When I was at school, back in 1993, our art department had a couple of Amiga A500s with Vidi Amiga digitisers, graphics tablets and all sorts. I did freehand illustrations in DPaint3 of still lifes while my classmates used traditional paint and canvass!
My actual exam submission included loads of other stuff I did on the Amiga.
When I was a prefect, for a parents open evening I set up an Amos program that showed digitised photos of all the art department staff, interspersed with examples of my work.
Meanwhile, my own A1200 was set up in the Geography department (in my dad's classroom - he was a teacher at the school)! showing a Vistapro animation of mount saint helens before and after the mountain blew up.
And while all that was going on, I was in the music department demonstrating the Apple Mac midi equipment and rocking out in my school band.
At lunchtimes, on rainy days, my friends and I used to go into the art department and play Kick off 2, speedball 2 and jimmy white's snooker on the Amigas...
Those were the days!
Cheers,
AndyC
