Amiga 500 Personal Computer Television Commercial

[Keltibarian]

The only computer you will ever need?

That's quite a bold statement... but okay.... so how do I get Call of Duty: Black Ops running on this with all the settings maxed?

[djbolt12]

I wouldn't exatuly say the only computer I would ever need, can wait for 20 years time when my iPad looks as shit as this does now

[gta4rulesass]

just imagine, back then this was the shit, this was the best thing you could get, it was a gamer, an editor, an animator and much more. now we say thats shit that cant even run wow wich i dont like . its like i went out now and bought a 7000 dollar alienware and was gaming on it, in 15 years kids will be laughing at that dinosaur peice of shit and wave there gaming tablets with 6000 x 5870p res and no one will want it for even 30 buks

[89990000]

A 9 minute commercial, at least commercials are now short or if its 9 minutes i'm going to die!!

[bazfanv2]

@89990000 Fucking loser. 9 Minutes of entertainment went quickjer than 30 seconds of yawndom. You sir and your family need to die in a 9 minute house fire..... Now thats entertainment worth watching.

[golfrick007]

This was my first computer with the add on hard drive(I think 10 gigs hard drive space) and another 512 of ram. It was hot back in 89 or some where close!

[ZroDfects]

The dislikes are from the staff of Microsoft that are pissed off because they don't know how to make an operating system that is error free like Workbench lol.

[ZroDfects]

Amiga was my electric dreams... I played it day and night and non stop. Games were awesome with music that can't even be matched today which goes to show how far in the future the Amiga was. The Amiga "Workbench" never ever failed once and yet Microsoft windows have to update every few years and each one gets worse and worse. PC's have to upgrade hardware to run things better where as Amiga was complete and had an option of 1MB ram only if wanted not needed...... I missed Super Cars, Hyrbris.

[MrGeneralRelativity]

Wow! AMIGA 500! It has a name of a space battleship :)

[bathorysthroat]

The only computer I'll ever need eh?

[FACP07]

MAN, i wanna hear the MIDI on that computer!

[TheAppleMan100]

notice almost all computers in the 80s the number after the name of the computer is how much ram it has. example. Macintosh 512k (512k of RAM) Commodore 64 (64 Kb of RAM) Amiga 500 (about 500k of RAM)

[granolabranborg]

the only computer you will ever need.... EVER!

[Sc0tsman33]

Wspaniały komputer wyprzedzający swoją epokę o 5-6lat jest to konstrukcja z 1984 roku masowo wydana jako A500 dopiero w 1987roku, W 1988roku Jay Miner zaprojektował nowszą wersję która nigdy nie ujżała światła dziennego jako pionier zastosował 2MB pamięci VRAM dającej 100krotnego kopa blitterowi a dodatkowo wyświetlała 1024*1024 w 128kolorach gdzie 32kolory bez sztuczek były standardem w 500-ce. Krótko mówiąc w 1988roku Miner zaprojektował coś co potrafiło pociągnąc grafikę z pc-ta 486

[RorkesDrft]

Is that the same 68000 chip that was in Macs?

All I know is that my friend had an Amiga in 1990ish, with a mouse and GUI and sweet color. I had a Tandy 1000sx with a green text monitor.

[funela1234]

at 1:00 the music is the computer cornicals

[pufixas]

Star Wars was made on this computer...

[cdk6040]

Amiga did it before windows was even an idea!!

Windows just tried to improve on it. From my knowledge I could me wrong.

[j0n4th4nw]

Commodore Amiga was MY idea.

[punpunpunpunctuation]

More and more people are (finally) waking up to the fact that true technology is about 10 to as much as 50 years ahead of what is released to the public. Military tech is mind-boggling and would shock the average person. Now, to help prove that technology is being released very slowly consider the HVD (Holographic Versatile Disc). They were produced in 2007, but won't be released to the public until 2019.

[ThePhoneUpdate]

@punpunpunpunctuation Hey thanks for the info on that HVD man, pretty neat stuff! I thought my 1TB hard drive was cool!

