Live Commodore Amiga DPaint Demo @ Babycastles WordHack
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- AmigaBill does a live DPaint demonstration at Babycastles WordHack using his Commodore Amiga 1200 on January 17, 2019
Babycastles Website
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Todd Anderson WordHack
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Guru Meditation opening music by JMD
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Additional music by Format
B camera by Thierry Mazzoleni of
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Flying the Amiga flag high and proud again Bill, great job dude!
Thanks so much MadPete! let our Amiga flags fly!!!
Well I certainly learned a lot about animating in Deluxe Paint! Fantastic video as always, Bill.
Thanks 10 minute! Perhaps I should do a more in-depth video. This was a brief intro for the folks at WordHack
I remember doing a presentation in college about Viking ships on my Amiga 1200 using DPaint and Scala back in the late '90s. Such a great machine!
NICE! I can relate. I did one on World War 2 in my class. I lugged my A500 and 1084 into class. I digitized all the images with DigiView, cleaned them up in DPaint and used SCALA for the presentation. I blew their socks off. Man, those were great times!
As you know - never owned an Amiga. But, your videos are so easy to watch. Watching them is as close as I can get. LOL.
Dude we have to get together one day and you will be able to get very close to a real Amiga! Thanks for the kind words
brilliant presentation, bill. i enjoyed listening to what you had to say, especially about how capable the amiga is. congrats!
Thank you Phish! You are the best. The presentation didn't do as smooth as the stream, but I am happy with it and everyone seems to have enjoyed themselves.
I wish i knew this back in 92, when I first got my amiga 1200, thanks Bill for a great lesson....
You are welcome Thickly! The cool thing I am realizing about DPint is that it is still really fun to use here in 2019. It aged well!
@@TheGuruMeditation Dpint... I would suggest a good craft IPA or Cider, and the UK has some good examples....
@@thicklyspread Ahhh ha ha ha! Nice moves there. Glad I didn't proof read my comment. I am an IPA man myself!
Bill, you are “the keeper of the flame”, great!
Aw thank you Brad! Gotta keep our girl alive!
This was really fantastic! I could not stop smiling! And I think I could watched this for ever! Thank you Bill!
May man! You are too kind! So glad you enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun doing it.
Great presentation! I spent so many hours on DPaint, it was really awesome. You made me to miss so much my old Amiga that I’ve finally bought an Amiga 500 on eBay. It was my first Amiga, now I want to buy an Amiga 1200, like what I had more than 20 years ago.
Thank you Massimiliano! This is really amazing to hear. I am so glad you are getting back into Amiga. The 500 was my first Amiga as well. I picked up an ACA500+ for it which has been amazing. You might want to look into that device too.
I remember my dad bought me an Amiga 1200 with 400 mb hardrive and 512 k ram when i was around 11 years old. I would make stick figure animations on it and play around with FastTracker, and I would play UFO enemy unknown, Monkey Island 2, and mortal kombat :D
Great talk btw, I felt exactly the same way about the computer as you did at the time, even though I was only a kid.
Thanks for sharing your story and the kind words Marius! This is really nice to hear. Yes, I think it is easy to love the Amiga no matter what your age is.
Great demo! Learnt something new about something old. It's cool how even with today's software like AE the same basic principles apply, like starting with all the elements in place and animating backwards. And that single undo really did force you to work hard to get it right the first time.
That is a great point Sean! So many of the concepts. "Learnt something new about something old" THAT is awesome!
Everybody has the same version of Dpaint V, now. ;)
Ha ha! We all owe a lot to Mr. Cogings. I actually have another copy registered to my friend Pierre, but I guess I installed this one from an ADF I got somewhere. The last copy of DPaint that I bought was IV.
Love it - great fun and great to see another "TGM" video - you kept your nerve onstage Bill - well done, I would have screwed it all up! - much Amiga love Peter (EAB)
Aw, thank you Ptere! The conditions were tough. I thought I would be able to see the projector but it didn't work out that way, so I was trying to do everything off OBS on my laptop which turns out to be about a 7" screen with a delay! And I had bright lights in my face. Amiga difficulty! ha ha! It was a great crowd though and I think the shenanigans added to the fun of it all. SillyBilly in full effect!
I cut my teeth in my early animation career on Dpaint, and the animations I did for Sesame Street wouldn’t have been possible without it. Would love to get out there someday and give a Dpaint / Brilliance animation demo and have a few brews with you guys. Likewise if any of you ever visit the west coast, the Commodore Vancouver Wa club would be glad to have you. I wish Brilliance had the move requester of DeluxePaint, and the ability to sync iff or 8svx sound in the program itself. 🤘🏽 ROCK ON Amiga Bill! really dug this demo!
Beautiful presentation Bill. I have enjoyed the video very much.
Amiga Forever 😊
Thanks for the kind words Cotter! So glad you enjoyed!
Great job presenting Bill. Inspirational
Thanks Stephen!
when you picked up the logo as brush, you could just hold right mouse button and erase :)
was fun to watch, I spent alot of my youth in dpaint :)
Oh thanks for the tip! Now I remember that. It is fun to re-learn this stuff. DPaint used to be 2nd nature to me, but not any more lol. I also didn't pick it up properly centered - hence the wobble. Oh well, them the breaks of a live demo!
