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Version 1.2 Updated:This version has an improved Blender 3D model that corrected a small distortion of the ball in the upper and lower parts and that has a much more rounded, smoother sphere plus it includes an additional alpha version in two new other layers (one straight, one inclined) that has the red color transparent (only in the Blender 3D model).
Also know that the white background is only for display purposes but the icons have full alpha transparency with very smooth edges.
This is the famous Amiga Boing Ball as an icon set with slightly different variations. The first two are pretty much like the original ball but with no shading, the second pair is the same but shaded and the third pair is rounded smooth and shaded.
I did this cause I though that some Amiga fans might like the nostalgic icon. The Amiga was a computer that I respected for it's value and I included the Blender 3D file in the zip file so you can create any additional one at any other angle or resolution that you want or perhaps you can make one with a transparent material or whatever you please.
It has Windows, Mac and Png versions. The Windows and Mac versions include icons from 16 to 256 pixels in size. The Png set includes images up to 512 pixels in size so if you want to modify the Mac icons to include a 512 pixel size you can do it if you have a program that can add the 512 pixel size Png to the icns file. I can't do it cause my icons program can only do it to a maximum of 256 pixels.
You can modify it at least for your own personal use. I hope that you enjoy it.
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BTW I am searching for a 3D artist to create a logo for the group...
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I don't think that I qualify anyway cause the rules are that it needs to be done in an Amiga whether it is an actual hardware or emulated and I do notΒ have either. I do not know if there is a graphic program on the Amiga OS that I know how to use. I mean I can learn software very fast, specially graphics software but setting up a good modern emulation of a PC is no trivial thing, it usually is many, many hours of work configuring this and that, that is what I've seen with my experience. Setting game emulators is easy, computer emulators is another little monster altogether.
I never had an Amiga, I wanted very badly to have one back there (I confess hat I had a virtual infatuation with the Amiga 1000 ja, ja, ja) but my brother had to take computer programing lessons in college in The Sagrado CorazΓ³n University of Puerto Rico and they were using IBM compatibles in there so my mother bought us a PCjr which was a computer that had as default better graphics and sound than the standard PC and it was compatible with his programing lessons so that was the choice but it was no match for the Amiga not even the 1000. Anyway I have no complains about that cause I really put that PCjr to very good use and today I know a helluva lot about PCs and no to small degree to starting so early with them including that PCjr.
Now, even a PCjr back there with the color monitor and printer and mouse and a few software programs including the BASIC programming interpreter cartridge was quite an investment of several thousands dollars and mother could not afford to buy us another computer and I knew it so I would not even dare to try to ask her to buy me another, that was the second one that she had bought for us in her many attempts to help us with our education. Before that one she had given us a Radio Shack TRS-80 Coco already with several accessories, etc. and we were poor to middle class people and for her it was quite the sacrifice to do these things for us but she always did it with love so that is one of the many, many, many good things that I remember about her and have to thanks her for. Even that PCjr was quite the thrill when it was brought home, yes it was for me.
Still, I was (and still am) a big Amiga fan because back there it was the little computer that could and it gave a lesson to the big companies of what a computer could do and should be like. It was a great value, it was a better computer but not the standard that won the computer race. The best product does not always win and that was a classic case of such, exactly the same thing that happened with the VHS and Beta video standards, VHS won but Beta was superior, same thing with Amiga but it is no wonder why it still has such a big fan following, nope.
I know that there are modern versions of the OS that are still tying to advance and become another option for user. I hope that one of those survives and become more widely used, it would be nice to see another alternative in the desktop.
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Aw! Come On! Don't be shy!
Any 3D logo of good looking aspect, and made with Blender3D like, for example, an Amiga boing ball plus together with a paintbrush painting a rainbow, will be almost cute to be the logo for the group.
I had had made it by myself But unfortunately I am not capable to do it...
BTW. Don't worry you never had an Amiga.
If you still want to try an Amiga OS right on your PC, and take a close look to what it feels, you can download AROS Open Source Operating System.
Still in development, but pretty enough close to elder AmigaOS 3.1 experience:
aros.sourceforge.net/
The icAROS Desktop AROS distro runs either Live! version (has to be installed into a DVD and boot-run from it) or you can choose to run it sandboxed into Windows thru using common VirtualBox Open Source software.
vmwaros.blogspot.it/
Perhaps, if you are a proud owner of ancient Apple Macintosh PPC hardware, like MacMini PPC or Powerbooks versions machines (also you can found plenty of it at very reasonable prices in the Apple used market) you can try running Amiga MorphOS Operating System.
It cames free of downloading and fully using for a limited 30 minutes session before slowing the computer.
Obviously if you want complete version, you must purchase activation key.
www.morphos.de/
www.morphos.de/downloads
for example MorphOS is the Amiga-Like Operating System that I actually choosen.
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If you will download AROS justΒ remember these three basic Amiga rules:
1) left mouse buttons selects and runs
2) right mouse button opens and operate menus
3) amiga files are in the form: namefile + namefile.info (namefile.info for the icon and metadata).
If you want to see all kind of files, even those that does not have an icon, you have to choose "Show all files" from the main menu
How it works all remaining things into Amiga, it has to be discovered by your skills and curiosity.
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Did something like you asked. Are you interested? If so we need to agree on a way to send you the files so you can see what I did. I'll wait for your answer.
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Good! Now I add your work to Amiga Artists group!
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The Boing Ball is almost like a second logo for the old Amiga computers that were very popular in the 80's due to their impressive multimedia capabilities at the time. The official logo was really a multicolored check mark but this ball came from a demo that became so popular in the Amiga computers that almost became a mascot for it. This is a nostalgic item for Amiga computer fans that they can use for example to launch an Amiga computer emulator or other Amiga related things.
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Michael Welch rendered one in DX-Ball's title screen. Philippe McNally designed a pre-rendered one for its sequel, DX-Ball 2, by Seumas McNally. Mike Boeh originally had a very impressive one rendered in realtime on the title screen of his game Bugatron. All tributes to the Amiga, which was basically my only relationship with the Boing Ball. Back then I didn't even know what those appearances meant, haha.
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Only Amiga made it possible.
one beautiful beautiful complete system. I miss it so much.
but.. life goes on, linux for me!
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Ahh, the Boing Ball; a symbol of a golden age of computing. One time for the Workbench massive!
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Yes it was a great time in which computers were evolving dramatically into the incredibly capable tools that they are today, I didn't have an Amiga cause my mother had already bought a PC jr for my brother (and even that one was pretty expensive back there) who was studying computer programing at the time and needed a PC compatible computer but if I had been able to afford it I would have also bought an Amiga PC for sure cause I loved it.
I read a lot about it and knew what it could do and back there it was just terrific, nevertheless my PC jr helped me to learn a lot about computing which is something that has been tremendously useful for me and it is also my favorite hobby today.
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