Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic so bad?

Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by panic on Saturday March 06, 2021 @04:54PM (#26370871)

If you want to see what the image would look like at high resolution -- I couldn't resist making a small JS implementation: http://ianhenderson.org/kickstart-vector.html

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Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by RodgerTheGreat on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:51PM (#26371669)

Beaten to the punch, but at least we took fairly different approaches: http://beyondloom.com/tools/amigogh.html

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Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by pxi on Sunday March 07, 2021 @03:01PM (#26379222)

That was an hour of fun on the week end. Another one in SmallBASIC:

https://gist.github.com/chrisws/b2a60d7143fab4eb0fd4afbab6bd...

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Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by panic on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:11PM (#26373066)

Nice, yours definitely nails the authentic look!

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Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by tyingq on Saturday March 06, 2021 @08:50PM (#26372377)

Nice. Might be interesting to try ctx.scale(0.9,1) or whatever ratio approximates the pixel shape on the Amiga in that video mode...would square up the shape of the floppy.

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Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by panic on Saturday March 06, 2021 @11:09PM (#26373060)

Thanks for the suggestion -- I changed it to use the 11:13 ratio documented for NTSC at http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/AmigaMail_Vol2_guid... (apparently PAL pixels are actually square).

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Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by RodgerTheGreat on Saturday March 06, 2021 @10:54PM (#26372994)

Added to mine. Experimentally, it looks like a 4:3 ratio makes the floppy come out square, which lines up with expectations.

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Re:Why was the Amiga Kickstart 1.x “Insert floppy” graphic s... by sgt on Saturday March 06, 2021 @06:28PM (#26371512)

Now imagine your boss coming back a week later.... panic, I showed it to the client and they love it. Can you quickly change it to hold the floppy between the index finger and thumb - at an angle? It's probably easy to do.

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