AmiZed Studios

Ugress, Genius Composer, and Commodore Amigan

mike — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:42:54 +0000

A short interview, and lots of good music!

Ugress is an electronica oriented group, mainly comprised of Gisle Martens Meyer aka GMM, along with various guest artists. Now a famous Norwegian artist, like all good artists, he cut his teeth on the Commodore 64 and Amiga.

Before becoming Ugress, GMM was known as Gnosis on the scene, a good collection of the tracks made by him on his Amiga´s can be found on the modarchives. A great deal of free downloadable music is available online from his recent years as Ugress as well. All of which are available on Ugress.com. It´s also worth noting that all his tracks are on Spotify. So listen and enjoy!

Now for the fun part;
Q: I´m wondering, do you still have any of the the modules made on any of your Amigas?

A: Yes, I still have most of the modules. A good portion of them are available on the net, however I couldn’t immediately find them with google, found some of them here, there are more.

http://modarchive.org/index.php?query=gnosis&submit=Find&request=search&search_type=guessed_artist

Q: Im of course curious, do you still use any original gear, like the C64 Amiga or hard-sid or any of these devices these days?

A: I´ve never used the hardsid, (but had a sidstation), on the other hand, I used the original C64 and Amiga a lot, but these days I mostly do emulation.

Q: Have you had the chance to play with a C64/128 with the MSSIAH cartridge?

A: I had the predecessor to the mssiah cart, I cant remember It´s name, the previous version. I sold everything two years ago. And smashed the Amiga´s on stage as a finale. (I didn’t break working machines, they were already dead)

With that I thank you Gisle for taking some time to trip down nostalgia lane with me and wish you the best with your new found ski slope match making skills.

Some pictures and footage of the Amiga´s encounter with the stage floor and some more background information amiga.ugress.com.

ART Episode 44 – Burnt Banana Bread (Video)

MobbyG — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:01:17 +0000

Hosts: Rich Lawrence, Bill P. Guest: StrayFarce.

Project Timberwolf progressing nicely. New screen shots and bounty now over $6000.
OWB 3.19 now available.
PowerBook G4 MorphOS sneak preview.
Upgrade offer for those that have been abandoned by their 3D animation software vendor.
November should be the month that the mystery buyer of Amiga.org reveals themselves.
Tricks & Treats from DiscreetFX.
More information on Hyperion Entertainments most ambitious project.
New videos from HKvalhe and he is launching his own magazine. Does he have ART in his sights next?

NewsTek Episode 8 – Do We Look OK?

MobbyG — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:07:33 +0000

Hosts: Rich Lawrence and Bill P.

A new Roku XR, Tricaster XD300 and the upgrade prgram, and Lightwave upgrade program.

Downloadable video and audio coming soon.

ART Episode 44 T-Shirt

MobbyG — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:56:27 +0000

Get it while it’s hot!! Your very own Episode #44 T-Shirt! Complete with the infamous recipe!

Get it on Zazzle!

The Roundtable Special Ed – More Discs Available

MobbyG — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:59:57 +0000

I have recently found more copies of the DVD I produced for AmiWest 2007! The DVD, titled The Roundtable: Special Ed was produced specifically for AmiWest and was offered for sale at our booth as well as won by a few lucky folks at the show! I was only able to bring a few with me due to airline restrictions and just never got around to posting this for sale here on the website.

Well, now I’m selling what I have available and will make a few more copies for anyone interested in getting it.

Here’s what’s on the DVD:

Episodes 1-4
Raw, Uncensored Audio from 1,2 & 4 (I can’t seem to find raw audio from Ep. 3)
The Carrier Whistle Episodes 00-3 (00 was never released to the public at large.)
A Picture slide show
And a special bonus track. (Rated D for “Dumb”)

The cost is $8 plus $3 shipping in the U.S. Outside the United States, please contact me with your shipping info for shipping price. I have 6 available right now and am willing to make more if there is interest.

Plus I would love to hear from the folks that got one at AmiWest 2007, and how they liked it.

Buy Now!

ART Episode 43 – Amiga Overload! (Video)

MobbyG — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:49:35 +0000

Hosts: Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn, Eddie Cejvan. Guest: AmigaDave – LIVE from AmiWest.

Originally, it was going to be all about AmiWest 2009 in Sacramento, California. But, we talked about the settlement and also got the reaction from attendees at AmiWest about the announcement. Also this is our first video podcast!

ART Episode 43 – Amiga Overload! (Audio)

MobbyG — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:13:14 +0000

Hosts: Rich Lawrence, Sean Fitzgerald, Mike Blackburn, Eddie Cejvan. Guest: AmigaDave – LIVE from AmiWest.

