectors edition but I cant get X-com or Terror from the deep to play on any of my 3 PCs or laptop. I guess it's too old to play on XP and Vista. =(
Yeah you're right, the PSX was considered next generation, but the AGA version came out with the PC version, which required you to install it to a HDD first, and obviously with good reason. Installing to a HDD is seemingly an "After-thought" with Amiga games, and slightly more complicated (unless you know how to do it) but otherwise would give comparable performance, correct.
Indeed... The PSX version also had long loading times, but that was only when switching between Geoscope and Tactical (thats the executable name, I've forgotten what it's called in the game...) modes, but this OCS32 Amiga version is just way too slow... apparently that is fixed if you install the game disks onto your HDD using the Amiga OS - I might just stick to using the DOS version ;-)
Before every mission, yes. And if you wanted to reload, pickup/move items and quit, yes. Very annoying :P Apparently if you install though the Amiga OS you can get around the disk swapping, but otherwise its very painful... it ruins the gameplay! I wouldn't wanted to play this on a real Amiga system at 1x floppy speed...!
Also this is running on the floppies. Games like these should be in installed on a hard drive and played that way. Of course it's an advantage to be able able to play with the floppies if you are too lazy to buy a hard drive. But a pain in the as*. :)
Well you can set up an "image" HDD and get the system to run with it - and I did, but I couldn't find any instructions to install the software. Perhaps the AGA version of the software has an install feature...?
If an Amiga game's disks are readable under AmigaOS and it doesn't have an installer in any of the disks, you can copy the contents to your harddisk and assign the disknames to the directory you copied them in.
Ah, that explains a lot... It didn't seem like 16 colours, but not quite 256 either :P I'm at a loss to find the AGA version though... maybe I'm not looking hard enough?
CD version was Beter.
grimkommando 1 week ago
Oh man, I remember my friend at school had this on the amiga and I had it on the PC and I didn't realise how much better it was for me. It still took my old PC a minute or so to load the battlescape but at least there was not disk swapping marlarky
the1log 4 weeks ago in playlist 16BitPt.2
Yeah... this is one of those Amiga games that is best played from HDD, as rare as it was to own one. The AGA version however is pretty much a direct PC port.
But this is the version I finished a few times, with only 2 disk drives. Sort of painful to even watch now.
DeckerFI 2 months ago
Wow, I am glad I had an A1200 with a 420MB HDD, 50Mhz 68030 CPU, and 10MB of RAM when I played this! (power!) Think I had the AGA version too, as I don't remember the graphics being that bad - then again could just be my memory giving out on me.
matthewjsharpe 3 months ago
To all who criticise this version of UFO:
First, the creator of the video runs it from FD-s, instead of HD, wich is much slower. With a HD there is no diskswapping and slow loading.
Second, this version is optimized to run on 7,14 MHz (base clock rate of A500), if you try to run the IBM version on a 8 MHz 386 it would be even more slower than this.
And alex76gr already mentioned the turbocards and the AGA version wich only misses the shadows and that's Microprose's fault, not the Amiga's.
zacskou 4 months ago
The good ol' amiga.
Fastbikkel 5 months ago
This is hilarious.
Zackmo92 5 months ago
people who disliked this video? are douchebags. Great job
TheMytops 6 months ago
Really interesting to see what the Amiga version is like. I didn't play it back in the day because I had shifted from Amiga to PC gaming by that point and I'm glad I did by the look of those loading times.
The lengthy loading aside this is still a great game. I love it for the way it tapped so effectively into the alien conspiracy subtext that seemed to permeate so much of the mid-nineties popular culture. I'm definitely going to dig out my old PC copy so I can play it again.
gamerslivingroom 6 months ago
Forget blasting aliens, why not torture out Amiga users and make them do 8000 hours of DISK SWAPPING!
wickedconman 6 months ago
wow, good there is a dos version, because this one dont look like much ufo defence.
but thanks for the video, it was very interesting :o) i remember playing "north and south" as a kid on a amiga at my cousins.
93Gamerz 7 months ago
Most people who had a clue had moved on to a hard drive and would install the games on them so no more swapping or delays at the time this game came out.
RabidRat88 7 months ago
@RabidRat88 had a clue... AND money. Those drives were real expensive then.
Fastbikkel 3 months ago
i installed this game on the amiga emulator it worked without loading
yhx1000000 8 months ago
Holy crap, what is this? Comparing this crap version to the PSX and DOS ones is unfair! Where is the AGA version!
