Amiga Graphics

A super minor nitpick: it’s jarring to see the Amiga referred to as 16 bit. It wasn’t described that way at the time: it was universally (that I saw anyway) called a 32 bit machine, and reasonably. It had a flat 32 bit address space (although the 68000 itself didn’t support all those address lines because what kind of supercomputer would need 4GB of RAM?). All the registers and operations were 32 bit. Some of the internal operations were implemented…

That was a nice trip down memory lane... I had to save for a whole year to get my Amiga 500, I bought it for 1 reason and one reason only - Falcon. I loved that game, and soon got into Stealth Fighter F-19. I still have fond memories of me and my best friend playing F-19 together - one pilot, one navigator. I swear to god, mission planning was more fun than actually flying the mission. I kind of…

So many memories. Defender of the Crown, art by Jim Sachs, was remarkable so soon after the machine's release. Especially as much was painted pixel by pixel. It was ported to PC, in CGA and I think EGA, not that anyone could afford EGA! He wasn't treated at all well by Cinemaware for the game that made the studio. http://amiga.lychesis.net/game/DefenderOfTheCrown.html Some notables missing though. No Eric Schwartz, Tobias Richter or Ken Offer? Eric did the Amy the Squirrel, Juggler 2…

Avril Harrison created some of the most iconic 1980s Amiga images as part of the marketing for Deluxe Paint by Electronic Arts: https://amiga.lychesis.net/artists/AvrilHarrison.html Having such a talented artist made a huge difference in making Deluxe Paint look powerful and desirable. Compare with the sample images provided by competitor ProPaint: https://amiga.lychesis.net/applications/ProPaint.html