It's not the most powerful computer I've used to date, but certainly the most fun. I had 2MB of memory in mine, plugged into the CPU slot, and I loved that my A1000 was slightly faster than the A500 all my friends had. So far ahead of its time, and still so many valuable lessons for modern designers to learn from it.
Oh, this takes me back. My mom found it at a thrift store secondhand when I was a kid for like 30 bucks and I did extra chores around the house to pay for it. I remember I had the kickstart floppy on a string taped to the computer so I wouldn't lose it. Oh, the countless hours I spent experimenting finding out what it could do and playing games like Silent Service and Kings Quest 5 on this system. God, I feel old.
Man, memories. I remember 1.0 and 1.1 were EXTREMELY buggy (especially 1.0) and 1.2 was significantly more stable, but 1.3 was the sweet spot and became the version of choice for many years for games.
Ohh the memories, had one of thoose back in the days. Took me almost an entire summer of extra job to afford it (+ the extra ram module)- Was well worth it!
Used to stare for hours at the advertisement folder about the Amiga in the 80s, dreaming of having one. Then i got an A500 in 88. About 10 years after this computer was released, i was working with Windows 3.11 machines that ran much faster and had much more memory, and they still couldn't do preemtive multitasking, or show as many colours like this machine did. Back then, "Why would you need multitasking?" - and now it's in every operating system because people expect to be able to do more than one thing at the same time. Amiga - so ahead of it's time, and so poorly managed and marketed.
you nasa started using 1000's back in 1986. They chose them over dec alphas and windows machines because they were cheap, more modifiable and had much more efficient operating systems.
Agreed. The only issue I ever noticed with the Amiga multitasking was you could not load two programs at once that used sound, otherwise you would get the 'Guru Meditation' black and red screen of death forcing a reboot.
People say it was poorly markated and a failure but the reality is it was the most popular home computer in its time period. It was amazingly successful, it just didn't last forever.. but nothing does
I recall when I saw first time this gorgeous machine in the shop display I was 13 years old and demo running glass of champagne, I was in love with this machine till date that demo is in my memory I bought after some time A500 with memory expansion board till date it's with me I'm now 48 Yrs old. Thank you for sharing
I even bought the latest "Elite dangerous" version just to thank David Braben. I only played it for 2 hours .... far from the hundreds of hours on the C64 version
OMG! Every Amiga 1000 sounded the same and it is a great and beautiful sound memories. Each scratch comes before a so familiar and it was realized after only 5 seconds on scratch the floppy if the cracked and copied game is running or not :) great thanks.
I had an amiga yeaaars back, i trashed it, tried to build in an PC in it :P i remember that inside the case it was the amiga development crews autopgraphs molded in the plasic. =) But damn, i regret it today, had an Amiga CDTV aswell, that was years ahead all the others. And it was really nice looking :P
My first PC as well. Loved my machine, but I recall paying about $350 for 1/2 Megabytes of ram, that was about the size of my current cell phone! Memory was a premium item back in the late 80's early 90's.
I remember when I was a kid my dad was friends with a thrift store manager and he got me this exact computer and it was one of my favorites. Unfortunately I ended up wiping out the operating system somehow and never got it working again. Don’t remember what we ended up doing with it but it upsets me now after seeing how much they are worth. (Saw one listed on eBay for around $20,000!!!
I have my Amiga 500, too 😺👍. Also i have lots of great games such as... - THE SETTLERS - STRIP POKER I-II - LEISURE SUIT LARRY 1-5 - SENSIBLE SOCCER - KICK OFF - WAYNE GRETZKY HOCKEY - SHADOW OF THE BEAST I-III - OBLITERATOR - LEATHER GODDESSES OF PHOBOS - STAR WARS - VIXEN - WINTER GAMES - WORLD GAMES - ELVIRA: THE ARCADE GAME I got two tough words to say: AMIGA FOREVER! 😺👍🕹️🕹️
I had one of these. I used to hate it. My friend had an Atari ST and he always seemed to be able to do more interesting stuff with it. I had the 2000 afterwards and that was a bit better, at least it had Kickstart in ROM plus I had a hard drive by then, a massive 40mb.
