Professional Amigans! people using the amiga

[mantisspider]

Hi Guys.

I been wondering with all the active members in the amiga community, who are actually using their amigas in the work place or for business use?

i.e.
* People using the amiga in the office as a word processing office horse.
* Graphic artists, using the amiga to make lovely works of art
* 3D artists, making models, images, etc
* Video editors, post production etc..

the list goes on...

will be fun to see how many people out there do find the classic amigas still able to hold their position in the workplace.

[Aegis]

Whilst I rarely use my Amiga hardware anymore, I still run various Amiga apps under emulation (Amiga Forever 5.3) and am currently using ImageFX 4.5 to create some visual FX for a straight-to-video horror movie. On the PC front I use the Video Toaster [3], LightWave 7.5 and Mirage (TVPaint 6) so I still keep the Amiga spirit in my work  ;-)

[Castellen]

I work as an electronics engineer, and run various Amiga apps under WinUAE.  Things like TV Paint, Term, Final Writer, CygnusEd, etc.  Mainly because I'm used to the (decent) software.  Plus the company's current offerings for a terminal prog is Hyperterminal, and their graphics editing suite = M$ Paint.  Yeah right :-P

From home I do a lot of part time technical work and only use Amigas.  That includes website hosting, FTP services and running a local network.  Also technical documentation/manuals, schematics, image editing, scanning, internet, email...  lots of stuff!

[Hooligan_DCS]

who are actually using their amigas in the work place

I use WinUAE to run old games and demos here at work.. does that count?  :-P

[Johan]

We use two Amiga's: a 1200/030 and a 4000/030, both loaded with ScalaMM400. We use them to make titles and the occasional animation for our live broadcastings. For editing we use Media100, on Mac G4's, though.

I had school buy me MM400 for my own use; it sometimes is more convenient to make titles and animations at home, far away from the madding crowd.


Johan Banis
tv-tech dept
School for Journalism
Utrecht
Netherlands

[Erwin-K]

I work for the U.S.A. Federal Government.  In 1987 (before I got here) my agency bought a Rev 4.2 A2000 and a Super-Gen so new that it came with software 0.9 and the manual had a single staple in the corner. With an 060 accelerator, a Video Toaster, & ethernet, I still use it.  May well be the oldest regularly used desktop computer in the whole government.

I also have an A4000D & an A4000T with PPC & a Flyer editor. Don't do much with the Flyer these days as we bought a duel G-5 Mac based editor this year.

I regularly use Lightwave, ImageFX, (I even use AdPro for a few things.) plus DPaint 4.1 & 5, and TurboPrint to create signs, banners, logos, incidental art and the ocasional animated opening for our satelite broadcast studio.

[tintin]

Don't know if this counts...
Till recently we used a "real" Amiga/040 (with DPS PAR) for frame storage, all during the 90's it was our main graphics workstation.  It has now been retired (sold) as we went completely digital.  Like Aegis above we do keep de spirit of Amiga alive by using progs like lightwave,  aura and elastic reality.  The one thing we definitely miss is arexx, throw together a few lines of code et voila you just improved your workflow 200%.  Nothing like that on our current machines.

Come back Amiga ... Come back stronger than ever...

[carls]

I tend to use WinUAE and PPaint to pixel web icons, but that's about it.

[CU_AMiGA]

I still use my Amiga to do college work on. AKA typing out stuff, etc. Actually, i am after Mac Office (with Word, Excel and Power Point) so i can do even more work on Amiga via Mac emulation.

[LP]

I'm using my amiga almost every day...

I'm using it for programing reports to school and some graphical job I've got...

Got an 2,4Ghz Intel here wich I use less than my stabile A1260T :-)

True to the Amiga I guess...

[lempkee]

i am a games developer and yes i use only my amigas...

lw, dpaint , ifx4 , photogenics and devpak3.1x .

[mantisspider]

@Lempkee

Is there an amiga app that is as simple and quick as MilkShape 3D?
Have you used Rhino3D on the PC?

Does anyone use Aladdin4D on the Amiga? Hows it compare to PC/Mac high end 3D modeling and rendering apps?

Anyone know if Maxon are ever gonna bring Cinema4D back to the Amiga?

For 3D games developing, 3D Studio Max has been a popular choice with the professionals for years, however I find MilkShape a good choice for those without the big bucks wanting to make low polygon models. The reason I used it on the PC was that it reminded me of the way Imagine worked on the Amiga.

Has the amiga got any character animation applications, like character studio or character fx?

[that_punk_guy]

carls wrote:
I tend to use WinUAE and PPaint to pixel web icons, but that's about it.

Still the best way to make web graphics :-) I had to make do with Corel Paint tonight though, which took some getting used to, but I needed 24bit colour...

[Tesral]

that_punk_guy wrote:
[Still the best way to make web graphics :-) I had to make do with Corel Paint tonight though, which took some getting used to, but I needed 24bit colour...

ImageFX 4.5  I never work in anything but the 24bit mode.

[takemehomegrandma]

I have tried, but not successfully. I have come to realize that I simply can't live without MS Office, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash, and Internet Explorer (I also have Opera installed on my Windows machine, and I like it a lot, but I tend to use Explorer nevertheless).

There simply are no real comparable alternatives. In the cases where there are some similar software on the Amiga, they are years behind and doesn't even come close to their Windows counterparts, and the effort of trying to do things with these softwares (just for the sake of it) would make my work unbearable. I want my tools to ease my work, not to bring up obstacles that weren't there before. I am sorry to say, but I could not live (work) without my Windows machine.

As a hobby it's a different matter ...