Our very own Gideon put together this little video of the #Norwich#Amiga Group at #OLL23 recently. It was a brilliant expo and if you missed it, hopefully this gives you a bit of a flavour of what it was like (and you'll get that Xenon 2 music stuck in your head like I was forced to all weekend...).
This got me all nostalgic: a review of the Hoi Amiga game in the August 1992 issue of The One magazine, UK. As a youngster I co-designed the game and created all graphics. 🥲
I was BBSing last night on the Atari 520ST. It's not one of my main go-tos for that kind of thing, but it's nice to login on the ST once in a while.
The ST has an interesting terminal program called TAZ that achieves 16 colors for ANSI emulation in its 4-color medium resolution mode (640x200) by way of a trick. Palettes are swapped in an out in alternating frames, so you get effectively a 30Hz, 16-color display by way of what one might call "temporal dithering." (And, yes -- the flickering is quite noticeable.)
When the ST was my main driver long ago, I bought this paint program called Quantum Paint that achieved 4096 colors onscreen thanks to a similar technique. It wasn't the best experience, I confess.
Watcha, back on http://twitch.tv/djh0ffman from 8PM BST/UK. Cecconoid is finished!!! let's play test it (or maybe just add one tiny thing which surely can't break anything else!) #amiga#gamedev
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.