Andy Warhol lost Amiga collection

[matt3k]

Enjoy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/lost-andy-warhol-artworks-recovered-after-spending-30-years-on-floppy-disks-9282576.html

[desiv]

Great bit of history, but:

The Computer Club managed to reverse-engineer the ancient Amiga format

Hmmm...  Hyperbole much??  ;-)

desiv

[Vanilla]

I thought you were saying Andy Warhol lost his Amiga collection, but since he's not around anymore. ;-)

But, reverse engineer, what!? Why would they go to so much work? Why didn't they just stick the disks in an Amiga? LOL! what a bunch of banana-heads!:-P

[Speelgoedmannetje]

The trio discovered that the images had entered the museum’s archives in 1994 but had been inaccessible due to their obsolete format. In order to overcome this they got in contact with the Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club, a student organization known for its “comprehensive collection of obsolete computer hardware”.

"Obsolete computer hardware"

[Honkybear]

"Obsolete computer hardware"

Yes The word "Obsolete" leaves a bad taste in your mouth. I'll give them obsolete.
 
A guy at a store in Australia when I lived there told me my Amiga 2000 was obsolete back when the Amiga was at it's height. Needless to say without another word I walked out. They has since closed down.

[odin]

Wait? What? You guys think that Amiga hardware isn't obsolete?

[Iggy]

reverse-engineer the ancient Amiga format

Why didn't they just consult the ancients still using this forgotten technology?

[itix]

Why didn't they just consult the ancients still using this forgotten technology?

How many here have knowledge of PLBM image format? :-)

[AmigaBruno]

I think the article is very insulting to the Amiga computer, but perhaps they were just talking about this PLBM format and the software GraphiCraft, which I don't remember hearing of before.

I eventually realised that switching to PCs and trying to do artwork in Windows or even Linux software was what stopped me doing computer graphics.

Unfortunately, I haven't managed to transfer any of my Amiga artwork onto any other devices at all. Can this museum, or anyone else help me? If so, then I'll do a portrait of you in DPaint IV or Photon Paint 2!

[Thorham]

Great. Some scribbles on a few floppies. Sigh. I hope we can all agree that the Amiga scene has produced more substantial art.

[Sean Cunningham]

How many here have knowledge of PLBM image format? :-)

Apparently all it takes is a small tweak to the IFF header with a HEX editor and, voila, it's an ILBM that can be read by anything.

[Matt_H]

Wait, I thought this already happened a few years ago... I was trying to help someone restore the banana2 file but couldn't figure it out. Sometime later, someone else did it successfully with the pre-release version of GraphiCraft used at the launch event, which was the only program that could handle it.

It looks like another group now did the exact same thing, only through a much more circuitous route...

[stefcep2]

Apparently all it takes is a small tweak to the IFF header with a HEX editor and, voila, it's an ILBM that can be read by anything.

Hence..."reverse engineer".

The way they're reporting you'd think Warhol was using ENIAC.

[stefcep2]

Wait, I thought this already happened a few years ago... I was trying to help someone restore the banana2 file but couldn't figure it out. Sometime later, someone else did it successfully with the pre-release version of GraphiCraft used at the launch event, which was the only program that could handle it.

It looks like another group now did the exact same thing, only through a much more *profitable* and circuitous route...

Fixed

[Trev]

Well, a route that was satisfactory to the art historians involved.

The articles I've read seem to be giving Warhol complete credit for works he modified but did not create, e.g. the Deluxe Paint "Venus" image. Of course, if a ten year old gives digital Venus a third eye, it's disrespectful vandalism. If Warhol does it, it's a revolutionary commentary on the art establishment.