The classic Amiga 500 that brought a lot to the industry, today the company exists as a small vague company torn apart :(.. there is the UAE Amiga emulator for the iphone and android
Cmon everybody knows it Amiga was way ahead. I remember making ST and pc boys cry when they saw what my amiga could do with half the money. But history repeats know its web os dying....
I think that some of you missing the REAL POINT about AMIGA:
All the products in the "windows-pc" industry was and will REALLY created as yet another way for BIG corporates to gain PROFITS! AMIGA was the unique exception in that! The HUGE advance AMIGA had, over competitive computers of the same era, was the result of outstanding innovation and creativity!This "dream come true" in the mind of some crazy guys showed the world how things are made when they come out of love AND NOT out of greed!
hahhaha photo of Kathy Ireland for the win! I remember those days.
But yup, this machine was definitely ahead of its time. Too bad it basically got stomped out by products like the continuing Mac series and other machines like the IIgs...
@MasterNaruto1214 You may have missed my point... I was speaking from a SALES perspective. That's the thing--it was kinda sad, since (as I said)... the Amiga 500 here was ahead of its time.
I even remember seeing a lot of the graphics / shots here as ads for the APPLE IIgs later on!!! Hella stolen. Friggin' robbers.
@greytale Some say the Amiga is so powerful it was 10 years ahead of it's time. So Apple stole some the Amiga's graphics for use on their ads? Wow...that is sad indeed.
Too bad the Amiga isn't around anymore,or we'd have computers much more powerful than they are today,and the super high clocked CPU's and GPU's wouldn't be necessary with a efficient OS as Amiga Workbench.
@MasterNaruto1214 People who used Amiga back at that time always said that, the Amiga was maybe 10 years ahead of every PC around at that time. Unfortunate they went bankrupt in the early 90's. Amiga dead cause it never managed to beat the competition in America it was popular everwhere except cheap ass America.
Amiga 500 outcome - "Its completely awesome once you make the minimal investment of:" DeluxePaint II Digi-Paint Easyl Digi-View Sculpt 3D Draw Plus Dynamic Cad Animator VideoScape 3D DeluxeVideo RF Modulator Imagen Video Titler TV Text Pro Video CG1 Deluxe Music Instant Music Music Studio Music X MIDI Interface WordPerfect Business Management MaxiPlan Impact! Analyze! SuperBase Amiga Modem PageSetter (Bunch of extra games) Oh, and I'll save for that RAM upgrade. 1MB should do the trick!
Upgradeable to 1MB, wow. Even the basic ST at that time could be upgraded to 4 MB. Multitasking, ha. What a crap idea to make Workbench run from floppy in ram. I was much happier with the more stable, less memory hungry 'TOS'. Face it, the Amiga was a glorified games machine in a computer case.
@meowmmmmm, your forgetting each computer had a time line. Amiga was easily upgradable to over 12 MB of ram and more if it was the higher end models. The workbench ran from HD if you bought a better model. It was all available. But yes, the Amiga 500 was targeted as the "game machine" and looked like one at the time. The 1000-4000 were higher end. And it's multitasking was superior to other machines at the time. Do some research, lol.
@scrap1005 Unless the Amiga had a 'Fat Angus' Chip, it could only access between 512k and 2MB (Much later models). Anything after that was paged, and ran as slow as hell. I guess that was the downside of a lot of custom chips, and a 16 bit address bus.
Workbench I have mixed reviews about. In general if it was installed on a HD, it was better than TOS (more features, but slower than TOS.) If it ran from a floppy, it sucked!
@meowmmmmm It's actually really funny, your blind reliance on the STs slightly higher clock rate, combined with your outright denial and lying about the amiga's capability, makes you actually think the ST is better.
@ttk1opc There were no actual install programs... to play games, you would need to play them from the floppy disk... go get some pc history on Wikipedia.
The Amiga 500 wasn't the first Amiga home computer, I had the Amiga 1000 and i got it for arounfd 300$. At the time that was a good price. Soon after the 500 came out with more memory and a smaller profile. I miss the amiga Years, I loved going to H.A.U.G meetngs ( Hamilton Amiga Users Group )
The A500 could display about 65000 colours on screen at a time for still images, this was before VGA graphics on the PC. If it had of been marketed properly as a business machine it would have won for the simple reason that it could display on monitors, televisions, VCRs, projectors.. all without extra software. I still maintain that no modern OS has quite managed to match the usability or efficiency of workbench and AmigaDos. All hail Jay Miner and Carl Sassenrath.
@jacksawild Incorrect, did you ever own an amiga?, The Amiga 500 could display its maximum color pallette of 4096 in ham (hold and modify mode). Research before you post incorrect information.
These things where amazing. I had one with the ram expansion unit. We uses Broadcast Titler on i for the community notice board on the local community channel. It ran 24 Hrs a day for almost 10 years. We also used DPaint. Created a overlay for Bingos etc. Amazing and reliable beast. I still have it and use it once in awile
These things where amazing. I had one with the ram expansion unit. We uses Broadcast Titler on i for the community notice board on the local community channel. It ran 24 Hrs a day for almost 10 years. We also used DPaint. Created a overlay for Bingos etc. Amazing and reliable beast. I still have it and use it once in awile
@sygo7g Found out since that last post that they are compatible! I have two Amiga's hear at the moment and have bought some games from Uk ebay! I figured just to take the risk and buy them see what happens! And I can tell you yes they do work! Its unbelievable how much more software there is on Uk ebay!...
