I'm aware of a few scene pages & amiga music mod archives- but what I'm pushing for is getting MODs out of obscurity and into the mainstream. Macromedia Flash- HUGE potential, not supported (as far as I know)... and the mobile phone market.
Thing is... (I am assuming that you are counting in .xm aswell, when talking about mods, by the way... since I can't find any reason whatsoever not go for the better alternative).
...anyways, thing is, and not so many people seem to think about this; (I guess one can look upon this as some kind of metaphor in relation to the .mod discussion) I have been playing around with Deluxe Paint and Brilliance so much during the years. Then suddenly came the big isometric web graphics boom. And then came the oh my god so many tutorials for Photoshop and Paintshop Pro and so on... on how to "EASILY" make isometric graphics.
Okay. Well. Back to Deluxe Paint and Brilliance. EVERYONE. Simply EVERYONE i know that ever have tried to do some isometric graphics for their webpages completely wet their paints when they saw me play around in the two mentioned programs for the AMiGA. When they saw how the programs handled brushes and how the brushes could be used in modes (math for brushes with textures or color for single coloured brushes and so on) and how one could use this together will the grid, or anything really, to quickly generate massive isometric environments they didn't believe their eyes.
No matter how possible it is to set up a grid in Photoshop, no matter how possible it is to draw with locked colours in Paintshop Pro. No matter how lalalalalaLALALALALALA there is still no program out there that can compete with doing the same thing in Deluxe Paint or Brilliance. It is SO much easier. Yes, there is some freeware Grapfx or what it is called for Windows, and yes it implements many of the function, but it ain't there yet, not fully.
So.
My point?
Well.
Why do people keep on using Photoshop or Paintshop Pro or any other IMAGE PROCESSING software to create isometric graphics for the web? Instead of using programs that are perfetcly suited for handling pixels?
Because they don't know better.
They certainly ain't up to emulating the AMiGA just to get Deluxe Paint or Brilliance running (Brilliance doesn't even seem to work in WinUAE by the way), and then convert the .iff images they have made into .png or .gif. It is just to much of a process.
But still.
I guess I just have to accept the very fact that the genre of graphic programs that DP and B were active in, is dead, and no matter how well suited it is for pixelating, it does not matter. The mass have made their choice. I guess I just have to keep them isometric web graphic makers wet their paints, for whatever reason there is, to keep myself from letting the thought go and believe that I was wrong.
