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The Amiga 500 promo video (1987)
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2007
- Back in the dark days of DOS computers, all you had to work with your computer were white numbers on a black screen. To do any simple function, you had to write a long line of complicated code. No GUI's! For the novice, it was horrible.
Then, one day I saw a video for an Amiga 500 computer and I was hooked! Out went my crappy DOS-system and I bought an Amiga. Suddenly I could do easy lists of all my videos but most of all I could do quality video titles, animations and more. And until the iMac came out with easy digital video, THIS was the way to go! I used mine for years. Step back 20 years and visit the future with the Amiga 500 computer!
(See the Amiga 2000 Demo elsewhere in my listings.)
Release Date: 1987
1 F U L L M E G A B Y T E
Yes, and it didnt have the same memory problems as did MS-DOS machines with the same amount of RAM.
if you bought the expansion, the A500 originally shipped with 512KiB of RAM
I remember getting the expansion and being able to run It Came from the Desert - those were the days
@@jaworskij Of course you had: Amiga had two independent banks of RAM (!) and every application had to move the data between them manually, as the components could access only one of them.
"I am the Commodore Amiga 500: I am a game machine". That's all that needs be said. I had so many hours of fun with my Amiga
T2, Simpsons, batman, FA/18 Interceptor, lemmings...... Oh the hours n hours of fun
@@kingvendrick1879 Mom I want Lotus for My computer!
Mom: But we have Lotus at home!
Lotus at home: Lotus 1-2-3
I had ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Atari 1024, but when I bought Amiga 500 my life changed. For the very first time I could sample music and create my own tracks using Soundtracker.
One day I took Amiga to a recording studio. The sound engineer was in shock when he saw what was possible to achieve using samples. LOL
Amiga 500 was just awesome. I ended up working in a local TV station producing music. Nowadays we use ProTools, but man, these were the times. We were so happy... and didn't know about it.
Advertized as professional computer, famous as gaming machine
Just like today.
Funny how they show the monitor sitting mostly on top of the A500 but I've never seen anyone do that. Wouldn't it block the air vents?
I used to do that, everything worked fine. I guess the top was made ribbing specifically for this so the monitor wouldn't block all of the air.
The Amiga was life from 87-90. What great years. Copying all the games I could get hold of at school.
In Poland we had 80s in 90s :)
I LOVE THIS COMPUTER!
czesc mgr!
Loved the Amigas I used back then.. from the A500 I had in 1988 to the A4000 I was still using in 1999. There was nothing to compare until PCs moved to 486 tech and even then the Win 95 OS was garbage compared to Amiga OS 3.1. I ran my AMAX (Mac emulator) and 486 PC bridge cards for many years, until it finally became impossible to ignore Pentium-based computing. Still have a tear in the eye remember nights up playing multi-player Falcon over modem connections and rendering 3D animations using Imagine, Real 3D and when I finally had the money.. Lightwave.
www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/compare.html
Executor, a fast MacOS 68K emulator for 486 CPU.
_Executor's 68040 CPU emulator is very fast because it uses dynamic compilation_
Running non-Amiga software on Amiga doesn't benefit the Amiga platform.
Vortex Golden Gate bridgeboard has Cyrix Cx486SLC which is based on the i386SX 16bit bus.
486SLC doesn't include 486 instruction set until Cyrix Cx5x86. Cyrix's "486" label is BS.
The A500 was my First new Computer in late 1989, great machine..
WOAH!!!! ONE FULL MEGABYTE OF INTERNAL MEMORY!
+CaptainCrape 512 KB, usually. 1 MB was already upgraded. ^^
But that was enough then.
+Norman Roscher woah c64 got only 64 kb
+CineRaphael Exactly! Yet to be fair it should be considered the C64 is five years older than the Amiga!
It was still sold at the Amiga age though, well into the 90s, as a low cost machine (which it was not in 1982).
Commodore Amiga was ahead of its time back then. It shit on PC graphics and sound.
