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Having read this thread I was looking at other options and... there don't seem to be any. I looked at Pi though but it failed to turn me on really. "Yaaas it's so small! Err... what do I do with it?"
 
If you guys are interested in what Amiga enthusiasts are doing with the hardware these days, check out this demo-scene production called EON, from 'The Black Lotus'.
This is made to run on original OCS hardware (68000, 512 kB chip, 512 kB fast (or 1 MB chip)) and won 1st place in the Amiga demo competition held at Revision 2019 during Easter this year.

You can download the .adf files over at Pouet and run it in FS-UAE.
The process of copying them to 3.5" disks to run on real hardware will be a bit more involved.


Before Imagine I used to design by text-based retracers. Anyone remembers those? :)

Similar story here. Before Imagine I used something called DKBTrace, the ancestor of POVray.
What a pain figure out, but so exciting to see another pixel appear after 5 minutes of staring at the screen, waiting for progress. :D
After that it was Lightwave, then Lightwave on Windows,-->3DSMax-->Maya & XSI, etc. Blender next?
 
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Loved my Amiga. Wish a new player would come into today’s market with a new OS and custom hardware.
 
I think Amiga is still the most impressive computer for it's time ever created. Previously owning ZX Spectrum 48k and Commodore 64, I still remember my reaction when I was buying my first Amiga 500 (used, not new) and the owner demonstrated to me Lotus Turbo Challenge II... when I heard that music, sampled talking, saw butter smooth colorful graphics... it was basically a sealed deal :) PCs were laughable compared to what this machine could do, and to be honest, Macs weren't that much better - it really was that much ahead (yeah, it was because of that "too much hardware", that Jobs didn't like :)) Also my music career started on Amiga with Protracker and later Octamed PRO.

After Amiga 500 (expanded to 1 MB of ram) I bought new Amiga 1200 and expanded it to 6MB of RAM, 420 MB hard drive, sampler and a printer - it was quite a serious machine, not just for games but also for work. The OS was so fast and stable compared to Windows, which I couldn't stand at the time, I usually crashed them in first 10 minutes of working with them - I was probably clicking too fast and run too much software at the same time :) Amiga had no problem with this - Amiga OS had real preemptive multitasking in '85, which PCs got yeeears later and Macs only with OS X... it also had autoconfig way before plug&play (also much better working) - basically you plugged in the expansion and everything was configured automatically - no DMAs and IRQs to mess with like on PC or million of BIOS settings (btw. even the Amiga "BIOS" called Kickstart was graphical and used mouse straight from the ROM). Basically Amiga combined the simplicity and "just works" concept of a Mac and expendability of a PC (in the pro A1000/A2000/A3000/A4000 models at least), while being more powerful than both (that was true even for home all-in one versions).

OS X actually reminded me a lot at Amiga OS, which is part of why I switched to Mac 8 years ago. It's a shame they didn't have true leader like Apple had Jobs or MS had Gates, Amiga might still be around... but to be honest, it probably wouldn't be that much different these days compared to Mac or PC, since there's only a few chip makers that rule the market today (Intel, nVidia, AMD...) and both most popular operating systems of today reached similar level of power... it could have happened quite a few years earlier with Amiga though...

I thing I'm going to launch my FS-UAE now and play my first amiga game :D

Lotus! Could never win the last race
[doublepost=1559677090][/doublepost]Maybe not this evening but I will have to go and set up my Amiga (500?). Not sure I have thee tv for it though. Ie old tv. Any suggestions?
 
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Compré un Amiga 500 en 1988 pasando de un sistema Commodore-64. Trabajé en la estación de televisión y la compañía ofreció a los empleados un préstamo sin intereses de hasta $ 3,000 si queríamos comprar una computadora en casa. Gasté mis $ 3,000 en una A-500, unidad externa de 3.5 ", unidad de disquete de 5.25", monitor A1084S, una impresora en color Star NX-1000C, Sculpt-Animate 4D, Deluxe Paint III, WordPerfect, un montón de fuentes, y algunas otro software bastante caro.

Un año después, en un show de Toronto World of Commodore, vi un Amiga 2000 mejorado con una placa GVP A-3001 + y tuve que tener una. la A-3001 + fue una tarjeta que reemplazó la MC68000 a 8MHz con una MC68030 a 25MHz. Además, tenía espacio para la asombrosa cantidad de 8 MB de RAM. Escribí un cheque por alrededor de $ 6,000 ese día. Cuando traje mi sistema a casa, incluso tenía un disco duro de 80 MB. SA4D voló absolutamente en ese sistema en comparación con el A-500; haría un renderizado con trazado de rayos en unos 30 minutos en lugar de 6 horas. Poco después de comprar mi sistema de 25MHz, GVP aumentó la velocidad hasta 28MHz y luego 33MHz, pero ese es el riesgo de ser uno de los primeros en adoptarlo.

Cuando salió Deluxe Paint IV no pude tener suficiente. Mientras trabajaba en televisión pude empeñar mis servicios a algunas compañías de producción comercial e hice varios contratos de animación de títulos que ayudaron a pagar el sistema. Entonces ca. 1993 Compré un paquete de software exclusivo de Amiga llamado SignEngine y un cortador de vinilo CAMM-1 de Roland y abrí una tienda de letreros y pancartas en el hogar. Utilicé un paquete de dibujo estructurado llamado ProDraw para crear los diseños, que SignEngine luego ajustó y cortó en rollos de vinilo. Mi Amiga fue mi única fuente de ingresos durante casi una década, y una fuente secundaria durante varios años más después de eso. Sin embargo, todos los discos duros finalmente se bloquean, y el mío duró hasta alrededor de 2007, cuando finalmente abandonó el fantasma después de 15 años de uso diario. En ese momento vendí mi negocio y conseguí otro trabajo haciendo otra cosa. Sin embargo, mantuve mi Amigas, feliz de que se pagaran muchas veces, y me dio una incursión exitosa en diseño gráfico y propiedad de pequeñas empresas que nunca hubiera disfrutado de otra manera. Y hasta el día de hoy todavía sonrío cuando veo carteles creados en mi Amiga por toda la ciudad.
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Its possible to find this program? Signengine?. I would like to try in my amiga. I try to find but I have tried to find people who use the program to preserve it but it is an impossible task
 
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