Watch Amiga Roundtable #43 Live!

MobbyG — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:13:04 +0000

Yes you read the title right! Watch us record Amiga Roundtable #43 LIVE! October 18, 2009 @ 9:30am EST (1400GMT) on Ustream. Video and our regualr Audio shows will be available sometime after the recording. Follow the link below and bookmark!

Also, setup an account to join us in the chat room. It’s FREE!

http://bit.ly/Fvw3E-roundtable

Phone It In!

MobbyG — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:34:57 +0000

We’ve added a new way to get ahold of us and tell us what you think! We now have a Google Voice number. So you can call us, or send an SMS. Please be aware, toll or international charges may apply depending on where you call/text from. So if you have something to say to us, get in touch with us!

315-520-8330

So tell us what you think about the show, a funny story you heard, maybe an idea for us to talk about. What are you waiting for? Call, or text us now! And as an added surprise, it may ring through to a real human! Plus we may leave a weird message from time to time.

ART Episode 42 – Flex

MobbyG — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:48:49 +0000

Hosts: Rich Lawrence, Bill P., Eddie Cejvan.

While this episode is from before our summer hiatus, we still cover some fun stuff.

Hyperion says no AOS x86. – Link.
Our thoughts on the Sam440 Flex.
Merlin Web browser.
Legends of Zork Web Game.
Everyone talks about Twitter.
EVO Smart Console.
Rich is single handedly holding back the Amiga Product market!
Kangaroos are tastey.

NewsTek Episode 7 – After The Software Wars

MobbyG — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:22:02 +0000

Hosts: Rich Lawrence and Bill P. Guest: Keith Curtis, author of “After The Software Wars”.

Rich and Bill talk to author Keith Curtis about his book, “After The Software Wars”. Visit Keith’s blog at http://keithcu.com and purchase his book on Amazon. Sorry about the lack of mp3 tags. I’ll get them up as soon as I have time.
After the Software Wars

NewsTek Episode 6 – Better Late Than Never

MobbyG — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:50:33 +0000

Hosts: Rich Lawrence and Bill P.

This is an episode that wasn’t released before our hiatus, so obviously some of the info is old news now. But you can still listen to Rich and Bill talk about NewTek and all things cool in the world of video! Note: The MP3 tags are not in this file.

They will be updated later. We just wanted to get this episode out. Sorry for any issues this causes.

AmiZed iTunes Feed Fixed

MobbyG — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:21:31 +0000

All the AmiZed shows that were on iTunes before, are now back on iTunes. So Amiga Roundtable, NewsTek and Carrier Whistle are all back up. A simple search for AmiZed will bring up all 3 shows. If you have any problems, let us know.

The Time is Right! – Op Ed by Eddie Cejvan

agami — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:20:35 +0000

Unless you’ve recently been living in one of those places on Earth where there are no computers and no internet coverage, and I’m not casting dispersions, you will have innevitibly noticed that Apple have released Snow Leopard a.k.a. OS X 10.6. The official collective sentiment out of Cupertino is ‘No Biggie” , though of course the people on the interwebs have made that into a biggie. Why am I mentioning this to an Amiga audience? All will be revealed in due course; in the next few paragraphs to be exact.

Back in 2005 Apple announced it would move to the intel CPU. That whole week I was a mess, but more on that another time. With that announcement Apple shared its plan for phasing-out PPC support, first in hardware and then in software. Those of us that have been running Apple PPC hardware in the intervening years have felt some of the discrimination with the “you must be this high to go on this ride” policies of certain software releases; I’m looking at you Adobe. With the release of Snow Leopard “the ride” has been permanently closed for the PPC crowd.

A while back some of you may have read this post on OS News about Morphos on Mac Mini progress, and some of you may have seen this screenshot which is also embedded in this thread on Amigaworld.net. Some of you may have also noticed the pace of Morhos 2 updates vs those coming for Amiga OS 4, and some of you may have even read the recently published benchmarks of Amiga OS 4 vs. Morphos 2.3 on OS News. Yes, those guys at OS News certainly earn their keep.

What should be clear to most of you by now is that a lot of people are going to be getting rid of their Apple PPC kit over the coming months and it is an excellent time to pick-up a Mac Mini to run Morphos 2.x or 3. You might decide to get one when the Mac Mini port is available, but my advice is to take advantage of the immediate period, before sellers clue into the fact that the machine is worth more to you than it is to them. In the meantime you can run OS X 10.5.x or a PPC Linux distro, with UAE of course.

-Eddie Cejvan