My family had a Commodore 64 and a 128D system, which I still use today, but I was unaware this technology existed at that time for home use. This even beats the Apple computers I used in school in the mid 90s. If I had the room I'd like to own one of those.
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I never played any Amiga games in my life (never had that computer), but I'm about to use an emulator.
I have heard many Amiga music in my life, I agree, its awesome!
However the "ultimate home office computer" and "home music studio" parts are a joke.... I have Microsoft Office 2007 and FL Studio 8 on my PC, and they are the perfect programs...
You have to understand, it was the best for it's TIME. Obviously there are MUCH better computers and software applications today. But this computer was paving the way 23 years ago to help lead up to what we have today. For it's time, this was an AMAZING computer.
And it took PC and mac at leas 10 years to catch up, funny to see things like the Amiga having the C= key others copied later,and that the Amigas had a 2 button mouse in 1987,but apple still only has a one click button mouse.
No kidding, but you have to see things in perspective. BACK THEN there was no such thing as Office 2007 or FL Whatever 8, and PC's themselves were a joke compared to what they are nowadays.
hahaha that is where I started making videos, so funny commercial. GURU MEDITATION, then the biggest stress ever, later I finally understood what it meant.....
You know, today if someone says "2gigs of RAM" you just go like "ah yeah cool whatever". But when you hear "I am 512000 bytes of pure power!".... that's called RESPECT! F**k yeah! Yeah it may seem to be not a lot of memory but if you had an A500 you would know that it's a freaking MONSTER! The power, the optimisation, the functionality! Today you can only dream about those things. Modern PC have power but in terms of USING that power Amiga pwns. A machine way ahead of it's time.
LOL! I had the 'Batman Pack' - to this day, the best Xmas present I ever had. I'll also never forget the look on the face of a smart-arse at school - He was WOUNDED when some of our Xcopied 500 games wouldn't work on his new 600. Chase H.Q. was the bollox!
I have fond memories of my Amiga and i still have it, i'll never throw it away. Remember the half meg addon you could buy, it was the size of a VHS video cassette. When i went to see if i should buy one, i was sold as soon as i saw grand prix played on it.
@meowmmmmm my apologies, but I must Insist. THE AMIGA IS THE BEST PERSONAL COMPUTER EVER MADE. PERIOD! I started my whole career with an A500 with only 5Mb Ram and a 200 Mb external seagate hard drive, and it allowed me to get into the 3D animation world, to the extent I was in charge (along with Enrique Navarrete) of the animated KFC commercials for the whole world for a year (ok, at that time we were using Silicon Graphics hardware but using an IRIX SGI is just like using a very powerful Amiga
@pacoreguenga The Amiga had some good hardware, but it also had a lot of shortfalls. (5MB Ram on a A500? I guess you meant .5MB) The ST had a lot of 3D modeling programs too, especially in the high end department; something that the Amiga A500 could not do.
@meowmmmmm nope, I really meant five megabytes of effective RAM, I installed an AdRam memory expansion without a daughterboard which could have added two extra megabytes but also added a MegaChip 2 MB Video RAM expansion, plus an AdIde hard disk controller, and an AdSpeed accelerator with a faster processor onboard. IThen I had a lot of Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000 with 128Mb, equipped with pro level audio and video cards, frame controllers, and a betacam sp A/X roll editing suite. Tnx to the A500.
@pacoreguenga Thats cheating. Thats like taking the falcon and putting a 68060 board in it. It's technically the same computer, but way more powerful than the original unit.
@meowmmmmm Umm, the amiga 500 was the low end amiga so i would expect the high end ST's to do more. And the 5mb RAm was expandable. You could get the external disk drive, stick a 1.5mb floppy disk and there you go. 6.5mb, and if thats not enough, you can daisy chain the disk drives.
You're kidding, right? Ever hear of Lightwave? Evolved from Videoscape 3D, born on the Amiga 1000, the first Amiga. Turbo Silver, Sculpt-Animate 3D, all ran on the A500.
That speech synthesis voice at about 10:20 sounded exactly like the original Macintosh voice--the one Steve Jobs used to introduce the Mac! I wonder if they shared code or something
Great machines for their times, sometimes i'm still tempted to hook up the amiga(600) again but it's not worth the hassle really. It's only "good old days" because of nostalgia. Whoever thought we were going to have 2048Megs of ram at that time, or the deathadder instead of that mouse!?
Still a fantastic system in my opinion. My real Amiga 1200 needs fixing up (floppy drive is busted) but I do use emulation a lot to run the old Amiga games (such as Turrican 2, Superfrog, Hired Guns) and programs (Deluxe Paint) both on my PC and PSP currently. I really do miss that era of home computers.
I've still got my Commodore Amiga, It's packed away and lives in the loft now. Yes i can remember playing games on it for hours and hours ignoring my homework and my parents.
YOU can do all this, with ME the Commodore A500. I can do ANYTHING you can IMAGINE.
Although YOU will probably be like EVERYONE else and USE me incessantly for PLAYING cracked games for hours on end and IGNORING your homework your PARENTS and GIRLS.
it is amazing how the amiga out performed pc to the point you could run pc programs including games with half the pc required ram at the same speed and not even have to upgrade the agnus nor denise to do it on a 500 with 2 1/2 mbs of ram using one mb for the emulator yet the amiga died not the pc
@fuyingbro, you're counting only what the dedicated hardware on the amiga could do. and it was always 2 dimensional tricks, like beach balls etc, and the sound hardware. The truth is that PC within a short time out performed amiga by a lot, and was 1/3rd the price before anyone knew it was coming.
