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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: blakespot on April 25, 2023, 03:41:59 PM
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Many here surely have seen the recent video from XboxAhoy who set out to restore the long lost "Four-Byte Burger" image done by Amiga's own Jack Haeger back in 1985. The version of Graphicraft he used was so early in development that it lacked file I/O capabilities, so there is no digital copy. It was a big promo image early on.
Here's his video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4
Anyway, I've always loved this image as well, and have written about it in the past several times. Once I saw the recreation work, I quickly moved to get it up and glowing on my Amiga 1000's 1080 monitor. After some waiting-for-degauss, the results are lovely I think.
Sharing my photo and some thoughts on / history of the image in a blog post:
https://bytecellar.com/2023/04/24/lost-amiga-four-byte-burger-painting-digitally-recreated-and-looking-amazing-in-glowing-phosphor/
(https://bytecellar.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Amgia-1000-Four-Byte-Burger_1280w-238x300.jpg)
Cheers!
bp
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That was a fun video to watch. In all honesty I got a bit annoyed when he gave up trying to accurately recreate the shading from the image pixel perfect. I was thinking if it is worth doing it is worth putting in the effort... but when I saw the pinned comment from the original author giving it high praise I got off my high-horse.