My White A1200 with a Apollo 040 32mb ram with a 5gb HD still being used today. I've even purchased a 4 way buffered IDE so I can hopefully add my 4gb CF HD loaded with OctaMED and ting. Bring on the Beast.
good old amiga, I remember tracking with 4 channels of sound, you could resample your clips to try to fit as many hihat/clap or whatever combos on one track.
I sell it in 1998 bought a fuckin PC machine and used to the 2008, now i have apple imac 24" its ok, but not the same feeling as the time I used to play with ami. greetz to all ami lovers :D
I had few amiga models in the past. Starting from amiga 500 through amiga cdtv, amiga 1200, laterw amiga 1200 with apollo card with 68040 and a coprocessor 60mhz 16 mb of ram memory, and my last amiga was amiga 4000T with a turbo card with 68060 processor 60mhz. I have putted all my money on it, my life was tight limited to the amiga world, nothing was important, only amiga. Beautiful days, ahhh Its so sad that this machine dies.
Yep. There was alot of people and design swapping going on between those two companies. Before reading "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" I knew about some of it. Still though, that book was quite an eye-opener.
Yeah, there are some awesome freeware games on the Amiga. I think the first one that I got hooked on was Scott Peterson's GravAttack from 1987. Wicked addictive!
You had things nicely covered with the A500 and A1200. Other than rendering, the 1200 is essentially a match for the 4000. And for an all-around most compatible Amiga, nothing beats the A500.
I almost had a 4000. But 'hardwired' (and some other stuff) didn't work on it, so I passed on it. I had a A1200 and A500, and a couple boxes full of games/demos/utils.
ehmh, excuse me...SMALL? With all those plug through IC's, large resistors and other stuff, it was a near 5 kilo monster!I guess the 1200 would be the best for me.
Okay, small for the time. Now, not so much. As for the 1200, nice machine. A little finicky when it comes to running older OCS stuff though. Amazing to think that you can squeeze a SCSI kit in there. That, and it recognizes IDE hard drives built long after it was.
hello from canada great video still have my amiga 2000 500 works great. still use it for mods. yeah most people up in canada say what is amiga never heard of it.just imagine how they would be now it would be bye bye pc by they way pc stands for peice crap and i b m is international bowel movment.keep up the videos thanks
I've played the oldest, all the way through to the newest and have worked on videogames as well. I think one of the cool things about classic games is that the development teams were smaller and it was easier to get your idea out there in its purest form. Classic games definitely have a different feel than the newer ones. It's also neat to see which classic Amiga game developers are cranking out the hottest new games these days (Rockstar, Reflections, etc...).
In some ways, classic games were easier to make. In other ways, they were harder to make. Easier in that a modern game's 3D elements take a long time to put together (modelling, texturing, rigging). However, classic game systems had tons of brutal limitations. Each system has a max number of colours, sprites (or none at all), unique video modes, audio limitations, minimal RAM, .... Then there was the task or porting a game to 20 different platforms. Yikes!
The best computer of all time. Miles ahead of the competition right from its release in 85 till the early 90s. The first multimedia computer with 4096 colors and four channel stereo sound in 1985. I miss those days but had a lot of fun during the 10 years I used Amigas.
(insert hearts n' huggies here)I still have our old Amigas! One of them is sadly, busted somehow... but, I keep it because it has one of our 'operas' on it's hard drive. I really need to get it together with that someday...
It's kind of funny to see just how bad the drive I/O is on even modern PCs. Just put in a CDROM and watch Windows Explorer freeze up. And back in the day, an Amiga could format four disks simultaneously while accessing a CDROM drive and multiple hard drives.
...and while downloading from a modem, playing music through a MOD player (and/or using the Excellence word processor to hear the highlighted text [the computer spoke it out, via voice synthesizer]), oh, and degragmenting the HDD all at the same time!
I miss my Amiga, its 2 bad the company magistrates scammed Commodore and caused it to go bankrupt, otherwise it would have blown the doors off of things today.
Some Americans do..i moved to the U.S from Britain in 92 and i there were a couple of people who had an Amiga....thing is though, the games they had were very outdated
Nice. Brings back memories. Still have my A1200 hooked up. I spilt milk and beer over it. One time it fell to the floor. But it keeps going and going and going like the enegizer bunny:) Damn I miss those days.
Yep, great sound on Hired guns but it's bugged when you reload a saved game. Also i've completed the game and was confronted by a really lousy end sequence-a bit of music and a game complete screen. Not much reward for all my hard effort!