But Amiga was superior to ST on every angle. It has better OS with multitasking, better graphics and sound, better keyboard, larger floppy capacity, more third party expansions. Only thing the ST had was a MIDI-port.
I disagree on most parts there (except the graphics and sound), especially the floppy is a big plus on the ST for me. But since I'm sick of having the same discussion over and over again, I'll pass. But considering the ST was the "poor man's amiga" it's a pretty nice box actually and not as useless as most people like to make it look like.
It was way ahead of it's time man...hehe, at that time the main thing was to have "arcade quality" graphics...in the 90's and later it is to have "PC quality" graphics on a console...
I had AMIGAS for over 10 years... and I never have seen this Commercial ad video so far. If C= would have shown this to the world in the 80ties things would surely gone different in history! Cause most people did not know anything about Amiga - this video ad would have been really an enlightment to all. ...sad but true!
@arsipaani TI-89 is definitely 68k based (I have written 68k assembly programs for the TI-89 -- it is most definitely 68k). The others (TI-82/83/84 series) are Z80 based.
But compared to the Atari St it was vastly inferior when it came to making professional music with midi. It also didn't have the highres flickerfree monitor that the st had. Otherwise it smoked the Atari St in all the other departments (i have owned them both).
Well, Duh!!!! And it was SEVERAL steps above an Apple II or a Mac. All it could do at 7Mhz ... it would probably take at least 600 of those things to have the rendering power of my Dual G5 2.7Ghz Mac, or my dual-core 4800+ Athlon PC. But it's still awesomely cool. King of the old demoscene!
"A step above the Apple II, but still looks primitive by today's standards."
Of course it is! Everything from that time is, now. But at the time it blew everything away. It did 4096 colours when many PC's still had monochrome screens. It could do multimedia long before that ever became a buzzword on PC's.
I am 512 thousand bytes of pure power???! Things change...:D But still consider that the amiga got squeezed of its power to the maximum from 1987 to 1994. 7 years is not a small period. I wish marketing wasn't that shit like nowadays. All the planet now is filled with cancerous silica leftovers...
They don't make computers like they used to. This video kind of makes me want to get out my 1MB Amiga 500 now and make another video using the modulator. I bet there are less viruses for it, not that it matters to me as I use a Mac now!
It was so many years ahead of its time. With the benefit of hindsight I appreaciate it much more today. The Amiga is THE computer that made computers exciting.
Good God. I can't do 3D graphics over live video on my Vista computer cuz I can't find any good software. I WANT AN AMIGA 500 BADLY NOW! (By the way, did you know that the Amiga 500 was used in Nick Arcade for the Face-Off games, Mikey's World, and the Bonus Round?)
Hm? Old as hell yet it still seems to have things that most comptuers dont seem to have anymore? Thats weird, you'd think all this would be built into computers these days.
Its quite clear to anyone how powerful the amiga actually is, it rawked over any pc x86 hardware - look at workbench compared to windows 3.1! And the atari ST was vastly inferior in terms of GUI and sound capabilities! Long Live AMIGA!
But compared to the Atari St it was vastly inferior when it came to making professional music with midi. It also didn't have the highres flickerfree monitor that the st had. Otherwise it smoked the Atari St in all the other departments (i have owned them both).
I miss my Amiga 500 dearly. Earl Weaver Baseball was the most REALISTIC baseball game of its time AND OF THIS TIME. No baseball game since has been able to recreate the realism and customability of the running, throwing, and fielding. Seriously.
if sony and microsoft weren't so evil with home development on ps3 and xbox360 we could really have the same coolness of the amiga back. I think the amiga was all about getting the most out of a set hardware platform. A ps3/xbox360 which was truly open to development (and came with a keyboard and mouse ;) ) would be brilliant.
Nothing will beat the first time I heard an Amiga play 'you're the voice' with samples though :D
The classic Amiga 500 that brought a lot to the industry, today the company exists as a small vague company torn apart :(.. there is the UAE Amiga emulator for the iphone and android
neotokyomedia 5 days ago
I so want a shirt like that 1mg Superman one.
fcukugimmeausername 2 weeks ago
I fucking miss my Amiga T_T
NibiruShinIori319 1 month ago
12:34
LOL, never heard of that game. That's an awfully risque title for an ad promoting the Amiga as a family oriented computer.
scottvska 3 months ago
Used spend late summer evenings playing RPGs on my Amiga.
scottvska 3 months ago
Cmon everybody knows it Amiga was way ahead. I remember making ST and pc boys cry when they saw what my amiga could do with half the money. But history repeats know its web os dying....
droutsolias 3 months ago
Wow the Transformers narrator in this ! Amiga was cool !
Q80Warlock 3 months ago
I was first in my class to get an amiga, and used to get a lot of stick from the atari st gang!
I had the last laugh however :)
BVargas78 3 months ago
1 WHOLE MEGABYTE!!! YEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
3bulletproof16 4 months ago
TRAVELCARD
whotaughtyou 5 months ago
I think that some of you missing the REAL POINT about AMIGA:
All the products in the "windows-pc" industry was and will REALLY created as yet another way for BIG corporates to gain PROFITS! AMIGA was the unique exception in that! The HUGE advance AMIGA had, over competitive computers of the same era, was the result of outstanding innovation and creativity!This "dream come true" in the mind of some crazy guys showed the world how things are made when they come out of love AND NOT out of greed!
ikonsgr 11 months ago
hahhaha photo of Kathy Ireland for the win! I remember those days.
But yup, this machine was definitely ahead of its time. Too bad it basically got stomped out by products like the continuing Mac series and other machines like the IIgs...
