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Well, what do we think they actually did, to generate those screens? Could it in fact have been some kind of strangely configured Amiga generating that display

Well, what do we think they actually did, to generate those screens? Could it in fact have been some kind of strangely configured Amiga generating that display, with some odd customizations? What about that weird color palette, did they generate something full color, feed it to an component video monitor but leave the blue channel out, or something? Or was the entire thing just fabricated on modern hardware? The C# and html copy/paste suggests at least some contact with 2020s tech.

TillE 4y ago
Probably just an emulator with a green theme, then Photoshop or whatever. Nobody wants to film an actual CRT.
- blincoln 4y ago
  Filming CRTs is a headache[1], but if it's simulated they did a pretty convincing job of matching the curve of the screen, reflections (especially in the first photo) and whatnot. Amigas used to drive a lot of the background displays on film/TV sets in the 80s and 90s, so I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix actually dug up an Amiga monitor that supported external sync with the cameras and plugged whatever was generating the simulated Workbench into it. [1] I tried filming the screen of my Amiga 500 with a VHS camcorder back in high school, and they were just slightly out of sync, so a black bar would slowly creep down the screen over and over on video. I assume it was the Amiga monitor running at exactly 60fps versus the camcorder at ~29.97fps.
blincoln 4y ago
My guess would be that they customized something like https://taws.ch/WB.html https://taws.ch/WB.html Alternatively, they could have captured screenshots of the UI elements using an Amiga emulator and animated a video by hand to play on the screen, or built their own simulation out of the captured elements using HTML/CSS/JS (or maybe C#, given the code on the screen). I would be very surprised if vintage hardware was used to generate any of it, unless some random crew member was an absolute Amiga fanatic. The gradients in the title bars in particular seem like something that would require modifying Workbench itself, i.e. 68k assembly hacking, whereas it would be easy to do in CSS. I think the green look is a custom palette, vs. leaving one or more channels disconnected. There's red on the screen too. AFAIK Workbench doesn't let you set a non-white colour for the window border, so those would be yellow if e.g. blue were disconnected.

TillE 4y ago

Probably just an emulator with a green theme, then Photoshop or whatever. Nobody wants to film an actual CRT.

blincoln 4y ago
Filming CRTs is a headache[1], but if it's simulated they did a pretty convincing job of matching the curve of the screen, reflections (especially in the first photo) and whatnot. Amigas used to drive a lot of the background displays on film/TV sets in the 80s and 90s, so I wouldn't be surprised if Netflix actually dug up an Amiga monitor that supported external sync with the cameras and plugged whatever was generating the simulated Workbench into it. [1] I tried filming the screen of my Amiga 500 with a VHS camcorder back in high school, and they were just slightly out of sync, so a black bar would slowly creep down the screen over and over on video. I assume it was the Amiga monitor running at exactly 60fps versus the camcorder at ~29.97fps.

blincoln 4y ago

My guess would be that they customized something like https://taws.ch/WB.html https://taws.ch/WB.html Alternatively, they could have captured screenshots of the UI elements using an Amiga emulator and animated a video by hand to play on the screen, or built their own simulation out of the captured elements using HTML/CSS/JS (or maybe C#, given the code on the screen). I would be very surprised if vintage hardware was used to generate any of it, unless some random crew member was an absolute Amiga fanatic. The gradients in the title bars in particular seem like something that would require modifying Workbench itself, i.e. 68k assembly hacking, whereas it would be easy to do in CSS. I think the green look is a custom palette, vs. leaving one or more channels disconnected. There's red on the screen too. AFAIK Workbench doesn't let you set a non-white colour for the window border, so those would be yellow if e.g. blue were disconnected.