Movies/TV programs with amiga's in em! - Page 5

Coagulus · 20 September 2005, 10:39

Weren't Amigas used for the display panels in Star Trek: The Next Generation too? I don't think that one has been posted yet.

Doc Mindie · 20 September 2005, 11:05

in more or less all the Red Dwarf episodes I've seen, especially when they're in StarBug, the Amiga's are easy to spot. And whoever thought it was spotted in the Mindwarp-test of Rimmer's, was right, afait

Parsec · 20 September 2005, 11:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coagulus

Weren't Amigas used for the display panels in Star Trek: The Next Generation too? I don't think that one has been posted yet.

I though they used Macs?

Coagulus · 20 September 2005, 11:29

Well, how about this...

Quote from http://www.answers.com/topic/star-tr...he-voyage-home

The model of Apple Macintosh computer shown in the Plexicorp office scene is the Mac Plus. According to rumor, it was intended to be an Amiga, but Commodore required the producers to purchase a computer while Apple was willing to lend them the machine shown. Regardless, hidden Amigas were used to produce the screens of the Vulcan computer used by Spock to re-train himself in logic (easily recognized by the Amiga Garnet font).

Psychopsam · 28 February 2006, 16:43

I heard Dragonheart was first mentioned to use Bones from Lightwave running on Amigas when rendering the beast. I'm pretty sure it was the first film to do this technique.

Chain · 03 November 2008, 11:44

Insomnia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119375/

.

i have only vhs recorded from a tv

AmigaFriend · 03 November 2008, 12:31

Alf also used an A1000, and A2000 in the show. I recall that Alf was using in one episode the A2000 to buy and sell online on the stock market exchange, with the results that everyone can guess.

I remember a movie, don't recall the name tough

, that there was a van with some police agents recording digitally some conversations in a house, in a couple of A500. It shows clearly the WB 1.3 mouse pointer moving and the recording software with the wave sound on screen.

lopos2000 · 03 November 2008, 12:55

I also have seen an A2000 in some 'Inspector Morse' episodes.

Hungry Horace · 02 April 2009, 00:56

No one seems to be able to give a definative answer to what Amiga keyboards were used in Red Dwarf series 5....

so here are some pics!

http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...DwarfAmiga.png
http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga2.png
http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga3.png
http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga4.png
http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga5.png
http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga6.png

http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...AMOS_maybe.png

there are two episodes there... are they definately still the same model though?

Parsec · 05 April 2009, 01:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chain

Insomnia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119375/

.

i have only vhs recorded from a tv

Ah that's interesting, that's the one that got remade by Christopher Nolan, it had Al Pacino in it. Bet their version had a crappy PC.

GoldenHeart · 06 April 2009, 08:34

Paul Robinson in neighbours running a business, his Amiga infected with a virus. This was around 1991.

BBC Box Clever Game in 1987, where the Amiga was the main prize. The host was Hughes(Ex Rugby Player).

An advert Christmas 1988, showing enhanced graphical game(F1 Interceptor). The jet was heading for the San Francisco coast, with the last image of a giant teddy bear.

DDNI · 18 June 2009, 14:20

This may well be the holy grail source of Amigas on TV

http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/a..._the_commodore

TCD · 18 June 2009, 14:33

Nice site there DDNI

Thanks for sharing

(really missed the PET in T3, wonder why...

)

Photon · 18 June 2009, 16:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mr Softy

According to IMDB I was right :

"Director Steven Spielberg was worried that "computer graphics" meant "Nintendo" type cartoon quality. He originally only wanted the herd of gallimimus dinosaurs to be computer-generated, but upon seeing ILM's demo animation of a T-rex chasing a herd of galamides across his ranch, he decided to shoot nearly all the dinosaur scenes using this method. The animation was first plotted on an Amiga Toaster, and rendered for the film by Silicon Graphics' Indigo workstations."

IIRC it says Thinking Machines version 5 did the rendering, in the credits? I have a memory they were interviewed about the movie and they mentioned the scene with the banner falling over the T-Rex.

