Warhol works recovered from old Amiga disks

[hunter]

A dozen previously unknown works created by Andy Warhol have been recovered from 30-year-old Amiga disks.

The art experiments were produced in 1985 by Warhol under commission from Commodore - creator of the Amiga computer.

Commodore paid the artist to produce a series of works to aid the launch of the Amiga 1000.

A painstaking three-year project was required to recover the images which were saved in an obscure data format.

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27141201

I still have an Amiga in my garage and it worked the last time I started it up about ten years ago, but I'm a little wary of plugging in old computers these days because the sound of old electrolytic capacitors exploding like firecrackers (and the awful smell of that!) frightens the dogs.

My car was made in the mid-'eighties so it seems odd to me that a computer as old is considered some kind of relic, and the disks given the white glove museum treatment.

Of course there's no museum dedicated to me, hunter, so I doubt anyone will ever painstakingly recover my floppy disks or anything else.

[onehandle]

1. Still have my Amiga and discs stored away. Someday I will attempt to use that Kickstart disc.

Good ol' Deluxe Paint.

[hunter]

2. I've been enthusiastic about computers several times in my life.

Machines and operating systems that have impressed me include the 1802 microprocessor, BSD, the Atari 800, the Amiga, Linux, and lately the Raspberry Pi.

If the human race is lucky some brilliant kid will develop on a raspberry pi or similar machine the open source operating system that will further evolve to run our starships.

If the universe hates us we will be running Microsoft, Apple, or Android software (even worse on x86 hardware), in which case the human race is doomed.

[Tom Ripley]

3. Finally! A Cory Arcangel art project worth a damn.