The Four Headsmen of Amiga (Reprint from August 2008)

Please note the Blog entry below is a reprint from August of 2008. We have re-posted it because it shows the value in competition between the four headsmen of Amiga.


The first time around when the Amiga was doing things other home computers never even thought of doing, Ray-traced 3D animation, stereo sound, bit blitter graphics, multitasking, etc, the Amiga lost out in the platform wars. Even the Mac lost out and was replace in name alone with a much more powerful hybrid. A NeXT, FreeBSD, Unix based operating system (Mac OS X). This time around the Amiga is not alone and has four headsmen; MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.1, AROS, Amiga Virtual Machine (Amiga Forever 2009). The IT industry is still young and at least one or more of these will rise again and be enjoyed by millions. The Amiga itself sold over 7 million machines and it was an exciting time. How many versions of the four headsmen of the Amiga will sell in the future is unknown but we hope for exciting times again. Innovative Developers and users will make it happen this time not a solo greedy parent company. We know who you were thinking but we meant Commodore.

The fastest graphics card in the world

Techradar did a nice review of the ATI Radeon HD 5970, the fastest graphics card in the world. This will increase the speed of your 3D animation renderings if you 3D App is GPU aware. We ae exploring making future versions of Aladdin 4D take advantage of the fast rendering times that GPU's offer.

ATI Radeon HD 5970 Review

Great Guide to MorphOS

Great guide to one of the cool operating systems that Aladdin 4D is being ported to. Enjoy the long and detailed read below.

MorphOS Guide

Great Offers Ending Soonish!

Yo!  fellow 3D animators and royalty free music collectors, two of our offers are ending very soon. Great deal on SoundTraxx Vol I ends in 24 hours and Aspire in 4D offer ends in six days. Just want to keep you in the loop friends.

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A Great Partner Product for Aladdin4D - SoundTraxx is Available Now!

SOUNDTRAXX - Royality Free Digital Music Library 


Available Now!


Chicago, November 11th, 2009 - Visual Effects company DiscreetFX Inc., developer of animated effects elements/transitions is teaming up with a long established talented royalty free music developer to bring you an exciting audio library on a G CLEF note flash drive. Also available on primitive antiquated DVD-ROM's or CD-ROM's upon request. Bring some exciting background music to your video productions or Aladdin 4D renders.

Works with all Amiga Video Toaster Flyers, Amiga Virtual Machines (Amiga Forever 2009), MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.x, AROS software that supports the MP3 audio standard.

You have seen the DiscreetFX demo video that shows many of our popular digital video effects. We used one of the included music tracks from this collection. It's been demonstrated time and time again that well created background music enhances that value and enjoyment of any film or video production. Great audio is key to making your videos better. How about enhancing your creations by including a mandatory killer SoundTraxx? If you have not seen the DiscreetFX demo video a link to it is below for your convenience. Samples of the entire collection are also available via the link below to allow you to preview this amazing music collection. Virtual Characters Harmony & Mike stated this is one product you will not want to do without. SoundTraxx Volume I Royalty Free Music Library is available immediately for an introductory price of $69.95 for the next 72 hours. After that, the normal price will be $99.95 plus shipping. Order during the sale and priority shipping will be free in the USA. Worldwide shipping will be available at a discounted price. Sale is already over, you missed it.

New Music Product to Enhance your Aladdin4D Animations

Sadly our offer to upgrade any old abandoned Amiga 3D animation package to Aladdin4D 5.0 is now over. But we are releasing a  new music product tomorrow that can be used to add an exciting soundtrack to your Aladdin4D animations or any video production you create.