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Warhol works recovered from old Atari ST disks
« on: April 26, 2014, 09:03:58 AM »
… ooops, sorry for the typo,André, it was actually on Amiga disks..
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27141201


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Re: Warhol works recovered from old Atari ST disks
« Reply #1 on: April 26, 2014, 09:30:09 AM »
… ooops, sorry for the typo,André, it was actually on Amiga disks..
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-27141201



it is good to see that at least back then he was not much better than me. ;)
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Re: Warhol works recovered from old Atari ST disks
« Reply #2 on: April 26, 2014, 09:33:30 AM »
This printscreen= OK, let's try all the effect of the software and call it art :)

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Re: Warhol works recovered from old Atari ST disks
« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2014, 11:26:39 PM »
Yep.

It took 3 years to reverse engineer the file format. Had it been an ST, it would have been done in 3 days.







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Re: Warhol works recovered from old Atari ST disks
« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2014, 11:28:36 PM »
http://youtu.be/3oqUd8utr14


He takes a picture (a digitized picture as it was called then, uses the "paint bucket" feature on two sections and presto, another Warhol masterpiece  ;D ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Warhol works recovered from old Atari ST disks
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2014, 07:41:46 AM »
So this is "Debbie does Amiga"  ;D