Hi Just joking. Had this magic heavy boxed paint package for the C64 called The Advanced OCP Art Studio by Firebird. With the manual you get two 5.25" disks and two cassettes. That covers all the options really... This gave us the OCP file extension and featured quite a lot on the Amstrad range of machines. You can get the software here...http://www.ndh.net/home/ng/Download.htm
Beware the music... :-) Advanced Art Studio (30 KB) The OCP-Advanced Art Studio from Rainbird. The best C64 multicolor (16 colours) paintprogramm ever ! It´s a .D64-File. Please use the CCS-64 Emulator to load it. ......And that file extension..... OCP - Advanced Art Studio 'Offline Commander Project ' file Advanced Art Studio is built upon the ' Windows -icons menus - pointing devices ' concept as pioneered by Xerox at Palo Alto and popularised by Apple with the Lisa and Macintosh computers. The guiding philosphy behind these developments is that a program should be easy for the first-time user to operate, with all relevant information visible on the screen and the entry of long and complicated command sequences via the keyboard avoided. Instead the commands are issued by simply pointing to the appropriate option within a menu and pressing the select button. scuzz
Space War - Tobias J. Richter (Amiga Animation) Just sit back and soak up the amazing Amiga video which is truly magical given the technology.. Any Amiga fan will appreciate this one.R E M O V E D
Notes from YouTube... [ quote ] Here's a real blast from the past! This animation was produced in 1992 by Tobias Richter using assorted high-powered Commodore Amiga computers. It may look a bit dated now but back in '92 it was real eye-popping stuff! Tobias Richter produced many fine rendered animations on the Commodore Amiga back in the day - many of which were released on disk by 17 Bit Software (a UK based PD library). If memory serves this animation was made available on VHS video by 17 Bit Software. The video tape I found this animation on was in a very bad state so I captured it in to digitally preserve the classic Amiga footage. I've cleaned up the audio a bit and have even re-synched it slightly as the original video footage was slightly out of synch with the audio. I hope you enjoy this video and it brings back some memories of the good old days of the Commodore Amiga. (less) Added: November 18, 2007 [ end quote ] For me... Timeless. [ reply from Paul Q at Amiga SA ] Indeed it is. If you watch carefully there are little bits of slow-down occasionally, but only very occasionally. The end credits state that the animation is being played back in realtime on a miggy. That might not sound like much but doing full screen 320x256 resolution animation (not sure about colour depth, probably either 32 colours or HAM 4096) is no mean feat. An 030 A3000 with fast RAM has enough chip mem bandwidth to do one update every 25th of a second, but it starts getting very tight when you have to load and decode the data too. Anyone remember the CD32 streaming video demos? There were a few, the most complex being 160x128 scaled to full screen with chunky to planar conversion. Since the CD-ROM was only 2x and there was no fast RAM, that was the limit. In fact, I think it was not until 2002 that an Amiga demo group managed to do full 256 colour 50 frames per second effects on an Amiga 1200. Even with an 060, the problem is chip RAM bandwidth, so they must have used a lot of tricks and pipelined like mad to use every CPU cycle. Even now, when coding the firmware for the joystick/retro adapter I made, I just had to optimise it. Leaning to program in assembler on an Amiga gives you a certain mindset - incredible, impossible things can be done if you can just figure out how, and every CPU cycle counts. Optimising your code becomes second nature, and now I just can't stand to see obvious performance gains not made, even if there is absolutely no need :) [ Thanks Paul ] scuzz
Phew... You never know till you open the SCALA box whether you were lucky enough to get the dongle... Held my breath... and there it was ... Big binder this, and quite heavy. .... mm thinks. What would be cooler than SCALA... I know... The SCALA Workstation 500The SCALA Workstation
[ quote ] Similar to the CD32x, the Scala Workstation 500 is a customized Amiga unit designed for kiosk use. The rack mounted case is fitted with a CD32 and SX-1 expansion model. Based upon reports, the CD32 is a PAL unit, but the power supply is reported to be usable in European and US countries. The machine is supplied with the Scala video editing software and dongle. Updated versions of this unit are available from Eyetech. [ end blurb ] scuzz
