X-Com - UFO: Enemy Unknown on Amiga

Looking at UFO: Enemy Unknown on the Amiga system in comparison to the PC/Playstation version. Emulated in WinUAE and footage corrected/ sound mixed in Final Cut. BTW I refer to the bullet fires as "Spartan Laser" because the Amiga draws a red line and it reminded me of Halo 3 :-P Enjoy!

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• X-Com
• xcom
• UFO
• Enemy
• Unknown
• Defense
• Amiga
• Video
• Game
• Emulation

[jpd2009RV]

oh my god... that disk switching wouldve driven me insane. good video though. very interesting.

[TheJazzdogg]

@jpd2009RV Cheers! =)

[DarkShroom]

oh no loading to change weapons!!!

[TheJazzdogg]

@DarkShroom I know, right? Hectic...

[grimkommando]

CD version was Beter.

[the1log]

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

[DeckerFI]

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.

[matthewjsharpe]

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.

[Fastbikkel]

@RabidRat88 had a clue... AND money. Those drives were real expensive then.

[zacskou]

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.

[Fastbikkel]

The good ol' amiga.

[Zackmo92]

This is hilarious.

[TheMytops]

people who disliked this video? are douchebags. Great job

[gamerslivingroom]

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.