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.
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 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
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 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.
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.
+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).
@@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.
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.
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 !
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! 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!!!
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.
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.
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.
A600, not sure if this came with kick3 or 2. but was by many described as a flop, smaller keyboard and less expandable, it did have a PMCIA slot though. A2000, hardware wise not so far away from the A500, but more expandable and came in a desktop casing. There was also some special editions made in small numbers like the A1500 and A2500. I think they was similar to the A2000, but with some expansions included.
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 :)
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
After this there was a vacum for Amiga hardware, especially for the video marked, so there was also made some clones named DraCo. A bit like the A4000T, but did not have the custom chipsets, hey did feature a few other imprevements though. There have been some new PPC hardware released, a few AmigaOne models and these days the SAM440 and SAM440-Flex boards. There are also some hardware for the MorphOS platform (Amiga-like OS, but without the Amiga brand).
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.
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!
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...
Hi - can anyone explain to me the different versions of the Commodore Amiga, like how many there were and the names of them? What was different about them? Just seems like there were loads! Thanks, Tom
@adric22 Overheating wasn't a real issue in those days because the circuit board parts didn't produce that much heat as nowadays. Weren't even that integrated though.
@sollidottingen But there is nothing that will enter my bios! I can press whatever I like, and nothing will ever happen. The problem is - is that both OS in the dual boot are both the same...and I have absolutely no idea which install my computer runs off. How am I going to figure that out? I have no idea...so maybe as soon as I press my power button I start pressing random keys? I know the bios is usually Esc, Del, F8, F9, F10, for me, idk...
razors78: "Who is the music artist behind this Promo Video?" Sounds like an in-house job or a prerecorded backing soundtrack. I used to work for a production house and they had an in-house studio that would produce music for all of our projects. As cheesy or sophisticated a sound you wanted, and no licensing or copyright issues! :)
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 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.
If you can load adf files you can basically run all the software for Amigas it can emulate. The problem is with additional hardware that is shown in this video. If it allows plugging an USB mouse and keyboard it'll be possible to use productivity software like word processors, spreadsheet, painting programs, music making tools etc. But it would be more convenient to use an emulator on your PC instead. You can emulate various configurations and make virtual harddrives that will make the whole experience better.
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 :-)
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!
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...
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!
@oostermanju are you really using amiga!? and if you are im really happy for you. cuz im planning to buy this too cuz amiga iz far more trustable for saving text documents. i had amiga but it broke!!:(
Open Windows was originaly designed by Sun Microsystems for their SunOS. It was a windows manager, that looked quite a bit different than motif or troff. Then, Open Windows was available with Linux distribution such as Slackware. That was like in 1995, so I don't even know if Slackware is still available. Anyway, the Open Windows was sometimes called Open Look GUI. It is very nice, very customizable, etc. That's why it is my favorite one. And also because I like the look and feel of it.
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.
Wow. That's pretty good for 1987. and running stuff like that on 1 meg of RAM. these days you can't get vista to run fast without adding enough RAM to run ten thousand Amigas and having a few human sacrifices.
Think I'll need several posts covering all models:) I might forget some though: Classic Amigas: A1000, this one had kickstart on floppy. I think first models delivered with only 256kb Ram. Kickstart is like a mix between a Bios and some basic parts of the OS. A500, kickstart 1.2 and 1.3 A500+ ( like A500 with updated kickstart ROM 2.x and Workbench 2.x, and shipped with 1MB Ram) CDTV, looked like a standard stereo CD-player, but was a A500 with a CD-Rom drive. Very underestimated product IMHO.
There's Amiga Forever emulation pack. They have tons of games, but what I'm really interested in are the art and animation packs. I heard TVpaint had their last version for the Amiga (the 3.59) available for free off their website. I don't know, but I heard it is one of the best animation software around.
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.
"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.
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.
brings on the tears, had the A500 back in the day... recently bought 500, 600 and 1200 ;)
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.
