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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by pixie » Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:34 am

There's quite a story behind of Amiga! Great minds stood beynd their dream of presenting to the masses a new way of interacting with the computer. They stood by it until the very end, and had quite a loyal fan base, it was really sad that after many attemptsof reviving the brand never nothing came out of it.

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by Polinalkrimizei » Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:22 am

I was a BIG fan of Amiga Computers and startet 3D from there, with Maxon Cinema 4D 8)
I saved most of the old files on floppys, but can't read them anymore, even with an emulator. Render times didn't change much from then, with overnight scanline-renders pixel by pixel - good times. Yep, computing definetely was fun!
Does anybody remember Tornado 3D? I started with that when Maxon left for Mac and PC, since it was the only software that supported PowerPC Processors and fancy cybergraphix-cards. Yes, I am old :lol:

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by pixie » Tue Nov 01, 2016 11:25 am

Polinalkrimizei wrote:I was a BIG fan of Amiga Computers and startet 3D from there, with Maxon Cinema 4D 8)
I saved most of the old files on floppys, but can't read them anymore, even with an emulator. Render times didn't change much from then, with overnight scanline-renders pixel by pixel - good times. Yep, computing definetely was fun!
Does anybody remember Tornado 3D? I started with that when Maxon left for Mac and PC, since it was the only software that supported PowerPC Processors and fancy cybergraphix-cards. Yes, I am old :lol:
I went to cinema 4d because of the amiga, but on amiga itself I played with Imagine 3D, after it was released on CU Amiga I went full berzerk and got the update to the almighty Imagine 3D 4 with manual et all! :D

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Re: Remember when computing used to be fun?

Post by galinette » Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:55 pm

Oscar J wrote:Is that first one a render or a reference photo? :)
That's a render, the tab key is wrong :)
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Re: Remember when computing used to be fun?

Post by pixie » Thu Nov 03, 2016 11:58 pm

galinette wrote:
Oscar J wrote:Is that first one a render or a reference photo? :)
That's a render, the tab key is wrong :)
How come? I cannot see the difference. :oops:

https://vintagecpu.files.wordpress.com/ ... /a1200.jpg

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by bubs » Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:13 am

Your arrows on it are the other way around... :wink:

You don't get much past galinette!

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by pixie » Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:38 am

bubs wrote:Your arrows on it are the other way around... :wink:

You don't get much past galinette!
LOL indeed!

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by Lal-O » Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:35 am

Wow !!! ....the realism is STUNNING !!! :D

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by pixie » Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:59 pm

Lal-O wrote:Wow !!! ....the realism is STUNNING !!! :D
Thanks, but it's all due Indigo! :)

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by pixie » Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:59 pm

Raytracing real time on Amiga:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC8pF0qpzPI

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Re: Remember when computing was fun?

Post by thesquirell » Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:14 pm

That RT Raytracing is a beast! :D Really enjoyed that video, thank you!

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