Amiga Animations

[Waran]

Happy New Year to everyone at amiga.org

When the Amiga was released in 1985 for the first time a personal computer had enough colors to display a real picture. Other computers had maybe 16 colors at max and the Macintoshes were still black-and-white. The Amiga was well ahead of its time for graphics and animation and is for me the most amazing computer ever built.

At the moment I'm working on a small page that displays classic Amiga ANIMs in a web browser. To view the animations a Java enabled browser is required.

Now even the unfortunated ones without a real Amiga can view it.   :-D

[Waran]

@ lurkist

You're right, a Java port for Amiga computers isn't quite there yet, but at least a number of initiatives are underway.

In the meantime visitors without Java enabled browser can download the animations as zipped ANIM files. See for the download link at the bottom of the page.

[Waran]

@ motorollin

I used to love making little animated stories in DPaint. I wish I still had the floppy disks they were on but are long gone :-(

I'm always looking for cool animations. Tell me if you think the best Amiga animation ever done is missing!

I had a lot of fun, when I put together this page and searched all my disks and the web for suitable files. I sometimes still stumble upon great stuff I haven't seen for years.

[Waran]

@ leirbag28

how did you manage to get those Dragons Lair Anims on there?   Cool!

I simply captured the scenes while playing the game on an Amiga emulator.

[Waran]

@ Tomas

Why would a person with amiga watch them using java, when he could just download the real thing and playback using dpaint or similar?  :-)

I agree, you don't really need Java to play the ANIMs if you have an Amiga.

The goal of this page is to show Amiga files on a web browser without   converting them into a foreign format. The Applet allows you to use ANIMs like MOV, MPEG or AVI for web projects.  :-)