That's a truly massive game. I've yet to finish it. Too bad about the end sequence. There seem to be alot of games that fail to deliver a descent victory anim. Do you know anyone who has ever managed to get the level editor to work properly?
I completed it with only two characters alive. The last two levels were not as difficult and large as i expected.(You can rush past the large creatures sometimes to get where you where you're supposed to). I didn't know there was a level editor! I'm playing eye of the beholder at the moment- another blast from the past. I also like arcade games such as Turrican 1&2 and Lionheart...
I thought the ending was great. The large creatures were scary, then the end sequence was cool with some good music and background info on what each of the characters did with the rest of their lives.
Canadian, actually. But same computer market as that of the U.S. And you're right -- Amigas were pretty unusual in Canada and the United States. It's too bad that Commodore wasn't more aggressive in the North American market.
No worries. That'll be the only time that happens. The lead singer in the band I'm in was the camera guy. He's also a drummer. And you know how drummers are. :]
Hi there. It's called Transucktion. If you have trouble finding it, let me know, and I'll figure out a way to get it to you. Actually, there are a number of good Amiga Mods that I should post.
That's very cool. I take he's playing the Mods back in something like Winamp and then sampling into Soundforge (or some other sampler), and converting them to mono MP3 files for the cell phone?
Yeah, he used a winamp file writing plugin to stream the mod output to a LAME MP3 encoder.
I might do it too sometime, though I'll do it in OS X because of handy sound recording apps that record audio from any running application. So I could record a mp3 right off of a mod tracker, like Milky Tracker or something.
Although, the idea of converting mods to mp3s still seems pretty silly to me. Linear encoded audio is not nearly as efficient as the modular track method.
Heh. True. I used to do game development for Nintendo, and the musician on the project was a hot-shot Mod composer. It was a requirement for the system, since the Ultra64/N64 didn't have a heck of alot of cartridge ROM space. You can do some truly amazing things with Mods. Some of his best stuff was the material that never got used in the games.
Thanks! Actually, the Amiga 1200 that's sitting right in front of her is in even more mint condition. The 1200 has a SCSI kit and a larger-capacity IDE hard drive packed into its case, while the A4000 has 3 hard drives, an external CDROM drive, and some other odds and ends.
Yep, it's a 1942. Quite the display for its time. Amazing frequency range on that thing.
Eventually, I plan to put an LCD display on the 4000, using a converter box that allows Amiga signals to scan out to the modern flat panels.
In front of the A4000 is an Amiga 1200 with SCSI kit and a 1 GB 2.5" hard drive. I'll have to do another vid for the 1200 some time. I'd like to show off Super Star Dust AGA to all the non-Amigans out there. :]
Yeah i would like to get an LCD for my A1200, although i did actually buy a Scandoubler for it about 8 months ago so that it enables me to use it on a PC monitor that can scan back down to 15khz, although for some reason when i run Workbench in interlace mode on the PC monitor, i get this fuzzy zig zagged effect on the screen, although without interlace it works fine, but looks too chunky in that mode.
BTW, have you heard of WHDLoad? Its a program that allows you to play virtually EVERY non dos Amiga game from the Hard Drive. Basically i have games like Super Stardust, Shadow of the Beast and virtually every other game you couldnt never install, now running all off the Hard Drive. If you would like to find out more, go to a website called English Amiga Board. You will know me on there as blade002 :)
You know, I've heard of it, but wasn't sure how well it worked. I'll definitely have to check it out. Thanks for letting me know about it. Oh, and I'll totally drop by the board!
Hey nebby, thankyou for your comments on my video. I would just like to say that your video is absolutely brilliant, and your commentary is clear. I like how you have got a everything setup as well, and is that a Commodore 1942 monitor your using? My own monitor died some months ago, and i was drolling over the one you have. :) Again, excellent video, well done.
I'm pretty sure you can get your 1942 monitor fixed. Likely the backplane needs re-soldering. If not, check out the VGA to LCD converters that are out there. There are at least two that support the Amiga's scan rates.
I actually never had a 1942 Monitor but a friend of mine did once and that is why i was drooling over yours because i liked the way it looked back then :) But the "good news" is that i managed to get my Scan Doubler to scan on my Diamond View 17 Inch PC Monitor in full interlace modes with no flicker and no display distortion, so it now looks as clear as day! :)
I played Live on I LoveTechno Festival Belgium with a Amiga between Jeff Mills and Dj Hell in the year 2000 ...:)
VddEnergise 7 months ago
My White A1200 with a Apollo 040 32mb ram with a 5gb HD still being used today. I've even purchased a 4 way buffered IDE so I can hopefully add my 4gb CF HD loaded with OctaMED and ting. Bring on the Beast.