Koseiku 8 months ago
this proves why amiga lost to pc and dos )
0ShadowFighter0 9 months ago
Yeah, go fot the AGA version.
Faralite 9 months ago
Man, can't it be played from the HDD? That teared up gameplay... that's unplayable!
bat7j 10 months ago
@bat7j This version of UFO/X-Com can be installed to the hard drive as well. However, many Amiga users had only one or two floppy drives, so installing the game wasn't an option for them. Playing the game from the hard drive does fix the issues with loading and disk swapping, although the ground combat still suffers from slow gameplay at least on standard A500 without accelerator cards or similar expansions. If I remember correctly, since it has been over a decade since I played this version.
DamoclesAlpha 10 months ago
I used to play this on my 600, I had TWO floppy drives, yes count them... TWO! So no disk swapping for me, well not too much, but then I installed my own hd and installed it on there, with my own custom installer, it worked a dream.
Mikemetalic 11 months ago
I only came here to listen to the music. Terror from the Disk!
4Dimensional 11 months ago
your floppy is going apeshit mate.
disturbed43011 1 year ago
09:30
Exciting!
MiniMackeroni 1 year ago
This A500 version of the game really does look incredibly poor and it's fairly pointless played from floppy.Take a look at how this looks on A1200 AGA instead
Adropacrich2 1 year ago
Here's my short review of this version of X-COM:
It's X-COM, but not the version you would want to play...unless you are crazy enough to have this much patience. -_-
I'm not saying you are crazy though! ^_^' Nice video! I was curious how this played out on amiga! :)
UncleBetty32k 1 year ago
i used to play this on my amiga600 if i can remember right.. one of best games ever.
Quilbo 1 year ago
love it
sevengreenmice 1 year ago
Christ, what ya running that on a A600 lmao, back when this was a new game I was running the AGA enhanced version from my A1200 with hard drive so never noticed all the loading time issues. This game was the only reason i changed to PC forever... one of my mates got a Dx66 rig and showed me this (Oh and Doom but that didn't intrest me anywhere near as much) so few weeks later flashed out for a highend Pentium 75mhz rig and this game and its sequels later all blew my mind.
HighwayUK 1 year ago
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HighwayUK 1 year ago
...this has to be one of the worst ports for a game I've ever seen.
captainkommando 1 year ago
how did you get the 8x disk loading speed?
looking forward to war of the worlds?
linkohki 1 year ago
@linkohki Yeah Man! I have high hopes for it. =D
The floppy speed is is the settings section.
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
This was really funny, aliens up to "Foul play" XD
AndrosynthNuclear 1 year ago
@AndrosynthNuclear Heheheh... heh. 'cos it's not like they're uninvited to our planet or anything... =P
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
why did they make it for the amiga
m14g 1 year ago
@m14g I never had an amiga myself, but a friend did... and the system was just years ahead in "arcade" game quality. Generally the music was considered better quality than DOS counterparts and the visuals were often smoother and better quality. YouTube Dune II (Dune 2) for both DOS and the Amiga - although the DOS was WAY more popular, the quality of the Amiga was much higher. (although released a few years after the DOS version)
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
lol at the disk swapping - no quick save/loading if a battle goes wrong!
Alyion 1 year ago
@Alyion I know, right? It could be considered an anti-cheat system. =P
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
This is the A500 version. The later released A1200 HD version was exactly the same as PC plus the awesome amiga music.
ElMariachi99 1 year ago
lol love the sound of the floppy, i used to play this game all the time back in the day, but SF2 was the worst game on the Amiga
SomaAkaruz 1 year ago
@SomaAkaruz Why was that?
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
@TheJazzdogg SF2 was a 8 disc game, 1 disc for each person and 1 disc for each level. just to have 1 fight you had to use 3 discs and the load time was so long.
you spent more time loading then you do playing
SomaAkaruz 1 year ago
@SomaAkaruz Aw man, that's awful. I have such fond memories of SF2 with the SNES without loading scenes. =P
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
@TheJazzdogg yer SF2 on the SNES was good, tho i was not that big a fan of it
SomaAkaruz 1 year ago
If you are going to run it from floppy's and compare it to the PC version, then compare it to the PC version running off floppies too.
As said below, try the AGA version from a Hard drive install.