[daniel1982]

TMI OTL

[nikamota]

....and after spending lots on money on our 50inch HD LCD/Plasma TV's ..........

now its 3D HD/LCD /PLASMA TV's....this is the new product we need spend our money on.....3D!!

3D!!.....From 1970 fuck knows or other!!

So to enjoy my new movies in 3D or PS3 games in 3D i have to shell out more money on supposedly new products.

Fuck it!

FUCK OFF!

(oh and some twat will say "oh but your missing out")

I ain't missing out on anything that i can see in 3D with my own eyes.

[nikamota]

...and this shit still goes on today!

Surprised?

If you are...fucking wake the hell up!

(sorry if that's a cliche).

[nikamota]

Commodore Amiga

Too much technology at once..

The Industry did not want that.

They wanted consumers to pay for it first.

We probably could have had MP3 Players in 1992 but no.......

The system oozed out technology to consumers bit by bit,in order to squeeze the maximum amount of profit from them.

(A PC in 1996 could only "beep",something a Sinclair ZX Spectrum could do in 1982 and yet the Amiga could play 4 channel sampled sound in 1985)

Commodore were removed on purpose from the game.

[CoolDudeClem]

I wonder if Microsoft got their ideas for Windows interface from the Amiga WorkBench, there's so many operating systems that seem to be based on the WorkBench GUI. makes you think doesnt it.

[pacosaidso]

@CoolDudeClem No, Apple and Microsoft stole things from each other. They didn't complain because they knew they had in turn stolen it all from Xerox.

[luridplanet]

TV stations are still using Amigas for their graphics. When they first came out, they cut the cost of creating CG by at least 90%

[Ravintolavaunu]

The only computer you'll ever need!

[janmansde3dede]

"the only computer you ever need"

I used my amiga 1000 from 85 to 92

And my 1200 from 92 to 2003 with OS 3.5 and 3.9

I can't wait for the AmigaOne x1000 :D

[lytealight]

The most important aspect. It was a lot of fun.

[vicious6661982]

even in 1994 an amiga 1200 12 mhz 2mb ram was better and powerful than a 486 33mhz 8mb ram.with crap vga graphics

[LSDodgers]

@vicious6661982 Yeah I remember Amiga

computers back in the good old days, they

were good computers. Too bad commodore

messed up.

[vicious6661982]

if you consider that a 486 in 1994 with 32mb of ram and 33+mhz still got a lower graphics(vga) and power than an amiga 1200 with 12 mhz and 2mb...

[daniel1982]

This computer failed, because Mr Amiga kept repeating himself.

[spikeman14]

Computer Chronicles theme in the background ?

[NightSprinter]

@spikeman14 Yeah, that is the theme for the Computer Chronicles

[punpunpunpunctuation]

Well, see, Amigas failure meant that computer technological advancements came slower simply because nobody else was able to match them ... at the time. Basically what I'm saying is that the computing power you are referring to would have come along over a decade ago and the computers we have today SHOULD have reached the degree of advancement that they actually won't be for another decade. We would be far more advanced today and have more power had they succeeded.

[punpunpunpunctuation]

The graphics capabilities of the Amiga were easily 10 years ahead of its time. Had they been properly marketed you can bet Microsoft would not be who they are today, Windows would not be the dominant OS, and what's more had Amiga succeeded it would have meant that TODAY's computers would have already reached the level of complexity which they now won't reach for another 10 - 15 years. In other words, Amiga's failure delayed further advancements in home computing.

[BladeX4327]

So if these Amiga's were still around today we wouldn't need quad CPU cores with 1TB HDDs to have a powerful computer?

[Tobiasz931]

@punpunpunpunctuation There was some guy in those days (or little bit earlier) in Poland that made much more efficient computers, but thanks to socialism he was unable to succeed... Damn.. we could already be playing Crysis 3! xD

[aaroninclub]

@punpunpunpunctuation apple also was well ahead of its time as well.. referring to the Lisa mostly...

[snake2006]

@punpunpunpunctuation

It just wasn't Commodore's shitty marketing. MS had basically started buying loyalty to their OS. Which also didn't help.

