40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre

Re:40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre by jacobgorm on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:16AM (#44822682)

I don’t recall the Mandrill image ever being used in conjunction with Amiga. Jim Sachs creations like this one were more common https://www.reddit.com/r/VintagePixelArt/comments/m1fxm1/sac...

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Re:40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre by vidarh on Thursday August 07, 2025 @06:24AM (#44822736)

It was, but note it's a scan, and so the point was to show off that it could reproduce photos. E.g. from Compute! September 1985[1].

Sachs was of course also immensely popular, and did enough work that I have no doubt more Amiga users saw his pictures.

Here's a page with a lot more of his pictures[2], including the color cycling effect. (There's also a fantastic comparison far down that page of a sharp version vs. a VHS recording that shows just how much color bleed we had to deal with, and how it affected the art.

[1] https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue64/amiga.php

[2] https://amiga.lychesis.net/artists/JimSachs.html

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Re:40 Years of the Amiga, from Commodore – By Paul Lefebvre by trembolram on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:44AM (#44825149)

The Mandrill was part of the launch event of Amiga in 1985 at the Lincoln Center. The event also included other famous demos, such as the bouncing ball. https://youtu.be/_QST1ZAJ29o?t=196

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