Beaksterboy 1 year ago
@Beaksterboy Yes, I'm now aware of this... but I'm not an Amiga user at all... I went to great lengths to understand how to even get this software to run. All I knew is that the Amiga had it's own version of X-Com and I wanted to inspect how it ran, then I figured it'd be best to share the experience anyway. Even now I'm not actually sure how to install an Amiga OS.
Thanks for your comment all the same.
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
@TheJazzdogg why are you comparing something you've just admitted you have preconceived ideas about, you didnt even bother with preliminary research. Your opinion is about as useful as a chocolate teapot. Please leave the internet.
jacksawild 1 year ago
@jacksawild Oh ho ho ho you're SO CLEVER!
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
@TheJazzdogg Well jacksawild was a bit abusive in his post and i will not do the same but "any" game running from floppy on "any" system will have long load times and disk swapping and if the game was ran on the PC without a HD install it would be monumentally worse. As everyone has stated, there were new Amiga's released in 1992 that featured something call the AGA chipset which enhanced the Amiga's abilities so you are best to check out that one instead ;)
blade004 1 year ago
@TheJazzdogg So are you going to review the AGA version instead of talking nothing but negative shit about this one?
blade004 1 year ago
@blade004 Negative shit? There's quite I like about this version... and sure I'd review it but I don't have the software. If I could obtain it, sure I'd take the time to review it for histories sake!
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
With a harddrive, there wasnt any loading :D
toggsuk 1 year ago
Of course, this game did support installing to a HD if you had that for your Amiga. I think most PC users would have installed it to a HD to play.
desiv1 1 year ago
Yes, I remember the A500 version of UFO (which this is) being heavily marked down in the magazine reviews for the appalling loading times, which were unacceptable even back in 1995 (when this version was released). This version got 36% in one magazine (66% if the A500 had a hard drive), compared with the AGA version's 85% (which still wasn't perfect on loading times, but far more bearable).
madowl85 2 years ago
I'm so happy my amiga had hard drive.
BTW i was surprised you managed to crash very small scout, I used to obliterate them with missiles while still in the air.
CzlowiekImadlo 2 years ago
why does your voice sound deeper jarryd ?
jamessnee1 2 years ago
@jamessnee1 No one wants to hear a high pitched dweeb chat on like a crazy nerd, so the voiceover was recorded at 48khz and played back at 44khz on purpose, as well as some basic EQing.
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
Wow....I give this game a 3/5 for the freaking loading.
PhioenixPinion 2 years ago
oh my god... that disk switching wouldve driven me insane. good video though. very interesting.
jpd2009RV 2 years ago 4
@jpd2009RV Cheers! =)
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
oh no loading to change weapons!!!
DarkShroom 2 years ago 3
@DarkShroom I know, right? Hectic...
TheJazzdogg 1 year ago
lol that loading wouldve driven me insane, thank god ufo was like one of the first games i got after i siwtched to pc
DarkShroom 2 years ago
God that looks painful with all the loading. I hope this game was intended to be played from a hard drive.
The MOD music is definitely better than the FM cards back in the day. I'd even say better than GM cards since the midi was clearly designed for FM. If you play it on something like a Roland SCC-1 or a Yamaha DB50XG it just sounds weird in many parts.
Diwwah 2 years ago
@Diwwah Oh yeah, absolutely. It parts it just sounded like a mess, hey!
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
classic game , I wish it was on xbox live arcade
andrewwright99999 2 years ago
@andrewwright99999 Totally agree! I'd love to see a remake for the iPhone / iPod Touch platform too, in addition with some multiplayer battlescope features over Bluetooth!
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
this is a review!
crazy87jim 2 years ago
It's an observation! =P
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
Hahahahaha! Love your video! :]
mrchriss 2 years ago
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed it. =)
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
I play this game on AmigaKit
AmigaKit is enhanced amigaos3.9 working on the top of WinUAE
only floppy number two is present in virtual drive and it is almost like on Pc
game HD installer is on disk 3 if somebody is
interested.
Choose Xcom:UFO AGA version for better graphics
buokopter 2 years ago
BTW, was the PC version able to run only using floppies?
ancalimonungol 2 years ago
Not that I'm aware. I'm fairly sure the files on the PC floppies are installer assets... compressed data files that need to be decompressed to the hard drive before playing.