God I hate Windows, I HATE PC's. I want a Commodore computer up to today's standards. But that is never going to happen now is it.

[SeetheTruth4Yourself]

What you may not know is that Microsoft wrote the basic interpreter for most of the personal computers of that era.

[GloomFate]

@punpunpunpunctuation so was the xerox alto but that was only used in offices and uni's

[AtariXpert]

@punpunpunpunctuation So true. Unfortunately the video recorder this was captured on does not due justice for the graphics capability this machine rendered at the time. It was a breakthrough in graphics technology. Too sad we don't see Amiga around anymore.

[conradsz]

What ever happened to Commodore?

[AceRooboy]

They really were miles ahead of IBM PC's in the early 80s. IBM were the premier pc in the business world at the time; with no mouse, no sound, no graphics and monochrome. And the Amiga had great colour, graphics, sound and superb games that shat all over everything else. Must have had shit-fully bad corporate management though.

[meto402]

you idiot XP is the best

[snake2006]

Amiga should still exist today. It's better than those fucking joke computers called MAC's and billions of times better than shitty Windows.

Windows and Mac's can go fuck themselves. Amiga was the future and commodore screwed it up and it pisses me off even today.

[LSDodgers]

But all we have now is MACs and PCs.... We must work with what we have. I personally think MACs are great and PC is great for gaming. I use both I am a hybrid user. So, how come you think Amiga would have been better? it could have but how did commodore screw up?

[snake2006]

The Amgia was doing things in 1987 that Mac's and PC's couldn't do. It had custom made graphics and sound chips. Their hardware was all made in house so it was affordable.

Commodore loused it up by not marketing things properly and letting people run the company who knew a total of jack and shit about computing.

[vicious6661982]

@LSDodgers amiga architecture is better. consider that in 1994 windows 3.1 on a 486 dx 33 mhz with 16 mb ram. was performing lower than workbench on an amiga 1200 12 mhz  2mb ram....

pc architecture for make same stuff of amiga used 4x more processor power and memory... the only things that make amiga inferior was the expandibility... amiga was made as it is.. expasion was limited. where even a 486 was easy to expand : ram:/processor/soun/video card

[AussieSong]

Say it again SAM the Computer voice on the 64

[Pfalzgreven]

'The only computer you'll ever need ...'

Say that again ... hm!

[realisticHomeboy]

Oh the days in high school, when the amiga guys were enemies with the pc guys.

They lost. Amiga is dead now.

[mariodivine]

Still alive... just hunt for it :)

[javimahai]

OMG, they totally ripped off the theme from the Computer Chronicles show. LOL!

[Ian16545]

@javimahai Nah, that's probably an Associated Production Music (APM) cue that both Commodore AND "Computer Chronicles" used there.

[MrWombatPPC]

Amiga Still Rocks. Henc my Alias still has the PPC attached. anyone who knows about amigas will know which part. Long Live the Amiga

[ashthepokemonmaster]

i love my amiga my grandma gave it to me about a year ago and im already makeing programs lol its set up on my desk

[MrWombatPPC]

Good for you. Try Blitz Basic, or Amos Pro for programing games. They are realy good.

[ashthepokemonmaster]

ok i will if i can find them

[acufrag]

Carm3D, don't argue with that cunt. Go back to using your talent to making money bro and let this useless eater find his way to the FEMA camp where he belongs.

[micc0x]

I don't think that inserting game play footage as much of the video was a good marketing strategy to sell to businesses. Too bad... It was way ahead of any other computer at the time.

[kargaroc386]

at 0:58 why is the computer chronicles theme in this?

[carm3d]

Intuition?? I've owned 3 Amigas and never heard of this ap.

[Arkhandroid]

its not an "app"

its part of the system.

[carm3d]

Alright well it was never part of any of the systems I've owned.

[Arkhandroid]

yes it did doofy.

Its part of the OS. Workbench is founded on Intuition. Its essentially the core of all the user input handling.

[carm3d]

So "intuition" was the name given to the look and feel interface of Workbench. I've never heard it called by that name. I always thought of it as unix-like.