IKR! But remember... today's 8-16GB RAM, or 4-5 TB HD will seem equally tiny and amusing in 10-20 years!
hear the ASMR value of this wonderful commercial. even buzzing sound is perfect as if it's intentionally put in the video.
brings on the tears, had the A500 back in the day... recently bought 500, 600 and 1200 ;)
I used to have an A500 with the add-on of the A590 Hard-drive. My A590 had a whopping 20 Megabyte SCSI hard-drive in it. I had an extra 1 megabyte of memory plugged into the A590 memory sockets to bring my Amiga 500 up to 2 megabytes of memory. I later expanded my storage space by adding on the SCSI version of the iOmega 100MB zipdrive.
The most memorable game I played on my Amiga 500 (well, my older brother's Amiga 500) was the Midwinter. It featured an open gameworld on a vast island resembling Iceland a bit, all snow covered and the only way to travel was 1) skiing, 2) using any motorized snowcat, 3) by cablecar, 4) hanggliding!
You had an armour-piercing rifle that could destroy the enemy's snowcats and flying drones but if you became injured, you lost a few hours and if you lost too much time, the enemy would have taken over the entire island. The idea was to drive to a nearby village or garage to get a transport and/or recruit other people. Once recruited, you could also play as them. So with every few turns you would increase your network of resistance fighters, it was great!
Trying to stop an enemy convoy could be challenging if the convoy was escorted by armed snowcats. But being caught in the open, on skis, with an enemy drone calling in artillery fire on your location or dropping bombs on you could be terrible and frustrating. But after becoming more experienced, you also got little bonuses like, if you had blown up or shot 20+ enemy vehicles, you got a message you killed the company commander and then the entire convoy would disband. Or, if more enemy companies were closing in on your location, you could be extremely fortunate to kill the regimental commander, meaning that all four subordinate company commanders would desert and their companies would also disband. The graphics were state of the art for its time but try telling that to kids of today...
BTW, you had to slow the enemy advance by using a scorched earth policy, blowing up munitions warehouses and fuel refineries while you could still get fuel for your snowcat from the local garages and get ammo from the shops. Once the enemy advance had slowed to a grind, the thing was to infiltrate and get behind enemy lines, which was very tricky and you always lost your transport and had to travel the last few waypoints and villages on skis, being bombed and bombarded and chased by enemy snowcats all the time. But there was one safe mode of travel: cablecar. Unfortunately, you still had to leave the cablecar and continue skiing or try hanggliding.
They used to run this ad at the 2 Amiga stores I went to back in 1988. Over & Over & Over I'd have to hear this while I was looking.
Love these machines. Decades ahead of their time.
Amiga has the same graphic capabilities as PCJr (or Tandy 1000), designed in 1983-84.
@@IkarusKommt Amiga (OCS/ECS) has hardware accelerated graphics through the blitter chip and 32 colors (or 4096 in HAM mode). You can also use the copper chip to generate excellent gradients with fine granularity. It easily eats a Tandy 1000 or PCJr for dinner when it comes to graphics. I am a PC guy, but I still see how Amiga was better than anything else in the home computer segment at the time.
It's crazy to see how rapidly data storage capacity grows. Like even by the 90s we were getting video games that were hundreds of times the size of the Amiga 500s initial storage capacity.
The real strength of the Amiga seems to be broadcast quality video effects. The only Amiga I've seen in real life was doing titles at a cable company in 1997.
BEST EVER for at least a whole decade and thats no BS
My 1st computer was a IBM PC/XT that my grandfather gave me. 1 color (orange) monitor, no mouse, 10mb hard drive, and a whole meg of ram. :D
But that computer is responsible for making me the geek I am today. Got thrown away during a move, and I sorely miss it today.
i had an A1200, it was my 1st PC ever, i think i was around 6 or 8 years old...
this thing brought me into the whole computer stuff... i really miss the days messing around with the workbench ;D
this was my first computer ever!!
i miss it so much
1MB back then, was like having 16GB of memory now. I remember sitting at my C64 and being awed at the immense amount of memory the A500 had.
16GB back then was like having 128GB of memory now.
@@mlcs 16GB back then didn't exist
@@t-rozbenouameur5304 yeah, but I meant 16gb in 2007
@@mlcs what do you mean? That simply didn't exist.
@@mlcs are you confusing MB with GB?
I just realized that my heart is still attached with Amiga :) Hail Commodore we need it back.
