a worthy torch to bear.

Wow, awesome work, I love retro stuff like this. I even have my Linux desktop with a retro PC style interface.

Dang, I remember when that was good graphics. Nice work!

Ah, "natural" anti-aliasing. The various scanline filters I've seen never even come close to the look of my trusty 1080, which I just used yesterday. 8)

I miss the good old Amiga days!

;) this makes me feel warm and fuzzy

it's been a dog's age since I've seen you do an Amiga nod.

The nostalgia hits hard with this one, and a good use of the scanline effect (I was never a fan of it, but it works well here).

Thanks to the retro computing scene, the new hardware being released for old Amigas these days is mindblowing (like MNT's ZZ9000 card for big box Amigas). I can't help but think, "my computer isn't retro, I got it when I could buy it off the store shelves!" Then I think, "oh yeah... that was 30+ years ago."

Very nice work, EWS! I still remember when Retro Gamer Magazine published an article about the animations that you used to make on the Amiga. I still can't decide if it was the Amiga that made Amy the Squirrel look good, or Amy the Squirrel that made the Amiga look good... Either way, she helped convince me to buy two Amigas and zero Atari ST's!

Fair to say I think, that they both played well off eachother ;)

It's kinda neat to see this today then look down and spot "2019" on it

Just need a macro Amstrad now... and maybe a C64, then they can knock the crap out of each other.

Hey, yeah, the CPC464 came with its own monitor..
Poor C64 though is gonna have to have a TV with knobs on it ^_-

The 464 is such a long machine though, dont see how old Arnold could be anthropomorphised, really?

It was all fun and games. Till they evolved. And revolted. They were many. And they had a plan...

I miss those things.

And to think we once lived like this.

Of course back then we compared the current stuff to the monochrome TRS-80 text-only computers and thought we had it good.

My first computer was my Dad's old Apple IIe, which he no longer wanted. When we upgraded to a Compaq 386, I was amazed.

Man, brings back the memories!

awesome

Reminds me of the 256x192 days of the Radio Shack Color Computer, where you could get 4 colors on a TV because of artifacting (white, black, orange, cyan) but only black and white on a monitor.

A real challenge would have been to actually draw it on a real amiga... or at the very least, in ye olde D Paint in an emulator.

How about a real Amiga and Personal Paint (a DPaint clone) - 'cause that's what I did.

I guess that is the ideal.

I have difficulty actually finding Amiga mice that still work. the buttons tend to die quite easilly.

Dont diss the master, boy ;)
Genuine hardware all the way.

Say, Eric? what is your miggy of choice at the moment?
Got myself a T1200-060'50 with ZorroII, Catweasel and a few other nice toys... not capped yet though, I'm not confident enough to do the job myself on such valuable hardware, but at the same time I dont trust anyone else to do the capacitors either, especially the one on that accellerator <_<

Its just a pity that A500/A2000 NICs are so expensive, given an A600, because of its PCMCIA slot is cheap to get on Fibre Net, that IRC and other such text social media is easily handled, but once you get to A1200 030, you can stream audio over the net because it takes so little power.

Even better with A1200/030 50Mhz is watching a full screen Jpeg decode ina couple of seconds. Then realising a modern GPU is a million times more powerful.

Or a top end Nvidia GPU is only 5 times faster at screen slicing than AGA.

Or a 1084S on a A1200 can be driven at 1440*588*HAM8.

Remember the good old days when Moviesetter based Plight Of The Artist could run on a bog standard A500+, if you managed to get All 8 Meg Fast on it as well as the 2 Meg chip?

These days, 10 Meg on an IoT 240 Mhz microcontroller can just about get you a thermostat controller.

What is this prehistoric thing? And what was it like riding on the back of a dinosaur?

Oh yeah were you watching the stream when this was revealed? I was like holy crap, Eric Schwartz art! Lol. Some really fun submissions all around.

I forgot the starting time and came in late.

We still got a good Commodore subreddit going on. Lots of advice and bits flying right and left. The Euros sure don't act like they are going out of style. They are killing it in the demos, wringing them out for what they are worth.

Amiga art makes me so warm inside. I really wanna get a Amiga someday and go while on the art. hopefully for now I can get a set up where I can at lease emulate it on a tablet and pc. (Still working out the kinks on that heh.)