Did you know that the Amiga version of Secret of Monkey Island features additional animations when played on an Amiga with a 68020+ CPU? Neither did I until today ;) Have a look and maybe the hintbook (scroll down) might come in handy: http://hol.abime.net/1859/manual #Amiga#Retrogaming
“Look at this. It’s worthless — ten dollars from a vendor in the street. But I take it, I bury it in the sand for a thousand years, it becomes priceless. Like the Ark.”
There’s a bit of #indianajones in all of us here I think.
TODAY IN 1990: Commodore announced the launch of the Amiga 3000 (A3000) worldwide, making the formal announcement at the SCIOB Comdex/Europe show in Paris. The base configuration came with a 16 MHz Motorola 68030 CPU, 1 MB of RAM, a 40 MB hard disk, and cost $4,000. Commodore also announced "AmigaVision," a multimedia authoring system designed to work with the A3000.
At 8pm BST tonight, I'm resuming my series of streams playing through all the #Amiga Power magazine coverdisks on #Twitch. We pick up from issue 20 (December 1992) - things get a bit, er, seasonally inappropriate briefly.
Plenty of fab demos and PD games to come including more scope to cause a diplomatic incident like this one last time round... check us out at https://twitch.tv/NAG_Graham and join our lovely community!
They say never post screenshots of your UI, but ... much work done on the in-game shop!
Two currency types, player attribute levels, items and levels locked depending on XP level, and all hooked up to runtime values (which are in need of tweaking yet).
Andy Warhol holding a mouse next to an Amiga 1000 with a tilted monitor, around its public introduction in July 1985. Such a magical time of the digital revolution. ❤️
I only learned about the pixel art Piece "Four Byte Burger" when @blakespot posted about it last month. It is a gorgeous piece of pixel art, and its history as a piece that couldn't be saved because the software was so new it didn't even have a save function only adds to its allure.
Recently Ahoy posted a recreation video of the image on YouTube. Here's a picture I took of Four Byte Burger on my JVC TM-H1750 CRT monitor.
Recently @blakespot posted Jack Haeger's "Four-Byte Burger” #Amiga#PixelArt. Today YouTuber Ahoy posted about his process to recreate it from scratch using photographs, even posting a PNG of the final work (scaled for modern displays).
I was able to work backwards to create an Amiga IFF version so I too could display it on an Amiga and CRT.
Four Byte Burger displayed on an #Amiga 1000 and a rare #Commodore 1070 monitor, the original monitor paired with the Amiga 1000, rotated 90 degrees for portrait display. The image is stunning in person on the CRT!
*Edit: Replaced image with correctly rotated image. Ahoy's original version needed to be rotated the other way for this orientation.
The Commodore 1070 is likely the same monitor Jack Haeger had access to when he created Four Byte Burger using an early version of Graphicraft. Here's Andy Warhol using the same monitor rotated in portrait orientation.