The CLI (or the Shell on newer kickstart/wb) is the best way to navigate the Amiga :). Especially when using a HDD with it. It's very inspired by Unix, although not case sensitive.
Nope it is not too loud. It is just as loud as it should be and how loud it has always been. Then you should hear a 20 Megabyte Miniscribe MFM harddrive running.
@@ЕгорЦыба No harddrive in the early Amiga's. Nit even stabdard in Amiga 600 and 1200. Back then it was a premium extra equipment. Everything was Floppy Disk based in 1985.
It's fairly loud but it's part of the charm of it, hell, some people have a skill for telling what game a machine is loading just from how the disc sounds. Hybris is a fairly easy one, just listen for a low rapid thumping noise that lasts about 4 seconds, few clicks, then another low rapid thumping for the same time.
Nope.... The problem was not the engineers and the computers that Commodore produced. The reason why we are not using Amiga's today, is the leaders and the board of the conpany. Plus the sales and advertising department. It is thanks to the engineers that we now have such stuff as C128. Back then, Bill Herd was foebidden to do a machine like the 128, and the bosses did not order one. He thought that Commodore might need it, so he made it possible. Once the bosses realised they actually needed one, then it was already done and ready on a prototype level. Yet it waa what they had forbidden him to do. The sales department did not know what they were doing. Mehdi Ali was in it to grab as much cash as possible and Irwin was in it to let his other companies spin gold out of trade deals with Commodore. Nope.... We would not be using Amiga's today, if the first Amiga were capeable of running C64 software in hardware mode. Because the CEO's, board and sales department would have screwed it up anyway. And why would you build an C64 into an Amiga? It was expensive anyway, people did not know what it should be used for and the 500 is capeable of emulating the C64 anyway, through software. Plus 8-bit was going away at that point. The 128 was in that way, totally pointless, and they canceled the C65 project once they knew that people wanted 16 bit stuff. Finally. The Amiga and C64 architectures are way too different for the Amiga to simply run C64 software out of the box. It was a different time back then.
0:23 Boot-Sound! Is there any chance to grab that specific sound more clearly? I'm looking for it for AGES... (sold my A1000 Yeeeeaaaars ago - what was I thinking!?)
I tried but my Amiga decided to make only the two first music note. I dont have the entire "melody". I don't know why. I tried with or without floppy / hard drive. Someone knows ?
ah 1986, when the amiga was still light years ahead of anything else. Actually it was only the next year when another piece of hardware : The TurboGfx-16 arguably beat the amiga, though it was a close match. Still these 2 machines were the leaders at the time. What could have happened if commodore had pursued cutting edge gfx and sound instead of Tramiel's stubborn wrong headed philosophy of crapier cheaper machines for poorer people.
In the end it would be the same, just with commodore in it... The biggest problem of commodore was no sell... :D my neighbour bought an inferior 286 because it was better... 5x the price... it was better? no... but ... it was ibm
Dude..... If it is from 1986, then it is not an Amiga-1000. Only after the introduction of Amiga-500 and Amiga-2000, the "Amiga" became the "Amiga 1000".
@@prot88 Yup.... It is the exact same thing with Playstation1. In 1995 it was just Playstation. Yet after Playstation2 was released, it then became Playstation1. That is just something people tend to forget. I kind of have a small load of OCD regarding this.
too bad commodore made Workbench filthy ugly and depressingly grey after 1.3 .. this version looks Beautiful. Did their ui designer start smoking crack?
that was slow and shit by the standards atari was about 5 seconds.and i know.forget the crap about amiga was better.we aretalking boot times.a 100 full 1 minute if it reads the disk st 5 seconds
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The sound of that drive is the sound of my childhood!
$O$ P.
I ran from the computer when it makes that sound.
It's not the most powerful computer I've used to date, but certainly the most fun. I had 2MB of memory in mine, plugged into the CPU slot, and I loved that my A1000 was slightly faster than the A500 all my friends had.
So far ahead of its time, and still so many valuable lessons for modern designers to learn from it.
A500 with fast ram also increased its performance.
Having 2MB RAM on A1000 allowed hackers to store the entire content of the disk into RAM and then study for analyzing/ cracking it
@@valenrn8657 Sure !
It brings back memories, I had an Amiga 1000 during my college days in the mid 80's. Great video thanks!
