Yes, you're right!
I was able to open the Andy's files running a beta version of Graphicraft, the same used by Warhol in 1985, with a pre-release kickstart on my Amiga 1000. I did it in an afternoon and it happened some years ago...
The owner of the disk is Don Greenbaum. In 1985 he was the chief financial officer for Commodore International and he got the disk directly from Andy Warhol during the days of the Amiga launch at the Lincoln Center. I met Don here, on this forum: he was looking for someone or something who could help him to open the Andy's files 25 years later...
I'm really glad Matt_H remembered this!
Alessandro
Alessandro is absolutely correct. We did this 3 years ago and approached the Warhol Museum telling them what we did and seeking to work with them. I even talked directly to Matt Wribican, curator who told me he was too busy to look for this. I have all my emails to and from him and with two other people at the Museum and Warhol Foundation. In the PDF CMU issued (and mentioned above) they discuss our earlier restorations and the article we published in 2011, before they "had their brainstorm". Evidently he found the box and went to a fellow worker at the Museum to keep this in house.
From their PDF:
"The second known instance was the rediscovery by Don Greenbaum, the CFO of Commodore who worked directly with Warhol at the 1985 launch, of several disks in his possession around 2011. According to the referenced article, nine works ("campbells," "banana2," "andy7," "cycle2," "flowers," "andys," "bigflower," "money," and "cycle1") were produced and hand-delivered by Don himself for the launch event. This discovery and referenced article is of particular relevance as it mentions pre-release Kickstart ROMs and Graphicraft software also used in this effort, which has unearthed versions of some but apparently not all of these files. Pending his ongoing determination as to the ownership of the works (now known to be Warhol), Don has not published any of these files.
Reference:
http://www.academia.edu/1467355/Nine_Warhols_Waiting_"
And....
"Avenues for Further Exploration
• A live exploration and demonstration of the software Warhol had at his disposal- perhaps as a video, an exhibition of the original hardware, or an interactive exhibit running in modern emulators-would be a great way to educate the art community and the public at large in the origins and history of modern media.
• Acquisition of copies of the media held by Don Greenbaum containing several works not discovered here would permit data comparison and proper exhibition of the entire set of works known to have been created by Warhol on the Amiga."
It's nice to see the Warhol museum sort of acknowledging my and Alessandro's earlier work 3 years ago, AND, we informed the Museum of that fact before we published the discovery of these works. Now they claim they came up with this on their own.
AND, our disks run on the original Amiga hardware, something they have not reproduced to date. Odd, it didn't take Alessandro tons of money and team from a university. Only an old Amiga and some brains.
So why was this timeline left out of the Carnegie Mellon Report? Why did they not contact me? Some answers would be nice.
Don Greenbaum