That was great! Spent many an hour with DP.
Thanks Kevin! Yeah, DPaint was the best and it still is fun to this day!
Dang I had no idea this was going on..Would have loved to witness this in person!!! Great stuff.
Oh man, that would have been awesome. I posted it on my Twitter/Facebook/Discord but it is really easy to miss social media posts. Regardless you should check out Babycastles. It is a great place!
Thanks Bill, I've never seen DP in action like this before.
Awesome! I am so glad you got something out of it. I feel like it is like Photoshop because in many cases there are many different ways and techniques to accomplish the same task.
It's always one of those programs I keep meaning to go back to. Like you said in the video its incredible just what it could do back in the 80's, Apple etc. had nothing on it for the time. There's just far too many amazing Amiga apps I need to sit down and just use properly.
@@Lorfarius Excellent. I think DPaint is one of the best programs ever released for Amiga. You won't regret picking it up again!
Nice tutorial there! :)
Thanks my man!
Awesome presentation, very interesting to watch and listen to.
Thank you so much Andy! Great to hear that you enjoyed it.
Oh Bill, I was already gawping when you clicked the grid tool, and then pressed F10 to restore the menus and tools and I was like, DPaint's achilles heel is coming up right in front of the audience... But they sound super nice and appreciative :)
LOL oh wow, you saw it coming! I thought I would be able to see the projector but it didn't work out that way, so I was trying to do everything off OBS on my laptop which turns out to be about a 7" screen with a delay! And I had bright lights in my face. Amiga difficulty! ha ha!
Yes!!!! Deluxe Paint! My bread and butter for animation, slides, and video production since 1985. Complemented with a genlock made possible interactive video conference with the networks way back 1995. Scala software complements the package for video titles and Videonics videomixer gave me the opportunity to experiment with Barco projectors and Professional videocameras JVC's KY series, Laser disc players and Super VHS tape recorders for a Fashion show here in the Philippines. Superior Graphics during its time. Retired the machine that doesn't fail in 2003. My trophy still hidden in my secret room.
You are turning me on with all that talk Gerard! You are on point with the genlock. I paired DPaint and SCALA with my RocGen and it was a powerhouse of a production tool. I also sprinkled in some Imagine for 3D. Man, those were the days. But DPaint is still really fun to use. Thanks for sharing your story!
Try ARexx programming to automate digitizing process to background task conversion using Directory Opus. The images (with incremented filenames) can be used for rotoscoping. Truly, the Amiga is the first multitasking microcomputer in its class. It is now 2019. That feature I played way back 1990 using my 2nd Amiga, Amiga 3000. The first was Amiga 1000 (1985).
@@gerardfojas7693 You hit the nail on the head. I recently did an animation using DigiView, ADPro, and DPaint but I couldn't get the batch processing in ADPro to work so it took me forever. Learning AREXX is on the top of my to-do list!
Mate this is great! Love the presentation. I used to play with D-Paint back in the day, and even did some of my design and technical drawing homework in it. Never got far with animation but I was only on a 1MB A500 with no HDD. What I did do though was output to my VHS player and run 2 or 3 frames out at a time lol. Was a very imperfect science, and i had to loop the same frames for a couple of seconds because the VHS player would rewind slightly on pause/unpause. Still good fun though.
This shows just how creative someone could be with an Amiga, particularly once DPaint came in the box with so many of them. This shows some of the magic that is now missing from "modern" computers in my humble opinion. Sure, modern machines come with a painting program, where you can create static images, but if you want something where you can really flex your creative muscle, you need to get something else. There may be a DPaint-alike program out there for "modern" machines, but most people don't know where to get something like that, or even that they want something like it. If I had a dollar for ever hour I've spent using DPaint, even if nothing I ever made was even good enough to save, let alone use, gosh, I could probably buy myself an Amiga 1200, an Amiga 500 and a Vampire 500 - and still have some money left over, haha.
Brilliant comment Troy! I couldn't agreen more. DPaint isjust so well thought out and fun to use. It has aged extremely well. I am having just as much fun with it today as I did back then. I has a lot of magic and a soul just like the Amiga
this was an awesome video. i loved your demo and how you interacted with the audience. well done Bill !
Thank you MVG! I had a lot of fun doing this. The crows was awesome and they made it easy and were fun to interact with. A good time was had by all!
Loved this
Thank you Core!
Excellent!
Way to go my friend. :)
Thanks Alex!
Awesome video Bill!
Thank you Stefano!
Great video. I’ve learned some useful things.
Cool presentation Bill as always.
Thank so much Stephen!
Deluxe Paint 4 was the best. Using an A1200, I was able to create a custom made weather forecasting tool with my own map of the UK in one window and weather symbols also made by me in another window and then copy and paste the symbols onto the map and save it as a final image for show. But sadly this was before the internet got going and ribbon printers were prohibitively expensive so no one got to see my efforts. I remember saving the files in TIFF format on floppies so it could well be possible to view those files on MS Paint or something.
