Astronauts of the International Space Station can plug in an Amiga 600, 1200, or CD32 and play games on a beamer!
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| A beamer with composite video input aboard the ISS |
15.6kHz analog-video compatible displays are a bit of a rarity these days, but of course the ISS, being the pinnacle of human achievement, has one, with a composite video input. It is very unlikely, though, that Amiga hardware is available in space.
;-)
(Picture: Arrival of additional/rotating crew at the ISS, March 2025)
Another nice example of how the Amiga was used as a low-cost video production workhorse.
According to an article in a 1993 issue of "Amiga Kickstart" magazine (see links below), the music video for House Of Usher's techno track "Shades" was created on an Amiga 500+, using DeluxePaint IV.
And you don't need glasses to immediately recognize somehow familiar colors and shapes. This looks very much like a production from the Amiga demo scene, only the sound quality is better, and the animation clips are more random. Nowadays, the visuals may seem a little naive. But at the time, this was pretty hip stuff, yeah, you would see something like this at a rave party. The music video in its entirety doesn't run on an Amiga 500 - there's some video editing, and obviously CD-quality audio. "Shades" was a little hit in the German techno scene, and the video was shown on MTV and some other channels.
Here's a capture of "Shades" by House Of Usher (1992) playing on MTV:
Amiga Kickstart 1993-01 article at archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/amiga-kickstart-93-01/page/100/mode/2up
Yet another preview of "Grind" - the grown up brother of Amiga 500 Doom-clone "Dread" - just popped up on YouTube.
"Dread" was a super impressive project that spawned full-game-release project "Grind", and it's looking better than ever.
Here's the latest video, that was uploaded just minutes ago to famous retro-gaming channel Saberman RetroNews:
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