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 :)
The A500 was my First new Computer in late 1989, great machine..
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
I LOVE THIS COMPUTER!
czesc mgr!
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 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.
Advertized as professional computer, famous as gaming machine
Just like today.
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.
hear the ASMR value of this wonderful commercial. even buzzing sound is perfect as if it's intentionally put in the video.
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.
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!
this was my first computer ever!!
i miss it so much
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.
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.
I just realized that my heart is still attached with Amiga :) Hail Commodore we need it back.
BEST EVER for at least a whole decade and thats no BS
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?
a true classic i used to play pinball dreams for ages on the machone
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 was an Amiga fan... the best computer I had in that time. It was an amazing technology for its time.
0:43 Faery Tale Adventure! Best game for the era. The start of all RPG's! Massive for it's time!
"one whole megabyte of internal memory"
I know it sounds inmature, but I loled when I heard that.
Thats really great to hear that the Amiga is alive! You proove what the Amiga is capable of. Its a very underated computer.
looks like amiga was ahead of it's timein many ways, including this ad. all the "i'm a mac, I'm a pc" thing...
"i'm the amiga" started IT!!
My favourite bits:
4:00 "Now the fun begins!"
5:40/5:53 - Jeeez look at that guy! He's "literally" in the music!
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.
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.
Thanks for posting... Very interesting, wish I was born 20 years earlier!
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! 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!!!
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.
1 Megabyte of internal memory! DAMN!
i remember getting my Amiga 500 in the early 90's - it was the bomb!
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.
The Amiga's blew everything away back then... God I loved hacking with it back then.
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.
A machine that was truly ahead of it time and launch a generation of computer animation professionals.
A600, not sure if this came with kick3 or 2. but was by many described as a flop, smaller keyboard and less expandable, it did have a PMCIA slot though.
A2000, hardware wise not so far away from the A500, but more expandable and came in a desktop casing.
There was also some special editions made in small numbers like the A1500 and A2500. I think they was similar to the A2000, but with some expansions included.
think we got ours for about £400! Never realised how fortunate i was at the time getting one for christmas! lol Brilliant!
Legendary computer of 90s. Just a legend :)
@SSMATT08 Depends on what model. The 500's, 600's and 1200's were a few hundred. Stuff like the 2000 or 3000 were a couple thousand.
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 :)
I love amiga . Many many many hours ......
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
After this there was a vacum for Amiga hardware, especially for the video marked, so there was also made some clones named DraCo. A bit like the A4000T, but did not have the custom chipsets, hey did feature a few other imprevements though.
There have been some new PPC hardware released, a few AmigaOne models and these days the SAM440 and SAM440-Flex boards. There are also some hardware for the MorphOS platform (Amiga-like OS, but without the Amiga brand).
Keep in mind, this was back when IBM/DOS machines were using 640k or less.
A Meg of memory was vast back in the day.
for 1987 thats impressive
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.
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
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...
So true. I was watching an old TV movie where they used one of those old cell phones the size of a brick with a long car radio antenna. Amazing.
who remembers 'interceptor F22' i think it was?! it was amazing at the time, as was 'apprentice' :-)
Ahh how I loved my Amiga 500 & my Amiga 4000 & Video Toaster Flyer.
Yeah! I think the guy at 6:25 is from A-Team, isn't he?
Hi - can anyone explain to me the different versions of the Commodore Amiga, like how many there were and the names of them? What was different about them? Just seems like there were loads!
Thanks, Tom
Best machine EVER!!!
@adric22 Overheating wasn't a real issue in those days because the circuit board parts didn't produce that much heat as nowadays. Weren't even that integrated though.
can't wait till this comes out
@sollidottingen But there is nothing that will enter my bios! I can press whatever I like, and nothing will ever happen. The problem is - is that both OS in the dual boot are both the same...and I have absolutely no idea which install my computer runs off. How am I going to figure that out? I have no idea...so maybe as soon as I press my power button I start pressing random keys? I know the bios is usually Esc, Del, F8, F9, F10, for me, idk...
razors78: "Who is the music artist behind this Promo Video?"
