Famous Amiga uses

[Bug_racer]

Huge thumbs up to all that posted . Even the little ones that seem to include train stations are fascinating to read about .

Just out of curiosity did the Amiga have anything to do with the Duran Duran music clip Wild Boys ? Does anyone else remember other music clips that used the Amiga . Im sure Pet shop boys used the Amiga  :-P

[Framiga]

@Raffaele

i met Michele Puccini at a show in Milan some years ago (that was around the first issue of Bitplane magazine) but beeing all theyrs products JAVA based, it would be hard to sse them ported on Amiga.

Anyway it would be better to make a correction to your post about the URL of X-DVE. Thanks :-)

[Jeff]

I still have a "Prevue" edition 2000 complete with the special cards, genlock, decals, and the original "Prevue" floppy disk that contains the software. The 2000 also came with a 2 meg memory expansion card. The software, similar to a special version of Scala I think, won't run without the genlock and memory board installed.

The whole system actually booted and ran from 1 floppy! Too bad there isn't a way to send listing information to the machine. Some of the old monthly Cable Company laser discs from the period would be cool also.

Jeff

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Well, Purno de Purno, a Dutch kids serie has been made with the use of Amiga's, AFAIK.

[Ivanhoe]

Well there are so many things doing with the Amigas.
I remember an image of a TV  program showing in Bilbao
(North Spain) an image of some computers with the ROM 3.1
loaded on the screen,they seem to be Amigas.
It was on a Sex-Shop around 1999-2000 and I suppose it was
for showing the images on the sex-cabinets they were there.
They were on separate cabinets so I suppose to do some work
with the videos showed.

[Doobrey]

Aardman Animation (Wallace and Grommit, Creature Comforts etc) used to use Amigas in their studio.
 They used to use big box Amigas fitted with DPS PAR cards to preview the current frame before commiting it to film.

[Raffaele]

Framiga wrote:
@Raffaele

i met Michele Puccini at a show in Milan some years ago (that was around the first issue of Bitplane magazine) but beeing all theyrs products JAVA based, it would be hard to sse them ported on Amiga.

A bit of patience to have java on Amiga.

Anyway it would be better to make a correction to your post about the URL of X-DVE. Thanks :-)

I linked to Haage & Partner page of selling X-DVE packages, because it gives quickly some informations about characteristics of this program.

[T3000]

Dick VanDyke is a Famous Amiga VT/Lightwave user. artical

Years ago a friend of mine purchased a used Amiga 1200, it came from VanDyke Studios. Inside the box there was a statement of purchase and a letter from Dick himself. I have the a1200 box with the studio address written on it. Don't have the letter or the a1200. Not sure if my friend has it any longer either.

[Elwood]

Thanks for this link about Dick Van Dyke. Nice read.


I still have a file with a lot of places where Amiga was used. A small snippet of this file is:

    Awards

          "Babylon 5", Warner Bros., 1993.
            Emmy Award Winning Movie.

          Cox Cable Productions, New Orleans, LA.
            ACE Award nomination for Sports Productions.

          "Get Real", Wisconsin Public Television, Wisconsin.
            Emmy Award Winning Children's Broadcasting.

          NewTek, Inc., of Topeka Kansas.
            Emmy Award winner for developments in television engineering.
            Creator of the Video Toaster and the Screamer.

          "Panama Deception".
            Oscar Award Winning "Best Documentary Film".

          "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles".
            Emmy Award, Special Visual Effects.

...

    Commercial

          3DO software development (publisher unknown).
            Amiga 4000's shown on CNN story about 3DO development.

          ABC, American Broadcasting Company.

          American Cablevision.

          Apple Computers.
            Amiga 2000's used for video presentations at MacWorld.

          Atari.
            Lynx software development using Amiga 2000's.

[KThunder]

there is a show on nickelodeon called nick arcade.
it has kids playing in virtual games and stuff. all of the graphics are done on amiga 2000hd, 3000 and cdtvs. the programming on a lot of them was done by psgnosis.

in the end credits they state the machines used and credit psygnosis. i showed my son that because he like the show and he thought it was cool that i have the same computer even the genlock etc.

[Colani1200]

Bug_racer wrote:

Im sure Pet shop boys used the Amiga  :-P

hm...

[MrZoon]

At one time I heard that the US IRS used Amigas. Any truth to this?

I also found these via da goog. The speculation about the future of these machines is rather sad, in retrospect.

Amusing computer-related anecdote about local cable service
Wed, 11 May 94 14:22:21 PDT

TCI Cablevison of Washington often has a similar display with a Guru Error (Amiga) for days on end on the Public Info channels. Also, Cablevision of Terre Haute, IN used to have a Apple ][+ that would bomb out and draw random lines on the PI channel. Terre Haute First National Bank built a new building complete with 6 huge automated computer displays (light-bulb type) and they often got out of sync, triggering an alarm that would display a very distinct Commodore Basic prompt on all six signs all night.


Amusing anecdote about local cable svc.
Thu, 12 May 1994 16:54:23 EDT

... writes about the error he noticed on his local cable channel recently. Our local cable system and a couple of the surrounding ones use Commodore Amigas for such things as the on-line cable guide (The Preview Guide), local programming information screens, etc... My guess is that there is specialized software available to the cable operator from whatever company broadcasts The Preview Guide which is customizable by region, content or whatever (ad packages come to mind). A few years ago you could usually look forward to seeing the dreaded Amiga 'Guru Meditation Error' plastered on your cable guide screen whenever there was a big storm or over a long holiday weekend.  It was amusing at first, but it soon became tiresome.  Since it hasn't happened in the past  couple of years I'm assuming they've invested in a battery backup or better equipment.  One risk for them: Since Commodore has gone belly-up, what's going to happen to their equipment when it dies.  Will they be relegated to searching the orphaned-computer parts bin at their local used computer store?

[StevenJGore]

Can I just clear up a common misconception...

Amigas were ONLY used for the pilot episode of Babylon 5.

They were NOT used for any other episode.

This information was posted by JMS himself (executive producer/main writer) on a B5 bulletin board.

There. I feel better having got that off my chest!

Also, I don't think this has been mentioned, but Amigas were used in the Bond movie "Goldeneye". Military jets flying past some radar dishes were rendered and added in by Amigas. There was a feature on it in an issue of Amiga Computing at the time.

Steve.

[persia]

Dick van Dyke sold his Amiga only a short time ago and became a PC Lightwave user.  It's in the archives on this board somewhere.

[murple]

Tomas wrote:
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.

I too heard that Amigas were used to render stuff throughout the first season of Babylon 5. I think the first few seasons of Star Trek TNG also had a good amount of Amiga graphics.

[weirdami]

persia wrote:
Dick van Dyke sold his Amiga only a short time ago and became a PC Lightwave user.  It's in the archives on this board somewhere.

He didn't sell it himself if events are to be believed. Some guy came on here and claimed without substantiation that DVD gave it to him. Some may remember the Andy "Worhol" A1000 I was selling back around the same time.