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About
the Amiga, Protracker and Deluxepaint.
"Deluxe Paint" was a very easy to use program
on the Amiga. This alowed me to create a massive amount of pictures.
Also it featured animations (little movies). Deluxe Paint was created
by Electronic Arts. It featured 2,4,16,32,64 or 4096 colour
painting, and later you could also paint in 262144 colours. This was
alot of for those days. Deluxe paint was made by Electronic Arts. Without this, they
probably would never have made it all the way to the Playstation 2
;o) If you are curious, you can have a look at ProMotion
which has a lot of the same look and feel as Deluxepaint, but it
is for the PC.
Besides
making pictures on the computer you could also make songs very easily.
These were only instrumental songs, created in "Protracker".
"Protracker" was a
program with a very technical approach to music. Instead of notes, you
would write hexcode. If you knew computers and had a little
feeling for music, you could however create music pretty soon.
The songs are called "modules" instead of songs. Because it
allowed everyone who had an Amiga to experiment with music,
massive amounts of music have been created, and still can be found on
the web. A screenshot of Protracker can be found on this page.
Modules are easy to find, here for example. Modules can be
played on the PC with software like WinAmp(player),
DeliTracker(player), or Modplugtracker (player and editor). If you are
curious about tracking try to download Modplugtracker.
The Commodore
Amiga was a 16bit computer, with special chips for sound and
graphics. This meant that in those days it was far ahead of it's time.
While PCs still had only 16 colours, the Amiga could be used for 32,
64, or in some modes even 4096 colours. Also it had stereo sound,
and could play samples. (Samples are little peaces of recorded sound). Here
is a link about the history of the Amiga.
The look and feel
of this page is supposed to be like you are working
on an old Amiga computer. In the "Workbench" environment. However
it
is enhanced to look a little more "modern". More colors etc.
Also the windows are a little simplified, to keep the same
appearance on most browsers.
(It was really quite challenging to create windows with the aid of
tables, since tables look
a little different on all browsers)
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