At least it wasn't the Apple Lisa... lol
greytale 1 year ago
@greytale ROFLMAO! The Amiga wiped the floor with the Mac that couldn't do half of the things what the Amiga could do.
MasterNaruto1214 11 months ago
@MasterNaruto1214 You may have missed my point... I was speaking from a SALES perspective. That's the thing--it was kinda sad, since (as I said)... the Amiga 500 here was ahead of its time.
I even remember seeing a lot of the graphics / shots here as ads for the APPLE IIgs later on!!! Hella stolen. Friggin' robbers.
greytale 11 months ago
@greytale Some say the Amiga is so powerful it was 10 years ahead of it's time. So Apple stole some the Amiga's graphics for use on their ads? Wow...that is sad indeed.
Too bad the Amiga isn't around anymore,or we'd have computers much more powerful than they are today,and the super high clocked CPU's and GPU's wouldn't be necessary with a efficient OS as Amiga Workbench.
MasterNaruto1214 11 months ago
@MasterNaruto1214 People who used Amiga back at that time always said that, the Amiga was maybe 10 years ahead of every PC around at that time. Unfortunate they went bankrupt in the early 90's. Amiga dead cause it never managed to beat the competition in America it was popular everwhere except cheap ass America.
Q80Warlock 3 months ago
miniroll32 1 year ago
"The Amiga Modem lets you connect with a vast number of computer users"
Wait till they see the Internet ;)
Baydude98 1 year ago
Upgradeable to 1MB, wow. Even the basic ST at that time could be upgraded to 4 MB. Multitasking, ha. What a crap idea to make Workbench run from floppy in ram. I was much happier with the more stable, less memory hungry 'TOS'. Face it, the Amiga was a glorified games machine in a computer case.
meowmmmmm 1 year ago
@meowmmmmm, your forgetting each computer had a time line. Amiga was easily upgradable to over 12 MB of ram and more if it was the higher end models. The workbench ran from HD if you bought a better model. It was all available. But yes, the Amiga 500 was targeted as the "game machine" and looked like one at the time. The 1000-4000 were higher end. And it's multitasking was superior to other machines at the time. Do some research, lol.
scrap1005 1 year ago
@scrap1005 Unless the Amiga had a 'Fat Angus' Chip, it could only access between 512k and 2MB (Much later models). Anything after that was paged, and ran as slow as hell. I guess that was the downside of a lot of custom chips, and a 16 bit address bus.
Workbench I have mixed reviews about. In general if it was installed on a HD, it was better than TOS (more features, but slower than TOS.) If it ran from a floppy, it sucked!
meowmmmmm 1 year ago
@meowmmmmm Stop posting bullshit. An amiga 1000 with the stock angus (not even the halfbrite mode!) can access 9MB of ram.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@meowmmmmm It's actually really funny, your blind reliance on the STs slightly higher clock rate, combined with your outright denial and lying about the amiga's capability, makes you actually think the ST is better.
So sad. You're like the Athiest2 of Atari users.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
0:51 F**K YEA!, THAT OWNS MODERN PC!
Poodleinacan 1 year ago
How did it do all that with 1MB or storage?
ttk1opc 1 year ago
@ttk1opc There were no actual install programs... to play games, you would need to play them from the floppy disk... go get some pc history on Wikipedia.
Poodleinacan 1 year ago
I think I'll save up and upgrade my RAM to a whole Megabyte.
miniroll32 1 year ago
0:45 George Best????
C861986 1 year ago
05:56 - LOL! is he having an orgasm?
miniroll32 1 year ago
The Amiga 500 wasn't the first Amiga home computer, I had the Amiga 1000 and i got it for arounfd 300$. At the time that was a good price. Soon after the 500 came out with more memory and a smaller profile. I miss the amiga Years, I loved going to H.A.U.G meetngs ( Hamilton Amiga Users Group )
Exodusprime 1 year ago
now it desktop publishing that really turns me on
BAD AMIGA
esheep4 1 year ago
The A500 could display about 65000 colours on screen at a time for still images, this was before VGA graphics on the PC. If it had of been marketed properly as a business machine it would have won for the simple reason that it could display on monitors, televisions, VCRs, projectors.. all without extra software. I still maintain that no modern OS has quite managed to match the usability or efficiency of workbench and AmigaDos. All hail Jay Miner and Carl Sassenrath.
jacksawild 1 year ago
@jacksawild Incorrect, did you ever own an amiga?, The Amiga 500 could display its maximum color pallette of 4096 in ham (hold and modify mode). Research before you post incorrect information.
bazfanv2 1 year ago
its desktop puplisging that really turs me on... wink....
chrismofer 1 year ago
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These things where amazing. I had one with the ram expansion unit. We uses Broadcast Titler on i for the community notice board on the local community channel. It ran 24 Hrs a day for almost 10 years. We also used DPaint. Created a overlay for Bingos etc. Amazing and reliable beast. I still have it and use it once in awile
snowcatns 1 year ago
These things where amazing. I had one with the ram expansion unit. We uses Broadcast Titler on i for the community notice board on the local community channel. It ran 24 Hrs a day for almost 10 years. We also used DPaint. Created a overlay for Bingos etc. Amazing and reliable beast. I still have it and use it once in awile
snowcatns 1 year ago
@sygo7g Found out since that last post that they are compatible! I have two Amiga's hear at the moment and have bought some games from Uk ebay! I figured just to take the risk and buy them see what happens! And I can tell you yes they do work! Its unbelievable how much more software there is on Uk ebay!...