Sounds like an in-house job or a prerecorded backing soundtrack.
I used to work for a production house and they had an in-house studio that would produce music for all of our projects. As cheesy or sophisticated a sound you wanted, and no licensing or copyright issues! :)
Amiga zawszy rządziła!! uwielbiałem ten dźwięk ze stacji dysków :)
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've never owned one, but I remember my first computer - Timex Sinclair 2048. Thx for this video!
Cudo. Wspaniała maszyna!
Holy shit!!! One megabite of internal memory. That is soo much memory i cant even put one song on that dinosour...
There was mention, perhaps edited out, that some of the events shown included future developments.
The Amiga 500 porno video :)
I came
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.
this is the greatest video I have ever seen...
I wonder if you can do all of this on the A500 Mini that Retro Games is going to release next year in 2022.
If you can load adf files you can basically run all the software for Amigas it can emulate. The problem is with additional hardware that is shown in this video. If it allows plugging an USB mouse and keyboard it'll be possible to use productivity software like word processors, spreadsheet, painting programs, music making tools etc. But it would be more convenient to use an emulator on your PC instead. You can emulate various configurations and make virtual harddrives that will make the whole experience better.
Almost! Just as they were fading away, I saw an external hard drive available for the 500.
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 :-)
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!
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...
That Was Amazing Thank You Bro For This Upload
Amazing!! I want one! Remember the days?
Wow - those guys were really rocking out!! I love the Amiga.. I AM the AMIGA 500!!!
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!
I like how that guy during the sound and video portion was in an episode of Tales from the Crypt
i love watching old commercials
@oostermanju
are you really using amiga!? and if you are im really happy for you. cuz im planning to buy this too cuz amiga iz far more trustable for saving text documents. i had amiga but it broke!!:(
512k - 1mb ram were enough to do all the graphic's and games and all the other stuff.
now we need at least 2 gb ram to run windows vista...
Open Windows was originaly designed by Sun Microsystems for their SunOS. It was a windows manager, that looked quite a bit different than motif or troff. Then, Open Windows was available with Linux distribution such as Slackware. That was like in 1995, so I don't even know if Slackware is still available. Anyway, the Open Windows was sometimes called Open Look GUI. It is very nice, very customizable, etc. That's why it is my favorite one. And also because I like the look and feel of it.
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.
BUT IT'S DESKTOP PUBLISHING THAT REALLY TURNS ME ON.
greatest youtube video ever.
Wow. That's pretty good for 1987. and running stuff like that on 1 meg of RAM. these days you can't get vista to run fast without adding enough RAM to run ten thousand Amigas and having a few human sacrifices.
5:49 these guys are over flowing with creativity!
I like the monitor coming out of the smoke.
I did not know function keys used to be such a selling point?!
Think I'll need several posts covering all models:) I might forget some though:
Classic Amigas:
A1000, this one had kickstart on floppy. I think first models delivered with only 256kb Ram. Kickstart is like a mix between a Bios and some basic parts of the OS.
A500, kickstart 1.2 and 1.3
A500+ ( like A500 with updated kickstart ROM 2.x and Workbench 2.x, and shipped with 1MB Ram)
CDTV, looked like a standard stereo CD-player, but was a A500 with a CD-Rom drive. Very underestimated product IMHO.
I agree with you. Back then, people didn't even have a clue what a KIlobyte was either!
Awesome... I remember my Amiga 500. 1MB Ram and 40MB HDD... Awwesome
There's Amiga Forever emulation pack. They have tons of games, but what I'm really interested in are the art and animation packs. I heard TVpaint had their last version for the Amiga (the 3.59) available for free off their website. I don't know, but I heard it is one of the best animation software around.
Thank you so much!
BLOWING MY MIND RIGHT NOW, COMMODORE.