Don't call me doofy, douchebag.

[Arkhandroid]

Yes you owned 3 amigas and acted as if you were well versed. Its in the papers that come with one. Not knowing this entitles everyone to call you doofy, Doofy.

No need to bust out the dbaggery just because you got pwnt on teh YOUTUBE

Unix-like makes me think you use Macs.

[carm3d]

I use PCs primarily, but I do have a Mac laptop I use in Windows mode. Cock.

[Arkhandroid]

so you bought a Mac to look supakewl hipster 1337z and put windows on it. That makes sense.

your awesome vocabular also leads me to believe youre like, mid 20s or so, and a complete doofn00b. you bought Amigas because someone said they were OMG SO SCENE KEWL TIEM.

right?

Rooster

[carm3d]

I bought the mac laptop because it was fast and didn't have Vista. I needed Windows so it could be a part of my rendering farm.

I bought Amigas because they were the best at graphics and animation for the time.

[Arkhandroid]

fast and didnt have vista, loool. one of those anti vistatards. I see. My laptop with Win7 was half the price and can do way more than your macbook. I speak from owning a macbook. theyre a waste of skrill, dooder.

you bought amigas back in their heyday, and you never read the literature that came with it to find out what intuition is?

Some user you are. lol.

carm3Doof

[carm3d]

"Some user you are." I think I'm a fairly prolific user.. Take a look at my videos.. More productive than hitting a keyboard with a blunt instrument anyway.

[Arkhandroid]

whats wrong with smashing a junked up computer with a hammer? You could get all prolific on it, it still wont do much except be broken.

Thats before I hit it with a hammer btw.

basing your skills off of youtube videos is pretty stupid anyways, Doofy

[carm3d]

I base my skills on my output.. From my YouTube vids, my website, the heaps of praise from my clients, etc.. Anyway I don't want to get into a protracted discussion with someone who says "My computer can beat up your computer." Bye douchebag.

[Arkhandroid]

hey, dont bring the heat if you cant take the noise. youre 38 calling people douchebag on Youtube,

bang up job, doofaroonie.

quite prolific. cant even read a manual. MY AMIGAS NEVER HAD NO INTUITIONS. IVE OWNED 3 AND THEY WERE STATE OF THE ART.

[carm3d]

My mother always told me never to argue with a douchebag, because you'll just walk away smelling like vinegar.

[TruthandJustice101]

Commodore should have become the Big Dog of the computing world, well into the 90s, but mismanagement killed it.

[TheDustpile]

The PCs used off-the-shelf parts which IBM couldn't have license control over. All the Amiga's innards were patented and protected from legitimate cloning. This kept it a 'closed' system whilst PCs got cheaper, customisable and went viral.

[TruthandJustice101]

@TheDustpile

It makes me angry to see this video from 1987, being that in 1994 we were all dragging along with Windows 3.1, an inferior successor to Amiga.

It's kind of like the idiot nephew who takes the throne because the much more capable son and heir to the king has died in battle.

All the more reason why I have migrated to Linux and have no more interest in Windows.

[scrfce123]

I am still amazed at how capable the Amiga 500 was... Some of its features were way ahead of their time. One example that impressed me was text to speech conversion.

I stopped using mine decades ago, but I still have it lying around somewhere. If it were a PC, it would have been binned a long, long time ago. I cant believe they went bust - even though they had the best software and hardware at the time, for some inexplicable reason, they were overlooked.

[brizzlie]

The only computer I will EVER need?! I better get one now!

[justme632]

YES. LOL that is the most humorous statement in this video!

[jdean9]

at this time windows was still at v1.0 .. check out screenshots of that .. amiga was wayyy ahead. microsoft stole almost all their ideas for windows from apple and commodore

[Simpson654]

I wonder why they chose to _hold_ the right button down for Intutition. It's a good system because I used it, but the holding the button down was kind of redundant, and with the mouse failing it was holding right Amiga button down on the keyboard.

