Yep, that was the one. As a sci-fi nerd including Star Trek like shows I watched all seasons.

There was some kind of expansion slot in the Amiga 2000, like an old PCI if you will. And one company launched a super card called "Video Toaster" along with software. The fact I didn't know is that they used like 20 Amiga 2000 computers networked in order to render the FXs. An Amiga computer farm, incredible.

I had my doubts about the rendering because the main Amiga chip was relatively slow (Motorola at 7.1 Mhz) but this solved it.
Nice article here:

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/08/30/how-24-commodore-amiga-2000s-created-babylon-5/

 

just a look at https://www.commodore.net/category/all-products
ultimate 64, in 3 different cases. an fpga machine available for 7 years. the rest? merch, merch, merch. cups, mousepads, t-shirts, caps, hoodies... on their landing page they say:
Honouring the past. Innovating the future.
Without the distractions that stole it.
coffee makers, toilet brushs and document shredders were labeled with commodore in the last 20 something years. those are the "distractions" they speak of. and now? same old story, take some stuff, stick commodore on it, and make some money. disgusting.

 

those things were build to last forever, even a dog pissing over it didnt break it (that's what you get for looking after the neighbors dog when they have a very bad argument).

 

I loved my Commodores, had the VIC20, C-64 and Amiga and much more, trashed them long ago, no way would I want to buy one today, I'm not into wasting any money on ancient technology.

 

my third ever computer was commodore c16+4 i also had a spectrum, vic20,and 2600 the games kickstart and also jetset willy were v addictive my uncle would give me and my brothers his cast offs
with the +4 design of the computer looked v cool

 

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I was an early Amiga dealer and I fucking rocked midi with my Casio and ARP Odyssey! Been making music with computers for about 40 years. Wholesome endeavors! BALLINTHEJACK!
Yay AZ, AS! The Forum too! We Will Rock You! Keep on trying! BELIEVE, and we will fill the cosmos with LIGHT!
P.S. I had an SX64 that ruled the planet, a transportable music studio, WAY ahead...

 

https://www.timeextension.com/news/...bank-c64-ultimate-brings-in-over-usd2-million

C’mon!

 

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This is honestly pretty astonishing. I guess you should still never underestimate the "retro community".

 

Nostalgia can make working on stuff more fun. It’s impressive to hear someone do good things with ‘retro’ tech. But a bad track isn’t better just because you made it with a technology handicap. This isn’t golf.

 

Did anybody here start making music with Protracker (or Soundtracker etc) on Amiga? I sure did, that's where I learnt making music on computers. You can still get .mod files (Protracker format) from Internet and some of the best tunes are really impressive. People are still doing it to this day. Closest to that tracker paradigm would be something like Renoise today I guess

 

Hello @villageidiot, how did the Amiga sound, let's test it:

Amiga Music: Jungle / Drum & Bass Compilation #3

Tracker music playlist from ~1999

 

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Heil Heil Protracker!!! 8 bits or so… But then say here that you use an X device and the community will tell you off that it works only in 44.1 khz/16 bit rate and it is crap nowadays…

So I don’t think it is worth to use the genuine SID instead of a pro bitcrusher for special fx (if it were used for Audio purposes).

I wonder how Atari would cope if resurrected now…

 

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Renoise for sure, but also Polyend Tracker! Then you had also the Amigo plugin quite recently.

There has been a bit of a resurgence of jungle/drum’n’bass recently (quite a few YouTubers for example), and people are doing it on vintage hardware.

 

Almost all of you C64 nostalgia monkeys would have those rose-tinted spectacles shattered within a few minutes of sitting down in front of one today. It was great in its day, arguably revolutionary in some ways. But today the UI, the overly sprung keyboard and the world's slowest floppy drive would suck the creativity right out of you. Soz, but nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

But I can imagine still finding a musical use for a tracker on an Amiga 500. I was always envious of my mate's 500.

 

You haven't read even one post, have you? Just a wild guess...

That explains a lot

 

Floppies? Pfffffft. In 1985, I started with a cassette (tape) drive. 30 mins loading a game, and then it crashed due to a read error.

And when we actually did upgrade to the legendary 1541 drive, it was those 5-inch actual bendy floppy floppies.

 

I started producing music on a Amiga 500 it had better audio. The built-in sound chip functions as a four channel synthesizer, sounding a bit like a Casio CZ or Yamaha DX9.Stereo sampling & not much more to buy a midi interface.

 

lol so true. Well, not 30 min but quite some time. The saving grace were some of those loader songs. Legendary...

State of the art, I thought it was a rocket lol. 5.25 floppy disks.. the SSDs of the the C64...
But man, paired with that "Final Cartridge 2" it was amazing. Windows-based OS, file manager. And of course, the main feature hands down: you could copy any game

 

You would If they re-made the Commodore "64" as a REAL internal 64-265bit, 12-20 core, 20+ TFLOPS, 5 TB's memory capability, etc... Hell I would be on board with something like that, especially if it meant kicking spy/bloatware mickeysoft, and apple OS's to the curb and being able to run a real solid performing OS that wasn't some corporate condom used to screw over and spy on the customers who bought it...

 

LOL I still have mine (and 2 1541s). I dread ever having to use that thing again haha. I used to backup my Juno-106 and SR-16 to tape too, don't think I ever got one of those backups 'right'.