Blast from the past. I was a writer at Amiga and was there with the rest of the crew, the men in tuxes, the women in evening dresses, for the launch at Lincoln Center. Warhol's straight man in the onstage video was our art director Jack Haeger. There was a bug in the software and a wrong gesture would have crashed the demo; Andy came very close, and Jack was sweating. My future wife and I got to sit across from Andy and Jack at the afterparty at Tavern on the Green. One of these days I need to look through my big box of floppies from my time at Amiga and see if I ended up with any Warhols.
Reminded me of a BBC program from the 80s where Hockney & other artists used a Quantel Paintbox to make art<p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2022/03/watch-david-hockney-paint-with-light-using-the-quantel-paintbox-graphics-system-1986.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.openculture.com/2022/03/watch-david-hockney-pain...</a>
Maybe one day the <i>actual</i> disk images he used with the early Amiga will be made available, instead of non-pixel-exact conversions of only the artwork. The software Warhol used was prerelease, and no other copies of the version he used have been found.
But did he use the Amiga later for any of his actual art? Yes, he signed on as a "brand ambassador" but was that a sincere endorsement or was it more like celebrities endorsing a toothpaste?