Hi ' The Gold of the Aztecs ' arrived today This is cool...R E M O V E D
Cus not only do you get to see the game but also the guys C128D, Amiga 1000 and A500 with sidecar. [ synopsis ] You are Vietnam war veteran Bret Conrad, who becomes an adventurer. Go everywhere on the world, find gold, walk in to the jungle... One day, you receive an old map about the lost city of Quetzacotl, and it's cache of gold. You prepare your bag, gun, knife and let's go to the adventure ! In gameplay Gold Of the Aztecs is similar to Psygnosis' Barbarian (by the same author), and you must go screen by screen to finish it. Over 140 main character movements are included. There are traps at each screen like stones or dangerous bridge. [ end blurb ] I am convinced I had the demo for this on a cover disk. scuzz
Hi The LC II arrived today and it is so thin... Codename Foster Farms [ don`t understand ]
LC II introduced 1992.03.23 at $1,400 CPU: 16 MHz 68030 FPU: 68882 (optional, uses PDS slot) ROM: 512 KB RAM: 4 MB on motherboard, expandable to 10 MB 256 KB VRAM SIMM, expandable to 512 KB; video port: DB-15 ADB ports: 1 for keyboard and mouse serial ports: 2 DIN-8 RS-422 on back of computer SCSI: DB-25 connector on back of computer hard drive: none, 40, or 80 MB sound: 8-bit mono audio in: 8-bit mono expansion slot: LC PDS slot size (HxWxD): 2.9" x 12.2" x 15.3" weight: 8.8 lbs. [ end blurb ] Pizza Box... That would sum it up I guess. Just plugged it in, seems to work. There was an introductory ping, hard drive activity and the floppy activated. Sadly I don`t have my Mac monitor handy so can`t check. That processor looks familiar. About as powerful as my Amiga 1200 with the Blizzard. scuzz
Hi I have been asked this... Does anyone have a copy of ProPaint? This is the app Andy Warhol used to create the images for the Amiga's launch in 1985. [ see ]History of the Amiga
[ quote ] Andy sat down in front of the Amiga 1000, looking at it like it was some kind of alien technology from another world. "What other computers have you worked with?" asked resident Amiga artist Jack Hager. "I haven't worked on anything," Andy replied truthfully. "I've been waiting for this one." A nearby video camera was attached to a digitizer, and from this setup a monochrome snapshot of Debbie's face appeared on the Amiga screen, ready for Andy to add a splash of color. It is a cardinal rule in doing computer demos in public that you never let anyone else take control of the machine, lest they do something off-script that winds up crashing the computer. The paint program (ProPaint) being used was a very early alpha, and the software engineers knew that it had bugs in it. One of the known bugs was that the flood fill algorithm—the paint program didn't use the hardware fills that were demonstrated earlier—would usually crash the program every second time it was used. Yet there was Andy clicking here, there, and everywhere with the flood fill. Somehow, the demo gods were smiling on Amiga that day, and the program didn't crash. "This is kind of pretty," Andy said, admiring his work. "I think I'll keep that."
The show ended with a short video—powered by the Amiga—of a wireframe ballerina, who then turned into a solid-shaded figure, and finally a fully rotoscoped animated image. A real ballerina then came out on stage and danced in sync with her animated counterpart [ End blurb ] So if you have a copy then let me know scuzz
Hi Been a pretty typical week here in retro land. Arriving through the doors has been... The Mac LC II Provector 2.1 Boxed SuperTetris - MicroProse The Advanced OCP Art Studio - RainBird A2000 RAM Card with a massive 1MB Boxed Genesia - Mindscape Zenith Data Systems Win3.1 ancient laptop in carry case SCALA complete with dongle The Gold of the Aztecs - US Gold Mitsubishi Apricot desktop computer. More on the way scuzz
CLASSIC So how many computers can you name...? Check out the link to the Varese Retrocomuting ShowVarese Retrocomputing 2007
Great to see an interest in older machines and the desire to keep them running and in many ways still upgrade with more modern bits of kit. The quality of hardware here is truly amazing... Unlike the beast below which I guess is no more... Sadly.
The Altos 2086
Now that's what I call a computer... :-) Thanks to 1000Bit Computers for that image1000Bit Computer Museum
Well that's my lot for another week. scuzz
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