Holy crap, thank you so much for posting this! Richard Payne is my husband. One of the first people to do this. Back then there were no schools for it. Twenty two years later and he's still kicking ass in computer graphics. :)
Amiga was awesome even to this day I still think it was the best computer in the world, it had everything, awesome graphics and beyond it's time music like Super Cars and Hybris etc, and what was also great the Amiga was around when the best of arcade games were around like mortal kombat, street fighter, final fight, double dragon, r-type, tmnt and more. I wish the Amiga was better managed because if it was I would bet my life that we would be watching youtube on our Amiga.
when I use computers, the whole current platforms are totally FACELESS. Whatever inspires, it does not matter what one uses. And pixel art is genuinely beautiful.
@themanamp agreed - though I think Commodore monitors may have a lot to do with it. Hooking a DVD/VCR up to an old Commodore or Amiga monitor gives incredible picture quality. Used an old C=1902A monitor as my TV for a few years.
Warm memories of Deluxe Paint, and I was only a young boy when I used it on my A500. Had I never owned an Amiga, I probably wouldn't be doing graphic/web design now. Would have loved a higher end machine, but my A500, A600 and A1200(s) served me well, awesome machines. Oh, and Sensible Soccer... :)
Ahhh, ahhh, I remember when my mom bought me an A1000 for my 9th birthday, it was like 1800 Deutsche Mark (almost the same as the US$ in value back at those times) Good old times... miss them :(
It's fun how the Mac, which became the mainstay of the DTP-prepress world in the 90s, gets smacked in this video because it didn't have preemptive multitasking. heh.
"out of the 16 Mills!" Actually, I think the original Denise in the A2000 was only 12-bit, i.e., 4096 total possible colours. AGA (1992) then allowed 262,144 colors (18-bit) HAM-8, and 256-colour 'indexed' palette from 16,777,216 total possible colours.
Is it just my nostalgic memories or do the Amiga graphics seem more `warm' even when compared with the much more advanced PC graphics of today? Then again, I'm watching this on PC.... so I don't know, but PC graphics, particularly on games always look so stark, crisp and cold compared to the games of my youth.
Yes I meant... that IBM PCs and MACs were more expensive compared to what AMIGA got. To handle video and music like AMIGA did at that time you had to buy far expensive IBM PCs and MACs. I had to be more specific, sorry.
Can anyone imagine if these guys had gotten ahead of Apple and Microsoft?!?! Haha... we'd probably be all using Amiga based devices today! Makes me wonder if that would've affected the development of open source software.
@Chaniyth i'm totally agree with you mac now are just expansive pc, In this blody world today is everything standardized even the cars if u drive today an a ford o citroen o alfa romeo u don't feel difference in past even the engine noise was different between different model
At 1:46 "Even artists, who never touch a computer before....creating graphics on amiga". C'mon, that's almost the same slogans for Toon Boom and Photoshop. AND people still struggle with the work flow with those bitches.
You know, I still believe that the Amiga would have been much more popular if Commodore hadn't been dead-set against even mentioning the fact that it had some of the best games of the time. That and if their execs hadn't been complete morons. All total, I think I saw maybe three commercials for it. Literally, I think I saw a commercial for it on 3 occasions, and that was all.
This was a time when you had innovators that were prepared to take risks for the BENEFIT of people, real shame Commodore went bust. The equivalent today is Apple I guess, without them we would be at least 15 yrs behind where we are today.
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Holy crap, thank you so much for posting this! Richard Payne is my husband. One of the first people to do this. Back then there were no schools for it. Twenty two years later and he's still kicking ass in computer graphics. :)
This was a VHS promo tape I got from an independant computer store way back when.
I've got a 2500 and a 3000. These were bad ass in their day.
Did 3/4 inch broadcast video editing- genlock chroma key and other goodies. Did amazing things with an amiga 1000 and dctv...
Amiga was awesome even to this day I still think it was the best computer in the world, it had everything, awesome graphics and beyond it's time music like Super Cars and Hybris etc, and what was also great the Amiga was around when the best of arcade games were around like mortal kombat, street fighter, final fight, double dragon, r-type, tmnt and more. I wish the Amiga was better managed because if it was I would bet my life that we would be watching youtube on our Amiga.
Thx. Both this and my Amiga 500 demo are posted.
when I use computers, the whole current platforms are totally FACELESS. Whatever inspires, it does not matter what one uses. And pixel art is genuinely beautiful.
There was art to what one could do with limited capabilities. I think that's what the Amiga tried to do.
very good production-
great for graphic designers and advertising- i remember my first computer in 1992 a Mc intosh in madrid (spain) -
I loved my Amiga 2000. Nothing beats Marble Madness and Captain Blood!
There no doubt that the Amiga platform was the most elegant ever.
@isaklovetilda Glad I looked at the comments! Thanks for pointing that out! ^_^
ahhhh the coveted zorro slot. with moterola processer, video toaster, and blizzard accelerator. tastey.
@themanamp agreed - though I think Commodore monitors may have a lot to do with it. Hooking a DVD/VCR up to an old Commodore or Amiga monitor gives incredible picture quality. Used an old C=1902A monitor as my TV for a few years.
Love these still,the most beautiful machine man has created so far. :)
Looks very innovative... the tablet and colour choice.
