30 years of Amiga Software or What to show at the Amiga30th events

[weirdami]

p.s. Oh, and of course the Walker Demo!

Speaking of Walker, who has the Walker prototype these days?

[weirdami]

The Amiga had a whole range of experiences. It's historical to show the lower end of them, too.

What about games that didn't have such great sound or graphics but were fun anyway. For example, Adventures Through Time.

There's got to be an OCS machine cranking through a 3D render the whole time. You could time it so that it finishes right at the end of the event and people could cheer on the last few lines. (Or even have a contest to get a prize if someone guesses the correct render time.)

There should be a VCR playing a tape with old commercials and promos on a big old CRT TV. I remember that Amiga World had an animation contest. Does anyone have a copy of the winning entries? That would be cool to add, too.

What about an A500 connected to a TV with an A520?

[agami]

My suggestions:

Productivity (non-Toaster machine)
- Scenery Animator
- Scala MM400
- Bars and Pipes
- Octamed / Protracker
- Art Department Pro

Games
- Flashback
- Stardust
- Lemmings / Worms
- Alien Breed
- Simulcra
- Spindizzy Worlds
- Wings

On a Toaster box you would have Lightwave 3D or whatever other Toaster specific apps were cool.

An Amiga 1000 with the Boing Ball demo.

A machine playing on a loop in a window the intro sequence to Babylon 5 or SeaQuest DSV.

[Zordar]

I have an interesting request actually, We've all seen both of Newtek's DemoReels (1 & 3) but what about DemoReel 2?  I actually remember seeing DemoReel 2 running in (around) the late 80s on an A500, while attending the Chicago AmiExpo.  I was told that it will never see the light of day  in the wild because of copyright issues - the Demoreel was composed of full screen video clips running from 2 (?) floppies.  The only clip I can somewhat remember is a scene staring captain Kirk from an old Trek episodes.

Would we be able to see this elusive DemoReel at the 30th celebration, or at least get some insight from a Newtek personality about the history/story behind it?

[LoadWB]

@agami: Don't forget Juggler.  That's pretty iconic.

[Matt_H]

I'd love to see DOpus 1.x or 2.x to be able to see where it's come from. Earliest I've seen is 3.x, and of course 4.x, 5.x, and the Windows versions are commonly used.

[Amiga_CDTV]

Early Amiga 1000s came bundled with the Mind Walker (game, as in my avatar). I'd say that's a classic game worth showing in all it's eerie weirdness (love the music). I can already image an A1000 on a display in a dimmed room with this music playing on the background :lol:

Regarding Babylon 5 etc, I'd also like to mention Max Headroom's later episodes where the credits include: "Production computer equipment provided by Commodore Business Machines, Amiga Division".

[weirdami]

...Max Headroom's later episodes where the credits include: "Production computer equipment provided by Commodore Business Machines, Amiga Division".

I guess they learned something after Star Trek 4.

[stefcep2]

I would have an A4000 rendering  a Lightwave animation from Bladerunner, and playing it back eg Tyrell building, flying craft with lens flares  Bladerunner has gone on to be one of the iconic science fiction films of all time and is recognisable even for non-computer geeks.

[AAACHIPSET]

games  like  blood money  ...mad addiction  shoot em up ...or  dragons  lair  ..no so addictive  but looks  good...and  aminet   have a machine  with a aminet  disc  and all the tools to  really  go through the cd ...so many amazing programs  ...just being able  to customize  a workbench  is  fun  ..you learn a lot about  your  amiga  with a aminet disc...the utez  directory always  had me mucking  my workbench up having to work out how  to fix it..lha  was a challenge  at first  ..now i use a drop it box..
also maybe a couple machines  with a emulator  running like  pctask  .. just  show  everyone  the amiga was and amazing machine...and is still fun..

[LoadWB]

Wish all these events weren't clear on the other side of the US  Some time ago I someone talked about doing an event in Atlanta, but I don't think anything ever game of it.

[RobertB]

Wish all these events weren't clear on the other side of the US

With Commodores and Amigas on exhibit, the Vintage Computer Festival East happens almost every year.

http://www.vintage.org/2015/east/

FCUG celebrating 33 years,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

[Raffaele]

> @thread (Cut and Paste from AmigaWorld clone thread)
>
> DeLuxe Paint
>
> TVPaint
>
> Disney Animator Studio
>
> Lightwave 3D
>
> Imagine
>
> Vista Pro
>
> Distant Suns
>
> Bars & Pipes
> (And let people aware Microsoft bought it and used the pipes idea to create its ActiveX sound engine drivers for Windows)
>
> Octamed
>
> Scala Multimedia MM400
>
> Superbase
>
> AWeb + Voyager + IBrowse
> (teaching the history from Amiga point of vuew of web and letting people know IBrowse was the first browser featuring tabs worldwide)
>
> Maple V Mathematic Cad
>
> Fish Disks Floppy editions and CD editions + Aminet repository
> (making visitors and user seeing videos of the event aware that how these projects helped keeping growing a community, tie it around free software, and keeping it alive in Internet age
>
> Last but not the least a well configured...
>
> Directory Opus
> (showing how it is easy create an alternative desktop, how to move big amount of files, deal with it, and even ftp download/upload)
>
> [EDIT]
>
> Oh, and obviously Hollywood!
>

[LoadWB]

With Commodores and Amigas on exhibit, the Vintage Computer Festival East happens almost every year.

http://www.vintage.org/2015/east/

FCUG celebrating 33 years,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 -
http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex

How does that stack up to AmiWest?  I'm not interested in exhibits, I want to see my peeps.