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Antiquated adventures of a nostalgic engineer

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Artwork

Pictures and animations created with Amiga software

Website publishing on the Amiga

This website is now created with Amiga software and is optimized for display in IBrowse at 640x480 or higher resolution.

TabGroup.mcc

MUI Group class with dynamic pages and tabs

Registering Magic User Interface

Magic User Interface (MUI) is a GUI toolkit for the Amiga which saw widespread use throughout the mid-90s and 2000s. It improved on GadTools with automatic layout, visual customization, keyboard control, context-sensitive help, and a large set of extensible GUI components.

Rendering a Boing Ball in Lightwave 3D

I recently found myself in need of an Amiga-inspired avatar. The Boing Ball seemed an obvious choice. Made famous by a 1984 CES demo, the Boing Ball set the scene for Amiga's dominance in real-time graphics and OS multitasking. Here's a short deconstruction of how the effect worked.

Writing a game for the Commodore Amiga

ModSurfer (video) was my entry to the 2018 English Amiga Board game development competition. This six month contest rode a wave of renewed interest in the Commodore Amiga, a series of computers which originated in the 1980s and succeeded the very popular 8-bit Commodore 64.

ModSurfer

Rhythm game for MOD music written in six months