In addition, X-Com: Terror From The Deep (also known as TFTD) had a CD version that featured animated sequences... a big deal back then, but massively downer animations if you're to watch it now =P
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
this is the ecs/ocs (a500) version.... the AGA (A1200) version is much better, and IMO the best version of this game by far..
GodofLegacy 2 years ago
I've heard that, but to even get a copy of this game I had to sell my soul... Hours of hunting around on the internaughts at the time of publishing this, where I found one website was willing to share the executables for Amiga if you did like five quizzes... that took forever and sucked majorly, but I really wanted to do a YouTube publishing of the game!
If you happen to have the AGA version of the game, would you be so kind to drop me a line? =)
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
Hmm despite the downgraded graphics, I gotta admit that the Amiga version of the 'interceptor theme' was pretty well converted!
Lightstormer 2 years ago
Totally ay. It's like rocking out to Top Gun... except we wouldn't rock out to Top Gun.
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
lol disk swapping xD
defragen1 2 years ago
Oh and bless you my ozzy friend for showing this on the AMiga. I would not have the patience to disk swap every 3 minutes. I'm glad back in the day on the old PC it was load, install and play atleast I'm pretty sure that's how it was. This was the greatest game to come out for the PC back in 1992 or 1993 along with Masters of Magic. You should review that one too! :D
MetaKoola 2 years ago
At the start of the game don't shoot down a scout follow them until they land! Then do the ground battle take out the 1 alien and you get to research Ellerium-15 from the get go. Just my old strategy, wish this game would work on my current PCs.
MetaKoola 2 years ago
Dude, DosBox is free look it up, or if you don't want to go through the hassle, Direct2Drive has the entire X-Com Collection with standalone Dosbox based launchers, for about $15 total. works perfectly in XP and Vista.
CarlosElPeruacho 2 years ago
Too right! PeeCee users can also purchase the games via Steam, too.
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
The AGA version played on a real Amiga1200 with hard drive is far more better experience.
If you have some kind of accelerator card fitted on your Amiga, then the game is bliss!
alex76gr 2 years ago 15
@alex76gr Or you could just play it on a 486 or DOSBox and be done with that :P
Seriously, both Amiga versions are crap. They did their best with the hardware, but X-Com was released in 1994, way late for Amiga.
F2bnp 9 months ago
@alex76gr
"Amiga Forever" and A1200 version is flawless
longbendy81 9 months ago
Great game - This is the ECS version here - The AGA one had far superior graphics and sound.
Nemspy 2 years ago
I had UFO on amiga as well but my version lookd exactly like the pc one. On geosfere i still had day and night but in battles only day mode. My wersion was 3-4 disks, I dont remember exactly but with one aditional floppy disc drive I didnt have to do any iritating swaping. also graphics were like in pc version.
gadzijezyk 2 years ago
I bought it from Antics in Worcester (not there fault lol)
Didn't get to one tactical mission. Couldn't be bothered..it was REALLY awful. From the station screen to tactical took eleven and a half minutes, then back to base about four.
I was more concerned about my disk drives (I had 2) getting fragged to death.
Awful set up.
Brilliant game (played on PC and PS1..loved it)
treevor921 2 years ago
Damn.
Because of the lack of the day/night cycle graphics, does that mean that day/night didn't exist?
Gotta love the disk swapping.
I've encountered that a few times with recent games when installing them
(Insert disc 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2 etc)
ItchyFlea1 2 years ago
Such a great game
-raped by the amiga !
CCFi99 2 years ago
i like the battle music
m14g 2 years ago
I used to play UFO AGA on my A1200, swapping disks and it was awfull. after I bought hard drive game crashed because of low memory.
tenmatys 2 years ago
I am now imagining that each of those clicks and beeps is the Amiga going "what is this I don't even" and weeping profusely. The end result still looks rather decent, as long as you don't mind swapping disks incessantly. I'm not sure if your average user these days would put up with any of that.
FateJHedgehog 2 years ago
I remember discovering and playing this game on the CD32. I can't believe I got far enough through the game on the CD32 version to sucessfully battle Ethereals....
On the CD32 version you didn't have to faff around with all the disc swapping, but if you were firing an Auto-fire shot at an alien in the distance, you could go away and have a cuppa whilst you waited for it to finish the turn, it was that slow...