[neglesaks]

Classic, but poor video quality, too bad. :(

[zeroyon2501]

"... RAM expandable to 1MB. Enough for just about any task you wish to tackle."

I laugh really hard at this statement now, but I wonder how hard I will be laughing at my current 3GB of RAM 20 years from now...

[facistleader]

If Amiga continued and had an operating system today, I bet it would be better than Windows! Amiga crushed the competition when it came out! Superior computer to anything that was out at the time!

[Vyggy]

Yeah, too bad that Commodore sucked in some ways and it never got as popular as the Mac. If there are 800 million computer users, I'd be happy to have a 0.1 % market share (thats already 800 000 users that I can rip off with DRM and incompatible stuff, forcing users to upgrade like Microsoft is doing now).

[maxsuperdudeisawesom]

It has Tiny hard drive tiny memory it can't even run windows 95 YES i said that it can't even run BLOODY WINDOWS 95 The only computer you'll ever need YEAH RIGHT Just try to run vista on it!

[Vyggy]

Why does it need to run Windows?

[VoidKeeper]

beause Windows is like a Vírus, that works on every machine xD and fucks it up...

[Simpson654]

Most VGA and Super VGA video cards for the PC didn't have more than 256kb of video memory until the 90s. My first PC had S3 video card with only 1MB of video memory, in 1994. Amiga 500 had 512kb of video memory back in 1987. Sure it was shared, but I don't know anybody who didn't buy the memory expansion.

[ninelivecat]

Innovative that's why they went bust they couldn't compete with MSDOS

[EFileTahi]

MSDOS was something like 1 billion light years behind AmigaOS, still is and always will be. AmigaOS offered REAL multitasking which only Windows 95 managed to do it, yet, and very badly.

What killed Amiga was piracy, loads of Amiga software companies where closed. Software become more and more rare when PCs where becoming more and more popular. Also Amiga was always labeled as video game computer because of the peoples lack of knowledge on the subject.

[ninelivecat]

Sorry your wrong MSDOS became the standard like VHS nobody cared about the Amiga or Betamax even if they where better products

[erebos007]

'Not you' does not mean nobody. Many many people still do care about Amiga and are still using them because they are fun.

MSDOS is an operating system, Amiga is not...Amiga are computerS (500,1200, etc)

AmigaOS is the operating system of the Amiga.

Still Commodore went burst because of bad marketing and poor results in the US market, but at the time Commodore International went bankruptcy, European divisions were profitable.

[ninelivecat]

I realise the Amiga has a cult following and you are obviously part of that cult, living in the past, still using the Amiga.Sadly it died a death a long time ago sorry about that.

[neglesaks]

Can't argue, instead using "you're a cultist" pseudo-arguments. Childish.

[sinisterzerpent]

fucking peoplez

[vox2007]

lol that music is from 'The computer chronicles' tv show. I still have a working commodore64 and 1541 disk drive. Now you can emulate all this stuff using emulators :O :l

[coolbrian15]

My preschool had a amiga in 1989 the muppet baby game was the lastest game out ther now dora games are the lastest games amgia was better than mac and windows now its outdated

[guyvf]

do you know the name of the first song they use? i've heard it before...

[Pablos544]

Very good analysis generally of the benefits of computing, taylored for the capabilities of the Amiga but also reminds one that once in the pre-microsoft-own-evertything computer consumers/business users were first buying the benefits of computers and the benefits this commercial reports are what's been said to death from the computer industry and even now are claiming to be very new like smooth multi-tasking' for example(!). Thanks for posting that commercial! nice job :)

[SMGJohn]

naa Amiga is bad pc i have always used IBM and WIndows 1.0 and upgraded to 3.1 in 1993 becuse the softwares requested it but amiga is good to knowed a friend that haved it he could run Doom 1 on 16 bit i could only run it on 8bit with my windows 1.0

[BredeBert]

in those times the amiga was still more powerfull than a standard IBM PC internet and computer communications are developed on a amiga and the 1st multitasking computer i still have that puppy the amiga 500+ every "rich"goverment used it they even went to space with a commandore on board it also was the 1st computer who had a CAD program i still love that puppy

[SMGJohn]

yes but i prefer IBM PCs Amiga 500 is good to but IBM and Windows 1.0 and 3.1 i have used from 1985 to 1995 then i upgraded to Windows 95 and got a newer IBM PCs but now i have quit in work and i have used Asus and HP and Dell and Compaq all this PCs are good but its sad that old PC firmas whas closed in early 90s in 80s we had alot of compiuter Manufacturing firmas but now they all closed and thats sad

[JiggaJagga]

Commodore wrecked the Amiga.

