What is an 81-year-old artist who continues his creative activities with the PC "Amiga 1000" more than 30 years ago?

CommodoreIt was released in 1985 from "Amiga 1000"Is a low price but powerful graphic features are characteristic,Andy · WarholYaHirasawa AkiraMany artists have been loved by such as. Channels dealing with information about Amiga, such as 81-year-old artist Samir Haraki who is still using that Amiga 1000The Guru MeditationThe movie is released in.

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Mr. Samir Halabi went to the Palestinian district in 1936JerusalemBorn inFirst Middle East WarIn order to escape from, I took my father and went to the United States. Then I studied art at Cincinnati University and since then I have been working as an artist.


Halabi's studio looks something like this. It seems that the day I took the picture was to wait for an exhibition in Dubai, so many works that are going to be exhibited and those under construction are seen.


"I have been using it for over 30 years, but it is still like a child compared to me," Amiga 1000 who laughed Mr. Halabi laughing was placed in the corner of the studio.



On the bookshelf next to Amiga 1000,Visual BasicYaVisual C ++Along with the textbook of Amiga's expert magazine published in the United States "Amiga WorldIt was placed. Mr. Harabi also said he has posted his work to "Amiga World" in the past.


My familyApple IIMr. Harrabi sometimes ownedLOGOIt was said that there was programming experience in. Amiga 1000 was released in 1985, Mr. Harrabi was about to be 50 years old. Amiga 1000, which can represent up to 4096 colors at the highest resolution 640 × 256, had outstanding graphic performance among contemporary PCs. Mr. Harrabi says that he was fascinated with advertisements and immediately purchased the Amiga 1000, he was absorbed and used up.


Amiga of Commodore said that there was something appealing to the heart of programmers for themselves Mr. Harrabi does not draw with a mouse and a paint tool, but works with computer graphics (CG) by programming I am working on it. Initially it was very easy to start usingAmigaBASICIt seems that he was programming with, but the one most used is masteredAmiga CAnd that.



For example, the animation shown as "RAIN" is a work Hirabi programmed with Amiga 1000. Random numbers generated by the program are dropped into an elongated, colorful rectangle and flow through a predetermined area.


Multiple rain covering the screen will disappear as if the wiper of the car wipes the raindrops of the windshield after a certain period of time. Mr. Harrabi set the time carefully in the program so that the computer does not process these animations quickly at the same time.



"The program is like a town, the functions used in the program are, so to speak, a factory or a house, so that something enters something so that different things can come out and different things can be distinguished. When one part of the program starts, the mechanism that logically connects with the other part and the whole starts to move is wonderful, and for me there is a part that leads to the process of creating a work, "Halabi says.


Another work by Mr. Harrabi "Bird Dog" is also animation programmed with Amiga 1000. Bird Dog (hound dog) is a slang word in the United States that it means "always haunted", and it is the content that two constantly attached triangles keep moving in the screen while changing shape.


Even in this work, points and lines are created by random number generation program. Furthermore, since the X and Y coordinates are programmed to change constantly, the triangle will animate such that it bounces upwards while changing its shape.


"What I would like to express in Amiga, what I have to express, can not be seen on other computers, as I can work on any computer, but I am using Amiga and its functions to create art I am not drawing a picture.I am writing a program in Amiga and the output result displayed by Amiga is a work.In that way Amiga itself expresses to me It is one of the means, "Halabi says.


And if the new Amiga comes out now, the movie is connected with the comment that the interface is easy to understand, the mouse's accuracy is high, the screen does not look like yellow, so if it does not break down then it will be used. "