New guy with lots of questions

[tonyvdb]

Hi Michael, Welcome to AO.

Have you done any 3D work using Lightwave? if so, The Amiga was one of the first computers to be used in the movie and television industry for 3D rendering. Lightwave was introduced to the world on the Amiga in the early 90s and has been used in TV shows like Babalon5, Startrek, Sliders and many more.


Always remember that "a dumb question is a question not asked"

[tonyvdb]

The drawback with Amiga forever (That I do have by the way) is that not all games/programs run properly and sometimes need alot of fiddling of the settings to make work.

Get and Amiga 4000 or 1200 and you will be a happy camper :-D

[tonyvdb]

I had NO IDEA there was so much to offer from these machines.

Here is my setup and it is no where neer what some have done to there Amigas. The first picture is of my full video editing system. The Amiga runs hardware and software called the Video Toaster Flyer.
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The second is after I put my Amiga 4000 into a Tower case and added a Cyberstorm PPC 68060/50Mhz CPU with128 mb of ram and a 9gig SCSI hard drive (plenty of space as the Amiga OS only uses about 100mb of drive space).
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[tonyvdb]

LOL, No price at this time I wouldent sell it :-D
Seriously over the past 12 years that I have owned it I have probably invested about $6000 in it and another $1000 on VTRs.   In 1994 when I bought the Amiga 4000 with the Toaster and Flyer with hard drives from a friend that used it in a recording studio that I helped out in and got it all for $5000 (at the time it was cutting edge and that was a steal of a deal) before that I had an Amiga 3000 tower with the Video Toaster (no Flyer) I wanted the A4000 so badly.
Now with the convenience of capturing my final video clips to the PC I can burn DVDs of my finnished video the quality is just fantastic.
Today I doupt I would get out of it nearly as much if I sold it so I still use it regularly for wedding videos and even the odd promotional or trainning video, its so much fun to use. Even though the PC has the Video Toaster that is better its not worth the money to buy seeing as I have this system already.