Great vid :)
warwickswinger 2 years ago
one of my most favorite childhood memorys :)
wish the music could be remastered today......it would be amazing
Fayejealousy 2 years ago
I remember childhood memories of nightmares from those friggin' terror sites. I HATED hearing the civilians screaming and the sound when the Alien's would attempt mind control... makes my hair stand on end every time I hear it! I think X-Com is the only game that has scared the living life out of me as a kid... I think the music and sound has a lot to answer for. *ahem* Hmm, harden up princess...
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
This game was nearly unplayble without a hard disk. Even with 2 external disk drives it took ages for it to load.
GR8TM4N 2 years ago
Well this is how it all started!
sturnfield7783 2 years ago
One the best games of all time in my opinion! :D
I'm stuck on Terror from the Deep (the second game) though, which kinda sucks.
TheJazzdogg 2 years ago
Eyy, i gues you have a Hardrive on your amiga, why not instal UFO?. i hope you were smart & bougth a extra external flopydrive.. ^^
DeviDaylight 2 years ago
Disk swaps remind me of Shaq Fu, Mortal Kombat 2 & Primal Rage. Classic game this UFO. Makes me wanna play it all over it again. Tell me how you keep so calm and reasonable with the disk swapping. hehe. (Yoga?) Thanks for uploading up the review. Well done.
TheJaaaMan 2 years ago
I had the pleasure of playing the AGA HD version :D
holodock 2 years ago
I like how u explain your play :D
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135092559213 3 years ago
Try the AGA version. It's the original and definative UFO X-COM game. All other versions including this one followed the AGA one. The backgrounds are black and white due to the 32 colour limit on the graphics hardware. The AGA version also has different and better music, more subtle.
daedalia 3 years ago 2
The original and definative UFO Enemy Unknown was on the PC :D
iris030380 2 years ago
The X-Com pack is available on Steam for a mere $15. The first two games are excellent, of course.
00bean00 3 years ago
Yes thats very true! It does however feature DRM which is kinda annoying - if you're a mac user Steam isn't an option for use...
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
You can run all the DOSBox games without opening Steam. You just need to download them on a computer with Steam.
00bean00 3 years ago
It's good to see this Jazzdogg, it was a great game. It's worth reiterating what others have said though; the A1200 version was a bit better looking- 'shaders' for night time, more colourful etc. Also, the main globe screen had different music to the A500 version we see here. Thanks for uploading this though!
AlbertoMazzola 3 years ago
HAhahahahaha please insert a whaat!? hahahaaha. Very good game though on PC (CDROM)-
josephmerrick 3 years ago
That's awesome.
How did you ever get the disc loading on the sound track?
TheVGFP 3 years ago
You can download WinUAE emulator, and enable disc sounds.
remaslex 3 years ago
I remember UFO looking quite a bit nicer than this on Amiga so it must have been the AGA version.This can be installed to HD of course so no faffing around with loading so much
So A1200 HD is a better choice if you want this for Amiga
Adropacrich2 3 years ago 3
You're right. OCS version had 5 disks and AGA had 4 (I own them), so it looks like TheJazzdog is cheating us:P. AGA version looks much better, so compare IT to PC/PS version.
remaslex 3 years ago
Yeah, I bought this game for my A1200 HD and it was much nicer, obviously. :)
SamyMerchi 3 years ago
I didn't have game disks readily available so I had to make do with what I had... I thought I had the AGA version! Seemingly not :P
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Well... You've made mistake, but think about young children! Which one of them will buy UFO:EU for Amiga after watching your video? :P
remaslex 3 years ago
AMIGA version is also very interesting - the soundtrack is great - LOVE all soundtrack versions - FM, MT-32, AMIGA or PSX - I am using it even today on my cellphone :-)
ghostridertom 3 years ago
18+3+8x8=
Jesus Mary mother of Joe-joe. You mean it took two and a half MINUETS of loading to go from the Geoscape to the equip section on a standard floppy?
And I thought the 3DO was slow...
HotaruZoku 3 years ago
impresssive video, where did u get the music up to :50 seconds, it was amazing, do u have a link i can download it or anything like that? lol
hankinator1337 3 years ago
Youtube seems to be blocking the url... try dubdubdub dot xcomufo. dot com/ x1music.html . Damn youtube for making it so hard! Have a listen to "Battlescope 2" - bought back so many nightmares I had as a kid as a result of this game :P
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
thank you so much, i found it, it has the most kick ass beat ever, i've been searching for months. thanks :D
hankinator1337 3 years ago
eugh.
