List of Famous Amiga Uses


Arizona Statue University, Tempe, Arizona. Educational Media & Computers. Amiga Multimedia Lab. Courses in Amiga Technology, Amiga Animation, and Amiga Presentation. Desktop Video course planned in the future. 12 Amiga 3000's, 5 Amiga 2500's, DCTV, Video Toaster, CDTV. AmigaVision, DeluxePaint4, Imagine, Disney Animation Studio. AudioMaster, CanDo, Thinker, HyperBook, Foundation, Word Perfect. Art Department with Video Arts course using a Video Toaster. Dance Department with Video Toaster for mixed media. Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Classes teaching animation and graphics. Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana. Video Information System center. Video Toaster produced educational programming over fiber-optic networks to campus classrooms. Telecommunications Building. Faculty development lab and student media lab. Banting Memorial High School, Alliston, Ontario. Video Toaster equipped Amiga 2500. Bishop P.F. Reding Secondary School (location unknown). Amiga 2000 with 1200 genlock used for video production. Bridgerland Literacy Program. Amiga used to teach reading skills to adults (unconfirmed). California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. Courses in animation, 3D modeling, and video production using Amigas and Video Toasters. California State University at Fresno. Media Services Department. AmiLink A/B roll time code editing. Video Toaster animated logos and graphics. MIDI music produced with Dr T's KCS 3.5 sequencer and SuperJam. Video production classes using AmiLink. Recipients of 3 national awards for videos and TV Programs. Cameron University, (location unknown). Physics Department and Communications Department. Video Toaster Workstations. Carleton University, ITV channel 15, Ottawa, Ontario (unconfirmed). Centralia Community College. Amiga 500 for video titling. Video Toaster for TV production classes. Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia. Centre for Image Analysis at Riverina campus. Amigas used in networking and for image digitizing. Satellite imaging using A-IMAGE analysis software. X-RAY imagery analysis using MediPro medical imaging software. 16 Amiga lab used for computer art courses. Colgate University, Hamilton, New York. Department of Art and Art History. 12 Amigas for Basic Studio, Drawing, Combined Media, Video, and Printmaking. College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. 20 Amigas used in Math Department using Maple V. Amigas used in Physics Department with Vista Pro and Distant Suns. Drake University, (city unknown), Iowa. 2 television stations produced using Video a Toaster. Titles and special effects for student productions. Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan. Community television channel produced using an Amiga 4000/040. Fresno Community College, Fresno, California. Amiga 1200 based information and student services kiosk. FISCAL & EAGER'S AT THE HOTLINE - 1993 Shooting Star Award, First Place Training Video winner, American Corporate Video Awards. Animated Open sequence and insert graphics were created using DPaint 4.1. End credits were created with Pro Video Post. Theme music was produced using SuperJam and a MIDI sound module. The project's client was The Child Welfare Training Project at CSU-Fresno. The video is used as part of a training curriculum for Child Protective Service workers in the State of California. The video is also being used by several CPS departments in other states. VIDEO CAFE: BAGDAD CAFE & OMAR episodes - 1992 Bronze Telly Award for Bagdad Cafe, 1993 Bronze Telly award for Omar. DPaint was used to create the Series'animated logo title sequence and for the animated transition graphic used between segments. End credits were created with Pro Video Post. The series was offered to local PBS TV stations and has been picked up by over 75 stations and counting. Each show features musical performance and documentary coverage of the featured musical group whose styles ranged from Blues to Zydeco. Graphic School, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. A1200's used for image processing and 2D/3D animation. Institute for Biochemistry, (city unknown), Austria. Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Formerly site of University of Minnesota Intermedia courses. 7 Amigas used in 2D and 3D animation classes. Booth E uses Video Toasters for video and audio editing. Kent State, (city unknown). Telecommunications studio equipped with Video Toaster. Logan Middle School, Logan, Utah. AmigaVision, CanDo and laserdiscs used for instructional purposes. Logan High School, Logan, Utah. Industrial Arts classes (unconfirmed). Loyalist College, Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Amiga and Video Toaster used for television broadcasting courses. Maarstricht University Hospital, Maarstricht, Netherlands (use unknown). Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, Maryland. Hubble Space Telescope exhibit. Amiga controlled laser disc players. Interactive astronomical data processing station in Marine Institute of Technology, St Johns, Newfoundland. Amiga 4000/040 running AmigaVision Pro. Amiga based kiosk with course listings, faculty, directions, events. Multimedia course based on Amigas. Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts. Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Amigas used in classes. BCS Amiga Video Subgroup meetings held in computer graphics lab. Massasoit Community College, Brockton, Massachussets. Campus television studio with Video Toaster workstation. Audio/video classes with Amigas. AmigaVision controlled messaging system. AMAX based Amiga running Macintosh DTP and multimedia software for faculty. Melbourne University, Australia. Middleton High School, Middleton, Wisconsin. Amiga computer lab equipped with Video Toasters. Lab coordinator helped program Black Crypt I and II by Ravensoft. Modesto Junior College, Modesto, California. Classes in painting and animation. 