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A Short Documentary About 81-Year-Old Commodore Amiga Artist, Programmer Samia Halaby (youtube.com)
erickhill shares a short documentary about Samia Halaby, an 81-year-old Commodore Amiga artist and programmer: Samia Halaby is a world renowned painter who purchased a Commodore Amiga 1000 in 1985 at the tender age of 50 years old. She taught herself the BASIC and C programming languages to create "kinetic paintings" with the Amiga and has been using the Amiga ever since. Samia has exhibited in prestigious venues such as The Guggenheim Museum, The British Museum, Lincoln Center, The Chicago Institute of Art, Arab World Institute, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Sakakini Art Center, and Ayyam Gallery just to name a few.
So much meditating.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
This is one instance where I am fine with an off by one error.
A gentleman never expects a lady to tell her true age. In fact, he knows well enough not to ask at all.
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I second the notion. Amiga Forever is based on WinUAE. But it has enough added content that it's well worth the price. Fortunately for her Amiga Forever includes at least one environment which gives very accurate emulation of the A1000 with the same timing, video limitations and features, and even sounds. I suspect she'd feel right at home with it unless she wants the interlace flicker as part of her environment. (And I bet even that could be at least partially emulated on a good enough base Windows machine.) Mike and his company Cloanto have done a wonderful job. (So says the former head moderator of the BIX Amiga Exchange.)
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... how this so very well and elegantly puts into perspective all those todays whiny girlie brats who cry about "gender discrimination" and "equal pay" but couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag?
This lady has a working brain and used it when the Amiga came about and saw the future. She is way more a digital native than most teens today. Cudos to you, ma'am.
My 2 cents.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
... probably knows more about computers than the supposed "digital natives" generation, whose IT abilities consist mainly of knowing how to prod a touchscreen to update the latest trivia about their tedious lives on social meeja.
Steemit.com has a voting feature that can cause sufficiently down-voted comments and posts to be grayed out and reduced to a minimum amount of screen space. But, back on topic, I'm a former Amigan and I was inspired by this mini-documentary. It's too bad that Amiga magazine didn't realize the human-interest angle of the content Samia sent them. I would have loved to know about her and her art - and I'd love to help her continue with it.
You're right. I also wondered why she didn't move beyond the Amiga, since she does her stuff in C. But I figure there is a solid amount of Amiga love involved as well. When she talks about the Amiga it clearly shows.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
It could be misused though. People are already routinely marking posts they disagree with as "troll". The idea could work if you're only allowed to use that -2 vote once in a while. Say once a day for anonymous posts or once a week for member posts.
I saw this article last night and wanted to see what slashdot had to say, and there were only 3 posts so far, two of them being filth. Public opinion about slashdot is pretty low I think from what my friends have said. Maybe it's time for slashdot to get some adult diapers.