Wow, this is amazing. I could really use this to create some slides for a presentation, when is it being released? Can it run windows?
Warm memories of Deluxe Paint, and I was only a young boy when I used it on my A500. Had I never owned an Amiga, I probably wouldn't be doing graphic/web design now.
Would have loved a higher end machine, but my A500, A600 and A1200(s) served me well, awesome machines.
Oh, and Sensible Soccer... :)
infact the Lisa GUI was brought out in 1984 so the GUI was out way before then because of Xerox had it for atleast 2-3 years before that
I had an Amiga back in the day. I used mine for gaming and they were way better than anything Microsoft had back then.
Ahhh, ahhh, I remember when my mom bought me
an A1000 for my 9th birthday, it was like
1800 Deutsche Mark (almost the same as the US$ in value back at those times)
Good old times... miss them :(
you are correct sir. Xerox Parc (sp?) was the first GUI interface. And mouse. Xerox thought it was a stupid idea...
Here Here !!
OMG! I cant wait for 1987.... I never seen ground breaking techonolgy. i wish my windows 9x work like this.... lol
@isaklovetilda > Thanks :) I was a bit sad when it very suddently stopped with sound: This helped :)
Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Yes! It was a GUI interface before GUI was invented.
i had amiga 500, it was the best computer ever
They were cool!
epic:
3:51 you can undo your last mistake, i like that part (big smile)
It's fun how the Mac, which became the mainstay of the DTP-prepress world in the 90s, gets smacked in this video because it didn't have preemptive multitasking. heh.
"out of the 16 Mills!"
Actually, I think the original Denise in the A2000 was only 12-bit, i.e., 4096 total possible colours.
AGA (1992) then allowed 262,144 colors (18-bit) HAM-8, and 256-colour 'indexed' palette from 16,777,216 total possible colours.
It was ten years till windows got anywhere close to this, I guess personal computers couldn't have taken off so quickly without the internet.
Is it just my nostalgic memories or do the Amiga graphics seem more `warm' even when compared with the much more advanced PC graphics of today? Then again, I'm watching this on PC.... so I don't know, but PC graphics, particularly on games always look so stark, crisp and cold compared to the games of my youth.
Amiga Rulezzzzzzzzz
4096 colors, wow!
the amiga 2000 was my first computer
Yes I meant... that IBM PCs and MACs were more expensive compared to what AMIGA got.
To handle video and music like AMIGA did at that time you had to buy far expensive IBM PCs and MACs.
I had to be more specific, sorry.
Well...in a way....yes!
Ah! Thanks. ☺
Why is there no sound in this video anymore?
out of the 16 Mills!
what happened to the amiga One and OS4?
At the time, I thought they were the coolest!
did the amiga run on a shortcut file interface? like windows
@petsasjim1 240P works,thank you!
All this was in the same year as Windows 2.0!
Can anyone imagine if these guys had gotten ahead of Apple and Microsoft?!?! Haha... we'd probably be all using Amiga based devices today! Makes me wonder if that would've affected the development of open source software.
Audio?
@Chaniyth i'm totally agree with you mac now are just expansive pc, In this blody world today is everything standardized even the cars if u drive today an a ford o citroen o alfa romeo u don't feel difference in past even the engine noise was different between different model
Is this narrated by Tom Skerrit?
Electronic Arts made Paint software?
At 1:46 "Even artists, who never touch a computer before....creating graphics on amiga". C'mon, that's almost the same slogans for Toon Boom and Photoshop. AND people still struggle with the work flow with those bitches.
If you think about it, Microsoft was waaaaaaaay behind in the GUI department. I wonder why its so successful :(
Lol cool retro goodness :3
You know, I still believe that the Amiga would have been much more popular if Commodore hadn't been dead-set against even mentioning the fact that it had some of the best games of the time.
That and if their execs hadn't been complete morons. All total, I think I saw maybe three commercials for it. Literally, I think I saw a commercial for it on 3 occasions, and that was all.
The first computer to come with free ghosts 3:20
god... it took 25 years to become better than an amiga... and even then most computers are still lacking certain features...
dpaint back then is 100x better than ms paint today!
Amiga: Today's technology... yesterday!
There’s no audio.
This was a time when you had innovators that were prepared to take risks for the BENEFIT of people, real shame Commodore went bust. The equivalent today is Apple I guess, without them we would be at least 15 yrs behind where we are today.
Looks a lot like Windows 7 and Vista!
got a boxed one.
why does everything have to be delux int his computer
"It has something called Multitasking..." Something the iPhone has.. in 2010... finally... Well, soon. What took Apple so long again?
in this field nothing compared with the Macintosh.
That's not correct.
IBM PCs and MACs were more expensive compared to Amiga.
240p=sound
well if you want to give it to me I wouldn't mind at all :P
Amiga is mac os .maybe mac 10.6 o late is amiga 10000
and windows 2000
Probably because it was funded by the biggest comptuer company in the world at the time...(IBM).
@dtfageet Yeah the Atari ST and EGA DOS computers where much better
(sarcasm)
marketing.
@buzzjunked almost as shit as Work bench.
again, marketing :/
i was like 3 months old when this thing came out wow what an ugly computer