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Famous Amiga uses
« on: February 28, 2007, 09:21:42 PM »
Id love a little list to be compiled on where the Amiga was used in its glory days . I'm always hearing Babylon 5 and sea quest . I did a quick search on Wiki and found a few but Im sure there are a lot more places where the Amiga dominated . Even if the only place was at your school , post it up Im curious to hear :)
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2007, 09:35:02 PM »
IIRC Amigas with Lightwave were only used for the pilot episode of B5.
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 10:11:23 PM »
The Preview Channel was run on amigas. It was a blast when they would crash or reset. There were a few times when I went to the preview channel and all that was up was workbench with a cli  window. I never saw it guru, man that would have been cool.
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2007, 10:39:49 PM »
I still use Amigas.
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2007, 10:43:38 PM »
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IIRC Amigas with Lightwave were only used for the pilot episode of B5.

Afaik it was also partially used during rest of season 1 as well, while i think the pilot was pretty much entirelly rendered on amigas.
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2007, 10:46:30 PM »
AFAIK The Lawnmower Man was produced with miggies help.
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I still use Amigas.

now that´s what I call famous  :-D
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2007, 10:46:45 PM »
Those two you mentioned + these:
Star trek Amigas was used for ship modelling in star trek tng and ds9.
Jurassic park: I believe it was used for some simple overlay scenes.
There was also a pretty high rated french animation movie that was apparantly released last year, which was supposed to have been made on a amiga 4000. I sadly do not recall the name of this animation movie. The a4000 was even seen in the making of the movie, where you could clearly see that they used it for animating.

I also recall a funny part in late 90s.. "between 1996-1999 somehwere" They had a bunch of tv screens at our local airport showing information about airport and ads. One time i visited the airport it had a "software failure" and this was even on the huge projection tv as well as on all the other screens!
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2007, 10:51:00 PM »
What about this?
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2007, 10:58:16 PM »
Some weeks ago i watched Stay tuned! movie with some friends, and some fx scenes were very similar to other movies made with Amiga. I think that exist dozens of movies that used Amiga, but we don't have proofs. I have also a spanish book of Jurassic Park that appear an Amiga on a photo and they talk about Amiga.
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2007, 11:05:14 PM »
Oh yeah.. I also spotted an a500 in a porno flick when i accidentally swapped past tv1000 during the night ;)

The a500 was pretty much the main part of the plot.. It was hooked up to a virtual reality set, which enabled the user to have realistic sex in cyberworld using this a500.

And yes, the only reason i watched it was due to the fact that it had a Amiga in it.  :-P
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #10 on: February 28, 2007, 11:14:29 PM »
LOL,
While I was working at Klasky-Csupo (early simpsons, rugrats, duckman....) doing commercials, I would walk past a cube in which there was an a3000 with a digitizer, looked like it was used for pencil test by animators up untill 2002 when I left there for another job.  The 2D animators (I was 3d) hated computers, but would use the amiga.... makes me wonder, did they not consider that sation to be a computer or did they hate amiga also?  that station may still be there.   I have also seen stacks of old amiga's (2000's and 4000's) in the storage area of digital domain in 2003 -2004, looked like old toasters, so maybe it was even used on titanic (for on set work), who knows?
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2007, 11:22:02 PM »
In the UK, Rolf's Cartoon Club...


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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2007, 11:25:46 PM »
what did rolf's cartoon club do?
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2007, 11:59:53 PM »
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IIRC Amigas with Lightwave were only used for the pilot episode of B5.

Afaik it was also partially used during rest of season 1 as well, while i think the pilot was pretty much entirelly rendered on amigas.
not only was an Amiga farm used for rendering in the first season, the effects won an Emmy!
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Re: Famous Amiga uses
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2007, 12:04:25 AM »
well lot's of PC where used also,  All I know is a VFX sup I worked for had (has) a toaster card on his desk that he pulled from amblins farm, man those toasters there big lightwave dongles.  According to him the PC was a god send as the amigas where hard to manage, esp the farms.  The amiga where replaced ASAP.
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