The two most famous areas for the Amiga performance was video and computer art. A really huge selection of good software where produced in these fields. Many combining the two. This is the italian made Personal Paint application, which was able to make animations as well as paintings. And unusually enough in the world of Amiga, the company is still in business, and even more unusually, they still support the Amiga to some degree. With their "Amiga Forever" emulator package, that make a PC capable of running amiga applications.
One special field that really made the Amiga shine was the now popular and all-around common 3d graphics. A large cadre of good programmers where enthusiastically turning out more good stuff than they had the minds to take any real payment for. Fantastic worlds where possible for just a minor fee.

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