Amiga, Commodore and creativity

[Mortmal]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/505470364/the-x500-plus-computer-case?ref=live

The white one really looks like an original amiga box :

 

[taxalot]

Yeah, except now real amigas look like PC. Which is funny, come to think about it.

 

[Mortmal]

yes but its a return to the source kinda , thats the first amiga , amiga 1000

 

[Jaesun]

Yeah it is kind of funny, the Amigha 1000 is how it is today with PC's (other than laptops).

 

[Wolfus]

I would like to kindly ask the mods to make this thread sticky...

Thank you!

 

[taxalot]

Yeah it is kind of funny, the Amigha 1000 is how it is today with PC's (other than laptops).

Not really. Now we have towers. I do miss this "desktop" kind of thing.

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Excellent compilation for Commodore64 game music.

 

[Suchy]

 

[taxalot]

You know what would be cool ?
1. 8 bit retrocomputer gets funded on Kickstarter : a 64 KB machine, with 16 colors, and maybe somehow SD card or USB compatibility for convenience of use. Also HDMI output. It gets sold cheaply. Kickstarter is an incredible success.
2. The thing gets hugely popular and lots of games get developer for it.
3. We can pretend the last twenty years never happened.

 

[Luzur]

You know what would be cool ?
1. 8 bit retrocomputer gets funded on Kickstarter : a 64 KB machine, with 16 colors, and maybe somehow SD card or USB compatibility for convenience of use. Also HDMI output. It gets sold cheaply. Kickstarter is an incredible success.
2. The thing gets hugely popular and lots of games get developer for it.
3. We can pretend the last twenty years never happened.

yes im game if you guys are on this idea.

and i still need to do that C= tattoo.

 

[Gerrard]

I draw the line at 16 bits. And 1MB of RAM.

 

[taxalot]

Maybe we can do both.

 

[MadMaxHellfire]

damn, i'm spoiled. after tasting the power i wouldn't settle for nothing less than my old 4000/040 with 18 mb ram

 

[Jashiin]

 

[Kirtai]

Grrr, all this talk about Amigas reminds me of a friend who had a fully tricked out A3000T (yes, the tower version) with a Cybervision64 graphics card, Ariadne ethernet, 68060 accelerator, scsi drives, 64MB memory (could have been more), a big, high res multisync monitor and a Toccata sound card. (She was a musician who composed on it)

Not long before we met she threw the whole lot in the bin.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Grrr, all this talk about Amigas reminds me of a friend who had a fully tricked out A3000T (yes, the tower version) with a Cybervision64 graphics card, Ariadne ethernet, 68060 accelerator, scsi drives, 64MB memory (could have been more), a big, high res multisync monitor and a Toccata sound card. (She was a musician who composed on it)

Not long before we met she threw the whole lot in the bin.

Oh God, what a travesty!

 

[Wolfus]

You just made me

 

[taxalot]

She?

 

[Kirtai]

Yes. She.

 

[Gerrard]

That explains everything.

 

[Kirtai]

She was also the one who originally put it together.

 

[Luzur]

theres a new UK made documentary "From Bedrooms to Billions" about the history of videogames about to come out:



also features Rob Hubbard.

 

[CorpseZeb]

You know what would be cool ?
1. 8 bit retrocomputer gets funded on Kickstarter : a 64 KB machine, with 16 colors, and maybe somehow SD card or USB compatibility for convenience of use. Also HDMI output. It gets sold cheaply. Kickstarter is an incredible success.
2. The thing gets hugely popular and lots of games get developer for it.
3. We can pretend the last twenty years never happened.

Well, most of 8-biters have abilities "to do" HDMI, USB, HD, SD, etc. etc added by magic of external devices, already. And there's a lot of common knowledge how to program these machines. A new one, first, must be discovered by programmers, second and more important, a new one will probably doesn't have a special magic that old hardware has now - I mean - all these programing effort aim to defeat machine specification. For example, it was said, small Atari doesn't had a multicolor hires. Lies!

http://atarionline.pl/v01/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1361631036&ucat=1&ct=nowinki

There's a deeply hackery magic about these effect, texts are in polish, but some pictures aren't.

 

[taxalot]

But rediscovering everything would be pretty much the whole point ; also, these old computers of old do not have wide distribution and this can be a strong deterrent to most people.

Okay, I am willing to settle for Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, and old PC clones.

Although what I miss most are the CRT and the sounds of old floppy and hard disks.

 

[Kirtai]

Although what I miss most are the CRT and the sounds of old floppy and hard disks.

I sometimes feel nostalgic for the "gronk, gronk" sound of my Amigas floppy drive but then I remember what a total pain in the arse they were.

Fuck you Chrome, "arse" is indeed a word.