Title: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: David Makin on March 27, 2015, 01:08:27 PM Nearly at £80,000 - should it get hit in time we'll get a full 2.5 hours !!
http://kck.st/1BlCFfZ (http://kck.st/1BlCFfZ) Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: 3dickulus on March 27, 2015, 02:32:13 PM absolutely awesome!!! I will enjoy that vid.
I would be curious to see Amiga animations and stills that other FF members have done :) set the way-back machine for 1986 and put on your VHS goggles for raytracing from my Amiga screen https://vimeo.com/104368124 this raw footage is all I have left :sad1: Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: LMarkoya on March 27, 2015, 04:34:17 PM While I had little to do with gaming, it was the Amiga that really championed Computer Art as we have come to know it....to me a milestone even larger than gaming. I still have a stack of magazines I did the cover for and articles.....I even did some of the first ray traced morphing animations, wouldn't mind seeing them again myself....but also used plenty of fractals in my imagery
Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: DarkBeam on March 27, 2015, 05:05:17 PM Louis this is most interesting...
Show us someone day? :) And David that video reminded me the old days. Thanks a lot! Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: cKleinhuis on March 27, 2015, 05:13:56 PM @darkbeam, check his gallery ;)
http://www.louismarkoya.com/#!computer-and-fractals/c22lf Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: DarkBeam on March 27, 2015, 07:07:04 PM Nice. Ty Christian! Cannot find that Amiga commercial on YT, too bad!
Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: flexiverse on March 27, 2015, 07:37:26 PM I actually watched from bedrooms to billions the other day, great nostalgia trip!
I was hoping they would do "The Atari ST Years"....... I leant my coding chops on the vic 20 and Atari st...... Good times.... :D Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: David Makin on April 01, 2015, 10:33:37 AM I had taught myself to code on a Dragon 32 and 64 including 6809 assembler and by 1989 when moving to North Wales I'd moved on to an AtariST and the 68000 - I rang the nos in the yellow pages for Colwyn Bay area trying to find a source for ST computer games and rang "Mr.Chip" in Llandudno - turned out they were a software developer not seller and I said I was a programmer and did they want someone else working there - I was asked in for an interview and was grilled by the (now famous) sout i.e. Shaun Southern author of Lotus, Kid Chaos, Supercars 1&2 and the International Rally series. Mr. Chip (8-bit) became Magnetic Fields (16-bit) and I wrote the ST version of Supercars and the ST/Amiga versions of Super Scramble Simulator and then of course Crystal Dragon for the Amiga.
When being grilled by Shaun I was lucky coz I'd just worked out the completely insane pixel format on the ST - something that he was trying to work out himself at the time..... Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: LMarkoya on April 01, 2015, 03:15:24 PM Very cool story David...I remember your name from the era, it was an exciting time well beyond the memories of most
Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: cKleinhuis on April 01, 2015, 03:33:38 PM aaah, lotus esprit, really the most amazing game from that time!!! i loved that so much!
Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: flexiverse on April 01, 2015, 09:24:42 PM I had taught myself to code on a Dragon 32 and 64 including 6809 assembler and by 1989 when moving to North Wales I'd moved on to an AtariST and the 68000 - I rang the nos in the yellow pages for Colwyn Bay area trying to find a source for ST computer games and rang "Mr.Chip" in Llandudno - turned out they were a software developer not seller and I said I was a programmer and did they want someone else working there - I was asked in for an interview and was grilled by the (now famous) sout i.e. Shaun Southern author of Lotus, Kid Chaos, Supercars 1&2 and the International Rally series. Mr. Chip (8-bit) became Magnetic Fields (16-bit) and I wrote the ST version of Supercars and the ST/Amiga versions of Super Scramble Simulator and then of course Crystal Dragon for the Amiga. When being grilled by Shaun I was lucky coz I'd just worked out the completely insane pixel format on the ST - something that he was trying to work out himself at the time..... Interesting are you still involved with the game industry ? Title: Re: "The Amiga Years" from the makers of "Bedrooms to Billions" Post by: cKleinhuis on April 01, 2015, 09:31:04 PM and here we go, dave is on the highscore ranked #3 ;) here is a 50 fps version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn-Khszi-V4 haha and a 50fps single player longplay https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLlWlsb9GpQ |