NuMoominba 1 year ago
0:51 Arnold Schwarzenegger :D
Sssagaman 1 year ago
Hired Guns is one of the most amazing games ever :)
Im still rocking it with my A1200
weaselfierce 1 year ago
good old amiga, I remember tracking with 4 channels of sound, you could resample your clips to try to fit as many hihat/clap or whatever combos on one track.
skatechatham 1 year ago
HIRED GUNS!
What an AMAZING game
Sars78 2 years ago
I sell it in 1998 bought a fuckin PC machine and used to the 2008, now i have apple imac 24" its ok, but not the same feeling as the time I used to play with ami. greetz to all ami lovers :D
kafel 2 years ago 3
Amiga rulez 4 ever
I had few amiga models in the past. Starting from amiga 500 through amiga cdtv, amiga 1200, laterw amiga 1200 with apollo card with 68040 and a coprocessor 60mhz 16 mb of ram memory, and my last amiga was amiga 4000T with a turbo card with 68060 processor 60mhz. I have putted all my money on it, my life was tight limited to the amiga world, nothing was important, only amiga. Beautiful days, ahhh Its so sad that this machine dies.
kafel 2 years ago
Damn this is rather impressive
TrenzorZ 2 years ago
Hired Guns icon! AMIGA RULEZ!!!
lurynowicz 2 years ago
Amiga rulez!!!
Amiga = Victim of the bullshit PC
RXillusionist 2 years ago 7
It's so twisted that the Amiga was developed by Atari people, and the Atari ST was developed by Commodore people.... strange world.
1981Myname 2 years ago
Yep. There was alot of people and design swapping going on between those two companies. Before reading "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" I knew about some of it. Still though, that book was quite an eye-opener.
nebby6 2 years ago
Looking for the song in this vid?
See the video description section.
nebby6 2 years ago
I want that song lol, where can i download that from?
melvis007 2 years ago
Transplant rulez!!!!!!!!!! xD
Fightpotato 2 years ago
Yeah, there are some awesome freeware games on the Amiga. I think the first one that I got hooked on was Scott Peterson's GravAttack from 1987. Wicked addictive!
nebby6 2 years ago
Yes, Amigas do rule!
sammymarlo 3 years ago 2
awesome... lots of good memories :)
serloinz 3 years ago 2
Haha, awesome vid! You guys rock. ^_^
KitsuneDarkStalker 3 years ago 2
i am getting an amiga 2000 today!
chrismofer 3 years ago 8
You had things nicely covered with the A500 and A1200. Other than rendering, the 1200 is essentially a match for the 4000. And for an all-around most compatible Amiga, nothing beats the A500.
nebby6 3 years ago
I almost had a 4000. But 'hardwired' (and some other stuff) didn't work on it, so I passed on it. I had a A1200 and A500, and a couple boxes full of games/demos/utils.
conradhw 3 years ago
'Rich kid' fodder :-)
MalstormG 3 years ago
Actually, the rich kids had the Amiga 4000T.
Yowza!
nebby6 3 years ago
AMIGA A500s Forever
richardh754 3 years ago 2
Yup, ounce for ounce, the A500 is my favourite! Small, sleek, and a TON of great software runs smoothly on it.
nebby6 3 years ago
ehmh, excuse me...SMALL? With all those plug through IC's, large resistors and other stuff, it was a near 5 kilo monster!I guess the 1200 would be the best for me.
Kourtakias 3 years ago
Okay, small for the time. Now, not so much. As for the 1200, nice machine. A little finicky when it comes to running older OCS stuff though. Amazing to think that you can squeeze a SCSI kit in there. That, and it recognizes IDE hard drives built long after it was.
nebby6 3 years ago
hello from canada great video still have my amiga 2000 500 works great. still use it for mods. yeah most people up in canada say what is amiga never heard of it.just imagine how they would be now it would be bye bye pc by they way pc stands for peice crap and i b m is international bowel movment.keep up the videos thanks
cutedude76 4 years ago
i want an amiga! even though im a kid, i love classic games way more than the 3d games of my generation!
vidEOkid12345 4 years ago 2
Good to hear!
