Excellent modelling as always but there is no way that the Amiga 500 is a very unknown computer (or maybe itās just because Iām very old!)
So far youāve been making your way through my personal journey through computer and video games. I started with the Atari, progressed to the C64, then to the Amiga, before getting a PC and PS1, PS2 and a PS3ā¦. but that was my last console. Your threads make me very nostalgic and sad that I either gave them all away or sold them for next to nothing. Wish Iād kept them, particularly the Commodores - wonder what their computers wouldāve been like now if they hadnāt gone bust? Would they have taken on Apple I wonder
Hello Lazlo!, Yes I know the amiga is, was a very known computer, but this started like a silly game when I posted my alpha work regarding c64, I said a very unknown computer as a joke thinking that everybody would immediately recognize it but the joke was on Me when some people did not know which computer I was modeling!, Then I knew I am getting old, he he, so I guess some of Us know these computers like the palm of our hands while some people have never heard of them.
Thank You for writing friend and for sharing memories, that is the best part!.
Some times progress comes to a crawl, this is the case. I am modeling the logo before proceeding tu cut the mesh for the keyboard. I could search for an svg or use a normal bump or displacement but cĀ“mon this is the main mesh so it has to be real geometry or nothing.
Anyway feedback is very welcome friends!
Wuau, it always takes me a lot of time, this time I have spent 3 hours modeling this logo to embed it into the mesh and is not yet complete, but in the end it will hopefully merge seamlessly with the main mesh and preserve al quads approach.
Thank You to all those good friends that bother to follow this topic.
Thank You sozap and sorry in advance for the uncalled story I am going to tell below, You have been warned, so skip it if You wish.
Hi there Sozap!, Very cool You still have an amiga, ItĀ“s been like 30 years since the last time I played on a real amiga, I loved the amiga but by the end of 97 the amiga was showing iĀ“ts age, I had a friend that had much more money than Me so he had an amiga 2000 and then an amiga 1200 with hdd both computers, I remember We often laughed at pcs of the time with iĀ“ts beeping sound and itĀ“s colorless graphics, then it came the cd32, commodore hardware was very expensive, and if the amiga 500 and 2000 were big hits, the amiga 1200 was not that great, the aga chipset left a lot to be desired, the cd32 was a very disappointing console and should have nerver existed , since 93 pcs started to get better graphics, got muitimedia and began to be affordable. so by 97 when my amiga floppy disk drive failed it cost Me a kidney to replace it with an external one that without casing did not fit propperly inside the amiga, I may have damaged it somehow (the drive) but since I installed it every now and then it would write to my disks even when they were write protected, I lost all my favorite games so at that point I gave up the amiga and bought a console, later on out of nostalgia I bought another one but by that time the likes of playstation and n64 and then pc gaming commanded the gaming scene.
In short, amiga hardware (replacement parts cost around 70 % of the cost of a new amiga) was very expensive and I really enjoyed and loved the amiga 500 but after having several ones suffering form failing keyboards an floppy drives I would rather play using WINUAE.
Hahaha thanks for sharing that ! Just recall that YOU started to throw stories of the past so I wonāt take responsibility if that goes sideways !
The A500 wasnāt mine in the first place but a gift from a friend because for a long time I had a box full of disks but no computer to run them.
I discovered the Amiga when I was 12/13 but it was already close to the decline indeed, however this is what really got me into CG. My parents bought me a second hand A2000 filled with softwareā¦ Basically I tried very different stuff from drawing with deluxepaint, programming with AMOS, and 3D with Imagine, Real3D, Sculpt 4D, Caligariā¦ All the stuff from the demoscene was also super inspiring and probably had a lot to play in what I am todayā¦
For games it was great but thatās really not what got me hooked in, and yeah obviously after that I eventually moved to a PC, but it took me a while before I find what I really enjoyed back then, not even sure computers nowadays are really back to thatā¦ What I really liked is that everything was fun and playful. I recalled a software to compress/zip files that played a 8bit tune while compressing with fancy equalizer jumping on the side for no reason other than itās cool. Some disks had giant icons on the desktop that had some kind of 2 frames animation when you click on them.
Even simple tools to copy disks looked between toys and a hackerās stuff :
And basically that playfulness was all over the place in many aspects not only the UI. For a kid/teenager this was really more than awesome !
That said, obviously nowadays computers are amazing, I got a bit of that vibes back with Linux, Blender obviously, Python is also very inviting to play and create stuff ! But it took me a while to find that back to a point where I completely left PCs aside for some years and focused more on drawing until my 20iesā¦
Nice story there!, Here in this forgotten lands of the 4th world hardware was very expensive and the average Joe would have an amiga 500 connected to its tv and if lucky , he would have a memory expansion, I really enjoyed deluxe paint4, I enjoyed doing some animations though very limited by the a500 with 1Mbyte ram and I never had an HDD or monitor although some of my friends did, other software like octamed was very funny too, You were a very lucky boy with the amiga 2000.Anyway I still remember when I listened to āwhat is loveā dance theme in octamed, that was amazingā¦
Ha ha, regarding the screen You posted. I guess how many screens/monitors got image retention..
Glad to share experiences friend!
(or maybe itās just because Iām very old!)
Great work so far, George. 
