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Anyone here read "Sabrina Online"? It's one of the original webcomics, and is still being created with an Amiga!
http://www.sabrina-online.com/2011-04.html
Ah, the Video Toaster... amazing.
My first contact with computers was at school back in the 60s. There wasn't any formal computer studies course but I did Maths O Level a year early and our school filled in the time the rest were doing Maths with a bit of computer programming. ICL (a now defunct British mainframe manufacturer) had a scheme where if schools could send in programs on punched tape they would run them. Out school bought a second hand teletype and we wrote our programs in Algol. The main problem was that if there was a single parity error on the tape the computer would reject it and refuse to run the program, and with our teletype we often got printouts back with just an error message. At the same time a company over the road sent some of their people to teach us Fortran and ran our programs on their IBM 360. Out teacher advised us not to try and learn both languages, I ignored him and did both and didn't find it too difficult.
My first paid programming job was Z80 assembler on CP/M machines. I went to to collect a few more languages, Pascal, C, Visual Basic, Perl...
Yes, I remember this now. I think there was a video card for the Amiga called the Video Toaster, or something like that, that studios used. And I love Babylon 5. I've got it on DVD, must get around to watching it again soon.
IIRC the pilot episode for B5 was done on AMiga 3000s or 4000s, but the actual show was done on a cluster of PCs (Lightwave was ported to PC around then).
Shadow of the Beast; the Roger Dean inspired game based on a bad LSD trip where Yes's Chris Squire at mistook his Rickenbacker 4001 bass for a savory meat pie and ate it is now being re-released for PS4. Apparently there no Amiga version.
Greetings,
I still have a TRS-80 Model IV out in my garage, but my first computer that I owned was a TS1000. The ZX-81 (on which it was based) had 2K of memory, but the TS1000 had only 1K. I pretty much started writing machine code (entering hex) almost immediately, because it was mandatory. (And the manual had a hex/Z-80 assembly mapping in the index.) I already knew Basic at that point, though because I'd used both VAX Basic and GiGi Basic. I stuck with Z-80 based microcomputers (TS1000, SpectraVideo SV-318, TRS-80) and DEC minicomputers (PDP-11/70 RSTS/E, VAX 780/VMS) until I went PC with a Tandy 1000. (Random note, I worked with Federico Faggin at Synaptics briefly, which for a kid raised on the Z-80 processor was...well, I tried not to fanboy too much.
It's funny, but when you say 'VAX Dungeon', I think 'Dungeon', the predecessor to the Zork series.
I had a TON of TRS-80 software on floppies that got converted to files that'd run with TRS-80 emulators, because a lot of my teenage-years source code is from those machines...including my first 'open source' program from back around 1987, a Z-80 assembly language VT52 emulator...made to play the VAX/VMS games Conquest, and Empire.
Programming was insanely fun back then.
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I miss that, a bit.
-- Morgan
You know I really miss the days AMiga ! I still have my amiga 4000 with Lightwave on it just stilling in the corner collecting dust, the games use to be brilliant !!!
Oh, yes! The 4000 was a wonder and I still have mine. I played a lot of games, too, but specifically have fond memories of pinball!!