Have you made a profit with your Amiga?

[amiga92570]

I made a lot of money on other peoples amigas over the years, doing repairs. :-D

[Ral-Clan]

I have a home recording studio based around my Amiga 2500.  I use Bars & Pipes, Samplitude & Normalize in the recording/mastering process and MakeCD to burn the master disc.  CD master artwork is produced on this Amiga using PageStream, ImageFX, PersonalPaint, etc. and then sent to a printing shop for duplication.

With this setup I have produced several independently released music CDs which have earned me a few thousand dollars over the years.  So perhaps I have broken even with what the hardware has cost me!  :-)

There's actually a photo of it here:
http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1690=8

[stopthegop]

I wrote my resume which got me a good job, on my Amiga.  Does that count as profit?  My wife also publishes on it which is part of her job.  Combined, our jobs "profit" six figures and change.  

[tonyvdb]

Use my Amiga to edit videos: Wedding, music videos, promotional, and advertising videos.
It has payed for its self 50 times over.

[huronking]

We used Amigas for our army TV studio/channel when I
was in Germany.
After that I used an Amiga for ambulance administration
and medical transportation scheduling in Florida, and
produced promos and such for booking band gigs.

Thats about it.

[cecilia]

I learned computer graphics and animation (DPaint) starting with my amiga. In fact, I learned how to use a computer from my Amiga!

From there I eventually was part of that pioneering group of people who went to Hollywood and changed the way things are done there (in terms of special effects).

the upshot is I have Emmy's because of Amiga.

not a bad deal.

[itix]

I get free 'puters from Genesi and sold my A1200, so yes, I have made profit with my Amiga :-P

[Homer]

Profit ?
When I was contracting, I used to use the Miggy to fax my timesheets to HQ when I returned home, so I suppose it has made sure I didn't lose any money   :lol:

[Amiduffer]

Great. Some nice stories there. Making a living off of such old equipment would seem pretty difficult, but its great if you're doing it!

Anyone else?

[leirbag28]

I am a VJ (Video Jockey)   and was working at a night club every week using my CD32/SX32 Pro and Supergen SX genlock and other equipment to add animation and music in realtime to what the DJ was playing at the club (electronica/Techno/Drum N Bass music).

 I was getting payed for it very night that I worked wich was usually on Saturdays. It was my dream job sort of since I got into the CD32 specifically for VJ-ing........it was when I first saw Video Creator, that I said I must have a CD32!

From there on I collected all kinds of VJ-ing software like Elan Performer, Elan Invision, MindEYE/MindLIGHT 7, SCALA MM300, DCTV (for animating in 16 million colors.)


that was about a year ago that I was doing it for pay...........I might get back into it, if I could find someone who wants to trade my A4000 for an A1200.........I know the A4000 is wayyyy better, but I need an A1200 for the job mostly because its easier to carry. Plus I want to paint the A1200 but not the 4000 because its so clean.

[amigakit]

Webstore is maintained with an Amiga.

Invoice/Packing slip printing by rack mounted Amiga. Ghostscript/Turbo print used.

Order processing by another rack mounted Amiga.

Adverts/marketing materials are designed/editted using Pagestream on a heavily expanded Amiga. Then saved in PDF format ready for printing

[ajlwalker]

@amigakit

That is fantastic!  If Efika does get OS4 I know where I'll be buying mine!

@everyone else

Great stories, this makes great reading.

I guess my Amigas introduced me to WIMP systems and I use them everyday now.  The tricks I learned in CLI/Shell have alos helped along the way.

[Tigger]

Wrote lots of Toaster and flyer code, (RenderFX, Promix Tools, Flyer Utilites, etc) parts of ImageFX,  copilot Audio and Video and several other programs I am forgetting about now.

Designed all those Amiga based poker machines that MGM used for their opening and that were shipped to La and the Indian reservations (about 5K of them at final count).  Wrote probably half the code and all the game logic and math.

Edited lots of video, and did lots of lightwave work for money.  Installed toasters in several TV stations, and used to teach lightwave to people.    

Last thing I did was open source the source code for Newtek's toaster and then includes all the source for my tools with it.  

I was going to port ImageFX to Amithlon but AI killing that program put the kabash on that.
      -Tig

[Amiduffer]

amigakit wrote:
Webstore is maintained with an Amiga.

Invoice/Packing slip printing by rack mounted Amiga. Ghostscript/Turbo print used.

Order processing by another rack mounted Amiga.

 :lol: Nice rack!

Ok, you win the prize for being really hardcore. Got any pictures of this setup? What models do you use?

[amigadave]

I have not made any money from my Amigas (yet), but a good friend of mine still makes the bulk of his income with his A2000 Toaster/Flyer system.  That amazes me with such old equipment.  He will have to change someday, but only because the Toaster/Flyer does not do High Def.

[amigakit]

Racks are 19inch - A1200 based- one with BlizzardPPC 060/SCSI - all have Subway USB and CDRWs (using EasyBurn). Memory 64MB and 256MB respectively.

Other Amigas are A4000T and A1200T/Mediator1200SX/BlizzPPC 060/256Mb etc

Everything is networked together (all running EasyNet) with access to broadband internet.

Thanks to the new IBrowse 2.4/Ghostscript/Turboprint, we can now print shipping barcode labels directly from the Amiga- so very little need for other platforms now.