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In Europe the Amiga was the undisputed leader of mainstream multimedia computing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, though it was eventually overtaken by PC architecture. Some Amiga demos, such as the RSI Megademo, Kefrens Megademo VIII or Crionics & The Silents "Hardwired" are considered seminal works in the demo field.
Eric W. Schwartz provided the animation for the introduction. The Amiga version was re-released by Islona Software in 1999, with slightly different box art. In 2012, Superfrog was, along with other games by Team17, released as a legitimate digital download from GoodOldGames.com, [2] this version being the first compatible with Windows.
AROS originally stood for Amiga Research Operating System, but to avoid any trademark issues with the Amiga name, [2] [3] it was changed to the recursive acronym AROS Research Operating System. [4] The mascot of AROS is an anthropomorphic cat named Kitty, created by Eric Schwartz and officially adopted by the AROS Team in December 2002.
Alien Breed is a top down run and gun video game released in 1991 by Team17 for the Amiga and later in 1993 by MicroLeague for MS-DOS. The game is the first in the Alien Breed series . Alien Breed is based on the Alien films, specifically Aliens , and also on the 8-bit -era games Laser Squad and Paradroid [ 1 ] as well as the Gauntlet arcade game.
Fantavision is an animation program by Scott Anderson for the Apple II and published by Broderbund in 1985. [1] [2] [3] Versions were released for the Apple IIGS (1987), Amiga (1988), and MS-DOS (1988). [4] [5] [6] Fantavision allows the creation of vector graphics animations using the mouse and keyboard.
Sculpt 3D is a raytrace application released in 1987 for Amiga computers programmed by Eric Graham. [1] Sculpt 3D was one of the first ray tracing applications released for the Amiga computers. It proved that raytracing could be done on home computers as well as on mainframes .
Disney Animation Studio was one of the most powerful 2D programs for realizing animation. released on Amiga, this program was equipped with a complete cell-frame preview feature which was used by many animation studios worldwide at the time and is still used by some studios in Europe [a] as a preview tool. The software is mainly used for ...
Eric Schwartz was born in New York City in 1947 to Jack and Edith Schwartz. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, Columbia College (majoring in Chemistry and Physics), where he was a member of the 1965 Ivy League, ECAC, and NCAA Championship Columbia Lions fencing team (saber), [5] and Columbia University (PhD, High Energy Physics, spon.