Wow that sounds amazing! I never thought of that workflow, copying from one window to another. If you need help recovering your images let me know!
This was a great video Bill. Ive been using Deluxe Paint since version 2 and you showed me some new tricks. Really ahead of its time.
Wow, awesome! DPaint is so fun to use. I really want to pick it up again and maybe do a more in-depth video
@@TheGuruMeditation Hope you do, that would be great to watch.
@@trydowave OK I will add this to the list of videos I want to do.
@@TheGuruMeditation Have you tried Personal Paint? If so, what do you prefer, that, or DPaint?
@@trydowave It is a great question. I have never really used Personal Paint. I know it is still supported. I don't know if it does animation. I should check it out.
dpaint rulez!
YES!!!
Deluxe Paint
Deluxe Paint Rulez :-)
@@TheGuruMeditation Of course :-)
This is something that would have been done on a Quantel Paintbox Henry.
Had an amiga dream I dreamed there was a game that was a street racer you could race in car parks the street how cool would that be I guess the nearest we have is micro machines
Red dwarf was made on it is a UK space comedy
Really? That is a great show. Didn't know they used Amigas but I am not surprised
I didn't know that either. Wife and I loved Red Dwarf. I feel like a smeg head.
Bill, Nice video, enjoyed seeing how other people use Dpaint for animations, curious if you had any extra memory/accelerator to your machine.
Thanks Kevin! Yes, I have an ACA1233n it is an 030 running at 40MHz with 128MB memory
@@TheGuruMeditationThankyou, always good to know, looking into getting something similar this year
:)
@@KevinSaunders I can't recommend the 1233n highly enough. It is a top quality piece of gear.
Nice video! What do you think of the Deluxe Paint clone Grafx2?
Thank you Jason! I think Grafx2 is awesome from what I have seen, but I haven't gotten deep into it. I only played around with it at a couple of WAUG meetings.
Wasn’t some of Babylon 5’s internal screens and external shots made with an A4000 with video toaster? Also wasn’t the Amiga picture format IFF ILBM?
Yes you are correct. I am not sure of Babylon 5's internal screens, but I know they did a lot of modeling and rendering with Lightwave. And yes, Amiga used IFF ILBM. All the photos I showed here were in the IFF format on my Amiga as well as the Babycastles logo
I recall some of the Amiga file formats being ILBM, SMUS, 8SVX and ANIM. I don’t recall SMUS being used much as it was rather... complicated to program the playback routines.
@@FireDragonAndromeda I never used SMUS or 8SVX but the animation I made here is .anim and is basically a bunch of IFF images in one file. I also used DCTV format often and JPG later on in the Amiga's live
I do know what an ANIM file is... I have used Amigas myself since the 90s and the A600... still have my A1200.
@@FireDragonAndromeda Awesome! The 1200 is my favorite. I just mentioned what ANIM is because we get a lot of people who are new to Amiga here and they learn from the comments
There are some amazing colour cycling animations done using Deluxe Paint by Mark Ferrari www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/
OMG!!! Those are stunning. I wish I had those skills. Thanks so much for sharing this amazing work with me!
@@TheGuruMeditation I knew you'd like that :) you should have a look at a talk he did on GDC v=aMcJ1Jvtef0 gives you an insight on the thought process and how many hours he spends making these.
@@AnalogX64 Awesome! I will check it out! I also went to the Effet Games home page and found a blog post about them as well as a Q&A. I am so excited about this stuff. Really appreciate you bringing them to my attention!
I see that you have DCTV installed as well.... How about a tute? (DCTV was my favorite thing ever for the Amiga that I could afford...)
Good eye! We actually shot the DCTV episode already! It is in my edit cue. It will be a good one!
@@TheGuruMeditation Excellent! Really looking forward to it! I made LOTS of cool stuff with mine "back in the day", but when I tried to load some of them into my dusty Amiga a few years ago, the disks were all corrupted. :( And I had no hard drive back then (and certainly no CD-ROM burner, as they either didn't exist yet or were WAY our of my price range at the time.)
Anyway, good times. Looking forward to that video! When do you think it will be ready?
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Oh no! sorry to hear that. Sadly much of my work was lost on the HD of my 2000 so I know the feeling. I plan on releasing one video in a bout a week and a half then DCTV so maybe 1-1.5 months from now. You aren't the only one asking for DCTV so I will get on it!
@@TheGuruMeditation Quality over quantity, Dudes. Take your time. Yeah, it's inevitable that magnetic media of anything from the late 80s is going to have some issues, but that's what makes the retro scene - which has EXPLODED in the last few years - so great. New games for old systems, new hardware for old systems and even NEW "old" systems! It's a great time to be alive...
@@JustWasted3HoursHere Agreed! I feel like this retro explosion has put us in a new golden age of sorts. It is almost like 1990 all over again!
Wait what games was that
There were several like that. Maybe you are thinking of Super Skidmarks
Wait ... Slap in the face !!! You are using your macbook as external screen to your A1200 ???
At home I have an array of 1084 and 1084s monitors, but this was a good workflow which allowed me to record what I was doing on the Amiga with the laptop in 1080p and it passed the signal through to their projector as well.