There were several ways to use Windows 3.1 on Amiga. A bridge board or PPC card for emulating an 80486. It was also possible to use turbo cards, sometimes clocking up to 75Mhz, in combination with a graphics card to display SVGA resolutions. It was all about money and love for the Amiga.
In Stranger Things season 1, when Jonathan's sneaking around taking photos AT NIGHT, those photos would be garbage.
Only light source is his flash, very likely to wash out detail. Plus he's focusing on unlit subjects in the dark. Likely would need to push film as well, heightening contrast & grain.
Hah. Things were much weirder back then. The Amiga 2000 had XT/AT slots that were only active when a bridgeboard was installed. You could partition a hard disk from the bridgeboard to share it with the Amiga, but the Amiga couldn't boot from it, so you had to have a boot floppy.
Me, a teenager in the 90s who didn't have picture based internet and had to go to the library or ask friends to print out pictures for me so I don't know what the computers actually looked like back then: "Heh. Yeah, funny."
I admit it’s a very specific historical inaccuracy. To put in non-computer terms: The software screams Beyoncé, but the hardware is like a critically acclaimed indie band that never quite made it to a major label and also doesn’t know who Beyoncé is.
It’s been almost a week since seeing this tweet and I still think about it because it’s true. And also I feel old for understanding all of it since I used to own a monitor by viewsonic that was hooked up to a Power Mac G4 and by like 2003/4 AIM was already losing popularity because MySpace 😭.
Oh you must be one of those copycats listening! Netflix = National Entertainment Television Films Linking the Internet X-finity or X-ray or Xylophone which just so happens to be a percussion instrument that needs to be learned before playing any other instrument in that department!
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That A2000 does have a bridgeboard installed, so, possibly that is not even a slow way of running windows on Amiga.
Only light source is his flash, very likely to wash out detail. Plus he's focusing on unlit subjects in the dark. Likely would need to push film as well, heightening contrast & grain.
https://bsky.app/profile/jolyon.bsky.social/post/3lfozbaxfsc26
It inspired me at the time to write this Amiga demo.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FD07FAiOp-4
https://bsky.app/profile/ernie.tedium.co/post/3lfpqjy7zjk2v
What, they couldn't find an Amiga 1994? I mean, come on. 🙄🙄🙄