The Industrious Rabbit

Drawing for a bit on real Amiga hardware! I need to make a real thumbnail for this eventually...

Drawing for a bit on real Amiga hardware! I need to make a real thumbnail for this eventually...

Drawing for a bit on real Amiga hardware! I finish the piece and get a little better at DPaint and the drawing tablet.

Drawing for a bit on real Amiga hardware! This is the first part of actually working on the finished piece.

Drawing for a bit on real Amiga hardware!

It's time...time for a video on the Commodore Amiga Blitter! Topaz walks through the memory copy capabilities of this feature in the context of a small demo written to exercise the blitter, copper, and sprites. Thanks to Tyrel ([@tyrel@mastodon...

The EGA and VGA video standards share some similarities with how the Amiga did graphics, but the similarities end when it comes to the 256 color graphics that defined 90s PC gaming. Topaz walks you through the basics of how those video modes worke...

I made a joystick! It works on the Amiga and it's real weird. Let's try to play some games with it.

Young Topaz has an IFF ILBM image he wants to show his dad, but his dad's on his PC. Learn about what it takes to write a simple IFF ILBM reader for DOS. Mastodon: https://oldbytes.space/@TopazRabbit, Website: https://theindustriousrabbit.c...

I play through a bunch of Hop to the Top: Bunny's Revenge and bounce between streaming providers while I get Owncast working. Now that my Twitch- and YouTube-free streaming setup is worked out, expect a full live stream of HttT:BR for realsies! ...

I draw your requests on a Quantel Paintbox, specifically a Harriet from the early 90s. Due to streaming issues, I wasn't able to broadcast this live, but I did record the whole stream locally. I made it through three pieces: a rat holding a Quante...

Continued stream go here: https://makertube.net/w/7dyJqokqtdXYJFsURs6tgn I've taken your requests, as well as a few of my own ideas, and will draw them on a Quantel Paintbox, a Harriet model from the early 90s. Watch and see how digital graphic...

The popular shorthand for digital photo editing is based on the name of software developed in the 90s. However, that activity was already being done by users of a bespoke art computer developed by a British company in the early 80s, and the public...

My 2021 annual playthrough of the Night in the Woods supplemental games, "Longest Night" and "Lost Constellation".

Join me for my yearly play through of the Night in the Woods supplemental games, "Longest Night" and "Lost Constellation". Jump to 08:46 to skip past all my stream setup stuff. Mastodon: https://oldbytes.space/@TopazRabbit, Website: https:/...

I did it. I finished the animation. Working with this software is more challenging than I expected. It also didn't help that my tablet was having issues with Weylus after a while. I also learn just what Frisket does, and why it's important to Free...

Bamboo figures out how to get code he wrote 23 years ago on the Amiga to work for someone today, and it involves a lot of work with libraries. Thanks to Piotr Kuchno for contacting me and working through debugging the code, and for the videos o...

Want to try out gaming on the classic Commodore Amiga computer? Topaz walks you through the basics of this retro computer's hardware, and the things you'll need to look for to get your own setup working. I currently use these emulators: Li...

I take Digital Creations True Brilliance 2.0 for a spin on my emulated Amiga 1200. I've never used this software before, and I discover it's actually not bad for painting, especially when using my Weylus and Galaxy Tab powered input setup. Stre...

Having trouble getting MiSTerFS to work on the AO486 core? Topaz Rabbit walks you through a workaround you can do on the Linux side of the MiSTer, then describes how that workaround works. Thanks to Tyrel (@tyrel@social.tyrel.dev), Jim (@ijimko...