Allister Brimble has just launched a Kickstarter project for his new double album "The Amiga Works". He will create up to date CD quality versions and remixes of his best musical works from the Commodore Amiga. The album artwork and an A2 poster will be designed by Rico Holmes who was the inspiration and artist behind the original Alien Breed series and other Team 17 games. Visit Allister's Kickstarter page.
"I have received many requests to create new versions of my tracks in the past, but I never felt I could improve on them.. until now. The technology exists to inspire me to create new versions of my tunes for these much loved games from the Commodore Amiga.
" - Allister Brimble
As a big fan of his work I am very excited about this project. Recommend you get over to the project page now and make a pledge!
Can't wait to find time to have a look/listen at this! The A500+ was my next step from the Acorn Electron. I might have to get it out the parent's loft at Christmas, as it's doesn't feel quite right when I run an emulator on my laptop!
"EVERY DAY I'M JOGGLERING!" Jogglering since Dec '09;
Tinkering with Jogglers since Feb '10 thanks to PMJ, Jogtools, PnP & sqpOS;
Gave something back Feb '12 to Apr '14 with PnP Mk II & PnP III;
Finally 'completed' PnP III Apr '15!
I have a Toaster, but only of the takes slices of bread kind Was a must have item for video work back in the day. the Amiga Video Toaster I mean, video work is hard to do with the other kind.
BuZz wrote:I have a Toaster, but only of the takes slices of bread kind Was a must have item for video work back in the day. the Amiga Video Toaster I mean, video work is hard to do with the other kind.
Some would say video work was hard to do without the other kind ... and a coffee machine.
Only the coffee pot remains here ....very retro (new) early 40's style...toaster isn't a toaster but rather a multifunctional do what...Amiga literally was aquried for pennies (literally).
The whole video thing was relating to converting my dad's old regular and super 8 mm family movies to video. The Amiga with its separate co processors ran circles around any product available at the time. This is where though I took the Amiga out of its stock case to be able to mod it a bit.
Sometime in the 80's do recall play with Helios running on the Amiga (that was in the EU though).
That said my sisters father in law was the engineer for a local TV station here in Chicago. They had an all day business stock reporting television show. Actually ran all day. Initially they used old wooden mechanical boards to update values and numbers behind the announcers desk. I convinced my sisters father in law during some holiday get together to utilize the Amiga, Amiga Toaster and software for their business reporting broadcasts; they did and it looked as good as the "high end" equipment being utilized at other TV stations in Chicago for a fraction of the costs.
Wow an Amiga emulator running on the Joggler...very nice....
- Pete
O2 Jogglers running EFI Ubuntu / Squeezeplayer
OpenPeak Voip Telephony / Zigbee tabletops hardware modded with Seabios / RTC / Ethernet ROM edits / SSD drives running XPe for automation screens
back in the day the Video Toaster was indeed the dogs b*llox. Only ntsc though, which was a shame for us over here. Newtek definately did some of the coolest hardware/software on the Amiga.
http://fengestad.no/fs-uae/ on liux, or Winuae on windows should run on the joggler although it might be a bit slow. Something like uae4all might run better as I believe its optimised for speed on small/mobile devices.
Tomorrow (7th November) at 20:00CET (19:00 GMT), there'll be a special edition of On Air with Ziphoid, featuring Allister Brimble and Chris Hülsbeck live via Skype. They'll be revealing more info surrounding their current music projects. Don't miss it!
Those that backed Allister Brimble's Kickstarter campaign for his new Album "The Amiga Works" are now receiving their CD's and USB Sticks. For those that missed the opportunity to back the project during the campaign, the album and USB stick as well as the poster (with artwork from Rico Holmes) will be available to purchase from the new official website http://www.amigaworks.com from the 21st October 2013. Received my copy in the post today, and have been listening to it non-stop. You can tell the massive amount of work that has gone into it - it is superb! Thanks Allister
Was a must have item for video work back in the day. the Amiga Video Toaster I mean, video work is hard to do with the other kind.
A touch screen Amiga sounds good have to see if it works now