5 Amiga 2000's and camera digitizers. Multimedia High School, Stockholm, Sweden. 16 A4000's (use unknown). Net Trek server in University of Toronto (unconfirmed). New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury Campus, Old Westbury, New York. Art Department Building, 2D and 3D animation classes. 6 Amiga 3000's using Imagine, Opalvision, and a Video Toaster. Nicholson Catholic College, Belleville, Ontario, Canada. Amiga and Video Toaster used for school videos, drama, media courses. Amiga 2000 with HP PaintJet used in art lab for graphics work. North Adeleide School of Art Education, (city unknown), Australia. Ohio State University (city unknown). Art Education Department. 33 Amiga 3000's and Amiga 2000's including Video Toasters. Classes on 2D and 3D animation. Students now employed by XAOS, ILM, Pixar, and L&C. Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design. Ohio Supercomputer Center, Amigas networked with SGI's and SUN's. Olympia High School of Olympia, Washington, desktop video production. Oswego High School TV Communications Department. 2 A3000 for video rendering and character generation. 3 camera controlled systems for teleprompters. Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dynamic Spine, CanDo multimedia teaching software about human spines. Remsen Central School, Remsen, New York. Word Processing and Scala, using 10 A1200's and 1 A3000. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. Electronic Arts minor degree. 3 A3000's, 2 A500's, 1 Video Toaster workstation. Used to teach video production techniques. Final projects developed using the Video Toaster. Rhode Island School of Design, location unknown (assumed Rhode Island). Amiga 1200's used. RMIT University, Australia. A3000 used for graphics and design. Rutgers University, New Jersey. Rutgers Video Yearbook created using Amigas. Used for desktop publishing for order forms, video covers, etc. Produced by KnightVision Productions. Saint Francis de Sales School for the Deaf, Brooklyn, New York. Media Department closed circuit broadcasting. Daily Video Toaster generated Morning Visual Announcements. Sherwood Secondary School, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Amigas and DataWeb used to research signal auralization studies. Realtime data acquisition and signal processing in labs. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland. Amiga used to display spacecraft statistics in lobby. Video Toaster used for in-house video bulletin board. State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York. Mathematics Department, Amigas running Maple V used to teach Calculus. State University of New York at Oswego. Graphics Department. Animation and Video Toasters. Macintosh emulation using AMAX II. State University of New York at Stony Brook. SPA TV, closed circuit campus television station (Video Toaster). Home of Amiga Mosaic authors, SB Prolog, and the author of this list of uses! Stevenson-Britannia School, Winnepeg, Manitoba. Amiga used by Doug Hallstead in teaching elementary students. Winner of Canada's Northern Telecom National Award. Swinburne University, Australia. Tulane University. TSTV, Tulane Student Television. Live switcher for video broadcasts. Live switcher for Tulane Women's Basketball. Tulsa Junior College of Oklahoma, desktop video production. Desktop Video Production Associates Degree. Two year degree on using the Amiga and the Video Toaster. University of Bergen, Norway (use unknown). University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. Student ID's digitized and printed using networked Amiga 2000's. University of Georgia at Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia. Fine Arts Department. University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts. Amiga programming lab, 68000 assembly classes. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. NTTV channel 22, university sponsored programming. Amiga 4000 and Scala Infochannel used to display bullitens. Amiga 2500 used for video titling by editing department. University of Oulu, Finland. Department of Chemistry used in microlab. LISE spectrum manipulation software. Chemcial graphics production and word processing. Multimedia seminars on videogun and graphics. Macintosh emulation using AMAX II and EMPLANT. Department of Computing used Amigas since 1985, networked. MediaPoint software and video hardware. Shared for video work. Department of Geophysics (use unknown). Department of Methematics, using MapleIV. University of South Florida, (city unknown), Florida. Beginner and Advanced Computer Graphics (use unknown). University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida. Computer Animation Classes (use unknown). University of Toronto (unconfirmed). Net Trek server. University of Utah, (city unknown), Utah. Amigas used for video production (unconfirmed). University of Wisconsin Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin. Amiga used for medical research. Amiga 500 mouse pointer controlled by eye movements. University of Wyoming, (city unknown), Wyoming. Television Studio. 10 Amiga 500's, 3 Amiga 2000's with Video Toasters. Utah State University, Logan, Utah. Instructional Technology Department. Research and Development on CD-ROM cross platform projects. Production of educational instruction tools. Courses in video production using Video Toasters. Courses in Authoring Systems using AmigaVision and CanDo. Communications Department use for community news broadcasts. Local Access channel and CNN licensed local news broadcasts. Walton High School, Marietta, Georgia. Western Illinois University, Illinois. 2 Video Toasters in broadcast department. Amiga used for weather news. Satilite education network has 6 Amigas for animations. A4000 Info Channel used on movie channel w/radio station. Western State College, Gunnison, Colorado. Art Department with Amiga 1000 and Amiga 2000HD. Campus television studio with Video Toaster workstation.