Wednesday, February 28, 2018

O incrível micro-computador AMIGA

Tudo isso em 1985! Só vi um Amiga ao vivo na loja de pirat.. err... cópia de disquetes Byte e Bit (ou era Bit e Byte?) que existia no Edifício Maleta

https://youtu.be/q7rKj0DU8Xs

A comparação com os concorrentes na época era extremamente brutal:




















































Amiga 1000Atari 520 STApple Macintosh 512KIBM Personal Computer XT Model 5160
CPU:Motorola 68000 @ 7.16MHz (NTSC)
Motorola 68000 @ 7.09MHz (PAL)
Motorola 68000 @ 8MHzMotorola 68000 @ 7.8338MHzIntel 8088 @ 4.77MHz
Colours:4096 from 409616 from 5122
(Black and White)
16 from 64
(If fitted with the EGA display card)
Maximum resolution:736×482 (NTSC)
736×580 (PAL)
(16 colour maximum in 640x resolutions) *
640×400 (only Black and white in this resolution, more in lower resolutions)512×342 (Black and White)640×350
(If fitted with the EGA display card)
Sound:Stereo 8-bit 4 channel PCM sound sampled at up to 28.604kHz (PAL) or 28.867kHz (NTSC).Mono 8-bit 3 voice Yamaha YM 2149 programmable sound generatorMono 8-bit 1 channel PCM mono sound sampled at 22.25 kHz1-bit beeper (built in mono speaker)
RAM:256K
(expandable to 8704K)
512K
(expandable to 4096K)
512K
(NOT expandable)
128K (expandable to 640K)
Price in 1985:
(US Dollars)
$1,285 not including monitor$799.99 including monochrome monitor$2,795 including built-in 9 in (23 cm) CRT monitorVaried depending on options, up to $10,000!

Fonte:  Amiga Museum

Monday, February 26, 2018

[Uma imagem] Babylon 5, vinte e cinco anos!!!

Um marco na ficção científica na TV. Um pecado não estar disponível em algum Netflix da vida, embora a série nunca tenha sido remasterizada, e merecia muito!

Babylon 5 necessita da uma remasterização no estilo Jornada nas Estrelas, Série Clássica, com novos efeitos especiais em computação gráfica.

A série sofreu muito por ser pioneira, pois seus efeitos especiais foram finalizados no fantástico computador Amiga e utilizavam o revolucionário VideoToaster
The July 1994 issue of Compute! magazine discusses the graphics used in Babylon 5. By today’s standards, it seems primitive, but it was innovative in its time. Each episode of the series used an average of 6,000 frames of computer graphic animation from Foundation Imaging. They used 24 Amiga 2000s, 16 of which were dedicated rendering engines. They had 32 megabytes of RAM, a Fusion-40 accelerator and the Toaster. The Amigas were connected via a Novell network and sent data to a 12 gigabyte 486 PC file server. They later upgraded to Pentium and Alpha-based systems.

Enquanto as séries de Jornada nas Estrelas na época ainda usavam modelos super detalhados, B5 já se aventurava pela computação gráfica.

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Fonte:  geek.com

Saturday, February 24, 2018

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Regresso ao Futuro

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Poster português postado no blog https://universosesquecidos.wordpress.com/

Saturday, February 3, 2018

Onde a trilogia Hobbit errou

Este vídeo toca apenas  na ponta do iceberg, mas  é bem interessante.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5-gzZaRpw8

How Disney can recapture the original Star Wars magic (and why they won't try).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEdfmBz8LHg