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Warhol Works Recovered from Old Amiga Disks

posted by n1 on Friday April 25 2014, @01:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the art-of-data-recovery dept.

stroucki and stephenw32768 wrote:

The BBC reports that previously unknown digital works by American artist Andy Warhol were discovered and recovered from 30 year old Amiga disks with the assistance of Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club. In total, 18 images were recovered, most are also signed by Warhol.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Bartman12345 on Friday April 25 2014, @02:21AM

    by Bartman12345 (1317) on Friday April 25 2014, @02:21AM (#35898)

    When the Amiga 1000 was first released, much was made of its Deluxe Paint software. I wonder if these recovered images were created with this software... it was pretty revolutionary in its time.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @02:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @02:36AM (#35902)

    studioforcreativeinquiry.org/public/warhol_amiga_r eport_v10.pdf

    has all the details

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday April 27 2014, @09:41AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Sunday April 27 2014, @09:41AM (#36829) Journal

      Corrected link: studioforcreativeinquiry.org/../warhol_amiga_repor t_v10.pdf [studioforc...nquiry.org]

      Summary:
        * Use hardware that record flux timing
        * Convert flux timings to floppy format using software algorithms
        * Make use of Kickstart 26.1
        * Learn to decode PLBM which is a planar stacked format using palette
        * Bad sectors are ..bad. And prevented image scripts to run

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by stroucki on Friday April 25 2014, @03:13AM

    by stroucki (108) on Friday April 25 2014, @03:13AM (#35914)

    It looks like some of the pictures were done using video acquisition, and the signature looks like it was done with a graphics tablet. Pretty desirable hardware for the day.

  • (Score: 1) by PlasticCogLiquid on Friday April 25 2014, @06:01AM

    by PlasticCogLiquid (3669) on Friday April 25 2014, @06:01AM (#35947)

    Dpaint was awesome!