Back from Hawaii

Zeb — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:07:00 -0700

No entry on the blog for more than two weeks. Iwas enjoying some great vacation time in Hawaii with my family. I will not dwell on the subject, but I strongly recommend this destination (Maui) for all those who want spend a great time with their family in ideal conditions.

So I'm ready to start production on Madagascar 2 very soon, just enough time to finish my work for the Gnomon.

The critics which followed the Cannes Premiere of Kung Fu Panda are very good which built many hopes for this film to be a huge success. I keep my fingers crossed because I sincerely think that the film deserves it.

Since I have a full plate of work to do I will not update the blog as often as usual, I'll try to keep a pace of one post a week and maybe one post from time to time in order to cover any urgent event.

Mahalo

Good old time : The Amiga

Zeb — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:00:00 -0700

This post is probably out of the usual scope of the blog, but while surfing I ended up on that video. All of a sudden I jumped back in time when I was 12 and faced a lot of souvenirs. Without the acquisition of that computer I don't think I would have developed such a strong interest to computer graphics. You might want to turn off your sounds for the first video.

Let's do a quick briefing for those who have not experienced the amiga. This was the first computer to offer the general public a range of high-quality video games from 1985 to 1994, with a "new generation" graphic ability offering more than 8 colors and playing music on 4 tracks:).
The competition at that time was the Atari ST / STE, and the PC but they were no match regarding the quality of the games. Toward the end of the amiga reign, Pentiums revolutionized the PC world and consoles grew even bigger on the market. This is a personal interpretation and very probably wrong, but this is how I experienced the funeral of my super cool Amiga 500.

I remember even having made my first step towards the graphics on this machine with deluxe paint, and later the 3d graphics with Sculpt 4d and Real 3d. I will be curious to review those first images I did back then.
Here is a list of the games that have marked my childhood, so many great intros, great moments that I hope some of you also remember.

Deuteros

Monkey Island

Cruise for a Corpse

Another World

Dune

Moonstone

Heimdall

An some more :

Battle Isle
BAT (1 et 2)
Civilization
Pang
Project X
Zool
Operation Stealth
Populous
Vroom
Speedball
Rodland
Alien Breed
Lemmings
Captain Blood
Jim Power
Rainbow Island
Shufflepuck Cafe
Superfrog
Worms
Megalomania
Push Over
Wizzkid

I could easily add 50 more titles which kept me stucked in front of my old computer.

If you really want to play again with those great games , then install WINUAE on your PC and I let you find the games using your favorite search engine.

Have fun !

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