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by panic 1934 days ago
If you want to see what the image would look like at high resolution -- I couldn't resist making a small JS implementation: http://ianhenderson.org/kickstart-vector.html
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Beaten to the punch, but at least we took fairly different approaches: http://beyondloom.com/tools/amigogh.html
That was an hour of fun on the week end. Another one in SmallBASIC:

https://gist.github.com/chrisws/b2a60d7143fab4eb0fd4afbab6bd...

Nice, yours definitely nails the authentic look!
Nice. Might be interesting to try ctx.scale(0.9,1) or whatever ratio approximates the pixel shape on the Amiga in that video mode...would square up the shape of the floppy.
Thanks for the suggestion -- I changed it to use the 11:13 ratio documented for NTSC at http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/AmigaMail_Vol2_guid... (apparently PAL pixels are actually square).
Added to mine. Experimentally, it looks like a 4:3 ratio makes the floppy come out square, which lines up with expectations.
Now imagine your boss coming back a week later.... panic, I showed it to the client and they love it. Can you quickly change it to hold the floppy between the index finger and thumb - at an angle? It's probably easy to do.