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Title: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks
Post by: nac on April 24, 2014, 12:48:15 PM

Article on some old Andy Warhol art being recovered from Amiga discs by the BBC, read it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27141201

Created for the launch of the A1000.

Title: Re: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks
Post by: paul1981 on April 24, 2014, 04:01:14 PM

Quote from: nac;763203

Article on some old Andy Warhol art being recovered from Amiga discs by the BBC, read it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27141201

Created for the launch of the A1000.

"A painstaking three-year project was required to recover the images which were saved in an obscure data format."

Why would the images be in an obscure format? Wouldn't they be IFF?

Title: Re: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks
Post by: EDS.bod on April 24, 2014, 04:12:52 PM

IFF wasn't finalised by Electronic Arts until another 6 months after the release of the A1000 iirc.

Title: Re: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks
Post by: Jpan1 on April 24, 2014, 04:17:54 PM

Quote from: paul1981;763215

"A painstaking three-year project was required to recover the images which were saved in an obscure data format."

Why would the images be in an obscure format? Wouldn't they be IFF?

Exactly what I thought when I read that. They were saved in .pic format, and it seems like a slight over-exgaration of the word 'reverse engineering'.. yeah love those big media words!

Title: Re: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks
Post by: danwood on April 25, 2014, 09:08:53 AM

Quote from: paul1981;763215

"A painstaking three-year project was required to recover the images which were saved in an obscure data format."

Why would the images be in an obscure format? Wouldn't they be IFF?

More than likely, pretty sure he was using Graphicraft in the launch demo where he paints Debbie Harry (or rather, uses the fill tool on a digitised photo).

Even Photoshop can read .iff files iirc.  I'm sure a quick post on this forum could have got the pictures converted in an afternoon lol.

Title: Re: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks
Post by: Nautilus on April 26, 2014, 04:33:01 AM

What is amazing is that for the first time the original digital art from Warhol will be reproduced (printed and digital) in it's original quality: Warhol photographed the screen to reproduce it's art. :)

Title: Re: Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks
Post by: Ral-Clan on April 27, 2014, 03:10:23 PM

This subject has already been discussed in depth here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67235