I just needed to hear the sounds again. lol Thank you.
Oh, this takes me back. My mom found it at a thrift store secondhand when I was a kid for like 30 bucks and I did extra chores around the house to pay for it. I remember I had the kickstart floppy on a string taped to the computer so I wouldn't lose it. Oh, the countless hours I spent experimenting finding out what it could do and playing games like Silent Service and Kings Quest 5 on this system. God, I feel old.
Man, memories. I remember 1.0 and 1.1 were EXTREMELY buggy (especially 1.0) and 1.2 was significantly more stable, but 1.3 was the sweet spot and became the version of choice for many years for games.
gotta love how the disk labeling is reading upside down … because realism, not readability :D
Try being quiet at night when you want to play the computer after bedtime 😂 poor kids
Ohh the memories, had one of thoose back in the days. Took me almost an entire summer of extra job to afford it (+ the extra ram module)- Was well worth it!
Thanks. I'm 3d modeling a 1000 case and this helped me understand the color of the lights and that the right side one was a floppy drive light.
Oh, yeah. That’s the stuff, man. When I was a kid and heard a 3.5” floppy drive for the first time... DAMN!
Used to stare for hours at the advertisement folder about the Amiga in the 80s, dreaming of having one. Then i got an A500 in 88.
About 10 years after this computer was released, i was working with Windows 3.11 machines that ran much faster and had much more memory, and they still couldn't do preemtive multitasking, or show as many colours like this machine did. Back then, "Why would you need multitasking?" - and now it's in every operating system because people expect to be able to do more than one thing at the same time.
Amiga - so ahead of it's time, and so poorly managed and marketed.
you nasa started using 1000's back in 1986. They chose them over dec alphas and windows machines because they were cheap, more modifiable and had much more efficient operating systems.
Agreed. The only issue I ever noticed with the Amiga multitasking was you could not load two programs at once that used sound, otherwise you would get the 'Guru Meditation' black and red screen of death forcing a reboot.
So... You worked with Win3.11 when Win98 and NT 4.0 was out? I think your boss were not interested in upgrading his computers.
People say it was poorly markated and a failure but the reality is it was the most popular home computer in its time period. It was amazingly successful, it just didn't last forever.. but nothing does
The machine from my earliest memories.
***** Second that :) My first one was a Commodore 64 and then came the Amiga 1000!
+Arkngthunchsturdumz
Same here. Well, ZX81 then C64 then Amiga 1000. My parents were told that they had bought me the first Amiga 1000 in the UK.
I recall when I saw first time this gorgeous machine in the shop display I was 13 years old and demo running glass of champagne, I was in love with this machine till date that demo is in my memory I bought after some time A500 with memory expansion board till date it's with me I'm now 48 Yrs old. Thank you for sharing
An Amiga 1000 was my first real computer. It was so much better than the apple macintosh. I don't remember mine being that noisy.
I loved my AMIGA. it was the best
It makes me happy to see you have a copy of Frontier: Elite!
I even bought the latest "Elite dangerous" version just to thank David Braben. I only played it for 2 hours .... far from the hundreds of hours on the C64 version
That sound of the floppy disc drive working brings back so many happy memories!... Double floppy disc drives! 🤣 Bril!..
Awsome machine.
OMG! Every Amiga 1000 sounded the same and it is a great and beautiful sound memories. Each scratch comes before a so familiar and it was realized after only 5 seconds on scratch the floppy if the cracked and copied game is running or not :) great thanks.
I had an amiga yeaaars back, i trashed it, tried to build in an PC in it :P i remember that inside the case it was the amiga development crews autopgraphs molded in the plasic. =) But damn, i regret it today, had an Amiga CDTV aswell, that was years ahead all the others. And it was really nice looking :P
WOW I had a Commodore 64 back in the day. I did want an Amiga but I did not have the money at the time. Thank you for making this video.
Cool machine - I was in awe when I first saw it's capabilities.
My first PC as well. Loved my machine, but I recall paying about $350 for 1/2 Megabytes of ram, that was about the size of my current cell phone! Memory was a premium item back in the late 80's early 90's.
