AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers

Re:AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers by melling on Friday December 19, 2014 @05:57PM (#8775047)

The Amiga was initially used to create the effects for Babylon 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html

http://www.geek.com/games/cgi-first-introduced-to-tv-in-baby...

I thought JJ Abrams mentioned that he used the Amiga for something in the 1990's but I can't find anything in Google.

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Re:AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers by agumonkey on Friday December 19, 2014 @06:28PM (#8775163)

Many non R&D-ish rendering software came from people doing experiments on Amiga. I believe 3D Studio, Lightwave, probably others, had their roots in Amiga demo/game/3d scene.

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Re:AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers by spdustin on Friday December 19, 2014 @07:22PM (#8775344)

There were untold numbers of television shows edited with NewTek's Video Toaster - an Amiga product. Came out for PC later -- it was essentially an Amiga in a custom enclosure.

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Re:AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers by pcurve on Friday December 19, 2014 @10:51PM (#8775814)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8

I still have this one on tape!

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Re:AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers by jdangu on Friday December 19, 2014 @09:05PM (#8775606)

And Scala (a global leader in digital signage software) started out in 1987 on Amiga and only moved to PC in 1996 when Commodore went bankrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala,_Inc

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Re:AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers by agumonkey on Friday December 19, 2014 @08:05PM (#8775454)

Oh yeah, I forgot about VT. Reminds me of TVPaint, but NewTek rebranding of it wasn't for Amiga (its original platform). Fun times.

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Re:AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers by aikah on Friday December 19, 2014 @07:18PM (#8775332)

3D Sculpt,Real 3D,...There was a lot of 3d software on amiga.

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