Strange Imaginary Games
RND/ To consider the sophisticated retro aesthetics of Amiga World magazine (IDG Publishing, ’85 to ’95): 1154 x 1920 .jpg In which regular non-business users of the Amiga might have found the well produced overall look of such a publication surprising. The often excellent, finely crafted illustrations found in the early issues lends the Amiga … Read more
RND/ To imagine a ‘condensed Ballardian visual retro computing novel’, as assembled for internal subject lab testing use via The Parallax Corporation. Potential candidates viewing these images at high speeds through their attached headsets are instructed to ask themselves the following questions. What is my current ongoing relationship with technology? What are the (/historical) links … Read more
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
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