I’m writing this from my newly set up Amiga 1200. I finally have a dedicated place in my office for this machine, and now I’m taking this keyboard for a real spin.

I bought this Amiga refurbished from RetroPassion and everything about it has been great, except for the keyboard. It’s hard for some keys to actually register keypresses. I even replaced the keyboard membrane with a new hard PCB one, and keys like b sometimes take a bunch of bops to bounce into the bomputer. I might also be too spoiled by modern keyboards. Who knows.

So I’m going to give writing a little status update on the Amiga regularly a try to see if:

• I can write something on a regular basis for The Industrious Rabbit, even while in video production mode.
• I can work out the kinks in this keyboard.

In other personal Amiga news, I was part of the Bromo Art Walk at M.A.P. Technologies on Thursday, and ended up creating a new piece for the 2022 Amiga Art Contest in True Brilliance live at the show. It’s a pretty nice piece of software to paint in, and a good number of people were amazed that it was 30 years old and still that capable.

I take Digital Creations True Brilliance 2.0 for a spin on my emulated Amiga 1200. I’ve never used this software before, and I discover it’s actually not bad for painting, especially when using my Weylus and Galaxy Tab powered input setup.

Stream music by Nihilore (CC-BY 4.0) – https://nihilore.com

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The 80s video game movie The Last Starfighter has a second plotline hidden in plain sight – the indie game development business Centauri was running to make and distribute Starfighter. Topaz Rabbit explores how the video game crash of 1983 might have affected the fate of the Frontier.

Thanks to Meredith, Tyrel, Tieg, Michala!

Credits

• The Author Never Dies by Nihilore
  • https://www.nihilore.com/latest-tracks/2018/12/14/the-author-never-dies
  • CC-BY 4.0
• Last Starfighter (Gunstar) Doors Closed by Oop_Ack
  • https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3658817
  • CC-PD

I did it. I finished the animation. Working with this software is more challenging than I expected. It also didn’t help that my tablet was having issues with Weylus after a while. I also learn just what Frisket does, and why it’s important to Free the Frisket!

Skip to 2:23:54 if you want to see the finished animation playing. Or, since you’re on this site, you can watch it below!

I used iff2gif (https://github.com/rheit/iff2gif) to turn the IFF ANIM file I saved into the GIF you’re viewing above!

I’ll be taking a break from streaming while I focus on the next video, then I’ll pick back up with either DeluxePaint V or True Brilliance as my next Amiga art tool to explore.

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I see how much cleanup I can do in an hour of work on my Topaz animation in Disney Presents: The Animtion Studio. Spoiler alert: it’s not a lot. I really miss my modern animation toolset.

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I start cleaning up and coloring my small animation of Topaz using the Ink & Paint part of DPTAS and discover that you can hide the menu bar, and the toolbox, but not both consistently with the F10 key. I really need a real manual for this program, if anyone has a scan of one somewhere.

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