Events for Amiga and Commodore fans in Ireland and our friends overseas.
NEWS
MsMadLemon is in the New York Times talking about retro computing. (link)
Amiga Ireland 2021 Youtube playlist has been uploaded with all scheduled features (link)
Amiga for Mortals blog (link)
Amiga Ireland 2021 creative competition is complete (link)
| Place | Artist | Submission | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Punnik | How Do They Do That | 361 |
| 2nd | Banjo Guy Ollie | Terrible Song Name | 354 |
| 3rd | Alex Menchi | Night of the Hunter | 351 |
| 4th | adkd | Your Music 2 | 325 |
| 5th | Miron Schmidt | True Sadness | 319 |
| 6th | Okeanos/TEK | Underground Life | 295 |
| 7th | Uberphawx | Kersen | 288 |
| 8th | Barkbit | Hardware Monkey | 225 |
| Place | Artist | Submission | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Eric Hill/amigalove.com | Heavy Metal Amiga | 347 |
| 2nd | Mattie Whittle | Time & Space | 335 |
| 3rd | Vasilis Psomiadis | Winter Nights | 325 |
| 4th | Douglas Compton | Flower Collage | 248 |
| 5th | ArisAmiga | Amiga Masterpiece in 31 pixels | 247 |
| 6th | TLF | Space Ships | 189 |
| Place | Artist | Submission | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Anthony Jarvis | Tron Recognizer | 424 |
| 2nd | Klearchos Gourgourinis a.k.a. muadib | Winter Solstice Tree 2021 | 348 |
| 3rd | TLF | Amiga Word | 248 |
It’s been an absolute privilege. Sincere thanks to all who entered. After six years of gaming and creative competitions, it’s time to make a dedicated gallery of scores and art. Until that happens, you can download and view the artwork here:
Zoom has a built in polling feature which has advantages and disadvantages for voting. The advantages are that the votes are all recorded automatically with no possibility for error. The downside is that we cannot enforce one of the rules that we have at the in-person event: voters must pay attention and vote for all entries in a category 🙂
With Zoom, someone could vote for the first song, not pay attention to the 2nd song (and miss the vote), vote for the 3rd song and so on. Incomplete categories are not counted at the in-person event. With Zoom, we havo no way of knowing since votes are per entry and not per voter. That said, the number of voters per poll (there was one poll per entry) was consistent to within a range of about ~2-5.
Example of a vote being held
For last year’s (2020) Creative Competition, follow this link.
Picture of a lake rendered in R3D v2. By Andy Jones. Winner of organic section of the recent Amiga Swapshop BBS Raytracing Competition.
NEWS
Amiga Ireland Online: 2021 happens on January 16th – get your tickets (link)
Alanna Kelly, Director at the Computer Museum of Ireland has finished a huge website revamp with her group. (link)
SDBox for Amiga gives SD card connectivity to A500 (h/t to Mikerochip) (link)
A casual chat to wind down the Amiga Ireland year. Thanks for being with us throughout 2020!
Some recommendations for the December break:
Casual Retro Gamer (all things Commodore & Amiga) (link)
Banjo Guy Ollie (great acoustic covers of game tunes) (link)
Mad Pete’s Commodore & Amiga channel (link)
The Amiga Show (link)
The Little Cinema Galway (Aspiring & established film makers create gems within constraints) (link)
Upskill on Amiga
Amiga Hardware, Music, Magazines & more with Ms Mad Lemon (link)
Lightwave 3D with Muadib (link)
DPaint, Workbench and life in Japan with Pixel Vixen (link)
Amiga Protracker with WASP (link)
BYE BYE
NEWS
The Amiga Show – A brand new Amiga channel about Amiga and created on Amiga. (link)
Amiga Addict magazine has hit its preorder target, first issue expected 14 Dec (link)
AMOS roadmap announced for 2021 including Vampire and enhanced graphics and sound operations (link)
NEWS
Ask Your Amiga – Wolfram Alpha client for the Amiga (link)
New OS4 blog for developers (link)
Wayfarer – version 1.5 of the Web browser just got released (link)
Online BASIC programming workshop for the Commodore 64 with the Computer Museum of Ireland and Rob Cranley. Register here (link)
Amiga Ireland 2021 is canceled – at least, the planned event, due to the pandemic. We will meet online instead for a few hours. Sign up at the link. (link)
NEWS
Cover image: “Thanasis Amp v3” by Muadib which came joint 1st place in the Creative Competition at Amiga Ireland 2020 (link)
IBrowse 2.5.3 released with increased performance of HTTPS connections thanks to Session Caching and Persistant HTTP(S)Connection. (link)
AmiExpress BBS gets a rewrite (link)
AmiBerry now lets you send commands to linux from Amiga Shell. Shared clipboard also implemented. (link)
The Warp 1260 and other cards in the family add so many features to classic Amiga like USB, micro SD, WiFi, RTG and more. The story of its creation and its creators is fascinating and entertaining. Special thanks to Cizar and Sellen for sharing their story with us (link)
CS-Labs / Warp Homepage: (link)
Music by Radix licensed under the Mod Archive Distribution license.
Image: “Fisherman” by Anthony Jarvis which won joint 1st place at the Creative Competition at Amiga Ireland 2020
