Amstrad E3 Delta Software Simulator - 20th Anniversary Edition(AMS E-mailer Videophone from 2004)
This video is abit long, I let it play as it was animating the clock and Adverts, skip video if you want too, I do not mind... :).
Adverts finish at 30:30 and animated clock moving from left to right starts.
If you like what I made please like it you never know I might release it some day, once I am happy with it... :)
This is running in Ruffle because swf Flash movies do not run in Windows no more, Adobe stopped making the Flash Player so some animation might be slow, it runs ok in a Amazon Fire Tablet.
I should of called this the `Amstrad E3 Delta Software Simulator - 20th Anniversary Edition`(thats not a bad idea... :) title change... :) )it was 20 years ago the Amstrad E3 Videophone came out in the UK - 2004.... :) 18th August 2004 was when the Linux firmware in the Amstrad E3 was compiled(made), PBL 4.9.... :)
This has no sound on the video because the Amstrad E3 only made sound when it was playing a ZX Spectrum game.
I made a simulator of the Amstrad E3 Videophone Main Software using Flash - Adobe Animate 2019, I liked its clock so made a simulator of it, well a copy of it so you can run it on Adobe AIR as a app on Android so like a home/lock screen(you need to run a app on the Amazon Fire Tablet to stop it locking the screen and showing the lock screen), I added the clock animation as well where it went from left to right across the screen and back, and the home screen clock, added its adverts too so I added them from memory so how I remember seeing them on the Amstrad E3, I got the adds from the Amserve website when the site was live, they were in gif format so had to change them to images per frame and add them per image and then animate them in Flash, I was missing one, the red AOL advert so I recreated it but its not quite finished yet, I need to fix its fonts on some images, it blury, so I need to update some of its images in Adobe Photoshop... :)
To enable the clock animation you press the spacebar or press the enter key to show the adverts, I did add some of the menus too like its Settings, Services and Games pages so Settings=key 0, Services=key 9 and Games=key G, I would like to made a two key combo so you press CTRL+9 instead of just key 9 that way you can not accidently press them, they just show what options would of been there on the Amstrad E3, you could add more options, but they do nothing at the moment, press S key(Stop) to go back to the home screen, you can press Q= Reset and it reboots the simulator, I even animated how it would boot so I added its two boot screens too.
I made this as well to show what the Amstrad E3 Videophone's Software was like when it was a life in 2004, and to prove it can be down, I have a Amstrad E3 thats activated but will stop working in less then 30 days because it does not have the Configuration Change on it so that another reason why I wanted to make this, I got the idea from companies recreating Mini computers, consoles from the 80s/90s computer, consoles now, like THEC64 Mini, I Thought why could you not do it with the Amstrad E3 too well, recreate its software as a simulator so it simulates everything on the E3 so even make it look like its connecting to Amserve too.
I would like to add the demo to it too, when it was not connected to a phone line, you can enable it with a key like how you enable the other options but it getting clear photos to make it, animating it is not that hard its just getting clear photos because of the Amstrad E3 screen, you can get scanner lines on the photos, probably the frame rate the phone taking the photo and Amstrad E3 screen is running at so like what you get with PAL/NTSC.
I started working on this in 2018.
Enjoy... :)
Update: You can now download it from here as a apk....
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