A quick recap
First, this is an addon to a years long project I've been working on, which you can check out here: Computer Video - Amiga 500/2000 Promotional 1987 Video - Introduction
In december 2022 I tried an experiment onto 1 of my newly created YouTube channels (Old-school Computer Stuff) to explore the success of producing Youtube Shorts first, well, what can we say about YouTube shorts?
They are ASS and its a lame copy of the even more lame braindead world of TikTok. So, what the hell would I expect :-)
Anyway, I posted a tiny post on English Amiga Forum: Amiga - The Movie 1987" Christmas Calendar - Find that item!, It got two reponses from the same guy, which didn't understand the point at first, but once I explained he (Photon) was all aboard. Sadly, nobody else came to comment or even try to unravel the mystery.
How did it go on Youtube then? Haha, total failure naturally, as the YouTube shorts are made for stupid people with stupid content. Clearly mine was too advanced, too fresh, needed 1% of brain power from viewers and non-trendy, so a huge bunch of them (for months) got ZERO views. I should not complain though, as I'm a complete noob for the YouTube worlds of creative ORIGINAL content and I should just let it sit and mature for a couple of years before I claim a YouTube throne, haha.
Here the entire playlist 31 video playlist.
Well, enough of that modern shit, lets deep dive into more proper and cool old tech stuff which is to try an identify all graphics, animations, software etc. used in that 1987 Promotional Video for Commodore Amiga Computers.
Latest discoveries as per post date:
CASE #1:
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"A musical note going through a wall, breaking it with water drops and splashes"
I do not yet still know the "filename" or "title" of this artwork, but found traces of the same image via Google Image search into Facebook and Twitter. Research is still pending. Was it ever saved on any Amiga related disk?
As I dont have any Facebook account NOR Twitter account I am unable to see any more details of the image and/or contacts these people to query just the "title" or "filename" which I could then use to search through my 44 millions or Amiga Files or in other search database I have generated the past 13 years.
CASE #2:
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Ballet dancer. Most likely its based on this "trimmed?" animation script compatible for Aegis Animator. I found this animation on: "grandis.nu\Collection\PD\RiSe PD Collection\faug_archived\faug17.dms".
Called "Ballet.script" inside a directory called "Ballet.PLAYER". See screenshots below!
CASE #3:
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Woman face with a large earring. From video: Picture is called "Earrings".
Found on disk:
"back2roots_compilation\slipdisk\adf\00xx\slipdisk-0034.adf". Converted from .iff to .png of the exact same "Earrings" image. See image below!
CASE #4:
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Psychedelic faces and color cycling using a genlock and Amiga.
From video: They used clips generated using an Amiga from a music video called "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" by Timbuk 3.
You can watch it on Youtube below.
CASE #5:
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From Video: They loaded "Pages/Birthday" or "med-res/Birthday" into Deluxe Print.
Fun fact: Software title was never written as caption or mentioned as speech.
Example of its location:
"TOSEC\Update 20191224\Applications - [ADF] (TOSEC-v2019-12-10)\Deluxe Print (1986)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 2 of 4)(Art 1).adf"
CASE #6:
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From video: A collage of clipart done in Deluxe Video. Part of this was a image file called "Swimmer" taken from the "med-res" directory of Deluxe Print.
"Swimmer" Found on for example:
TOSEC\Update 20191224\Applications - [ADF] (TOSEC-v2019-12-10)\Deluxe Print (1986)(Electronic Arts)(Disk 2 of 4)(Art 1).adf
CASE #7:
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From video: Image used is called "p_51.iff" where each plane is cut and then move-animated on screen.
I did not find any script that used it, but the image itself I managed to locate on:
"grandis.nu/cd/amigacd/compilation/giga graphic cds/giga_graphic_cd_3.iso" inside the "p06/" directory.
