Author: chaos

The BoingBall, Part 1

Published by chaos on October 28, 2014

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…

Much guru what?? Or an explanation of my page’s name

Much guru what?? Or an explanation of my page’s name

Published by chaos on September 5, 2014

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…