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Blast from the past. I was a writer at Amiga and was there with the rest of the crew, the men in tuxes, the women in evening dresses, for the launch at Lincoln
by mitchbob 2y ago
Blast from the past. I was a writer at Amiga and was there with the rest of the crew, the men in tuxes, the women in evening dresses, for the launch at Lincoln Center. Warhol's straight man in the onstage video was our art director Jack Haeger. There was a bug in the software and a wrong gesture would have crashed the demo; Andy came very close, and Jack was sweating. My future wife and I got to sit across from Andy and Jack at the afterparty at Tavern on the Green. One of these days I need to look through my big box of floppies from my time at Amiga and see if I ended up with any Warhols.
- helloplanets 2y agoI'd imagine an original Warhol Amiga floppy could be worth a lot of money, given what collectibles can go for. [1] [1]: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22570401/legend-of-zelda-nes-sealed-copy-heritage-auctions-most-expensive-game https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22570401/legend-of-zelda-n...
- pavlov 2y agoAn original digital Warhol, previously unseen, would probably be worth millions if one can prove the authorship. It’s not a collectible but a unique artwork. A Warhol painting just sold for over $35M this month, and smaller ones go for mid-seven digits. A digital piece can’t be hung on the wall, but it’s much more rare.
- LocalH 2y agoInspecting the software on the disk, as well as slack space for any potentially deleted files, can help a lot towards proving authenticity in a practical way, depending on potential chronology. Warhol used prerelease versions of the software involved at one point (Kickstart rev 26.7, and at that point I believe it was CLI-only if the later Kickstart rev 27.5 is any indication). At the very least, send Cloanto copies of Warhol disks for documentation on their ROM page.