Tag: Amiga 500

How a modest 1987 home computer - its custom chipset, Deluxe Paint, and a scrappy demoscene - remade what it means to make images with a machine, and why artists still court its limitations today.

The Amiga 500 packed custom chips and a creative community that squeezed extraordinary games and demos from modest hardware. Modern indie developers can learn from Amiga techniques-bitplanes, blitter-driven blits, copper timing, tracker music and constraint-led design-to build efficient, memorable games today.