I was a huge fan of the Commodore Amiga back in the 80's and 90's. One might even call me an Amiga zealot. It was a brilliant machine that managed to fuse artistic creativity with computer nerd sensibility. An artist's dream and a hacker's delight, it had heart and personality, and was a serious workhorse. While the IBM PCs were still struggling with sixteen colors and the Apple Macintosh only had two colors to choose from, the Amiga offered a fully multi-tasking OS with a palette of 4096 colors that could be directly output to video. And it even played video games! Those were the early days of desktop video, and I was on the bleeding edge for several years. Unfortunately, as is often the case when you support an underdog of superior quality, the competition eventually catches up and crushes you under the wheels of progress.

I remember getting my Amiga 500 back in 1989 as a result of a car insurance settlement. It cost $600 and had an impressive 512KB of RAM. It was the dawn of my artistic renaissance, and it freed my imagination from the oppressive bonds of institutional education. These images are some of my favorite pieces from those early days on the digital frontier, which by today's standards look pretty crude and unsophisticated. But they are all very dear to my heart and capture a spirit that is lacking in my other work. They were all created on either an Amiga 500, Amiga 2000, or Amiga 4000, with various software packages including DigiView Gold, Deluxe Paint, DigiPaint, OpalPaint, 3D Professional, and Lightwave 3D.