So, we have rendered frames of our BoingBall, as described in Part 1. What you want to do next is check if the animation is seamless – that is, if it loops without glitches. Best way is to convert the frames into a .gif or .avi animation (in my experience GIF works better) with your favorite photo / video editor. You will also need to reduce the number of colors of your frames, I used just…
I’ve received some questions about how I made the new minimig logo with the rotating checkered ball, so I thought I’d write something about it for my first post. The BoingBall is quite famous in the Amiga land, as it was featured in one of the first demos made for the Amiga computer to demonstrate its capabilities at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 1984. It was later used as an official logo of the Amiga. Its roots…
It all goes back to … well, not that far back – 2013, to be precise, that was the year the .guru top level domains became available. Why guru you might ask? Well, the ‘guru’ part comes from the infamous Amiga error screen (sort of like a BSOD in Windows), which I always thought was a very funny way of letting the computer user know something has gone terribly wrong (especially if you know the origins of…
You need a Frames Capable browser to view this content.(Click on the animation to stop it) I was infatuated with computers from early childhood, first with the Commodore 64, on which I wrote my first simple programs in BASIC and dabbled in 6502 assembler, but I was too young too really understand assembler language well. I did use Simons’ BASIC a lot, which made working with graphics and music much easier than plain Commodore BASIC.…
