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The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
Jimmy Maher,
English | ISBN: 0262017202 | 2012 | PDF | 344 pages | 5 MB


Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box used for business (exemplified by products from IBM). The game machines became fascinating technical and artistic platforms that were of limited real-world utility. The IBM products were all utility, with little emphasis on aesthetics and no emphasis on fun. Into this bifurcated computing environment came the Commodore Amiga 1000. This personal computer featured a palette of 4,096 colors, unprecedented animation capabilities, four-channel stereo sound, the capacity to run multiple applications simultaneously, a graphical user interface, and powerful processing potential. It was, Jimmy Maher writes in The Future Was Here, the world's first true multimedia personal computer. Maher argues that the Amiga's capacity to store and display color photographs, manipulate video (giving amateurs access to professional tools), and use recordings of real-world sound were the seeds of the digital media future: digital cameras, Photoshop, MP3 players, and even YouTube, Flickr, and the blogosphere. He examines different facets of the platform--from Deluxe Paint to AmigaOS to Cinemaware--in each chapter, creating a portrait of the platform and the communities of practice that surrounded it. Of course, Maher acknowledges, the Amiga was not perfect: the DOS component of the operating systems was clunky and ill-matched, for example, and crashes often accompanied multitasking attempts. And Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. But for a few years, the Amiga's technical qualities were harnessed by engineers, programmers, artists, and others to push back boundaries and transform the culture of computing.



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Hmm... Pěkně zavirovaná sračka...

Jejda, me avast na tabletu nic nehlasil...

JJ, site je zavirovaná.

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Amiga/Amstrad/Atari/Commodore/Mac/Nintendo/PS/PC/Sega/Tandy/ZX

Stranka je, ale co ten soubor?Co s tim ted, ach jo!

No co s tim. Stáhne to někdo na linuxu nebo amigaos (nebo via virtualpc) a projede PDF antivirákem, než ho pustí znovu mezi lidi

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Amiga/Amstrad/Atari/Commodore/Mac/Nintendo/PS/PC/Sega/Tandy/ZX

PDF sem stáhnul na Linuxu, exáče a sračky co ty stránky nabízí ignoruju...

Soubor je v pořádku, po kliknutí na šedivou bublinu Free download stačí dole odkliknout: No, continue with regular download.
Vyskočí captcha okno, vyplnit a je to. Ono je to napsáno šedivým fontem, není to dobře vidět

Seru na to, tyhle registrovací download služby jsou na prd.

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ex-STklub BRNO,SEGA Mega Drive, Sharp MZ 800, ZX emul,Commodore C64 kalkulátory HP/TI/FX, (PSP, PS2, X360)

Díky moc!

Strana 262 je opravdu moc zajímavá.

Tak jsem se dostal na oficiální stranu 3 a už se mi to přestalo líbit. Možná jsem udělal chybu, ale když někdo napíše, že maximální rozlišení A1000 bylo 640x400, tak fakt jako nemůžu pokračovat dál.

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Amiga/Amstrad/Atari/Commodore/Mac/Nintendo/PS/PC/Sega/Tandy/ZX

Pokud se baví o NTSC a nebere v potaz overscan, tak nekecá.

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Atari 600XL, 800XL/XE, 130XE, ST, STE, MegaST, 7800, JaguarCD, Commodore C64, Amiga 500/Plus, 1200, CDTV, Sinclair QL + GC, Sharp MZ800, Sord M5, CPC 6128, Spectravideo SVI X'Press, Sony HB-750, Philips CDi 370, Ohio Scientific Challenger, Eureka.