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Happy New Year! Looking forward to messing around with Blitz Basic and more animations this year! I'm also getting my daughter trained up using a drawing tablet (not a iPad or all she'd do is listen to Baby Shark and watch Pocoyo). Next stage Deluxe Paint for her!

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@All


Best wishes for an happy new year!

Regards,
Petrol.

@petrol

Did you know Noel is from the Latin: nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birthday of the Lord”)!

I learnt this today! May we all learn something new everyday in 2019

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At Midnight on Baker Island, year 2018 is no more.

!!Happy New Year 2019!!

@davidf215

This "reply" is directed to you because "Austin" will have become a part of your awareness.

I live in the middle of Austin. There was a largish neighborhood party last night celebrating the coming of 2019 and the Amiga was mentioned.

In this high tech town such parties are a wide mix of users, admins, and (noticeably fewer low level) software coders. No one seemed untouched by direct contact with ever greater capability in "their" electronic devices. Today, I wish I had pursued conversation about that "Their".

I have no phrase to describe the feelings I went through interjecting into the conversation circle(s) about the place Amiga had and still offers to those vaguely aware that "personal computer" as a concept is waning. Some of the "users" admitted to being clueless to what they might be allowing to wither. It seemed to me they saw no issues with surrendering all autonomy.

I think I, too, have not thought about such issues, given my Amiga centric world. No one (willing to admit, anyway) at the party was against the tsunami of new wonders we in Austin are happily embracing and bringing on. I find that I have been studiously refusing the time devouring, social media "join us" that abounds. But, not because I was "clueful" to what I might be allowing to wither.

When I awoke this morning in 2019 something in me had happened causing a "resolution for 2019" to educate myself? look at? think about? how children can have a concept of information autonomy in their vocabulary.

I expect that my Amiga orientation will help me keep it as a to compare against the swallowing other (myriad?) s are seemingly growing without bound.

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Happy new year everyone. Looking forward to what will happen in 2019.
I'm pretty sure it will be a good year for Amiga and Amiga like platforms.

Happy new year! For a year full of Amiga experiences

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@all

Happy new year 2019!

Health, happiness... and some Amigas

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@ggw

Yes, I am familiar with the Austin environment. I have family and friends who live there. I live a few hours north in the DFW area, but I have visited Austin many times. Indeed a "personal" computer may be a foreign idea to many in a world of cookie-cutter devices that interconnect through social/network connections. I like being able to customize my computer/device beyond changing the background wallpaper.

@BigD

BlitzBasic was one reason I bought an Amiga back in 1993. Great language. I'd use AmiBlitz more if I could change the {} to () for function calls. And glad to hear of a future Amiga user in the making. What kind of animations?

@davidf215

Just for fun musical traditional flip book style animations see below from last year. I'd love to animate a manga character if I ever got really good.

BigD's Regent Chapel Animation using Deluxe Paint V

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Happy new year from IcAros standalone machine!

@BigD

Good and fun video. Most amused by the pong game as well as the guy riding the mower and the out of control bar-b-que pit towards the end.

@BigD

That was a lot of work! Lots of software to meld together. Kept my attention the whole way.

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@davidf215

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davidf215 wrote: @ggw Yes, I am familiar with the Austin environment. I have family and friends who live there. I live a few hours north in the DFW area, but I have visited Austin many times. Indeed a "personal" computer may be a foreign idea to many in a world of cookie-cutter devices that interconnect through social/network connections. I like being able to customize my computer/device beyond changing the background wallpaper.

Good to know there's another Amiga user in the area

Refards,
Rude!

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