1981rocketman1981 1 year ago
1 FULL MEGABYTE!!!!!!!!!!!!! :O
OrangeTang666 1 year ago
That takes me back... Remember the dot matrix printer that went with it? Such a soothing noise!
locouk 1 year ago
ATARI ST YEEEEHAAA!
vegunited06 1 year ago
My family had a Commodore 64 and a 128D system, which I still use today, but I was unaware this technology existed at that time for home use. This even beats the Apple computers I used in school in the mid 90s. If I had the room I'd like to own one of those.
Pino4649 2 years ago
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I never played any Amiga games in my life (never had that computer), but I'm about to use an emulator.
I have heard many Amiga music in my life, I agree, its awesome!
However the "ultimate home office computer" and "home music studio" parts are a joke.... I have Microsoft Office 2007 and FL Studio 8 on my PC, and they are the perfect programs...
MiracleKD18 2 years ago
You have to understand, it was the best for it's TIME. Obviously there are MUCH better computers and software applications today. But this computer was paving the way 23 years ago to help lead up to what we have today. For it's time, this was an AMAZING computer.
murlthesquirl 2 years ago 4
And it took PC and mac at leas 10 years to catch up, funny to see things like the Amiga having the C= key others copied later,and that the Amigas had a 2 button mouse in 1987,but apple still only has a one click button mouse.
BladeX4327 1 year ago
No kidding, but you have to see things in perspective. BACK THEN there was no such thing as Office 2007 or FL Whatever 8, and PC's themselves were a joke compared to what they are nowadays.
Lukas0472 2 years ago 2
Uhhh.... I use PC since 1995.
I used Microsoft Word in DOS, and many cool stuff in Microsoft Windows 3.11.... back than, that was awesome.
And even today, I still use MS-DOS on a 486 PC, becuse of nostalgia....
MiracleKD18 2 years ago
I love the way each voice and piece of music is stereotyped to that person/field of work.
The guys face at 5:42 is a classic! But the "business" voice is the best
miniroll32 2 years ago
amiga is the best computer ever : D
dominicjan 2 years ago 2
512000 bytes of pure power Holly sht! Where can I get one LOLO Even had stereo sound @_@!!! Im gona get Crazy with one of this babes
bicho3200 2 years ago
I was 12 years old when I got one, and this changed my life forever... Expressing visual art in motion...
MauriceSpees 2 years ago
hahaha that is where I started making videos, so funny commercial. GURU MEDITATION, then the biggest stress ever, later I finally understood what it meant.....
Check out my videos now... hahaha
MauriceSpees 2 years ago
The amiga inspires me to program, not that I'll live up to the Jesus Computer. I really want one!
4807966663126 2 years ago 2
"1 Full MB" LOL
PSLOVER666 2 years ago
You know, today if someone says "2gigs of RAM" you just go like "ah yeah cool whatever". But when you hear "I am 512000 bytes of pure power!".... that's called RESPECT! F**k yeah! Yeah it may seem to be not a lot of memory but if you had an A500 you would know that it's a freaking MONSTER! The power, the optimisation, the functionality! Today you can only dream about those things. Modern PC have power but in terms of USING that power Amiga pwns. A machine way ahead of it's time.
NoqturnePL 2 years ago 6
The lads making music and video were REALLY getting into it :P That is right Mary.
pathammond 2 years ago
i had an amiga 500 for about 4 years and didnt do any of that shit on this vid. did anyone else???
MustBeBusty 3 years ago
LOL! I had the 'Batman Pack' - to this day, the best Xmas present I ever had. I'll also never forget the look on the face of a smart-arse at school - He was WOUNDED when some of our Xcopied 500 games wouldn't work on his new 600. Chase H.Q. was the bollox!
JunkieJay3000 3 years ago
I have fond memories of my Amiga and i still have it, i'll never throw it away. Remember the half meg addon you could buy, it was the size of a VHS video cassette. When i went to see if i should buy one, i was sold as soon as i saw grand prix played on it.
montife 3 years ago 3
Yeah i got one and it cost about £50!!! lol
unlockthepower 3 years ago
i want one~!~
Ratmslayer99 3 years ago 2
lol
unlockthepower 3 years ago
It's certainly aged better than those hair styles o_O
proflolsworthy 3 years ago 3
Several Amigas all equipped with Newtek's? Video Toaster.
randomunavailable 3 years ago
You know, Babylon 5 and Pre-rendering of Jurassic Park were all done on an Amiga...
sp0nge1337 3 years ago 2
All I can say is FUCK IBM !!!
PeeInMyDiaper 3 years ago 4
dose anybody know if the softwhere from the uk is compatable with us Amiga's! Ie games...
1981rocketman1981 3 years ago
The Amiga is the best personal computer ever made.
pacoreguenga 3 years ago 13
@pacoreguenga Compared to what, the A1000. Lots of other better computers existed.
meowmmmmm 1 year ago
@meowmmmmm my apologies, but I must Insist. THE AMIGA IS THE BEST PERSONAL COMPUTER EVER MADE. PERIOD! I started my whole career with an A500 with only 5Mb Ram and a 200 Mb external seagate hard drive, and it allowed me to get into the 3D animation world, to the extent I was in charge (along with Enrique Navarrete) of the animated KFC commercials for the whole world for a year (ok, at that time we were using Silicon Graphics hardware but using an IRIX SGI is just like using a very powerful Amiga
pacoreguenga 1 year ago
@pacoreguenga The Amiga had some good hardware, but it also had a lot of shortfalls. (5MB Ram on a A500? I guess you meant .5MB) The ST had a lot of 3D modeling programs too, especially in the high end department; something that the Amiga A500 could not do.
