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Amiga, the music maker
When it comes to producing music, Commodore’s machines have a reputation that is rivaled only by well, Commodore itself. For the price of a C64 (and its magnificent SID chip), chiptune artists today still bring out the most catchy tunes and produce dance tracks that wouldn’t be out of their place on today’s dance floors. [...]
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9 Fingers – the infamous Amiga demo
When it comes to demos, Commodore probably had the most vivid and certainly the most interesting scene of all. The stuff the coders could do on platforms like the C64 and the Amiga was simply put, amazing. It is on the Amiga, and more specifically the A500, that perhaps the most talked about demo was [...]
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Commodore Legends: Petro Tyschtschenko
The next person to be featured in our “Commodore Legends” Hall of Fame is perhaps a name that doesn’t ring a bell for many of you. But when I say that he is the man that saved the Amiga when Commodore went bankrupt, the name Petro Tyschtschenko will probably spring to mind. Starting with Commodore [...]
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Music AMIGA Maestro!
The 80s and 90s saw the birth of several different electronic music genres: from “Electronic Body Music” to “Eurodance” and from “New Beat” to “Techno”. They all shared one thing in common though: many of them were created on the AMIGA. The Commodore AMIGA, and especially its entry level AMIGA 500 system gave young artists [...]
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If it’s NASA, they must be using Amiga!
Seeing a documentary earlier this week on the incredible voyage that the Voyager spacecraft both have undertaken, it struck me that these 2 spacecraft are still operational and sending us valuable data about our Solar system as they are hurtling now through interstellar space, some 35 years after launch. Just think about it, 35 years [...]
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Computer art with an Amiga
When we think of computer art, we usually associate it with highly detailed 3D computer renderings and animations. But there’s also a form of computer art that is more tangible, that creates actual sculptures and paintings that have been designed with a computer. A fine example of this kind of art form is the work [...]
Searching for hidden gems in 2012
With Christmas just around the corner and 2012 quickly approaching, I was looking into my collection and making a quick list of missing Commodore items that I really would like to acquire in 2012. High on the list is of course a working KIM-1. Yes, they pop-up on eBay from time to time, but for [...]
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Amiga-powered information booths
Two decades ago, people in Oslo could find their way around the city thanks to an Amiga. More precisely it was an Amiga inside Martin Joyce Nygaard’s “Info Box”, a metal box housing a powerful computerized information booth that allowed you to find the fasted route to your favorite shops, display the photos and menus [...]
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Amiga, PC or best of both?
Towards the end of the 80s, the PC was gaining ground with the MS-DOS operating system. Nearly every office became equipped with IBM PC compatible ATs (Intel 80286, -386 and -486). So what were you to do if you already had invested in the Amiga and didn’t want to spend a fortune on a PC? [...]
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Commodore Legends: Dave Haynie – Part II
Today’s article concludes the interview with Dave Haynie, Commodore’s whiz on the C128 and Amiga. I’ll be discussing the projects Dave did when he was at Metabox and Fortele, and ask him in what sense Commodore has had an impact on his life and career. So, enjoy today’s Friday Commodore with Commodore Legend: Dave Haynie! [...]
