World Premiere of Amiga

Andy Warhol made an electronic portrait of Debbie Harry during the Amiga 1000 World Premiere

  I came across this video during one of my YouTube journeys. It is still a quite impressive footage to watch, especially considering the technical advancement at that time. It was 1985 and apart from the Mac pretty much all other computers ran command-line interfaces. That changed on July the 23rd when Amiga 1000 came out. It featured color graphics with impressive 4096 colors palette and 4-channel digital stereo sound. Whoever owned a computer back then knows how superior that machine was.

The famous "Robocity" animation was also shown for the first time

  Now, all Amiga fans can enjoy it here thanks to Rasvoja who converted this presentation from VHS and uploaded it to YouTube.

World Premiere of Amiga part 1 of 2

World Premiere of Amiga part 2 of 2

Atari, my very first computer

  During my last holiday I typically visited my parents and when I was going through my old papers I came across this jewel. The receipt and warranty for my very first computer, the 8-bit Atari 65XE. Now I know when exactly I got it. It was bought on December the 22nd, 1989 for $127 and I got it two days later on Christmas Eve (that's when most Christmas celebrations take place in Poland). For me it was two days full of suspense and excitement. My Dad would let me see the box, but that was it. I had to wait until the Christmas Eve. I'll never forget the day I opened the box, it was some of the best experiences in  my life.

Receipt, page 1

Receipt, page 2

Guarantee, page 1

Guarantee, page 2 (conditions)

Guarantee, page 3 (free repairs stamps)

Guarantee, page 4 (replace parts)

Restoring my old Amiga files

  During my last holiday I got adventurous and build a null modem cable. I didn't have required plugs and raw cable itself therefore I build it from what I had available, two different PC cables that I cut in the middle and then soldered them together closely following the diagram I've found on Amiga Forever website. 

Null-Modem Serial Cables

  That's how my null modem cable came about.

 

Null modem cable

  After several trials and errors I've finally found a software that worked for me. I couldn't write to Amiga disks but at least I could read them. It wasn't the most reliable and error free transfer, but after so many years I'm glad I've managed to restore any files. The software is called ADF Sender Terminal can be found on A.S.T. Amiga PAGE website.

A.S.T. Amiga PAGE

  This time I got all images for my Amiga version of "Robot R-29" game, as well as my other programs, for example games "Snake", "Core Wars", "Ortho-Test" or demo "3D Graphs"and my simple chat bot I called "Mietek". I'm hoping to be able to transfer them all to an emulator and run them again. Once I manage to do that you'll see screenshots and listings here.