Frankly, this is AMAZING. Laser printers, mice, colours screens, video editing softwares in 1987 : it was already all there ! There was nothing on earth like these machines back then !
I still use my Amiga computers every day. With my 2MB A600 I can go online, chat to friends on MSN and IRC, read E-Mail and News, play MUDs, and listen to music all at the same time. I use my A500 for games mostly, but I love it just as much :)
"one whole megabyte of internal memory"
I know it sounds inmature, but I loled when I heard that.
I had an Amiga 2000 and it was so GD advanced for its time. Too bad it was mismanaged out of existence. I'm an artist and some of my Amiga artwork was published in the computer magazines of the day. There is no telling how far the Amiga could have gone if properly managed. Nothing could touch it back in the day.
I never saw this one before. Nothing compared to it back in the day, but I was poor and continued to use my C64 up til 1992. Thanks for posting.
I still have 3 amiga500s boxed and tucked away..I am 51 and most of my teenage years were spent on a A500.
Nice setup with a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. I never had an Amiga, but had an Atari 65XE, and then 1040STe. 1987, great old days. I miss those older computers. Although I have to say that the IBM PS/2 and the Macintosh were very exciting in those days too. Today? I don't find computers exciting. They are simply a chore these days. In the 80's computing used to be fun, really.
I like how that guy during the sound and video portion was in an episode of Tales from the Crypt
I was an Amiga fan... the best computer I had in that time. It was an amazing technology for its time.
Amiga computers really were made for people who wanted to be creative themselves instead of just consuming. Too bad Commodore had no lucky hand with marketing and rested on their laurels for too long.
The A4000 in '92 was the last machine I bought from Commodore. Shame the end for the company came two years later, but it was foreseeable.
0:43 Faery Tale Adventure! Best game for the era. The start of all RPG's! Massive for it's time!
A machine that was truly ahead of it time and launch a generation of computer animation professionals.
i've watched this video and every video about amiga several times. inspires me to program day in, day out.
Merry Christmas Amiga & Friends of.
The Amiga was the best system. I used mine for years and years too. It was so innovative. It had the best sound processor too... Too bad it ended like it did, those systems really deserved to last and we would have a alternative to Microsucks and Jobs's fashion products today...
Legendary computer of 90s. Just a legend :)
I agree with you. Back then, people didn't even have a clue what a KIlobyte was either!
who remembers 'interceptor F22' i think it was?! it was amazing at the time, as was 'apprentice' :-)
think we got ours for about £400! Never realised how fortunate i was at the time getting one for christmas! lol Brilliant!
Brings back memories! I miss my Amiga 500! It was my first home computer and in it's day it was a kick ass machine! I had to sell it to pay some bills. I then bought a DOS based computer. Talk about going backwards! The Amiga ruled!
Wow. I got one of these for my 8th birthday, complete with the modem and a panasonic dot matrix printer. I was the first person I knew who had a computer by at least 3 years.
Also, I feel very, very old now. :P
At least in this commercial they show some good productivity software for the Amiga. It should be better advertised for business market. There were great apps that could compete with software from DOS and early Windows. I've tried many different office apps and I was impressed how advanced they were for the time.
From what I've read about 1980s computing, I think the problem was (not entirely, apparently there were limitations with the max resolution output of the Amiga, and also without a flicker fixer long work was apparently uncomfortable) that IBM had given office consumers confidence to jump into computing to replace manual systems like typewriters, and so IBM had become the defacto choice. Before IBM entered the PC market, the market was much smaller, because a lot of general office people (or perhaps more specifically their managers and company owners) hadn't had the confidence to go ahead and comptuerise their workplaces. Quite simply, the name of IBM carried a lot of weight. After this, the best software that ran on IBM became the standard, and anything that couldn't run the exact same program (ie anything that wasn't an IBM or compatible) was a hard sell to say the least.
By 1987, office computers had SuperEGA cards that could do 800x500x16 non-interlaced video or 132x40 text modes. Amiga, with its 320x200 TV screen instead of a monitor could not compete there.
Commodore Amiga ruled! - and to this day still does. Imagine an computer from the late 80'ies still being able to access the internet and do true hardware multitasking - amazing. Deluxe Paint was originally invented and created for the Amiga, the MS-DOS version was just a minimalistic imitation of the original :-)
Ahh how I loved my Amiga 500 & my Amiga 4000 & Video Toaster Flyer.
