By Jimmy Maher
ISBN-10: 0262017202
ISBN-13: 9780262017206
Some time past, in 1985, own pcs got here in normal different types: the pleasant, infantile video game laptop used for enjoyable (exemplified through Atari and Commodore products); and the uninteresting, beige grownup field used for company (exemplified by way of items from IBM). the sport machines grew to become attention-grabbing technical and creative structures that have been of constrained real-world software. The IBM items have been all application, with little emphasis on aesthetics and no emphasis on enjoyable. Into this bifurcated computing atmosphere got here the Commodore Amiga a thousand. This laptop featured a palette of 4,096 colours, unparalleled animation services, four-channel stereo sound, the potential to run a number of functions concurrently, a graphical person interface, and robust processing strength. It used to be, Jimmy Maher writes sooner or later was once right here, the world's first actual multimedia computer. Maher argues that the Amiga's skill to shop and show colour images, control video (giving amateurs entry to expert tools), and use recordings of real-world sound have been the seeds of the electronic media destiny: electronic cameras, Photoshop, MP3 avid gamers, or even YouTube, Flickr, and the blogosphere. He examines various aspects of the platform--from Deluxe Paint to AmigaOS to Cinemaware--in each one bankruptcy, making a portrait of the platform and the groups of perform that surrounded it. after all, Maher recognizes, the Amiga used to be no longer excellent: the DOS element of the working structures was once clunky and ill-matched, for instance, and crashes frequently followed multitasking makes an attempt. And Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. yet for many years, the Amiga's technical characteristics have been harnessed via engineers, programmers, artists, and others to thrust back barriers and remodel the tradition of computing.
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A programmer wishing to output the same sound to both speakers must thus send the sound simultaneously to two of the available four audio channels; no other facility for stereo mixing is provided. Playing a basic sound from a programming standpoint consists of filling a block of memory with eight-bit sample data and requesting that Agnus and Paula play said sample at a given sample rate through a given sound channel. They will then process the request autonomously; in a process akin to that of painting the display, Agnus fetches the sample data from memory and passes them to Paula one byte a time, who in turn passes them through her DACs and on to the external speakers.
At this point, the ball has moved considerably from its initial state near the top center of the screen to a position closer to the bottom right. The viewport at this instant has an X scroll of -37, which has the effect of shifting the view to the left 37 pixels and thus makes the ball appear to have moved to the right; and a Y scroll of -54, which has the effect of shifting the view upward 54 lines and thus makes the ball appear to have shifted toward the bottom of the screen. Note that this Y scroll is given in the opposite of normal mathematical notation, with numbers increasing rather than decreasing in value as they move downward on the Y axis.
Next, the ball itself is drawn into the newly blank playfield. A programmer working on the Amiga after it became an established computing platform would most likely have drawn the ball in one of the many available paint programs, such as EA’s Deluxe Paint series (the subject of chapter 3), and then saved the image data for importation into her program. I in fact took this approach in re-creating the demo in preparation for this chapter. However, applications such as Deluxe Paint did not yet exist in early 1984, so Luck and Mical were forced to do things the hard way, drawing the ball programmatically in the demo itself using trigonometry functions.
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