V 6 still being developed?

F.M. · Post by **F.M.** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:11 am

It goes to show that, SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT, sometimes you don't!

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:24 pm

Hello all!

Heu, will v6 be ported to Amiga Workbench 3?

Just a question really.

Heheh, couldnt resist!

GC

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:39 pm

Are you insane!

I had to google it. Thought it was some sort of animation program. Yes, I'm sure AS will be ported to that. I hear it's market share is growing. I think there are now 37 people using it. Watch out Microsoft!

-vern

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:18 pm

heyvern wrote:Are you insane!

The thing is, Amiga was way cool actually and workbench was it's OS. Many 2d/3d pachages we're born of it, Deluxe paint, the gimp, Hash Animation Master, cinema 4d, blender, lightwave, caligari and the list goes on, it's the grand daddy of the 3d/2d platform.

Ahhh, I remember my Amiga 1000, had a floppy, that's before pc had those, well, that's one year before pc's got out actually, which is 86, hence the x86 cpu's, funny isnt it?

Heheh, ok, enuf memories!

GC

mkelley · Post by **mkelley** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:52 pm

A lot of us had Amigas. And Deluxe Paint (DP) was the granddaddy of all paint programs (predated Photoshop by two years, for example) mostly because the Amiga was so far ahead of other computers in terms of its available palette (64 colors without the "half" colors initially when most other computers were only offering either 6 colors or just shades of gray).

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:51 pm

True, my first 24 bits video card was 1450 $ CAD and my first 64 mb ram (2X32mb) was like 1200 $ CAD.

We used to sell Newtek Video Toaster, which came with Lightwave V1, incredible at the time. I remember selling many Disney animation studio, an old, 320X200 and 640X480 2d animation software, also amazing at the time!

I was told you still could run a simulated Workbench and run all the 1200 Amiga games on a PC.

Might have a look at that, heheh!

GC

dueyftw · Post by **dueyftw** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 11:33 pm

OK, I once order a catalog from Southwest Technologies but my sister end up with it. 500 for a computer that you had to solder it together. By the time I got it I had spent the money I had saved. but I did buy an 8080 bug book.

Graphics? Is that what you call LED's that danced in patterns.

God I'm old.

Dale

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:59 am

First picture I ever printed was a picture of Marylin Monroe on a wheel printer, how's that for old!

Heheh

GC

heyvern · Post by **heyvern** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 6:49 am

In art school the only way to get our horrible aliased images off of the computer was to put a 35mm camera with a cone shield over the monitor and shoot slides directly from the screen. I don't know what the resolution of the images were but the pixels were HUGE. You could not draw a diagonal line without huge visible stair-stepping.... a printer? What printer? A dot matrix piece of crap with ribbons.

It had a "scanner" which was basically a b/w video camera that could only pick up... black or white, no grayscale.

I should track down those slides. I have a scanner that can scan in slides.

-vern

DK · Post by DK » Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:20 am

Heck.....I have a Newtek Video Toaster complete sitting in a box never been used. It was given to me to by a magazine to review about 6 years ago and was state of the art at the time. I think it was worth AU$6000.00 from memory....Now I really wish it WAS a toaster....at least I would get some use out of it at breakfast time

Cheers
D.K

GCharb · Post by **GCharb** » Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:04 pm

Hello all, this thread is becoming quite a bit of fun!

heyvern wrote:a printer? What printer? A dot matrix piece of crap with ribbons.

I am talking about a whell printer, had a little wheel with characters on each end, the wheel had to spin and a little hammer punched the right letter on the ribbon.

The video toaster was and still is an affordable broadcast video switcher, you hookup up to four video players and it does realtime transition between feeds.

I used to have a black and white camera on my Amiga, on a stand, took B&W shot of an image or object then converted it to color, was amazing at the time. My first real scanner was a handheld scanner on PC, was a pain in the butt to use, had special software to make the image look straigt and the such.

All this makes me realize that I turn 45 in 2 weeks or so, will have a walker for my next birthday, I can feel it

Technology is an amazing thing sometimes, it shows how imaginative the human race can be.

GC

TheChewanater · Post by **TheChewanater** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:08 am

Back to the "new version" jokes you people were posting a million years ago...

Doc Brown and Marty McFly from Back to the Future made a new time machine, which didn't work quite right, and accidentally screwed up the universe, sending everything into the Star Wars galaxy, and had to put every single item back into place. While looking though the piles of stuff, they found Anime Studio version pi^10, and abandoned repairing the universe to bring it back for our amusement. However, they are in a different universe, so our universe isn't destroyed. On their way to Earth, now the only place besides the Star Wars galaxy (which got very upset with them), I intercepted them in the Eternity Falcon, and stole AS pi^10.

Anyway, it's really cool. It even installs itself! In fact, it thinks itself! It even buys itself! Then it does all that cool stuff with going back in time and what not. Of course, there were a few minor features removed. Some of the least important was that it no longer supports vector layer, exporting to movie or image sequence, or exporting to flash. It also takes up 8523704985701293847502384701298374 Terabytes of memory. Maybe our time isn't ready for this kind of technology.