Ahhh... good old days, when it was all so exciting and new.... the agonising anticipation and excitement of waiting 5 minutes for a low res image to download, line by painstaking line....Ohhhh Yeeeeaa... you know what I'm talking about if you were online in the late 80s early 90s. And BBS's, and STAG disks...
i love watching old commercials
I've never owned one, but I remember my first computer - Timex Sinclair 2048. Thx for this video!
Wow! What a rockin' video, especially the music segment in the middle... from abound 5:40 with the musician on the DX7, to around 5:55 when the dude in the blue sweater just goes off!!!
The most brilliant gaming platform ever made! There was nothing like it ever after...
I was lucky enough to use an Amiga in elementary school for animation with deluxe paint...got hooked and now I work at a Studio.
My favourite bits:
4:00 "Now the fun begins!"
5:40/5:53 - Jeeez look at that guy! He's "literally" in the music!
@ginbim
I fully agree. Memory gluttons are all people are these days. That was the amazing thing about the Amiga. They not only did a lot more than the competition did, they also did it with much much less.
THE SPIRIT OF AMIGA IS STILL GOING STRONG !!!!...
Amiga zawszy rządziła!! uwielbiałem ten dźwięk ze stacji dysków :)
BUT IT'S DESKTOP PUBLISHING THAT REALLY TURNS ME ON.
greatest youtube video ever.
The graphics and text on the screenshots look so old and dated now, but this was special and new in 1987. A lot of the hardware mentioned in this promo would have been very expensive back then. I absolutely love the voice over actors in this video, they really make the Amiga 500 look like something very very special and unique and powerful. It's a shame I was far too young to use one of these back in 1987.
320x200 was nothing to write home about in 1987. ATI, Tseng, Orchid et al. already made SVGA (256 color) adapters by the end of the year.
@@IkarusKommt For the PC, yes.
i'm so old i remember when this looked both good and futuristic
Thanks for posting... Very interesting, wish I was born 20 years earlier!
by the age of both voices, I would imagine they would be in their late 60's.
By 1987 the Amiga was starting to mature. I bought my Amiga 1000 when it first came out and remember taking a bank loan out to buy it.
Holy shit!!! One megabite of internal memory. That is soo much memory i cant even put one song on that dinosour...
5:49 these guys are over flowing with creativity!
BLOWING MY MIND RIGHT NOW, COMMODORE.
Started my Computer-Career with a Texas Instruments Ti99/4a and loved my C-64 with 300 Baud Acoustic coupler (Akkustik-Koppler) via telephone and discovering the first Mailboxes and even ChatRooms!!!
But the AMIGA500 was the first Computer that really forced creativity. Had my first real $ Jobs with that beautiful Machine: With Deluxe Paint, Imagine, Cinema4d and a magic TV GenLock ;) those were wonderful times - and unforgettable Nights full of Cyber-Magic. But LOV now my i7Quadcore 8GBRAM W7!
This was my first computer, when i bought it i had the memory expanded from 500kb to a whopping 1meg, but it utilised that 1 meg very well...i wish i still had it...
this was real power! without this computers we would never be where we are now
this is THE computer!
Thats really great to hear that the Amiga is alive! You proove what the Amiga is capable of. Its a very underated computer.
I borrowed this tape from the public library, just to watch it a few times. I never was able to save up enough to buy my own Amiga 500. :(
May get one now, there's a few games I'm sure I'd like to play on it.
LOL I never saw a computer commercial like this!
I like the monitor coming out of the smoke.
I did not know function keys used to be such a selling point?!
can't wait till this comes out
Loved this. It blew the IBM compatibles out of the water in every aspect. When my family "upgraded" to a 386, I thought we downgraded, but glad that I got to use the old family computer for games.
the amiga 500.. the computer all us C-64 owners dreamed of owning, but could never afford to own...
incredible that they are already referring to what we know as the internet, in a 1987 promo - about 8 minutes in when they talk about the modem
i remember getting my Amiga 500 in the early 90's - it was the bomb!
