Many a computer from the 1980s is today yellowed and brittle. The plastics age considerably over the decades. You can do some mitigation by retrobrighting with hydrogen peroxide. However for some machines you can even get replacement cases, and in some cases even brand new key caps for the keyboard. Today we will transform a beige Commodore A500 into a black beauty!
too bad I never owned a MegaDrive in the 90's. Was too much into the #Amiga , which I do not regret, as it created me the person I am (as a software engineer/engineering manager). Though, I would wonder what this would have been if I had a Sega instead... ;-)
I've just watched the #Amiga demo HAMazing by Desire and I want to say a few words about it. The first ones are: it's insane what hardware that's almost 40 years old could do. It blew my mind as a kid and rightly so.
The demo is all about leveraging HAM mode, which allowed you to display up to 4K colors simultaneously. Let me explain how that worked and how remarkable this demo is. 🧵 1/6
Thanks to the lovely request from @vanacksabbadium I present to you my latest work.
Feast your eyes on the Shadow of the Beast 3 banner. 😊
I might actually do the banners for the part 1 and 2 as well, so stay tuned. 🙂 #amiga#art#retrogaming#oldgames
3D intro illustration for our coder's music editor Syntrax (a.k.a. Jaytrax), published in the early 2000s as an unofficial Windows and Pocket PC sequel to our old #Amiga music editors SIDmon and Digital Mugician.
You can listen to some Syntrax tracks here (my favorite is King Tut)…
I have a really big wish to create #Amiga related videos on YouTube, but I am having a hard time figuring out the required free time the extra production will take (I already have one YT channel). And everyone told me not to mix topics on one channel because viewers hate that.
The OCS version of Simon The Sorcerer is quite impressive! I only have the PC CD version here, but luckily ADFs are readily available... #simonthesorcerer#retrogaming#commodore#amiga
I'd like to publish a mod file on a adf disc image for fun.
My search engine queries didn't bring much usable up.
I'd like it to be a self-booting adf disc image that automatically starts a minimal mod player (ideally not bigger than 50kb) running my mod.
So I need know-how in
(preparing a) bootable disc
kinda start script
mod player that runs a mod from command line
(or something that converts my mod into an executable that I can autostart)
I'm a Linux sys admin by profession, so I hope I'd understand some basic stuff on the Amiga ;) - on the other hand I have no experience with it. Kickstart 3.x and 1.3 roms and corresponding Workbenchs I have (emulated).
Any help / hints / links to tutorials would help a lot. Anything specific to the point would be a bless. Thank you!
I randomly fallen into Amiga tracker music on Youtube last night and now I'm fascinated by this piece of early electronic music history. Ahoy's video on it was extremely informative not just about that, but also about the early origins of the Demo scenes, piracy and keygen scenes, early game development and music composing. Now I feel like I hit a huge cache of old electronic music that I can try to get into and enjoy.
Okay, so. I am DEEP into the rabbit hole now. Spent the past two days going into tutorials on tracking, checking out different tracker software, downloading mod files, listening to the music, searching up samples (thank you Internet Archive) and more. My brother also went deep, given that he also is really into music and electronic music production, and now we're both bouncing around the walls trying to learn how to make music like this.
I have downloaded FT2-clone, PT2-clone, SchismTracker, MilkyTracker, OpenMPT and Furnace Tracker. Also considered emulating LSDJ, the Gameboy chiptune tracker. So far, my favorite is MilkyTracker, but I think I'm going to have to find some sort of sample organizer software to sift through the couple gigs of samples I downloaded. #Amiga#TrackerMusic