*NO YOUNG GUYS THIS IS NOT THE NEW TECHNO MUSIC SOUNDS THIS IS THE COMPUTER*
Good old Workbench!
I remember when I was a kid my dad was friends with a thrift store manager and he got me this exact computer and it was one of my favorites. Unfortunately I ended up wiping out the operating system somehow and never got it working again. Don’t remember what we ended up doing with it but it upsets me now after seeing how much they are worth. (Saw one listed on eBay for around $20,000!!!
I know, same here, they were so much fun too.
Had one when I was a kid and sold it for ram to play doom. Still regretting that 😕
Damn that floppy disk read sound brings back some memories.
I'm sorry.
I still have my Amiga 500.
I have my Amiga 500, too 😺👍.
Also i have lots of great games such as...
- THE SETTLERS
- STRIP POKER I-II
- LEISURE SUIT LARRY 1-5
- SENSIBLE SOCCER
- KICK OFF
- WAYNE GRETZKY HOCKEY
- SHADOW OF THE BEAST I-III
- OBLITERATOR
- LEATHER GODDESSES OF PHOBOS
- STAR WARS
- VIXEN
- WINTER GAMES
- WORLD GAMES
- ELVIRA: THE ARCADE GAME
I got two tough words to say:
AMIGA FOREVER! 😺👍🕹️🕹️
I had one of these. I used to hate it. My friend had an Atari ST and he always seemed to be able to do more interesting stuff with it. I had the 2000 afterwards and that was a bit better, at least it had Kickstart in ROM plus I had a hard drive by then, a massive 40mb.
CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH
Oh, man. I'd totally forgotten that the Amiga had a CLI. That's a blast from the past.
The CLI (or the Shell on newer kickstart/wb) is the best way to navigate the Amiga :). Especially when using a HDD with it.
It's very inspired by Unix, although not case sensitive.
way better for real work compared to the gui
That drive is so loud!
If a computer these days made those kinds of sounds, it's likely a fire hazard.
Nope it is not too loud. It is just as loud as it should be and how loud it has always been. Then you should hear a 20 Megabyte Miniscribe MFM harddrive running.
@@ЕгорЦыба No harddrive in the early Amiga's. Nit even stabdard in Amiga 600 and 1200. Back then it was a premium extra equipment. Everything was Floppy Disk based in 1985.
It's fairly loud but it's part of the charm of it, hell, some people have a skill for telling what game a machine is loading just from how the disc sounds. Hybris is a fairly easy one, just listen for a low rapid thumping noise that lasts about 4 seconds, few clicks, then another low rapid thumping for the same time.
It is loud heavy metal music to my ears!
I always wanted an Amiga 1000. It was the first Amiga before Commodore took them over and turn the Amiga into a gaming computer.
During early development they lied and said the Amiga would be a games console so they could get some investments.
loved my amiga 1000, if commodore would have made it c64 ready, all the computer we use now would be amigas.
Nope.... The problem was not the engineers and the computers that Commodore produced. The reason why we are not using Amiga's today, is the leaders and the board of the conpany. Plus the sales and advertising department. It is thanks to the engineers that we now have such stuff as C128. Back then, Bill Herd was foebidden to do a machine like the 128, and the bosses did not order one. He thought that Commodore might need it, so he made it possible. Once the bosses realised they actually needed one, then it was already done and ready on a prototype level. Yet it waa what they had forbidden him to do. The sales department did not know what they were doing. Mehdi Ali was in it to grab as much cash as possible and Irwin was in it to let his other companies spin gold out of trade deals with Commodore. Nope.... We would not be using Amiga's today, if the first Amiga were capeable of running C64 software in hardware mode. Because the CEO's, board and sales department would have screwed it up anyway. And why would you build an C64 into an Amiga? It was expensive anyway, people did not know what it should be used for and the 500 is capeable of emulating the C64 anyway, through software. Plus 8-bit was going away at that point. The 128 was in that way, totally pointless, and they canceled the C65 project once they knew that people wanted 16 bit stuff. Finally. The Amiga and C64 architectures are way too different for the Amiga to simply run C64 software out of the box.
It was a different time back then.
@@brostenen
Corporate leadership, the fount of all wisdom!🙄
@@anonUK Well.... They sure failed at Commodore. Whatever the engineers did, the leaders would botch.