The Amiga was another example of when the better technology lost out because of poor marketing and management. My older brother bought an Amiga 500 with the memory expansion. I blew a lot of time on that thing playing games, screwing with paint programs, and tinkering with Amiga BASIC. I loved The Bard's Tale. Faery Tale was also amazing to me at the time. It was the first game I remember being what I considered open world. You could basically walk off in any direction. Good times.
To be fair to Commodore's marketing people, this advert shows that they were touting the strengths of the Amiga pretty well. I think what worked against them was the reputed late 80s distrust of home computers by much of the American market (consoles became more popular after the 1983 'video game crash') and the domination of general office use (i.e. word processing, spreadsheets and databases) by IBM PCs, which was pretty much worldwide and certainly so in America (America being the largest market for computers). There are countless tales of poor management by Commodore which are undoubtedly true, but I think this TV advert did a good job of getting the message across about how good the Amiga was.
@@danyoutube7491 Even ATARI was sane enough to realize you cannot do the office work on a TV screen - They provided a monochrome monitor and 640x400 resolution. Amigas could do only 640x200, wasting the precise vertical space.
Can't wait until it's 2045 and I search for the iphone 6 or the PS4. It's going to be so cute.
If the guy who did GI Joe's voice overs endorses a computer, you know it's gotta be awesome.
I got Amiga Forever on CD, and even though I only used the original Workbench for a few minutes, it had a lot of surprises in it, with the biggest shocker being 'holy crap, they could do this in 1985?' In all honesty, a lot of the stuff didn't seem possible for PCs until at least ten years later.
What a truly amazing machine, it's a shame many people overlook it in favour of modern gadgets and emulators, people who watch this and say the amiga must be crap because it's old, what can new computers do that old ones couldn't? Long live the amiga :)
and with only 2Mb of RAM ;)
G. Gamez Gamez 2 mb? The a500 had 512k!
Peter Williams
ahahah you are right i mistaked the 500 with the 1200!
I'm late to the comments but how much ram or processing power etc... it has doesn't mean it can do all that much less, it depends how bloated and efficient the software is, modern software is incredibly bloated and that's why we need at least 1.5gb of ram (and this is on XP)to do a typical task when computers before then got the same job done (although a bit worse) on much less power
I'm not so sure about the amiga, but musicians are still using the Atari ST because of those two little MIDI ports that were essentially an afterthought during development lol
Let me tell ya, that "full megabyte" memory made a WORLD of a difference back then. It came with 500 kb of memory!!
Amazing!! I want one! Remember the days?
a true classic i used to play pinball dreams for ages on the machone
I wasn't even born when this thing came out. My friend said he had this computer when he was a teen (yeah, there's a 14 year age gap!).
Old skool audio production ftw though!
The Amiga's blew everything away back then... God I loved hacking with it back then.
I was an exchange student in Germany in '88 and the German guy I stayed with had one of these and yes-This infomercial doesn't lie. I had a 64 at the time and was so jealous! The guy was a dick about letting me play with it, so I played with it when he was away.
Back when the Amiga debuted, VGA was just a pipe-dream. PC's were still using CGA.
Yes, the Amiga was capable of 4096 colors but outside of some paint programs you never saw it. Most applications used 32 colors instead which was still better than CGA at the time.
The best computer of all time:
- the best grafics
- the best sound
- the best games
- the best videos editing
no other computer at that time can reach the Amiga! thats a fact!
THE computer for the creative mind. But a lot of missed opportunities. AGA was too little too late, and I can't believe they didn't even bother to upgrade the sound system.
If I would have seen this video back in 1987 my head would have exploded!
Awesome... I remember my Amiga 500. 1MB Ram and 40MB HDD... Awwesome
"Add an Amiga modem, and now you're talking!
...to a vast network of other computer users."
I always used PC in my whole life, but man Amiga sure was a powerful computer back in 87.
this is the greatest video I have ever seen...
This was a very special computer so far ahead of it's time, just wish there was a version of workbench for this day and age you could only imagine how great that would be!
AROS is Workbench for the modern day OS
there' s also AMIWM for Linux, that makes your normal x86 machine look like Workbench
pamięta się czasy jak na amiga się grało... :)
Cudo. Wspaniała maszyna!
Wow - those guys were really rocking out!! I love the Amiga.. I AM the AMIGA 500!!!