JACK98 · 18 June 2009, 17:15

Amiga 500 was given away as a prize on bullseye before

Mark Wright · 22 June 2009, 02:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by girv

BBC soap East Enders had an A500 sitting in the background in one of the
characters flats for a while in the late 80's. He was an artist or graphic
designer as I recall, but I'm not sure if you ever saw the machine doing
anything.

Bumpety-bump!

Yes, the character was called Colin and this would have been 1987.

I have just submitted the following to the Spot the Commodore page:

If you can find a grab from the UK TV comedy series Father Ted, you'll see an Amiga 600 (possibly the only sighting of the machine on TV!) in the episode "The Old Grey Whistle Theft". It's situated under the TV in the priests lounge purely for the purposes of a scene where character Dougal McGuire is playing "the old video game there (possibly Mortal Kombat). Can't find it on YouTube so I'll dig out my DVD later...

Also, many early 1989 episodes of Australian soap Neighbours actually centred around a storyline involving character Paul Robinson's office computer (an Amiga 500) getting a virus and character "Josh" (friend of Cody?! I forget the names!) was enlisted to remove the virus using a very unconvincing CLI utility disk (I think the old "Graphics Ripper" tool is what's used actually employed). Interestingly, Commodore Australia used to get a credit at the end of each episode for several months. If you can track down episodes c. Feb/Mar 1989 I think that was when the Amiga featured surprisingly prominently.

Has Rolf's Cartoon Club been mentioned yet? A room full of A2000s (I think) using either DPaint or Deluxe Animation

Good old Topaz 8 gives it away here:

[ Show youtube player ]

Quite a bit of Amiga exposure every week on UK TV for several years...

Meanwhile, in the USA the "Prevue Channel" regularly died throwing up an all too familiar sight:

[ Show youtube player ]

(This is just one of many clips on YouTube!)

s2325 · 22 June 2009, 11:28

Amiga on cover of vinyl record: http://englishrussia.com/images/soviet_discs/1.jpg Amiga/C64 mouse is recognizable, also I think it's Workbench 1.3 on screen.

Paul_s · 23 June 2009, 00:01

Amiga 500 with a 1081... and a lot of smoke!

16-Bit - Changing Minds... (from Inaxycvgtgb album - which costs a fortune, £50+ a cd when they crop up) I guess you could call this a reality demo

[ Show youtube player ]

Found this a while back, quite hypnotic to watch and all graphics done by the miggy... Amiga appears on front of single cover... see for 'Changing Minds' cover with the Amiga (longer version of the song too... [ Show youtube player ]

You can buy the album here : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inaxycvgtgb/...5708808&sr=8-1

As for 16-Bit themselves, they never had a long run... http://www.discogs.com/artist/16+Bit

lopos2000 · 23 June 2009, 11:52

I still have the Maxi single of 'Where are you'. Have to find it now.

Rabbit80 · 23 June 2009, 17:35

Wasn't Amiga used in SeaQuest DSV?

03 November 2008, 11:44	#86
Chain A-Collector, repairments Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Czech Rep. Age: 50 Posts: 1,536	Insomnia Insomnia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119375/ . i have only vhs recorded from a tv

02 April 2009, 00:56	#89
Hungry Horace Wipe-Out Enthusiast Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: . Age: 43 Posts: 2,538	Red Dwarf No one seems to be able to give a definative answer to what Amiga keyboards were used in Red Dwarf series 5.... so here are some pics! http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...DwarfAmiga.png http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga2.png http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga3.png http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga4.png http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga5.png http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...warfAmiga6.png http://amigaonline.condor.serverpro3...AMOS_maybe.png there are two episodes there... are they definately still the same model though?

