I used to get a kick out of seeing a channel on cable TV (usually a community college channel) where the signal had gone down and what you saw on the screen was the text "Guru Meditation number xxx." It was a sure sign that they used an Amiga for their video graphics, and it had somehow crashed.
The guru meditation number message was a creation of software engineer RJ Mical, who has a sense of whimsy. It always made me laugh just a little, something I don't often do when a computer crashes. It beat the "blue screen of death" we get to see just a tad too often these days in Windows environments. Mike Boom At 07:25 AM 10/3/2010, Barry wrote: >I was editing footage (slowly!) on a bog standard Amiga with the infamous >512K slot in board underneath (woo-hoo, ONE Meg of RAM), the capture card >(vidi-chrome was it?) and a genlock. It never locked up (that often), and >you were limited to a very short time indeed. We managed somehow, sometimes >with quite interesting results. The A1200 was a vast improvement. > > > >Blimey, how things have changed. > > > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >On Behalf Of Rieni >Sent: 03 October 2010 10:50 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [AP] firewire is more and more disappearirrlinng > > > > > >So Amiga was capable of doing video in 1984 already? Amazing. And >weird that "desktop video" didn't work back then. I guess the world >just wasn't ready for it yet, I think it was only the 90s that the >big masses got video-cams and started to get interested in video-editing. > >At 30-9-2010 21:56, Mike Boom wrote: > > > > > >As long as we're getting nostalgic, I was on the development team for > >the original Amiga 1000 way back in 1984, and worked as an assistant > >producer at Electronic Arts for Deluxe Productions, a video > >production program for the Amiga. EA tried to coin the phrase > >"desktop video" for the marketplace, but it didn't stick. Neither did > >Deluxe Productions. > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
