amiga Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/amiga/ Electronics, Computing and Videogame History! Sat, 18 Jan 2020 03:13:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 http://paleotronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-keyicon-1-32x32.png amiga Archives - Paleotronic Magazine https://paleotronic.com/tag/amiga/ 32 32 146320098 The Amazing Amiga http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2020 03:11:17 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=10278 The Amiga represented an evolutionary leap forward in computing’s creative potential. While colour computer graphics were not a new invention, the Amiga provided a video mode capable of displaying 4096 colours – previously unprecedented in [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/18/the-amazing-amiga/feed/ 0 10278 The Story of Jack and Jay: An 8-Bit Fairy Tale http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/ http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/#respond Sun, 12 Jan 2020 04:44:47 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=10177 Once upon a time… …in a land far away lived Jack and Jay. Jack was the Commander of an armada known as  Commodore, while Jay was a Grand Wizard in the royal court of the [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-jack-and-jay-an-8-bit-fairy-tale/feed/ 0 10177 Christmas Lemmings! http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/13/christmas_lemmings_commodore_amiga/ http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/13/christmas_lemmings_commodore_amiga/#respond Fri, 13 Dec 2019 03:35:06 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=9650 My task, should I accept (and you did – Ed) was to write an article about Christmas Lemmings as a segue into Lemmings in general. The reason behind this, is simply to meet my brief [more...]

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]]> http://paleotronic.com/2019/12/13/christmas_lemmings_commodore_amiga/feed/ 0 9650 Viva Amiga! An Interview with a Sound Tracker http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/04/viva-amiga-an-interview-with-a-sound-tracker/ http://paleotronic.com/2018/07/04/viva-amiga-an-interview-with-a-sound-tracker/#respond Tue, 03 Jul 2018 22:06:58 +0000 http://paleotronic.com/?p=888 Background While the SID chip in the Commodore 64 was a classy piece of tech, it was really complicated to program. If you were a budding musician but not a serious chip hacker, your options [more...]

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