[thecoolconejoman]

" Amiga " In spanish, refers to when someone is talking about a freind that is of Female Gender.

[Cybertronic72388]

thank you captain obvious!

[lPrincelD]

Same as Portuguese.. Female Gender.

[magicianspirit]

Actually I don't think this was a Television Commercial I think it was a videotape given to those who expressed interest in the Amiga. Plus I believe there's a clearer version of this here on YT.

[galaxyrainguy]

Down below, the air force had a transportation systen (via couriers) since the 1950's, however foreign countries developed a system of technology theft(basically they killed the couriers and stole the technology). (via (bugs) in a(lu)minum frame works for data storage). Impending situations eventually led to the satcom and eventually simulator points, the Arps distributor network and portals eventually became the standard leading to TCP/IP and internet and tsp/id and programs like protocol

[hilarioph]

I thinking about the history

of some CGI of Amiga when they

using for the some business,

and for movie like the movie

tron. Do know that mgabrysSF?

[hilarioph]

Amiga was born before inter

net was born. This one was use

some promos right? I wonder

Sun tv on japan was using this

in the mid 80's when they

use CGI affects on japan

[mgabrysSF]

The arpanet has been around since 1969 which was but one part of today's internet. You're a fucking retard.

[markwrightrf]

That's the "Computer chronicles" theme in the background, anyone know what it's called? I guess it's production library music, but iconic for anything to do with 8/16 bit micros...

[kieranfletch]

just to let you know amiga still makes operating systems its got one coming out soon its kinda like linux but a totaly seperate os its a bit like mac os then just google it and look for it i didnt even know amiga still existed if you think progras lack on linux think amiga would be a pain

[kieranfletch]

MACINTOSH RULES ALL compared to crap like dos and other text based os lol windows was just like a program for dos to begin with then a secondary front for dos it only got good at windows 95 before that pcs were only for typing and work

[marceloyanez111]

the commodore computers kicked the mac 128k ass. Only the amiga made those 3D graphics possible. AMIGA RULEZ!!!!

[lburna4665]

macs are for noobs

[blade004]

Lets just both agree that both the MAC and the AMIGA were BOTH far more advanced than Windows based PC's of the time :)

[livebabylive15]

anything is more superior. windows main purpose is for business and games and mac n Linux does both of those tasks better. there is not 1 advantage of windows.

[blade004]

I couldn't agree more!

[Aesoe]

Oh notice at 6:29 they show you can forge credit cards.

[Aesoe]

At the time, it really was very innovative.  I thought it was a great product. They just didnt survive.

[JiggaJagga]

I think it was ahead of its time, the machine could practically sell itself especially in the creative arts (inc titling, genlocking/blue-screening and image editing). It was multimedia before the phrase was even coined. The downside was the cost of producing the hardware as well as the cost of peripherals, together with Commodore's marketing strategy. The multi-tasking on the Amiga really was streets ahead cos it was designed to do it from the ground up, in hardware not just software.

[JiggaJagga]

Oh yeah..and it was pre-emptive multi-tasking not co-operative like Windows used. The ability to use separate, draggable screens to run multiple applications was also a real bonus. If you needed to run x86 software there were 3rd-party hardware solutions or alternatively you could run emulation software (including i486 support). This machine could also emulate an Apple Mac really well. Newtek also use the Amiga to create a video production suite, saving thousands.

[gli7utubeo]

OK, pretty good for 1987, when the main competition was the IBM-AT (an 80286 at 8mHz), but I love that line at the beginning: "The only computer you will ever need!"