On: AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition: Now Shipping to Dealers

[melling]

The Amiga was initially used to create the effects for Babylon 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seznQmDp2pU

http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/making/effects.html

http://www.geek.com/games/cgi-first-introduced-to-tv-in-baby...

I thought JJ Abrams mentioned that he used the Amiga for something in the 1990's but I can't find anything in Google.

[agumonkey → melling]

Many non R&D-ish rendering software came from people doing experiments on Amiga. I believe 3D Studio, Lightwave, probably others, had their roots in Amiga demo/game/3d scene.

[spdustin → agumonkey]

There were untold numbers of television shows edited with NewTek's Video Toaster - an Amiga product. Came out for PC later -- it was essentially an Amiga in a custom enclosure.

[pcurve → spdustin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8

I still have this one on tape!

[jdangu → spdustin]

And Scala (a global leader in digital signage software) started out in 1987 on Amiga and only moved to PC in 1996 when Commodore went bankrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala,_Inc

[agumonkey → spdustin]

Oh yeah, I forgot about VT. Reminds me of TVPaint, but NewTek rebranding of it wasn't for Amiga (its original platform). Fun times.

[aikah → agumonkey]

3D Sculpt,Real 3D,...There was a lot of 3d software on amiga.