I pulled out some old Amiga files on a current emulator
and man Psygnosis had a nice handwriting at that time …
“with the graphics being rendered on Silicon Graphics workstations.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTSRZ0p9KQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKWq7AoCe_Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2CcJl7a3rI&feature=related
and this is just 20 years ago …
LOL at Microcosm graphics when the gameplay actually starts…
Did not played that particular game - but some other like Virus or Iridium and Populous. looking at AMIGA 2000 sign of that still desktop populating box at right hand side did not moved for years (physical and electronics) and toped by printer/scanner unit.
amazingly what was done on Silicon Graphic workstations
the average Blender user can do with todays access to
technology.
Man we are really in a great time.
Amigas were ahead of their time as computers and multimedia stations. Too bad people didn’t realize it at the time. I remember the CAD program that Amiga had – Amazing stuff!
Silicon Graphics workstations were amazing in their time. Too bad SG failed to realize that the ordinary, average consumer would be interested in making their own 3D graphics and movies.
Computer historians will look at Commodore (Amiga) and Silicon Graphics as two of the biggest marketing failures in the history of Computers and 3D.
Back in the late 80s and early 90s I remember being told that the average everyday computer user would never, ever be interested in creating 3D graphics and movies. When I suggested it, many laughs came my way 
failure - that is pretty true and sad
but there were many other technological advances which failed or were to early
Newton from Apple for example not the right time for PDAs at that time.
LOL today PDAs are obsolete …
All those tablets or set-top boxes.
With Google today and the high speed internet you get TV based internet again
via google TVs and all their services
Have you that explosion? MAGNIFICENT! Tutorial! Tutorial!
All those old 68000 (68000 transistors app.) based computers were ahead of their time. What they could do at 1 Mhz could only be surpassed when 40 Mhz PC’s appeared on the scene years later. The x86 architecture was cluncky then and is still cluncky now because of the bad foundation they are build on.
One other monumental failure was the Atari Falcon. It had a build in DSP to do general calculations (kinda like OpenCL, it could even do textured realtime 3d, and that was years before any kind of textured 3d game hit the arcades!) and specific ones like sound FX. It boast 16 bit colors (out of a palette of 24 bit) at a time that CGA was the standard and plain old VGA was only accessible to millionaires. It had a few hardware bugs though (heating up gives pixel errors), but it as an Amiga and PC killer. It had real multitasking.Too bad they waited too long for its public release. They PC quickly caught up with the addition of the CDROM, so now there was multimedia for the masses. Atari got pounded for that and that serves them right!
And before anybody starts defending the x86 architecture… explain first why many programs takes more than 15 seconds to start, even though modern cpu can process billions of commands per second???
it is always interesting to see that the better foundation / technology often
does not win.
Man, I just love that Psygnosis owl logo. Other one I’ve always liked is Magic Bytes.
I watched a you-tube clip of “double-dragon” recently. This was in color, a revolution when b/w screens was standard.
double dragon lol - I was playing some flight simulations and
was quite amazed about what I found good as a kid.
I started to say that I “had” an Amiga, but as a matter of fact it would be better to say that I “have” one. (Yep, all these years later, it’s still the machine that I use for packet [amateur…] radio.) It’s still an impressive machine.
But, y’know, in the very same vein, I also have to seriously tip my hat to another “really great hack.” (And as you ought to know, when I say “great hack,” I mean it as my highest form of commendation…) That “great hack” Is . . . Blender.
When we look at the Commodore Amiga, I believe that we can quite honestly say that it was an outstanding hardware accomplishment.
And… I absolutely must say… Blender is, and always has been, an identically pivotal and memorable piece of (software) engineering.
LOL, those were the days!
The other day I was talking about the same thing that just in a few years, everything has changed so much!
These are indeed exciting times to be around! My phone has a LOT more power than my first computer … who would have ever guessed that back then?
Gordon E. Moore.