This week, Cory posted a Talking Heads video and I followed up with a Laurie Anderson clip. For the trifecta of posts related to NYC's downtown scene in the 1980s, here is a video of Andy Warhol painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga computer at a Commodore press event in 1985. — Read the rest

Brad Templeton has coined "Spamigation" for spam litigation, lawsuits that are automated by computers, noting that while suing people can be readily automated so that it's possible to sue millions, legal defenses are much harder to automate.

This means that while it's possible to sue millions, it's impossible for millions to defend against those lawsuits. — Read the rest

These retro-tech playing cards feature images from the sadly departed Commodore Amiga personal computer, a dead media competitor to Windows and Mac OS machines from the GUI Cambrian Era. I owned an Amiga 1000 in 1984 1985, which was a stupendously promising, but underperforming, piece of shit. — Read the rest

Artnode.org has uncovered and posted a fascinating mid-'80s interview from Amigaworld magazine in which Andy Warhol discusses his relationship with his Commodore Amiga 1000, his experiments using it in portrait pieces of Debbie Harry and Dolly Parton, and his predictions about the future of computer art. — Read the rest

Amiga faithful have pooled their money via PayPal and come up with more than $3600 for the first person or team to successfully port Mozilla, the king-hell open-source browser, to the creaking Amiga platform.

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Picotron is a fantasy workstation from the creator of the Pico-8 fantasy console (previously at Boing Boing)—an intentionally simple, retro-styled game development environment with a stylishly limited palette, resolution and performance. It's ideal for making "pixelart games, animations, music, demos and other curiosities." — Read the rest

Trevor Flowers made a microSD card organizer in the style of yesteryear's floppy disk caddies. For me it instantly evokes memories of dozens of pirated Amiga games and the Pilot Precise pens [Amazon] we used to print their titles in the available 2mm of writing space. — Read the rest

In 1986, Timothy Leary gave his pal Keith Haring an Amiga computer. Leary had hoped Haring would create art for his project "Neuromancer: An Electronic Mind Movie," an interactive digital story that would be a software promotion for a Neuromancer feature film. — Read the rest

HP wants you to print things through its cloud service, wherein you pay a subscription fee for ink and your usage is routed through its servers. To encourage you to do this, it covers the USB port on one model with a sticker with a No Smoking-style "No USB" logo on it–lest you simply plug in your printer and start printing things with it before you've endured the hard sell via network setup. — Read the rest

It's nineteen ninety-something, and another batch of the latest games just came off the line, but it's not the game that matters, it's what goes before it. The demoscene has been accepted as Dutch "intangible cultural heritage" by UNESCO [demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net, but you might need to hit archive.org — Read the rest

In this footage, a personal computer is purchased in 1995. Filmmaker David Hoffman writes:

The first thing I want to tell viewers is that these are 1995 outtakes from a film that I was making on behalf of an incredible startup back then called General Magic.

Facebook's VR hype was so extensive and successful that it convinced Disney to establish an entire division to the "Metaverse". This is being shut down, now, the Metaverse having failed to materialize important things such as users or their legs.

Mickey Mouse has left the metaverse.

Rocky Bergen makes papercraft models of vintage computers (previously). With international shipping rates being what they are, I stand a much better chance of getting this Amstrad CPC on my desk than the real thing! Each machine has its own page, with links to downloadable papercraft patterns. — Read the rest

Meet Tom Persky, the "last man standing in the floppy disk business." His business, after decades of success as an industrial duplicator, "is now 90% selling blank floppy disks."

He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company dedicated to the selling and recycling of floppy disks.

Center Core Never More is a far-out animation by Jim Wilson from the early '90s. It has an awesome, pixelated look to it that reminds me of MacPaint. It was made using an Amiga 500 and includes audio by Wilson's friend. — Read the rest

I do not have any entertaining IE stories as I have been a Linux, and then an OS X user, since the early times. Design for IE has been a problem my entire career as no one I know has the browser. — Read the rest

The first computer I had which used 3½-inch floppies was the Commodore Amiga, and let me tell you, I did not appreciate the brilliant engineering of the 3½-inch floppy disk. VWestlife has fonder memories:

The ZX Spectrum, a British-made 8-bit computer, enjoys a lifespan rivaled only by classic game consoles and perhaps a model or two from similarly dead U.S. competitor Commodore. It represents the explosive rise and fall of the early UK computer business. — Read the rest

How many chiptunes can the Retrocade Synth contain? All of them!

[Jack]'s RetroCade synth is connects directly to the Papilio One 500k FPGA. All the classic chiptune ICs can be emulated in this FPGA including the Commodore 64 SID chip, and an Amiga MOD player.

Being on hold is the ultimate liminal space.

First, the "best". It's Tim Carleton's Opus 1, automatically downgraded into its own Amiga MOD version by the Texas DMV. You've almost certainly heard it because it's the default in Cisco Systems' office VoIP setups. — Read the rest