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Also, did she upload her work to pouet.net? I think probably she hasn’t but it’d be cool if she did.
It’s too bad Microsoft didn’t port their apps to the Amiga. It probably would be alive today but people bought computers for the apps.
Microsoft used open source to kill the Amiga. They acquihired the developer of Bars & Pipes Professional, convinced him to open source it and had him work on DirectMusic instead. The fact that a leading MIDI tool for the Amiga was now open source basically left the Amiga music software industry a smouldering ruins, where it might have hung on for a few more years, forcing developers to look at Windows instead. Open s…
(I'm also skeptical about your thesis that music software was the cornerstone of Amiga's popularity. That was most likely games, and Doom was the most obvious killer there.)
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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…
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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.
It’s too bad Microsoft didn’t port their apps to the Amiga. It probably would be alive today but people bought computers for the apps.
Microsoft used open source to kill the Amiga. They acquihired the developer of Bars & Pipes Professional, convinced him to open source it and had him work on DirectMusic instead. The fact that a leading MIDI tool for the Amiga was now open source basically left the Amiga music software industry a smouldering ruins, where it might have hung on for a few more years, forcing developers to look at Windows instead. Open s…
Fucking LOL. Tell that to any internet startup since 1995 and prepare to get laughed out of the room
So is there an emulator or something we could use to get her running on an updated machine?
I don't think she would go for using an emulator. She said near the end of the video that the Amiga IS the artwork, and that she can only show her works on HER Amiga.
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I don't think she would go for using an emulator. She said near the end of the video that the Amiga IS the artwork, and that she can only show her works on HER Amiga.
You're right, but then later she says that she'd love a 'modern' Amiga, too. I just could see someone giving her a Mac running an emulator and be like.. here you go!
A bit of retro-brite and a few spare parts in knowing hands might be more her thing. Or maybe the plotter that was discussed here on HN last week.
Someone needs to tell her about processing and get on a modern machine.
Processing [1] is about the closest thing to her Amiga code, and is totally cross platform.