meowmmmmm 1 year ago
@meowmmmmm nope, I really meant five megabytes of effective RAM, I installed an AdRam memory expansion without a daughterboard which could have added two extra megabytes but also added a MegaChip 2 MB Video RAM expansion, plus an AdIde hard disk controller, and an AdSpeed accelerator with a faster processor onboard. IThen I had a lot of Amiga 2000, 3000 and 4000 with 128Mb, equipped with pro level audio and video cards, frame controllers, and a betacam sp A/X roll editing suite. Tnx to the A500.
pacoreguenga 1 year ago
@pacoreguenga Thats cheating. Thats like taking the falcon and putting a 68060 board in it. It's technically the same computer, but way more powerful than the original unit.
meowmmmmm 1 year ago
@meowmmmmm Umm, the amiga 500 was the low end amiga so i would expect the high end ST's to do more. And the 5mb RAm was expandable. You could get the external disk drive, stick a 1.5mb floppy disk and there you go. 6.5mb, and if thats not enough, you can daisy chain the disk drives.
Baydude98 1 year ago
@meowmmmmm
You're kidding, right? Ever hear of Lightwave? Evolved from Videoscape 3D, born on the Amiga 1000, the first Amiga. Turbo Silver, Sculpt-Animate 3D, all ran on the A500.
Hiraghm 1 year ago
The Amiga was WELL ahead of its time!!!
debengirl 3 years ago 14
That speech synthesis voice at about 10:20 sounded exactly like the original Macintosh voice--the one Steve Jobs used to introduce the Mac! I wonder if they shared code or something
magicianspirit 3 years ago 2
all i can say is holy shit! and for the 1980's oh wow
RobertC19850209 3 years ago 3
A brilliant computer and still my most favorite gaming platform! Gaming was never again so exciting as back in those days...
tieknul 3 years ago 2
Great machines for their times, sometimes i'm still tempted to hook up the amiga(600) again but it's not worth the hassle really. It's only "good old days" because of nostalgia. Whoever thought we were going to have 2048Megs of ram at that time, or the deathadder instead of that mouse!?
ianpaulc 3 years ago 3
i still love that computer! :)
Ehhh
Nostalgy - grat days gone 4 ever.
No more games like those old-school Amiga games now...
Quality has changet to amount.
Unfortunately!
dia8el 3 years ago 4
beautiful...
conscab 3 years ago 6
amiga waz shit hot what a shame
sirpryde 3 years ago 3
what games you got dude
T2Judgmentday 3 years ago
I got one of those when I was 6 or something.
I loved it, but it broke.
I still have a bag of Amiga Games.
123asas123 3 years ago
I saved up for ages to get this computer.. fuck me i had so much fun on my amiga 500
Subfavscream 3 years ago 5
sounds pretty advanced for its time.
dappcin 3 years ago 5
amiga 500 sure was an awesome computer/games machine,such great graphics for its timr,i remember x copy fondly lol,aslo the 7 disk dragons lair!
austwicked 3 years ago 2
Oohh god... that was my first computer..
the amiga was ahead of its time
ultrazone2008 3 years ago 2
Still a fantastic system in my opinion. My real Amiga 1200 needs fixing up (floppy drive is busted) but I do use emulation a lot to run the old Amiga games (such as Turrican 2, Superfrog, Hired Guns) and programs (Deluxe Paint) both on my PC and PSP currently. I really do miss that era of home computers.
switchbladehiro 3 years ago 4
Doesn't it look like Phoenix Wright at 00:47?
SealOfQuality 4 years ago
The Amiga was my childhood! I loved it.... James Pond anyone??
ryan000001 4 years ago 2
u can play it on winuae
mancubus500 3 years ago
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The world's only ture multitasking computer? Haven't they heared of the Macintosh?
Btroisi13 4 years ago
Coperative multitasking is not real multitasking.
Windows started using preemptive multitasking in 1995(or 2000), and mac in 2001, amiga did all this 1985.
arsipaani 3 years ago 2
word
SomethingSchneider 1 year ago
@Btroisi13 Haha you though the mac could multitask then.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
no way..1 meg of internal memory!
NESMASTER14 4 years ago
It came with half a meg of memory, but you could expand to 1 meg (i remember paying about £75 for a half meg upgrade) But in 1987 that was loads!
mrkallen 3 years ago 2
IT TALKS!!
Speedomon 4 years ago
I've still got my Commodore Amiga, It's packed away and lives in the loft now. Yes i can remember playing games on it for hours and hours ignoring my homework and my parents.
Tubeydoo77 4 years ago
YOU can do all this, with ME the Commodore A500. I can do ANYTHING you can IMAGINE.
Although YOU will probably be like EVERYONE else and USE me incessantly for PLAYING cracked games for hours on end and IGNORING your homework your PARENTS and GIRLS.
I AM THE COMMODORE AMIGA A500.
wannaseesumfun 4 years ago 4
so true.
