Did you ever lie about what your system could do?

Evander · Post by **Evander** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:53 am

I remember telling my SNES owning mate back in 1993 that Mode 7 rotation was "coming out for the Amiga". To add some kind of validity to this I subtly left a pair of disks on my desk with F-Zero disk 1 and 2 written on them. This was in "preparation" for the upgrade. What a lying cretin I was.

theantmeister · Post by **theantmeister** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 10:57 am

No, but I have heard many a corker in my day. In fact, there was some dumbass on here claiming he could run DOS games on his Amiga.

The Laird · Post by **The Laird** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:05 am

Evander wrote:I remember telling my SNES owning mate back in 1993 that Mode 7 rotation was "coming out for the Amiga". To add some kind of validity to this I subtly left a pair of disks on my desk with F-Zero disk 1 and 2 written on them. This was in "preparation" for the upgrade. What a lying cretin I was.

I can't believe that even worked, especially as the Amiga couldn't do rotation.

There was a kid at my school who claimed his Amstrad CPC could also play Spectrum games

Evander · Post by **Evander** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:08 am

Let's just say in my experience, in 1993, if I had Sky TV and one of mates didn't then I could get away with talking all kinds of BS. "Oh I saw it on a satellite channel."

necronom · Post by **necronom** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 11:43 am

Jagfest_UK wrote:
Evander wrote:I remember telling my SNES owning mate back in 1993 that Mode 7 rotation was "coming out for the Amiga". To add some kind of validity to this I subtly left a pair of disks on my desk with F-Zero disk 1 and 2 written on them. This was in "preparation" for the upgrade. What a lying cretin I was.
I can't believe that even worked, especially as the Amiga couldn't do rotation.

It did okay for me when I was playing Xtreme Racing.

Matt_B · Post by **Matt_B** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:04 pm

theantmeister wrote:

No, but I have heard many a corker in my day. In fact, there was some dumbass on here claiming he could run DOS games on his Amiga.

There are DOS emulators for the Amiga, so it's vaguely possible to do that. There's even one called PCTask that can emulate a 486, although you'd need a very souped up Amiga to run it at full speed.

The Laird · Post by **The Laird** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:24 pm

necronom wrote:
Jagfest_UK wrote:
Evander wrote:I remember telling my SNES owning mate back in 1993 that Mode 7 rotation was "coming out for the Amiga". To add some kind of validity to this I subtly left a pair of disks on my desk with F-Zero disk 1 and 2 written on them. This was in "preparation" for the upgrade. What a lying cretin I was.
I can't believe that even worked, especially as the Amiga couldn't do rotation.
It did okay for me when I was playing Xtreme Racing.

That maybe but it didn't do it in hardware like the SNES, Mega CD or Lynx.

theantmeister · Post by **theantmeister** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:25 pm

Matt_B wrote:
theantmeister wrote:

No, but I have heard many a corker in my day. In fact, there was some dumbass on here claiming he could run DOS games on his Amiga.
There are DOS emulators for the Amiga, so it's vaguely possible to do that. There's even one called PCTask that can emulate a 486, although you'd need a very souped up Amiga to run it at full speed.

Oh no, he remembered just popping the disc in the drive and it working. Damned search isn't turning up anything, it was quite an interesting thread.

joefish · Post by **joefish** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:55 pm

Jagfest_UK wrote:That maybe but it didn't do it in hardware like the SNES, Mega CD or Lynx.

Doesn't mean it 'couldn't do it' though does it? Clearly it could.
Even the Speccy can do it. Eventually...

r0jaws · Post by **r0jaws** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 1:37 pm

My lies about my systems make me a voracious sexual behemoth to the ladies.
Try it.

nokgod · Post by **nokgod** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 3:10 pm

Oh yes indeedy! The biggest lie i ever told was that i needed a Spectrum to help with my homework.

theantmeister · Post by **theantmeister** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:38 pm

nokgod wrote:Oh yes indeedy! The biggest lie i ever told was that i needed a Spectrum to help with my homework.

Winnar!

markopoloman · Post by **markopoloman** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:41 pm

Jagfest_UK wrote:
There was a kid at my school who claimed his Amstrad CPC could also play Spectrum games

But the Amstrad did play Spectrum games - but cleverly it added colour and made the scrolling jerky.

psj3809 · Post by **psj3809** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:42 pm

Instantly ! Told my parents it would be great for schoolwork, doing spreadsheets, learning word processing etc.

1 minute after getting the Speccy it was games games games

delbert_trout · Post by **delbert_trout** » Thu Dec 08, 2011 5:43 pm

Jagfest_UK wrote:There was a kid at my school who claimed his Amstrad CPC could also play Spectrum games

He probably meant quite a lot of his cassettes had the Amstrad version of the game on one side and the Speccy version on the other?

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