I've played the oldest, all the way through to the newest and have worked on videogames as well. I think one of the cool things about classic games is that the development teams were smaller and it was easier to get your idea out there in its purest form. Classic games definitely have a different feel than the newer ones. It's also neat to see which classic Amiga game developers are cranking out the hottest new games these days (Rockstar, Reflections, etc...).
nebby6 4 years ago
classic games must have been a bit easier to make, my Uncle gave me his SNES, the games i have for it are really cool
vidEOkid12345 4 years ago
In some ways, classic games were easier to make. In other ways, they were harder to make. Easier in that a modern game's 3D elements take a long time to put together (modelling, texturing, rigging). However, classic game systems had tons of brutal limitations. Each system has a max number of colours, sprites (or none at all), unique video modes, audio limitations, minimal RAM, .... Then there was the task or porting a game to 20 different platforms. Yikes!
nebby6 4 years ago
The best computer of all time. Miles ahead of the competition right from its release in 85 till the early 90s. The first multimedia computer with 4096 colors and four channel stereo sound in 1985. I miss those days but had a lot of fun during the 10 years I used Amigas.
airons1972 4 years ago 5
Yes, wet dreams.
nitewavs77 4 years ago
(insert hearts n' huggies here)I still have our old Amigas! One of them is sadly, busted somehow... but, I keep it because it has one of our 'operas' on it's hard drive. I really need to get it together with that someday...
Rebecca263 4 years ago
Very retro! How many PC's could do the same at the time? Oh wait: NONE
horsie111 4 years ago
It's kind of funny to see just how bad the drive I/O is on even modern PCs. Just put in a CDROM and watch Windows Explorer freeze up. And back in the day, an Amiga could format four disks simultaneously while accessing a CDROM drive and multiple hard drives.
nebby6 4 years ago
...and while downloading from a modem, playing music through a MOD player (and/or using the Excellence word processor to hear the highlighted text [the computer spoke it out, via voice synthesizer]), oh, and degragmenting the HDD all at the same time!
da9000 4 years ago
Nice vid guys! Love the "voice overs" :)
Achtung!
da9000 4 years ago 2
I miss my Amiga, its 2 bad the company magistrates scammed Commodore and caused it to go bankrupt, otherwise it would have blown the doors off of things today.
N9olan 4 years ago
Definitely sad about that. You should see how much the top seven guys in Commodore were making per year, when the company folded. E-vil !
nebby6 4 years ago
man absolutly brilliant!! Can you give me the name of that MOD that you're playing ? Gimme private message or just reply my comment thx
OpticalHaze 4 years ago
Some Americans do..i moved to the U.S from Britain in 92 and i there were a couple of people who had an Amiga....thing is though, the games they had were very outdated
jezroller3 4 years ago
Nice. Brings back memories. Still have my A1200 hooked up. I spilt milk and beer over it. One time it fell to the floor. But it keeps going and going and going like the enegizer bunny:) Damn I miss those days.
Rastelin 4 years ago
i miss my amiga a 500 too
pencilman12 4 years ago
Ah, I miss the Amiga - still have my 500 and 2000 hooked up! Nice to see people keeping these machines alive...
Awake1077 4 years ago
You said a mouth full, amiga OWNZ.
AmigaCam 4 years ago
Hired Guns - what a great game...
retronostalgic 4 years ago
Possibly one of the best games I've ever played (and I've played a lot). Amazing soundtrack, too.
nebby6 4 years ago
Yep, great sound on Hired guns but it's bugged when you reload a saved game. Also i've completed the game and was confronted by a really lousy end sequence-a bit of music and a game complete screen. Not much reward for all my hard effort!
retronostalgic 4 years ago
So you finished it? Impressive.
That's a truly massive game. I've yet to finish it. Too bad about the end sequence. There seem to be alot of games that fail to deliver a descent victory anim. Do you know anyone who has ever managed to get the level editor to work properly?
nebby6 4 years ago
I completed it with only two characters alive. The last two levels were not as difficult and large as i expected.(You can rush past the large creatures sometimes to get where you where you're supposed to). I didn't know there was a level editor! I'm playing eye of the beholder at the moment- another blast from the past. I also like arcade games such as Turrican 1&2 and Lionheart...
retronostalgic 4 years ago
I thought the ending was great. The large creatures were scary, then the end sequence was cool with some good music and background info on what each of the characters did with the rest of their lives.
My #1 Amiga game.
