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20.Jan.2024



Wall papers for AmigaOne X5000 Workbench
McFly offers owners of an AmigaOne X5000 eight different background images with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 for the Workbench, which are basically grey, but contain coloured lettering or in some cases a coloured BoingBall. (dr)

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10.Jan.2024
David Brunet (E-Mail)


New articles on Obligement website
The articles below have been added to the website of the French Amiga/MorphOS magazine Obligement in the last two months. Readers willing to help out with translating articles into other languages are asked to contact David 'Daff' Brunet.
  • News from November/December 2023
  • Old articles from Génération 4 7 to 9:
    • Hardware: AMAS, Review of Bio Challenge, Review of The President Is Missing
    • Programming: scrolling with pointer movements
    • News: Les 4 d'Or 1988
    • Report: COMDEX Fall 1988
    • Review: Review of Zoetrope 1.1, Review of After Burner, Review of Maria's Xmas Box
    • Interview: Régis Loisel, Review of Puffy's Saga, Review of Mini Golf
  • Interview with Laurent Zorawski (Amedia Computer/AAA Technology)
  • Interview with Steve Meretzky (game designer)
  • Review of Amidon 1.2
  • The best of Byte from February to May 1986
  • File: The story of Anti Gravity
  • File: The Boing Ball
  • Tutorial: Setting up network drives on MorphOS (update)
  • DIY: Restoring a CD³²
  • Programming: Creating a demo - chapter 2, part 1, bitplanes
  • Book: Amiga Retro-Mag Hard Mode!
  • Miscellaneous: Amiga links (updated)
  • Special quiz on Hollywood
Article in English:
Interview with Laurent Zorawski (Amedia Computer/AAA Technology) (snx)

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03.Jan.2024
Mastodon


Recovered: Early music programs "Computer Composer" and "Magic Harp"
Josh Renaud's blog about BBS history, retro computing and technology reminiscences also manages a curated collection of software believed to be lost by Israeli cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen. The collection comprises ten games, demos and experiments on artificial personality and artificial creativity, which also includes the two music programs "Computer Composer" (1986) and "Magic Harp" (1986/87) for the Amiga.

Perhaps Kirschen's most ambitious idea was to make software that could generate music autonomously using "artificial creativity". Early versions of the project, called "Magic Harp", were developed for the Amiga 1000, using digital sound samples. The Amiga software was never published commercially, but was profiled in several large newspapers in 1988 under the name "JFY Box" or "Jiffy Box" after it was used to score a BBC TV documentary.

"Computer Composer" (demo version) is a colorful early demo of Kirschen's process to generate new music by recombining patterns extracted from existing music. Unlike the later "Magic Harp", which featured large (silent) animated "artificial personalities", this demo uses speech synthesis to announce when it is "writing an original composition". It was probably intended to be shown by Kirschen at technology and music trade shows in summer 1986. This software was created on an Amiga 1000.
This demo allows the user to create or play music in four styles: "Maharishi Madness", "Saxman Rock", "Peruvian Indian" and "Bugle Boy Blues".

In "Magic Harp" Kirschen arranged the production of two themed music discs ("Pop" and "Baroque") with Irving Gould, which were to be included with the Amiga 1000. Only a beta version of the Baroque version has survived. (dr)

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