Top 5 essential Amiga apps and utilities?

[leirbag28]

If your into Video and PowerPoint type presentations"


SCALA MM300 or 400  (A must even if your not into Video)
Brilliance 2.0 (best 2D paint package for non RTG Amigas)
ImageStudio 2.3 (Freeware Image manipulation package)
ADORAGE 2.0  (Create SpecialFX on aniamtions)
Broadcast Titler 2.0  (Character Generator)
DiskMaster II   (Forget Directory Opus)


If you had to pick a Single application on the Amiga...it would be SCALA! this thing does amazing stuff!  I am currently creating a Massive game with it, without using a single ounce of Code.

YOu can even make SCALA do stuff it wasnt meant to do or that SCALA Inc themselves never imagined.  You can also have it play MP3's, VideoCD, DVD (If you have a decoder) or control them externally and time them to you presentations.

[leirbag28]

@TNovosel

No, You cant import VCD into Scala, no need to I used to have a CD32 with SX1 and a FMV card, and controlled VCD's from ToolsDaemon on Workbench..I had each track on the menu...so cool!  But I also created a Kiosk with SCALA and ran it from there like it was a CDplayer. and I could genloack graphics over it (I think) or maybe that was with Video Creator :-)

Also the PeggyPlus card (Basically the FMV but for A4000) can be controlled from SCALA

Now II just use the SCALA Echo (LANC/Control L) to control DV cams and DV decks and have it all incorporated with the SuperGenSX genlock and recordedd to a DV deck for the highest Possible quality and them burned to DVD :-) the ECHO EE-100 can also save infrared signals of all your remotes, making it the Ultimate Universal remote!  then you can control all those things like even changing channels on your TV or VCR or Cable box.....all from SCALA!
If I lose a remote....no problem..I have it saved in SCALA :-)




Scala Rules massivly!

[leirbag28]

@ErrethAkbe
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I can't imagine there are a lot of people content running OldSk0ol video modes on their Amiga Toaster machines, but who knows?
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 Well I don't have a Toaster but I am still running OLDSKOOL  Video Modes on my AGA Amiga. Why?

Cuz the graphics look mighty cool! quite good for Video.

I look at some of the stuff Pentium 4 owners are putting out to Video and utterly amazed at the trash that comes out........nothing that my Amiga cannot do.

Funny thing is, I am really not a great artist in terms of Animating and painting.....and the stuf looks good.......so I imagine a professional animator, would massively improve the output. Plus you can always genrate animations on a Silicon Gfx or Mac and then import it into the Amiga giving it a higher quality in the final output.
 in many cases it looks alot better than if you had generated it on the Amiga.

a good Comparison would be Generating AntiAliases text on SCALA versus AntiAliased text on Montage24 (Much higher end software CG)

[leirbag28]

@fx

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Graphics:
Brilliance 2.1 - Awesome 2D Paint package for OCS/ECS/AGA
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There's a Brilliance 2.1

I thought 2.0 was the last version?  what upgrades does 2.1 have? was it just some fixes?


Brilliance took over the DPaint crown a long time ago for some of you oldies who didnt know that.