90s Gaming Aesthetics: Amiga Format Magazine Scans

RND/ To consider the often lurid 90s gaming aesthetics on display in Amiga Format magazine. 1700 x 2300 .jpg – white balanced, denoized, brightened, chromatically abberated, sharpened In which some may note how the relative naffness of the back page advertising somehow appears to symbolize the eventual future decline of the Amiga as a home … Read more

Retro (Computing) Feel: Stories from the UK Amiga demoscene underground

RND/ consider super subjective, untold stories from the UK Amiga Demoscene underground – a forthcoming report from freelance internet theorist Robert What, chronicling the unique, strange and dreamy ‘near future’ retro computing feel of the UK Amiga Demoscene. Contact Robert today for more details and to get in on this open publishing project (bob at … Read more

The Super Future Feel Of Amiga Graphics

RND/ To consider the unique ‘Super Future Feel’ [1] of Amiga era graphical aesthetics [2] – as curated from oldskool Amiga magazine “The One.” [3]   Deliciously chunky polygons [4] and seemingly infinite pixellated cyberspaces [5] – a wonderfully bizarre information landscape of oddly alive ‘visual language’ where strange alien bleeps and bloops are heard. … Read more