That was a really nice computer, it has a modern gui, multiple processes running , far superior to my xt, with pcdos ver 1.0
This is the future, with GUI and all. Soon it will be in a mobilephone also :-o
i remember for my a500, i had a prog that defrags floppys, but cant remember its name, it was amamzing, faster loading no, chug chug
Get to the office at 8:00 ready to work around 9:00.
0:23 Boot-Sound! Is there any chance to grab that specific sound more clearly? I'm looking for it for AGES... (sold my A1000 Yeeeeaaaars ago - what was I thinking!?)
I tried but my Amiga decided to make only the two first music note. I dont have the entire "melody". I don't know why. I tried with or without floppy / hard drive. Someone knows ?
I have absolutely no recollection of what happened to my A1000 or A500. My A2000, I wound up selling because I stepped down to a PC.
at the top right there's a texas t99/4a.??
Yes ;-)
Archeologia informatica
not true... this is still rocking... the os 3.2 was made last year! :D people still use amiga... I am one of those!
I had an Amiga 500 and 500+, can't remember this one.
Amiga 1000 was the very first amiga.
Bit odd that the older model has a higher number lol. I had Spectrums before my Amiga's so wasn't aware of this model
because of the style design, the 2000 was the actual follow up to the 1000.
@@markorollo. the 500 came out later as a more affordable version (in keyboard form factor) than the 1000.
Texas Instruments ti-99/4a on the top shelf? :)
Yes, my first computer !
Nice, that was the first computor I used (my uncles) played Parsec till my eyes bleed almost :D , got a C64 some years later :)
Parsec : hours and hours of gaming !... I have also the voice synthetiser that fit this game ;-)
Amiga 500 have kickstart inside? Because I don't need any kickstart disk only it shows workbench at start...
That's it. There is a kickstart ROM chip on the motherboard.
The advantage of the 10-00 was the ability to easily update Kickstart. I think I last used 1.3
Wow.. my first console pc
Not a console.
What with the color scheme, looks like the OS can only support 4 colors. Blue, Orange, Black, and White.
I love this machine... I want this and a C128D in my life... (help?)
Lol the drive looks like a paper shredder. I miss my A500+
Paper shredder? If the drive looks like a shredder, then you will have trouble fitting A4 paper in it. However post-it will run fine through.
ah 1986, when the amiga was still light years ahead of anything else. Actually it was only the next year when another piece of hardware : The TurboGfx-16 arguably beat the amiga, though it was a close match. Still these 2 machines were the leaders at the time. What could have happened if commodore had pursued cutting edge gfx and sound instead of Tramiel's stubborn wrong headed philosophy of crapier cheaper machines for poorer people.
In the end it would be the same, just with commodore in it... The biggest problem of commodore was no sell... :D my neighbour bought an inferior 286 because it was better... 5x the price... it was better? no... but ... it was ibm
Hyper!, Hyper!
Dude.....
If it is from 1986, then it is not an Amiga-1000. Only after the introduction of Amiga-500 and Amiga-2000, the "Amiga" became the "Amiga 1000".
You are absolutely right
@@prot88 Yup.... It is the exact same thing with Playstation1. In 1995 it was just Playstation. Yet after Playstation2 was released, it then became Playstation1. That is just something people tend to forget. I kind of have a small load of OCD regarding this.
too bad commodore made Workbench filthy ugly and depressingly grey after 1.3 .. this version looks Beautiful. Did their ui designer start smoking crack?
You know. It was not illegal to change the workbench colours or use a different screenmode.
The system forces u to insert the f*king floppy
Yes... How else will you load anything?
This was "the first unit." They changed that as the systems evolved.
Wasn't this crap in ROM?
Only in later models.
With the Amiga 1000, you need to have the floppies for Kickstart and Workbench
i just got one for 5€
Lol
you are super lucky, because amiga 1000 nowadays costs on ebay €500 and more
It sounds like a duck
that was slow and shit by the standards atari was about 5 seconds.and i know.forget the crap about amiga was better.we aretalking boot times.a 100 full 1 minute if it reads the disk st 5 seconds
Dude invest in SSD ;)
Try being quiet at night when you want to play the computer after bedtime 😂 poor kids