View Full Version : What can be done with an Amiga? Hallucinogenic material.


Exhumed
12-31-07, 07:36 PM
Here is a video of a winner of a video contest of last year using "Amiga" hardware from 1994. It's pretty amazing. The song isn't bad either. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUv0jSYRBZo

http://www.gamethink.net/IMG/gif/amiga_rick_dangerous_1.gif

That is what google tells me an Amiga game looked like, so I am even more impressed.

Pic of Amiga PC:
http://www.amiga.org/modules/myalbum/photos/1529.jpg

spidergoat
01-01-08, 11:54 AM
Holy crap that's good. I was expected to learn graphic design on one of these. What a joke. I guess it's capable of more than I thought.

Stryder
01-01-08, 12:15 PM
I'm sure some of you will remember the Scifi show Bablyon 5, well Amiga's were used in it's production.

http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/making/effects.html

Anti-Flag
01-01-08, 03:00 PM
As an owner of an Amiga that video's better than I expected. Although I'm sure the Amiga fell short of its potential I wasn't quite expecting something so good, although my Amiga is the older chipset; It does look as though the new one was never given time to be pushed to its true limits.
I should point out that in your pic the game is called rick dangerous, and I believe was very much developed with the old chipset in mind, as I say the new one is better but was never really pushed to its limits.
The two pictured Amiga's are an A500, which uses the old chipset, and I believe a A1200(maybe A4000?) which has the new one.
Anyone confirm my inane ramblings?:shrug:

MacGyver1968
01-01-08, 03:18 PM
I miss my Amiga....I had a 1000 and a 3000. They were sooo ahead of their time. It makes me sad they fizzled out.

spidergoat
01-01-08, 03:52 PM
As far as babylon5, I can see how even cheap computers could be used as a render "farm", although you might not be able to view the results on one.

MacGyver1968
01-01-08, 04:09 PM
Amiga had the "Video Toaster (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster)" that gave the amiga extraordinary great video capabilities for it's time. Lightwave 3D was bundled with the toaster...which is the program used for B5.

Sangamon
01-07-08, 08:53 AM
amiga's were awesome...soo far ahead in it's time

I had an Amiga500 for a couple of years, it was my first computer and it got me hooked. Very cool machine