23 June 2009, 00:01	#98
Paul_s Registered User Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Amigaville Age: 46 Posts: 3,334	Amiga 500 with a 1081... and a lot of smoke! 16-Bit - Changing Minds... (from Inaxycvgtgb album - which costs a fortune, £50+ a cd when they crop up) I guess you could call this a reality demo [ Show youtube player ] Found this a while back, quite hypnotic to watch and all graphics done by the miggy... Amiga appears on front of single cover... see for 'Changing Minds' cover with the Amiga (longer version of the song too... [ Show youtube player ] You can buy the album here : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inaxycvgtgb/...5708808&sr=8-1 As for 16-Bit themselves, they never had a long run... http://www.discogs.com/artist/16+Bit Last edited by Paul_s; 23 June 2009 at 00:28.

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20 September 2005, 10:39	#81
Coagulus Gets there in the end... Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Wales Posts: 862	Weren't Amigas used for the display panels in Star Trek: The Next Generation too? I don't think that one has been posted yet.

20 September 2005, 11:05	#82
Doc Mindie In deep Trouble Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Manchester, Made in Norway Age: 51 Posts: 841	in more or less all the Red Dwarf episodes I've seen, especially when they're in StarBug, the Amiga's are easy to spot. And whoever thought it was spotted in the Mindwarp-test of Rimmer's, was right, afait

20 September 2005, 11:29	#84
Coagulus Gets there in the end... Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Wales Posts: 862	Well, how about this... Quote from http://www.answers.com/topic/star-tr...he-voyage-home The model of Apple Macintosh computer shown in the Plexicorp office scene is the Mac Plus. According to rumor, it was intended to be an Amiga, but Commodore required the producers to purchase a computer while Apple was willing to lend them the machine shown. Regardless, hidden Amigas were used to produce the screens of the Vulcan computer used by Spock to re-train himself in logic (easily recognized by the Amiga Garnet font).

28 February 2006, 16:43	#85
Psychopsam Registered User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perth Age: 54 Posts: 15	I heard Dragonheart was first mentioned to use Bones from Lightwave running on Amigas when rendering the beast. I'm pretty sure it was the first film to do this technique.

03 November 2008, 12:31	#87
AmigaFriend Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: CLI Posts: 1,462	Alf also used an A1000, and A2000 in the show. I recall that Alf was using in one episode the A2000 to buy and sell online on the stock market exchange, with the results that everyone can guess. I remember a movie, don't recall the name tough , that there was a van with some police agents recording digitally some conversations in a house, in a couple of A500. It shows clearly the WB 1.3 mouse pointer moving and the recording software with the wave sound on screen.

03 November 2008, 12:55	#88
lopos2000 Zone Friend Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Cider is best In The West Posts: 1,238	I also have seen an A2000 in some 'Inspector Morse' episodes.

06 April 2009, 08:34	#91
GoldenHeart Glastonbury Tor Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Stoke-on-Trent Age: 55 Posts: 11	Paul Robinson in neighbours running a business, his Amiga infected with a virus. This was around 1991. BBC Box Clever Game in 1987, where the Amiga was the main prize. The host was Hughes(Ex Rugby Player). An advert Christmas 1988, showing enhanced graphical game(F1 Interceptor). The jet was heading for the San Francisco coast, with the last image of a giant teddy bear.

18 June 2009, 14:20	#92
DDNI Targ Explorer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Northern Ireland Posts: 5,431	This may well be the holy grail source of Amigas on TV http://www.richardlagendijk.nl/cip/a..._the_commodore

18 June 2009, 14:33	#93
TCD HOL/FTP busy bee Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Germany Age: 46 Posts: 31,518	Nice site there DDNI Thanks for sharing (really missed the PET in T3, wonder why... )

18 June 2009, 17:15	#95
JACK98 Registered User Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: N/A Posts: 420	Amiga 500 was given away as a prize on bullseye before

22 June 2009, 11:28	#97
s2325 Zone Friend Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Gargore Age: 43 Posts: 17,789	Amiga on cover of vinyl record: http://englishrussia.com/images/soviet_discs/1.jpg Amiga/C64 mouse is recognizable, also I think it's Workbench 1.3 on screen.

23 June 2009, 11:52	#99
lopos2000 Zone Friend Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Cider is best In The West Posts: 1,238	I still have the Maxi single of 'Where are you'. Have to find it now.

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