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

[lurkist]

Don't you mean "only the ones without Amiga can view it"
...as Amiga browsers can't do Java!
Sorry!

[kd7ota]

Nice!

First animations I went to were the Deluxe Paint ones and Flip the Frog cartoons!

I had those on disks somewhere for my Amiga, but nice to see them again! Good work!

Sure its unfortunate that you cant have the Amiga view them, but maybe have both the Anim file and then view it like you can now would be a good feature.

Either way, rock on!  :-)

[Dingo_aus]

Very nice indeed

[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.

[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 :-(

--
moto

[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.

[The_Editor]

I used to do animated backdrops in Brilliance.

great fun


Cue Roquefort for Dpaint/AnimatED

[CD32Freak]

What a great initiative, good job! :-D

[leirbag28]

@Waran

Finally!   someone did this!  Thanks!!!

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

Downloading my Butt off right now!

[B00tDisk]

Waran wrote:
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 ...

You have an...interesting historical perspective but nonetheless the animations brought back memories.

[JaXanim]

There's a few of my Amiga animations at the bottom of THIS PAGE. I stopped uploading 'em cos few people seemed interested. I still don't know if they download and run OK cos they're compiled with MainActor and need the proprietary loader (for which I have permision to distribute with my anims). If anybody could run a couple and tell me I'd be grateful. (I think leirbag has looked in already, thanks)

JaX

[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.

[Tomas]

lurkist wrote:
Don't you mean "only the ones without Amiga can view it"
...as Amiga browsers can't do Java!
Sorry!

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 think the main point of this site was for user without access to the real thing and want to watch these animations easily.

Nice idea for this site btw  :-)

[JoannaK]

Nice, really nice to seem them again.. I'm not 100% sure, but at least on my PC some Anim's seem to have problem with audio .. It's been way too long I have seen originals, to be sure though so it may well be my imagination..