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81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Post by Mantipath »

busterarm wrote: post #23
phire wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They stopped innovating. The A1000 was released in 1985, the same year as the NES was released in America. It was a huge leap in capabilities over it's contemporaries. But their massive lead was slowly whittled away by technology improvements. In 1992 they released AGA, which was barely twice as good as the original A1000 chip-set, while the IBM PC had innovated all the way from 4 color CGA, though EGA to VGA/SVGA wi…

Doom killed the Amiga kind of like how Quake killed Cyrix x86 clones and to a lesser degree AMD's K5. It's interesting how John Carmack's technical vision decided the winners in the computer industry at the time.

The best Wolfenstein 3-D ports were on the Apple IIgs, Atari Jaguar and Panasonic 3DO. FWIW.

Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Post by jacobush »

busterarm wrote: post #23
phire wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They stopped innovating. The A1000 was released in 1985, the same year as the NES was released in America. It was a huge leap in capabilities over it's contemporaries. But their massive lead was slowly whittled away by technology improvements. In 1992 they released AGA, which was barely twice as good as the original A1000 chip-set, while the IBM PC had innovated all the way from 4 color CGA, though EGA to VGA/SVGA wi…

Doom killed the Amiga kind of like how Quake killed Cyrix x86 clones and to a lesser degree AMD's K5. It's interesting how John Carmack's technical vision decided the winners in the computer industry at the time.

Doom was just the nail. Economically, Commodore was messed up by the time Doom came around. But I agree, Doom made it very evident, I remember it well - suddenly, a 486 became a "must have" for rich geeks.

Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Post by busterarm »

jacobush wrote: post #32
busterarm wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doom killed the Amiga kind of like how Quake killed Cyrix x86 clones and to a lesser degree AMD's K5. It's interesting how John Carmack's technical vision decided the winners in the computer industry at the time.

Doom was just the nail. Economically, Commodore was messed up by the time Doom came around. But I agree, Doom made it very evident, I remember it well - suddenly, a 486 became a "must have" for rich geeks.

I grew up with a Commodore 64 but once my older brother started getting loaner machines from work, it was quickly dispatched.

We were usually playing Pirates!, Carmen Sandiego, Cauldron I & II, Ultimate Wizard & the Bard's Tale games and dialing into BBS on the C64. The usual way of dialing with leaked calling card numbers.

Eye of the Beholder on the 386SX machines was cool and all, but once he 'liberated' a 486DX from work and we started playing Doom and using his job's dialup service, the C64 was done.

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Post by EvanAnderson »

phire wrote: post #18
pjmlp wrote: post #9

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Amiga died thanks to Commodore mismanagement, Microsoft was still not that strong back then. PCs were still a mix of MS-DOS, Windows 3.x or Novell Netware when the downfall begun around 1994, Windows 95 was still around the corner.

They stopped innovating. The A1000 was released in 1985, the same year as the NES was released in America. It was a huge leap in capabilities over it's contemporaries. But their massive lead was slowly whittled away by technology improvements. In 1992 they released AGA, which was barely twice as good as the original A1000 chip-set, while the IBM PC had innovated all the way from 4 color CGA, though EGA to VGA/SVGA wi…

The drama between Commodore and Atari in the 1980s is really interesting. I wonder what kind of computing world we'd be living in today if Atari had gotten the Amiga technology, rather than Commodore. I suppose with Tramiel still at the helm at Atari it wouldn't have been so different. I do wish could just spin-up a scratch universe to see what another company would have done w/ Amiga, though...

Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Post by errozero »

bitwize wrote: post #22
pjmlp wrote: post #10

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Amiga had quite a few cool office type applications like Pagestream. The video wasn't an issue when using Commodore monitors.

Yes it was. I used an Amiga with a Commodore monitor and while it was a lot better than any TV or other composite monitor, the interlacing was still noticeable and people's eyes would go wonky staring at that for eight hours a day.

Any monitor from back then would look awful now. I do remember noticing the interlacing on the Amiga though.

Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Post by kristopolous »

The production value and artistic merit of this was quite good but here's the insight ... it's what I call the Ira Glass structure:

1. show the meat, why you're interviewing them - if the person is say, a miner you start off with machinery and sounds of workers

2. do the intro of who the person is - have them state their name and identity (occupation or other story-relevant identity such as an ethnicity or physical attribute that is relevant to the story)

3. give a backstory - relevant details that led them to the present such as where they started, their parents, siblings, etc.

4. identify the present and show the passion - usually with long-form charles dickens details of rooms or where the person lives along with what they love

5. talk about what the person is about to do - a cross country journey, a competition, get married, etc.

6. set the scene - the person getting ready for it and preparing, setbacks along the way, human interest style narratives

7. make it special - try to frame it as either a unique story or something that effects a very small group of specific people

8. conclude with a future oriented framing - say "the story isn't over" such as talking about next years competition or some more ambitious task they plan to do

Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Post by icedchai »

busterarm wrote: post #8

If this is not the coolest video I've seen on YouTube in some years, I don't know what is.

Great video! It reminded me of how magical it felt when I got my first Amiga back in 1988! I followed a similar path, started with Basic, then moved up to C (Lattice, later renamed to SAS/C.)

Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

errozero wrote: post #37
bitwize wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it was. I used an Amiga with a Commodore monitor and while it was a lot better than any TV or other composite monitor, the interlacing was still noticeable and people's eyes would go wonky staring at that for eight hours a day.

Any monitor from back then would look awful now. I do remember noticing the interlacing on the Amiga though.

It was awful when compared to the paperwhite monochrome displays of a Mac or the Atari ST. It's frankly one of the things that set the Amiga back in the productivity regard.
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