Step62: Amiga 1200

Dec 1992 | Demo

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Late 1992, my amiga 500 died. The Amiga 1200 was just released so I asked my parent to get one and they miraculously accepted. The Amiga 1200 is an advance Amiga 500, with more memory, more color (8 bitplanes instead of 6), a faster CPU (68020) and lot of new things. The overall sensation is to have a «boosted» Amiga 500, not a new machine.

Each color have now 256 levels components (instead of 16). My first try was to display a nice color shade.

TODO first demo.

My second try was to display a big picture in 256 colors.

I also coded a «unlimited bob» demo. The principle is to have multiple video buffer and to cycle them. That create the illusion to have lot of bobs on screen although there is only one displayed each frame. It compute a graphic animation.

TODO

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About me

Hello. My name is Christophe KOHLER. Norn in 1973, I'm 50 year old (in 2024) and working as video game creator till 2000. When I was young, I've been involved in the Amiga demo scene during 9 years (from 1989 to 1998). I was 16 years old at the time and had really lot of fun using Amiga computers.
I took much pleasure writing these pages. First because it reminded some good memories. And secondly because I wanted to explain how the amiga computer worked and what have been our work on them.