News from kas1e via amigaworld.net

Most of DjNick's music and graphics was done on Amiga back in the days, and now, he want to help AmigaOS4 to get some better design by making improved skins, icons and graphics. But its pretty hard to be working effectively on gfx design of OS and OS components, when you don't own the actual machine. So, this bountys aim is to get Nikola a sam460EX Lite motherboard & AmigaOS4.1 licence. The Sam460 is EUR 610,- excl. shipping and vat. So we should end at around EUR 850,- which is what we are trying to collect.


Do you remember the days when Amiga was popular because of our skilled artists, who contributed stunning tunes and graphics for amiga games, demos and apps? Sure you remember those days. Many of us was attracted to Amiga because of that.

One of the old-known graphic artist and musicians is DjNick (Nikola Tomic, from Serbia). He contributed for Amiga community back in the past with f.ex. non-commercial music video for a goa-trance song with the name "Warp", which features 3D animations made in LightWave. You can check that video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD_AltKxwwo
DjNick also Composed music and sound effects for Amiga game "Capital Punishment" for Canadian Publishers "ClickBoom". It was the top Seller "beat’em-up" game in 1996, with music and SFX scores as high as 97% in some computer magazines.

Some recent work of DjNick can be seen on the freshly done AmigaOS4 site http://amigaos.net, which was done to help Hyperion to have a good looking and professional site. Just check all the links below, where you can find most of DjNick's work (music, graphics etc.).

http://www.djnick.rs
http://djnick2k.deviantart.com/gallery
http://www.behance.net/djnick
http://www.coroflot.com/djnick
http://www.youtube.com/djnykk
http://www.graphicriver.net/user/djnick/portfolio?ref=djnick

The work Nikola will do as compensation for the motherboard+OS is outlined belov. Keep in mind that this will be not be official work managed by Hyperion, but 3rd party contributions from a skilled graphic artist.

1. New AOS4 themes (At least one new stylish theme).

2. New Frames for MUI (version of MUI, which will be released in AmigaOS4.2). Those frames can also be used on Morphos's MUI4, so MOS-users can contribute as well;)

3. New MUI themes (At least one new stylish theme). As we soon will have an updated MUI(4?), themes can also be used for MorphOS MUI4 as well.

4. New AOS4 backdrops (1, 2 or more).

5. New AOS4 icons for different kind of projects/games/demos/mags/apps (1, 2 or more, depends).

6. Workbench loading audio samples with female voice.

7. AmigaOS video presentations and animations on Youtube with examples what Amiga can do today.

Understand that this is the minimum work that will be done as compensation for the bounty, much more will hopefully come in the future.

With this bounty we can attract a good designer that loves Amiga computers and it's OS, please make a donation today.

For making a donations go here

as long you can do icons and wallpapers, anyone get sam+os4 for free. just start a bounty

This is lame. I could see getting a bounty started for a developer but anything less than a developer is a waste. Artists are a dime a dozen, programming talent is rare, especially programming talent who would even bother messing around with this stuff.

This is lame. I could see getting a bounty started for a developer but anything less than a developer is a waste. Artists are a dime a dozen, programming talent is rare, especially programming talent who would even bother messing around with this stuff.

I like the look of his work in web design and some of his artwork, but I too am more interested in supporting, promoting, and helping out existing and potential software developers.  I am glad that there were enough people that felt differently and were quick to open their wallets to fill the donation requested.  I think they had the amount they wanted in less than 24 hours, which is pretty impressive in these bad economic times, as the price of a SAM460 system is not a trivial amount.

Congrats DjNick on your soon to be ordered SAM460.  I hope it brings many hours of productive work and projects for all OS4.x users.

Small wonder that they posted it on a different site, after your remarks about what you would do with A.org if you had some cash and the trademark for the Amiga name.  That one got you in some hot water with many people here and in the existing Amiga community.  Maybe you can make some artwork for the users of original Commodore Amigas too, to reduce their hurt feelings.  After all, they have at least as much rights to the name Amiga as any other faction of these communities.  I don't see interest in the original 68k Amiga ever completely going away, and I don't think it should.

I am very much looking forward to the Natami project getting to the point where the hardware is completely finished and they start selling boards, or complete systems to more than just beta testers.  I think it will be great to have a 68k Amiga system that is capable of running 2 to 4 times faster in almost every way than my 68060 A4000.  Brilliant that they have created a new blitter that is multiple times faster than the original Amiga blitter and have also increased the speed and features of the AGA chipset.  It is a great project and I hope that they can get it far enough along to release to the public within the next 6 months (it will take me that long to save up enough money to buy one, after my purchase of one of the "First Contact" X1000 systems later this month).

Sorry for going off topic and congrats again for the success of your bounty project for the SAM460 system.

This is lame. I could see getting a bounty started for a developer but anything less than a developer is a waste. Artists are a dime a dozen, programming talent is rare, especially programming talent who would even bother messing around with this stuff.

OK, so find us a coder with a proven track record who wants to come back but can't afford it, and then start a bounty for it.

No reason there can't be more than one bounty.

......[snip] Artists are a dime a dozen, programming talent is rare, especially programming talent who would even bother messing around with this stuff.

I take *COMPLETE* offense to this!:madashell: I am *NOT* a "dime a dozen" and if you'd like to call me out on that, I'd be more than *HAPPY* to challenge you to a contest on who could build the better 3D model, animation reel, storyboard test, concept art, etc. Hell, I'll even challenge you to traditional, comic illustration, which is what got me in my "dime a dozen" field in the first place.

I've spent *YEARS* honing my craft and to say that programming talent is rare compared to the talent a *TRUE* artist has is rude. I can draw *AND* sculpt/model the *ENTIRE* human muscular system in less than 4 hours. Can you say the same?? :furious:


Good luck DJNick. Art, in itself, has made more contributions to human society for thousands of years, than programming has for the last 70 or so.

I never said they weren't talented, but honestly most aren't and most have problems following through and completing their tasks.

I've done work on both Mass Effect and Neverwinter Nights, for BioWare and Mortal Kombat: Annihilation for Midway and I can honestly tell you it wasn't the Art Department that was known for blowing deadlines...... :rolleyes:


Also, since you're not an artist, but a developer, don't talk sh!t about someone getting a machine to create new graphics for OS4 and put your money where mouth is. Why don't *YOU* start developing something useful for it.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

I'm sure djnick can provide some nice UI elements for OS4 users.

I don't think this will increase the interest in OS4 itself though. I don't see many posts from colorblind people on the forums saying "I would use OS4 if only it were high contrast..." for example.