Speedomon 4 years ago
...that everyone used this machine only for games
Speedomon 4 years ago
:D At 11:41 he says "The only home computer that puts true arcade graphics into your ass!" just check it :P
SealOfQuality 4 years ago
LOL It really sounds like " Ass ". xD
Paldoon1 4 years ago
it is amazing how the amiga out performed pc to the point you could run pc programs including games with half the pc required ram at the same speed and not even have to upgrade the agnus nor denise to do it on a 500 with 2 1/2 mbs of ram using one mb for the emulator yet the amiga died not the pc
fuyingbro 4 years ago 2
totaly agree the amiga is so much better than a crap pc
pyraplastic 4 years ago
Poor management killed the amiga.
qwuad60 4 years ago
@fuyingbro, you're counting only what the dedicated hardware on the amiga could do. and it was always 2 dimensional tricks, like beach balls etc, and the sound hardware. The truth is that PC within a short time out performed amiga by a lot, and was 1/3rd the price before anyone knew it was coming.
scrap1005 1 year ago
@scrap1005
what??
If by a short time you mean around 6 or 7 years, then, sure you 'might' have a point.....
p1xMU51c 10 months ago
these old commercials is rely funny
plavins1 4 years ago 2
I'll definitely stick with the Atari ST, regardless of the Amiga being superior when it comes to graphics/sound
1337Shockwav3 4 years ago
But Amiga was superior to ST on every angle. It has better OS with multitasking, better graphics and sound, better keyboard, larger floppy capacity, more third party expansions. Only thing the ST had was a MIDI-port.
ZipoBibrok 4 years ago
I disagree on most parts there (except the graphics and sound), especially the floppy is a big plus on the ST for me. But since I'm sick of having the same discussion over and over again, I'll pass. But considering the ST was the "poor man's amiga" it's a pretty nice box actually and not as useless as most people like to make it look like.
1337Shockwav3 4 years ago
That was the only thing it had what the Amiga didn't. But you could get a Midi-Interface for the Amiga.
mrkallen 3 years ago
It was way ahead of it's time man...hehe, at that time the main thing was to have "arcade quality" graphics...in the 90's and later it is to have "PC quality" graphics on a console...
MoonOvIce 4 years ago
It was the best computer in the 1980s and early 1990s.
He101A 4 years ago 3
did anyone reconize the actor in the chair with the big smile
isnt that boon from earth Final conflict lol
dj2bklyn 4 years ago
Yup it is :)
wildpeaks 4 years ago
Wahh even a glipse of Mindwalker on screen at 0:42
wildpeaks 4 years ago
At 3:26, it's that voice over guy who did tons of commercials from the 80s to mid 90s.
sugateddy 4 years ago
At 6:10, it's the voice of the Little Caesar commercials from the 80s and 90s.
sugateddy 4 years ago
In my life time I owned 5 Amigas, 3 500'S and 2 1200's.
vividesigner 4 years ago
They didn't last you long enough or what? why did you have 3 500's and 2 1200's?
MoonOvIce 4 years ago
I had AMIGAS for over 10 years... and I never have seen this Commercial ad video so far. If C= would have shown this to the world in the 80ties things would surely gone different in history! Cause most people did not know anything about Amiga - this video ad would have been really an enlightment to all. ...sad but true!
toyracorsetant 4 years ago 4
Ah yes, I remember using one of these :)
Like others said, it's definitely primitive by today's standards... The TI-89 calculator has the exact same processor as these systems once used.
Daniel15au 4 years ago
TI-89 was Z80 based (8-bit), TI-92 was 68000 based (16/32-bit).
Yes, in nowdays they are primitive, but back in the days... and they are not that bad even nowdays...
arsipaani 4 years ago
That's not entirely true. The TI-82, TI-83 and TI-84 are Z80 based, whereas the TI-89, TI-92 and Voyage 200 are all 68000 based :)
And yeah, it was definitely good back in those days :)
Daniel15au 4 years ago
@arsipaani TI-89 is definitely 68k based (I have written 68k assembly programs for the TI-89 -- it is most definitely 68k). The others (TI-82/83/84 series) are Z80 based.
AIM9XSW 1 year ago
I went through a lot of those damn mice.
CrimsonCrux 4 years ago
But compared to the Atari St it was vastly inferior when it came to making professional music with midi. It also didn't have the highres flickerfree monitor that the st had. Otherwise it smoked the Atari St in all the other departments (i have owned them both).
sandgunner 4 years ago
The computer keeps talking to me...
Arundodonax 4 years ago
that was awesome
dj2bklyn 4 years ago
so this is what they used for Max headroom lol
dj2bklyn 4 years ago
ah Amiga 500- love of my life. thousands of hours playing behind, only the memomories remains...
londerium 4 years ago
Same here, I viewed the games back then with the awe kids see games nowadays and there wasn't anything I couldn't do with Workbench. True Old School
CrimsonCrux 4 years ago
i thought my apple 640CD performa was old
mrynit 4 years ago
ahhh amigas , so good , a class above everything else there is or has been
jstrumwelpe 4 years ago
A step above the Apple II, but still looks primitive by today's standards.
eyeh8cbs 4 years ago
"still looks primitive by today's standards."
Well, Duh!!!! And it was SEVERAL steps above an Apple II or a Mac. All it could do at 7Mhz ... it would probably take at least 600 of those things to have the rendering power of my Dual G5 2.7Ghz Mac, or my dual-core 4800+ Athlon PC. But it's still awesomely cool. King of the old demoscene!
EmperorLongo 4 years ago
"A step above the Apple II, but still looks primitive by today's standards."
Of course it is! Everything from that time is, now. But at the time it blew everything away. It did 4096 colours when many PC's still had monochrome screens. It could do multimedia long before that ever became a buzzword on PC's.
Lukas0472 4 years ago
Vintage but AWESOME!!!, very productive for tiny memory and Mhz processor, i can beelieve!
ireifla 4 years ago
Amiga and the Commodor product is in my heart!
