Amiga Video Toaster 2.0 Demo from Newtek

[2DPolygon]

Insane... Amiga was way ahead of it's time!

[skater74life]

i mean i would get this but wheres the star wipe?

[swampwiz]

What is the name and artist for the music track?

[Suite904]

@swampwiz the song is Hawaiian Chance by Yello.

[flashfith]

but can it run crysis? that is the question.

[bkbuckerton]

My ears have been raped.

[Mgamerz]

The music is kinda annoying, but pretty cool too.

[Mgamerz]

crysis of 1992? i think so

[Pilotgeek]

@Mgamerz : Except this actually seemed to run well.

[Mgamerz]

@Pilotgeek I know, crysis can barely run on my high end laptop i got a month ago... it runs on high. GT 425M i7 1.73... sigh.

[Pilotgeek]

@Mgamerz : Hah, be happy with that. My laptop's 8200m barely accomplishes low. My Desktop's GTX470 on the other hand... =)

[bryceguy72]

I just uploaded this video to my channel with higher audio quality (resampled with no clipping & more bass)

[Nomoreidsleft]

The Amiga wasn't and amazing computer, it IS an amazing computer. All the effects shown here are live using two independent video signals. There is no PC today that can do that. If it were not for the recent advent of HDTV, the Amiga with a Toaster 2 would still be valuable as a live broadcast controller.Unfortunately at the time and Amiga 3000 with a Toaster 2 was too expensive for most people to afford. That didn't stop the makers of Babylon 5 from using it.

[USSLexington1709]

Wow. Memories.

[toranamunter]

@HRHShawnPendragone hahahaha yes you can, you're an idiot. how many shows are produced on video toasters in 2010? there is a reason. amazing in its day, absolutely prehistoric now.

[slashjpl]

I remember this video back when I was selling Amigas and Video Toasters in 1992. If you look at 3:18, you'll see an early version of the Babylon 5 station, created as a proof-of-concept demo by Ron Thronton for JMS and Warner Brothers...

[cm79ca]

KIKI!!!!! We Love KIKI!!!! (that's what we named that chick wipe! I remember accidently hitting that during a live broadcast.... the looks on the hosts were soooooooo funny!!!! I miss my Toaster!

[5starTUMOURv2]

well this goes someway to revealing the creative tools used in the lifeforms video by fsol nice.

[knightflyte]

I haven't seen this in ages. I had the VHS demo. It really was ahead of it's time.

I remember seeing a preview for this on a LATE LATE LATE NIGHT news program and wanting this so bad. There's more to the tape, but as a demo this is great to see again. None of this was availible unless you wanted to pay astronomical amounts. If I remember roght the whole set up was less than ten grand U.S. Some reason $6,900.00. stands out.

KIKI!!!!! (She's the red head you see throughout the video.)

[kargaroc386]

"on an Amiga 2000"

okay, so you had to render 3D animations with a 68000?

wow. must of took forever to render.

[MKUltraProject]

How much would this software have costed back in the day? And a conversion to todays value please. Was it available to anyone? I hear it was used for the early modelling in Jurassic Park before being sent to Silicon Graphics. The 3D and water effect looks SERIOUSLY ahead of its time. Amiga where literally incredible

[persiacom]

They were doing stuff in the late 80's/early '90 that I couldn't do on my Mac until a decade later. Really a shame. I know it looks easy to folks in 2009, and you may be prone to a yawn, but think about WHEN this video was made.

[tommyballe]

"Mac"

There's the problem.

[Cabroni2]

nice music. . . exist the original .mod/tracker file ?

[baack2roots]

Yeah, im looking for this music, it's very excited!!

[SkuldChan42]

I still have my toaster a box somewhere. You need to re-record this btw - the sound is a tad over-saturated.

[baack2roots]

Yep, sound is over saturated, which is sad because the music is awesome.

[estudio54net]

En que año salio esa maquina, me acuerdo de una demostracion en la radikal party de Granada.

[baack2roots]

Amiga nacio desde 1985, con la Amiga 1000, despues la Amiga 500, luego 2000, no recuerdo exactamente el año, pero salieron despues del 86

[m0neyhack3r]

Like it or not, the Amiga set the standard for todays modern PC's, they use similar hardware to the Amiga, certain chipsets modelled on Amiga chipsets, the video toaster has become intergrated into modern PC's, FX like Ray Tracing, None Linear Fog can be found in Modern PC Games, Commodore didn't know how to Market and lost out on the CD ROM Drive to the PC Market, that's what killed the Amiga, if they got there just a little quicker than IBM the PC would still be a useless box that beeps lol

[8bitbubsy]

@m0neyhack3r

Tell me, what PC chipsets are modelled on Amiga chipsets?

Tell me, how has Video Toaster been integrated into modern PCs?

Tell me, did Commodore invent non-linear fogging?

Don't get me wrong, I love Amiga and Commodore, but what the eff are you talking about=

[baack2roots]

Outstanding! The Amiga... Just the age of the dreams

[klunky]

I had this in 1992-98 w/ SVHS edit decks, PAR animation recorder, maxed out ram etc. on an Amiga 2000. Also had a Studio 16 in there that could multitrack 6 stereo tracks of audio. It was way ahead of its time.

[exactspace]

after years and years of not seeing this most of this video and music has been forever drilled into my mind

thanks so much for posting

[calumettv]

I also had this Video Toaster demo, I got it when I was 17 or 18. I even had the brochure. I wanted a toaster back then and S-VHS editors. Now its all digital LOL

[sandgunner2004]

I still have my full setup with the help of the Millenium additions the Toaster/Flyer/Lightwave system still does things with an ease and polish that I can't match on my fully digital systems. The Amiga/Toaster system compliments our all digital systems with a more natural or grounded looking output. With the high quality of the Toaster and Flyers output coupled into a Y/C no one can tell the difference where Amiga ends and high end digital begins.

[bluehachiroku]

Amigas didn't die, Commodore did and took all hands down to the bottom,including the Amiga. I still think it's a better look workbench than what around now.. but I'm biased.

[R33Racer]

That really is sensasonal.

[dajebus]

i remeber i called the company and they sent me a copy of this on a VHS tape. I think i was a kid, like 12 or so.

i got into video editing years later. probbaly because of this tape!

I wish the Amiga had done better but it was never fun when the GURU came to say hello.

[fuyingbro]

yet the amiga died and not the pc

[hawkeyefile]

It's because Amiga failed at marketing.

[Lightfromsirius]

No. It´s because Commodore had no eggs.

The wanted prefer to be one of many manufacturers, which build "right" computers. In doing so, they overlook what diamond from a Computer they with AMIGA had.

[fuyingbro]

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

[usascorpio]

Had the 2000, and then two 4000's. Last one finally died November 2007 ! WAY ahead of its time

[discreetfx]

1992

[polyex]

year?

[RhythmDroid]

I had this promo video when it came out...

I was 11 years old. I wanted a Toaster more than ANYTHING.

[calumettv]

I also had this Video Toaster demo, I got it when I was 17 or 18. I even had the brochure. I wanted a toaster back then and S-VHS editors. Now its all digital LOL

[baack2roots]

I love it, love it, Amazing!

[mackhine]

Kiki!

[BushwoodOI]

YES!

[stevieu83]

Yes, quite stunning :)

[arossolaris]

Hail Amiga

[nalletut]

Quite amazing

[M00sehair]

Nice.. very nice..