What were you doing on your Amiga in 1994?

[cecilia]

around that time I was working on a film caled Hologram Man. we were creating the effects for it using ImageFX on three Amigas. a 2000, a 3000 and really beautiful 4000.

it was basically pulling mattes (the actors had been filmed against blue screen). Saving the "beauty pass" - that's the RGB full color plate. And also saving the Matte which is the information with the 'hole' around the actor. we sent those to the editor and they composited our frames to a background.

if this sounds complicated just remember that the Amiga could integrate with professional situations like this easily. In the hands of artists the Amiga worked well.

The biggest problem was that because the hardware wasn't supported it couldn't get fast enough to compete after a while. But the software and concept was way ahead of it's time.

[cecilia]

What is your set up in 2010?

while I still have my original 1989 Amiga 2000 it's living in it's box because it needs a new HD.

I have Amiga Forever installed on my windows7 laptop but I still have to tweek it. I have IFX working but I still have to figure out how to get depaint on a screen that I can use. I had WinUAE for years but I am new to AF.

I'm going to be getting a new laptop with a LARGE screen (like 17 ") so maybe that's where I should set up my AF. my eyes are getting old (LOL) and I need help seeing those little pixels.

I also just installed ubuntu on a flash drive and booted from that last night. so cool!

eventually need to make my systems multi boot again.

[cecilia]

For Image fx enthusiasts I can tell you that running this on even old pc hardware is like being reborn.

I put together a Athlon64 bit quad core 3 ghz pc using parts around the house, I connected my A4000 drive to it and all my old Amiga apps scream. I get a $400 amiga gfx card due to the emulation and 8 megs chip ram too....lol..

dpaint 5 has no limits. Image fx is nice and fast.

you have to tell me how you set up depaint