Dragoq 4 years ago
I Want One Of Those!!
siu02rk 4 years ago
I owned about 4 of these babies. then I had 3 Amiga 1200s..
vividesigner 4 years ago
Wow, that marketing was interesting.
AngryLittIeGir1 4 years ago
That guy was totally rocking out.
No13Machine 4 years ago
Wow, I needed a new up to date computer and I think I just found it!
jomama1986 4 years ago
ur right did he say 1 megabyte i totally want one now
grasshead1234567 4 years ago
<b> The Commodore Amiga was the first multimedia computer. It was used to create such shows as:
- Babylon 5 (CGI)
- seaquest (CGI)
- Unsolved Mysteries (opening titles)
- Walt Disney movies (Beauty, Lion King, Aladdin, etc)
- and on and on and on.
Almost every TV show from 1990-99 has a little bit of Amiga graphics in it, since it became a low-cost way to add special effects.
</b>
AngryYoungWomans 4 years ago
re: The Disney movies... it was used for SELECT scenes, not the whole movie. Like the ballroom scene in Beauty and the Beast.
AngryYoungWomans 4 years ago
I am 512 thousand bytes of pure power???! Things change...:D But still consider that the amiga got squeezed of its power to the maximum from 1987 to 1994. 7 years is not a small period. I wish marketing wasn't that shit like nowadays. All the planet now is filled with cancerous silica leftovers...
demestixas 4 years ago
They don't make computers like they used to. This video kind of makes me want to get out my 1MB Amiga 500 now and make another video using the modulator. I bet there are less viruses for it, not that it matters to me as I use a Mac now!
ianonline 4 years ago
if you want to know your console history, come over to my channel to see the True Videogame Story of companies like Atari and all of your favorites!
Houminid 4 years ago
That was bullshit.
LFCkillers4life 4 years ago
It was so many years ahead of its time. With the benefit of hindsight I appreaciate it much more today. The Amiga is THE computer that made computers exciting.
CerebralGump 4 years ago
vendo C= Amiga 500 Completa, Original, Perfecto estado $670 nahuinthemix @ gmail . com
djnahu090 4 years ago
Why are people nagging on about games, games and more games when it comes to the Amiga? It was SO MUCH MORE...
Wonderful days it was, when the blitter and copper ruled.... *sigh* now I'm lost in nostalgia *sigh*...
Beerburt 4 years ago
WOW if they were still making computer and all that it would have killed vista.
jimmyphack 4 years ago
I still use my Amiga500 monitor everyday.
goelan2 4 years ago
Never lace the monitor on the A500 as shown in the beginning of this video...
execbase 4 years ago
mam taki sprzet tylko ze bez monitora :/
zulius23 4 years ago
Good God. I can't do 3D graphics over live video on my Vista computer cuz I can't find any good software. I WANT AN AMIGA 500 BADLY NOW! (By the way, did you know that the Amiga 500 was used in Nick Arcade for the Face-Off games, Mikey's World, and the Bonus Round?)
TheVGC 4 years ago
I remember seeing stuff like this and thinking wow, the possibilities are endless for humanity now...
nycjamie 4 years ago
hahaha ... I am blablablabla. Great fun, THX
noobclaw 4 years ago
Hm? Old as hell yet it still seems to have things that most comptuers dont seem to have anymore? Thats weird, you'd think all this would be built into computers these days.
TheMortifiedDruids 4 years ago
yeah Earl Weaver baseball was the shit
jezroller3 4 years ago
Its quite clear to anyone how powerful the amiga actually is, it rawked over any pc x86 hardware - look at workbench compared to windows 3.1! And the atari ST was vastly inferior in terms of GUI and sound capabilities! Long Live AMIGA!
paulisthebest3uk 4 years ago
But compared to the Atari St it was vastly inferior when it came to making professional music with midi. It also didn't have the highres flickerfree monitor that the st had. Otherwise it smoked the Atari St in all the other departments (i have owned them both).
MrModulator 4 years ago
I still sleep with mine, I don't know about you other dorks! Seriously, why don't they market computers like this anymore???
CommanderZoltar 4 years ago
I still use my old Amiga 500 for gaming.
Have find a cable to connect the rgb signal to my tv. It's like a gaming konsole now :)
HairFU 4 years ago
this machine brought me hours of happiness....shame about the amiga it was a goo machine
CasWreckinCrew 4 years ago
woooooow. 1 MB of memory!!!
aww, it used to be the best. Too bad it had to lay down. :(
saxojon 4 years ago
very cool computer, long life too
nesossin 4 years ago
I miss my Amiga 500 dearly. Earl Weaver Baseball was the most REALISTIC baseball game of its time AND OF THIS TIME. No baseball game since has been able to recreate the realism and customability of the running, throwing, and fielding. Seriously.
depper 4 years ago
if sony and microsoft weren't so evil with home development on ps3 and xbox360 we could really have the same coolness of the amiga back. I think the amiga was all about getting the most out of a set hardware platform. A ps3/xbox360 which was truly open to development (and came with a keyboard and mouse ;) ) would be brilliant.
Nothing will beat the first time I heard an Amiga play 'you're the voice' with samples though :D
Octamed 4 years ago
Those were the days!
nitewaves77 4 years ago
I do not miss my Amiga... I have it each day :-))
AMIGA 2000 GVP-SCSI Serie II 8 MB / Microbotics VXL*30 - 68030-30 with MMU - 68882 FPU + VXL-RAM 8 MB - SCSI HD + CD/RW + CD/R-Drives. Besides A500+ and C64 with Floppy.
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