Amiga Graphics Archive

So many memories.<p>Defender of the Crown, art by Jim Sachs, was remarkable so soon after the machine&#x27;s release. Especially as much was painted pixel by pixel. It was ported to PC, in CGA and I think EGA, not that anyone could afford EGA! He wasn&#x27;t treated at all well by Cinemaware for the game that made the studio. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amiga.lychesis.net&#x2F;game&#x2F;DefenderOfTheCrown.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amiga.lychesis.net&#x2F;game&#x2F;DefenderOfTheCrown.html</a><p>Some notables missing though.<p>No Eric Schwartz, Tobias Richter or Ken Offer? Eric did the Amy the Squirrel, Juggler 2, Aerotoons, and a bunch of logo work for Commodore. Doesn&#x27;t seem to have done much since.<p>Ken did the HAM animation that was a major step up from juggler and a few others. Can&#x27;t remember if he developed or just worked for one of the early 3D sw companies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NT09y-MpC4E" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NT09y-MpC4E</a><p>Tobias did a lot of early Amiga CGI and animations, and the Star Trek game. Later CGI for TV DS9 and Star Trek TNG, now running <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelightworks.de&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.thelightworks.de&#x2F;</a><p>There&#x27;s bound to be a few others I forgot.

What makes Amiga more nostalgic than other systems? An Amiga 500 was my first computer, I learned Turbo Pascal and played Defenders of the Crown<p>To me, it was the only computer I&#x27;ve owned that had personality, which I can&#x27;t completely describe what that means, but no other computer has felt like my Amiga.

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Amiga art was and is beautiful. I&#x27;ve always kind of gotten the impression that Amiga game devs focused on huge, rich still images at the expense of animation, though. Amiga classics like Shadow of the Beast have a lot of stiff, limited animation; a lot of gorgeous bosses that are basically statues on sliding rails, without even spot animation; a lot of enemies that just fall off the screen or vanish when killed, rather than doing a death animation.<p>Of course all of that happened on other 8&#x2F;16-bit systems as well, and there were certainly exceptions on the Amiga. It&#x27;s just such a contrast to the obvious love and attention spent on still scenes. I wonder if it has to do with the demoscene roots of so many Amiga artists and devs.<p>(Color-cycling animation still blows my mind, though. Fullscreen looping animation with only a single flat image taking up space in RAM. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectgames.com&#x2F;demos&#x2F;canvascycle&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.effectgames.com&#x2F;demos&#x2F;canvascycle&#x2F;</a>)

I can&#x27;t help wonder if we lost something in our race for realistic real time 3d rendering.

Man... I loved played games on our Amiga. I tried (half heartedly) to get a few running on OSX, but never succeeded very much.<p>Anyone have good experience with emulation? I’d love to play some Marble Madness for old times’ sake.

I love the graphics in the &quot;Applications&quot; category. Really brings back memories. This style of art went away, sadly, like many other good things in computing, it died with Commodore.

Wow! This is fantastic! These are by far one of the best pixel art I have come across. I run a design as a service company (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;draftss.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;draftss.com</a>) dealing with designers day in day out and yet, even in today&#x27;s time it is difficult to find such a good pixel art.

Thank you for doing this. It&#x27;s a cultural treasure.