Well, I had the AGA version - and the AGA version is graphically identical to the PC version, the music was superior to both the PC and standard Amiga, hard drive installability, and no loading in the middle of levels (more memory available under AGA.)
I've been playing the PC version under dosbox and the music makes me sad. Miss my Amiga. :(
rmzalbar 3 years ago 2
You wouldn't have a version of that xcom disk anywhere, would you? Seems rare as hens teeth... Someone needs to upload it to preserve it's presence is gaming history! :p
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
I surely do. Even if I don't find it in my disk image archives, I have the physical floppies. They *might* even still be good! :) I'll report next week.
rmzalbar 3 years ago
dude awesome vid. Nice vibrant green on the amiga
EdgeStormcrow 3 years ago
Yeah I noticed that... probably because it didn't have as much power in the colour shading or something.
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
What a game! Played it to death on the 1200. When you got to the later missions on veteran it took like an hour for the aliens to make their moves. I would go and make a cup of tea and watch telly, come back for my go. Bloody ridiculous. Happy days.
Matthyow 3 years ago
Really? Thats nuts... I played it back on a 386 and it never took that long to process... mind you I never got right up to the end missions and never played on veteran... How is it possible to play on veteran? Easiest was bloody hard as it was...!
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Well the sequel was arguably harder on Beginner than the original was on Superhuman :)
Boomer2k6 3 years ago
Oh absolutely hey... whats worse is that theres a bug in it that can stop you from finishing the game, and I think it's happened to me... VERY IMPRESSED as I've been playing it on and off since 2006...
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Nice vid man. Yay but changing the floppy discs after each action was annoying huh? I had UFO gold edition on my old 1200 8)
Koseiku 3 years ago
I feel for you! Whats the difference between the normal version and "gold edition" ?
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Wow, that's painful. The big font is cool though and I like the blue shade in geoscape.
Kinsanra 3 years ago
Me and my brother played this to death on the amiga, it was an a1200 though so it played a little faster but it was still slow. Loved it anyway :D
toggsuk 3 years ago 2
not enemy...terror from the deep
another one was xcom apocalypse
now im playing ufo aftermath and afterlight..i can say there are really good games based on xcom story.i fuckin love it ;D
XabraXiss 3 years ago
Killed some hours on this game.I had enemy from the deep as well.They should a modern version.What was the one after enemy from the deep?
seangrie8 3 years ago
For the sake of the player the developers should have made the game only HD installable... disk load times like that was just not acceptable. (Remember Indyana Jones and the fate of Atlantis on 10+ disks?)
neglesaks 3 years ago
ya i never saw it on amiga, thanks.
GamersBlogVids 3 years ago
No prob. Neither had I, so I figured a YouTube posting was in order :P
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
disk swap terror!!
ASSEMblerEX 3 years ago
Good call :P
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
omg... awful disk swapping... :s
Meja69 3 years ago 2
Yes indeed, I'll opt for the PC/PSX version... but the Amiga version did have a few advantages... like, err... being super old school... or something.
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Unfortunately this game didn't work on Amiga. I had it.
Plenty other games that you could also find on pc did though.
NorwegianDaydreamer 3 years ago
Yup, like Pushover in my case. I loved that game!
darksaiyan2006 3 years ago
Hey, I liked that game as well. But it got pretty hard after a little while.
NorwegianDaydreamer 3 years ago
Yeah, I never got past the space part... if I remember right. Last time I played it was 11 years ago :P Now I'm playing X-com on my computer. I played it before, but Guava's Let's Play on the something awful forums made me pick it up once again.
darksaiyan2006 3 years ago
This is the ocs/ecs (500/600) version, if u want to engoy the Ufo on the amiga, then play the AGA (1200)version and install it onto the hard drive, boot via no startup (and ntsc if playing on original hardware) and launch from there.. the Amiga AGA version for me is the best Ufo(xcomm) version. if i play it i allways play the amiga aga version rather than dos/psx...
GodofLegacy 3 years ago
It was hard enough finding ANY Amiga copy of the game, mind a 1200 version... many people speak of installing it onto the HDD but I didn't have any OS to help me install the game. I'm no AGA expert... used one as a kid, but thats as far as my knowledge goes in Amiga OS I'm afraid... :(
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Those Amiga colours actually look so much more cool than the computer ones. Honestly!
