81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
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Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#2Whats nice here (that the title doesn't really imply) is that she uses AmigaBasic to programmaticly draw pseudo random colours and shapes to create the art.
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#3Whats nice here (that the title doesn't really imply) is that she uses AmigaBasic to programmaticly draw pseudo random colours and shapes to create the art.
Sounds like she started with AmigaBasic then moved onto C. I quite liked her "yo-yo" variables idea, not a typical algorithm but makes sense for what she's making.
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#4Looks like she extended her Amiga with Microbotics Starboard 2 (2MB RAM and RTC, visible in 2:36): http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=...
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#5It’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.
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#6It’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.
I dunno, MS ported the Mac version of Word to the Atari ST but by the time it got there (late, and buggy, and overpriced) indigenous ST developers had made their own superior products.
Interlace video for hi-rez modes on the Amiga also made it non-ideal for office type applications. Maybe if Commodore had bothered to include a scan doubler by default?
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#7Tought herself Amiga "demo" programming 30 years ago in C and BASIC because she understood computers as a medium, and she can also use it to create art by programming.
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#8If this is not the coolest video I've seen on YouTube in some years, I don't know what is.
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#9It’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.
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.
Re: 81 Year Old Commodore Amiga Artist – Samia Halaby [video]
#10It’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.
I dunno, MS ported the Mac version of Word to the Atari ST but by the time it got there (late, and buggy, and overpriced) indigenous ST developers had made their own superior products. Interlace video for hi-rez modes on the Amiga also made it non-ideal for office type applications. Maybe if Commodore had bothered to include a scan doubler by default?
Amiga had quite a few cool office type applications like Pagestream.
The video wasn't an issue when using Commodore monitors.