Early Amiga 3D
At some point, I want to say something about early 3D on the Amiga, particularly my own experience. For now, enjoy the screen shots (links on the right) of some of the programs I used.
Early Programs I Remember
- VideoScape 3D/Aegis Modeler (LightWave predecessor)
- LightWave 3D
- Cinema 4D
- Real 3D (became Realsoft 3D)
- Sculpt 3D
- Turbo Silver (became Imagine)
- Caligari (became trueSpace)
- PageRender 3D
- Dkbtrace (became POV-Ray)
- Traces (Blender predecessor)
Amiga World
The full run of Amiga World magazine is now on archive.org. The buying guide issues in particular are a great resource for tracking the availability and pricing of Amiga software.
December 1988
- 3-Demon (Mimetics Corp), 99.95
- 3-Tuple (Mitchell Ware Systems), 300.00
- C-Light (Peterson Enterprises), 49.00
- Caligari (Octree), 1995.00
- Design 3D (Gold Disk), 99.95
- Forms in Flight 2 (Micro Magic), 119.00
- Interchange (Syndesis), 49.95
- Pagerender 3-D (Mindware International), 149.95
- Sculpt 3D (Byte by Byte), 99.95
- Sculpt-Animate 4D (Byte by Byte), 499.95
- Turbo Silver (Impulse), 199.00
- VideoScape 3D 2.0 (Aegis), 199.95
December 1989
- PageRender 3D (Mindware International), 159.95
March 1991
- 3D Professional (Progressive Peripherals), 499.95
- Animation: Journeyman (Hash Enterprises), 500.00