MidgardEagle 3 years ago
Thank God for Doom...
Suqatish 3 years ago
maby it's answered before but at 6:37 you didnt saw the allien thats because you started the mission at arround 22:00 and thats considered night mission arround africa (and you can't really see the night in your video) humans (you) dont see alot on night, alliens can see FURTHER at night (more on day) :) thats why i always try to avoid as many night missions as possible.
Jujukal 3 years ago
Thats a very good point. It's hard to tell if its day or night without light shading... I never knew Aliens could see further than Humans at night - I thought they just moved into range, then walked back out of range so they could see you, but not being able to see them (cheap bastards! :P) Thanks for the heads up.
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
I had problem playing this game on xp it crashed like crap and its so irritating..I tried Dosbox before but I dunno how to configure the screen resolution and sb sound..it uses autoexec shit and hell how should I know >_>
eeezb 3 years ago
Try downloading a GUI front for DOSBox then, simplifies the setup a heap for users who don't understand dos prompts and the DOSBox prefs file. For about 6 months or so they've had the Auto speed feature which works really well... that as well as a GUI forefront makes it drop dead easy to enjoy your old dos games again!
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
God I love Xcom still to this day. I have the collectors edition but I cant get X-com or Terror from the deep to play on any of my 3 PCs or laptop. I guess it's too old to play on XP and Vista. =(
MetaKoola 3 years ago
Would you laugh if I said I play it on my mac? :P Try DOSBox.
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
painful?
The AGA version of this game rocked. To compare a ECS Amiga500+ version to a next generation playstation with CD is idiotic! what do you expect?
Not being funny but this game could install onto a hard drive so floppy disks was never a problem.
bazzadigz 3 years ago
Yeah you're right, the PSX was considered next generation, but the AGA version came out with the PC version, which required you to install it to a HDD first, and obviously with good reason. Installing to a HDD is seemingly an "After-thought" with Amiga games, and slightly more complicated (unless you know how to do it) but otherwise would give comparable performance, correct.
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Man this is PAINFUL to look at compared to the AGA 256 colour version. This makes me appreciate the one I had more.
krumpkrumpkrumpkrump 3 years ago
man why is this drive beeping so bad. geeez
NSFThunderbird 3 years ago
It's floppys on overkill... Hah!
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Wow that seems really really painful.
Great Game but unplayable when that slow huh?
Drogmir 3 years ago
Indeed... The PSX version also had long loading times, but that was only when switching between Geoscope and Tactical (thats the executable name, I've forgotten what it's called in the game...) modes, but this OCS32 Amiga version is just way too slow... apparently that is fixed if you install the game disks onto your HDD using the Amiga OS - I might just stick to using the DOS version ;-)
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
dude, so you had to go through that entire swapping disks thing before EACH mission???
richielaceyone 3 years ago
Before every mission, yes. And if you wanted to reload, pickup/move items and quit, yes. Very annoying :P Apparently if you install though the Amiga OS you can get around the disk swapping, but otherwise its very painful... it ruins the gameplay! I wouldn't wanted to play this on a real Amiga system at 1x floppy speed...!
TheJazzdogg 3 years ago
Also this is running on the floppies. Games like these should be in installed on a hard drive and played that way. Of course it's an advantage to be able able to play with the floppies if you are too lazy to buy a hard drive. But a pain in the as*. :)
ancalimonungol 4 years ago
Well you can set up an "image" HDD and get the system to run with it - and I did, but I couldn't find any instructions to install the software. Perhaps the AGA version of the software has an install feature...?
TheJazzdogg 4 years ago
If an Amiga game's disks are readable under AmigaOS and it doesn't have an installer in any of the disks, you can copy the contents to your harddisk and assign the disknames to the directory you copied them in.
ancalimonungol 4 years ago
you sound different jay rad :P
jamessnee1 4 years ago
Gotta love sound filters :P
TheJazzdogg 4 years ago
This is the OCS 32 colour version. The AGA version is in 256 colours.
ancalimonungol 4 years ago
Ah, that explains a lot... It didn't seem like 16 colours, but not quite 256 either :P I'm at a loss to find the AGA version though... maybe I'm not looking hard enough?
TheJazzdogg 4 years ago
omg kan i put dis on mi mispaec
konstantinos12345 4 years ago
You're such a fool :-P
TheJazzdogg 4 years ago