Hello, everyone!
I used to be an Amiga user until about 1996 or 1997. I got a lot of use out of my Amiga when I was in art school. But my machine eventually became unreliable and malfunctioned. Since then I moved on to the Macintosh and now I'm using a PC.
I have fond memories of the Amiga and I was delighted to find UAE, the Amiga emulator program. I have been able to download a few old game "disks" in the form of .adf files. I don't know if UAE is the best emulator. But that is not my main question.
Another minor question I'd like to ask is where I might find .adf files of the various Workbench disks. I'm not interested in piracy. However, if Amiga software is considered "abandonware," then I would like to know of a way I might obtain free copies of old Amiga programs.
My main question, and the reason I'm posting in this forum, is this: where can I find an .adf copy of Vista, one of the first landscape programs that was published by Virtual Reality Laboratories? I know that this sounds very strange. The first probable answer to this question would be to buy a modern copy of VistaPro that is available for the PC. I do not want VistaPro version 4 or any modern version for the PC. I've already tried that. It can't generate a specific landscape that I want. I specifically want a copy of the original Vista program for the Amiga.
I need this program for artistic reasons. When I used this program, I would always enter a specific "random seed" value so that it would always generate the same landscape. This would generate a Digital Elevation Map (DEM) that I eventually used in other programs. However, I lost that file a long time ago. But I have not forgotten how it was generated. If I only had a copy of Vista (or maybe VistaPro version 1 for the Amiga would help too) I might be able to generate a new copy of the DEM that I could use in a modern landscape program like Bryce on the PC. From there I could use it in my artwork. I know this sounds mundane, but it is of great personal artistic importance to me.
Do any of you know where I could find a copy of Vista or maybe VistaPro version 1 for the Amiga? If anyone could help me, this could bring to an end a personal quest that has lasted for almost a decade.
I do not wish to engage in piracy. However, I am guessing that the original version of Vista is "abandonware." If it was still available for sale, I would gladly buy it. But I cannot find it for sale anywhere on the internet. I can't even find bootleg pirated copies either. I'm hoping that somewhere out there is a loyal Amiga user that still has a copy of the program and has the capability to translate the program disk into a .adf disk image format or a similar format that can be used in an Amiga emulator.
I look forward to helpful responses. If you wish, you can send me an email to flamegrape@hotmail.com
Thank you,
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