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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: 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

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