SonicTheCat 4 years ago
christ how many hours did me & my mates cane hired guns for on 4 player mode ...... :)
DJ1up 4 years ago
I'm surprised you Americans even know what an Amiga is! I still play my A500/1200 a lot
retronostalgic 4 years ago
Canadian, actually. But same computer market as that of the U.S. And you're right -- Amigas were pretty unusual in Canada and the United States. It's too bad that Commodore wasn't more aggressive in the North American market.
nebby6 4 years ago
Please, if you decide to make more videos to not rock the camera to the sound of the module.
cv643d 4 years ago
No worries. That'll be the only time that happens. The lead singer in the band I'm in was the camera guy. He's also a drummer. And you know how drummers are. :]
nebby6 4 years ago
What mod were you playing in this video?
StariusPrime 4 years ago
Hi there. It's called Transucktion. If you have trouble finding it, let me know, and I'll figure out a way to get it to you. Actually, there are a number of good Amiga Mods that I should post.
nebby6 4 years ago
Ah, thanks man. Found it on Aminet. Great mod!
I just recently got a friend of mine hooked on 'ol Amiga mods. He's converting some into ring tones for his cell phone.
They still sound great.
StariusPrime 4 years ago
That's very cool. I take he's playing the Mods back in something like Winamp and then sampling into Soundforge (or some other sampler), and converting them to mono MP3 files for the cell phone?
nebby6 4 years ago
Yeah, he used a winamp file writing plugin to stream the mod output to a LAME MP3 encoder.
I might do it too sometime, though I'll do it in OS X because of handy sound recording apps that record audio from any running application. So I could record a mp3 right off of a mod tracker, like Milky Tracker or something.
Although, the idea of converting mods to mp3s still seems pretty silly to me. Linear encoded audio is not nearly as efficient as the modular track method.
StariusPrime 4 years ago
Heh. True. I used to do game development for Nintendo, and the musician on the project was a hot-shot Mod composer. It was a requirement for the system, since the Ultra64/N64 didn't have a heck of alot of cartridge ROM space. You can do some truly amazing things with Mods. Some of his best stuff was the material that never got used in the games.
nebby6 4 years ago
Awesome video. Great to see another A4000 working like she was brand new :)
acherion 4 years ago
Thanks! Actually, the Amiga 1200 that's sitting right in front of her is in even more mint condition. The 1200 has a SCSI kit and a larger-capacity IDE hard drive packed into its case, while the A4000 has 3 hard drives, an external CDROM drive, and some other odds and ends.
nebby6 4 years ago
Hey, thanks!
Yep, it's a 1942. Quite the display for its time. Amazing frequency range on that thing.
Eventually, I plan to put an LCD display on the 4000, using a converter box that allows Amiga signals to scan out to the modern flat panels.
In front of the A4000 is an Amiga 1200 with SCSI kit and a 1 GB 2.5" hard drive. I'll have to do another vid for the 1200 some time. I'd like to show off Super Star Dust AGA to all the non-Amigans out there. :]
Cheers!
nebby6 5 years ago
Yeah i would like to get an LCD for my A1200, although i did actually buy a Scandoubler for it about 8 months ago so that it enables me to use it on a PC monitor that can scan back down to 15khz, although for some reason when i run Workbench in interlace mode on the PC monitor, i get this fuzzy zig zagged effect on the screen, although without interlace it works fine, but looks too chunky in that mode.
blade004 5 years ago
That's the sort of glitch that I'm afraid of. It's too bad I can't try before I buy. Hmmm.... We'll have to see. Maybe there are user reviews on it.
nebby6 5 years ago
BTW, have you heard of WHDLoad? Its a program that allows you to play virtually EVERY non dos Amiga game from the Hard Drive. Basically i have games like Super Stardust, Shadow of the Beast and virtually every other game you couldnt never install, now running all off the Hard Drive. If you would like to find out more, go to a website called English Amiga Board. You will know me on there as blade002 :)
blade004 5 years ago
You know, I've heard of it, but wasn't sure how well it worked. I'll definitely have to check it out. Thanks for letting me know about it. Oh, and I'll totally drop by the board!
nebby6 5 years ago
Hey nebby, thankyou for your comments on my video. I would just like to say that your video is absolutely brilliant, and your commentary is clear. I like how you have got a everything setup as well, and is that a Commodore 1942 monitor your using? My own monitor died some months ago, and i was drolling over the one you have. :) Again, excellent video, well done.
blade004 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure you can get your 1942 monitor fixed. Likely the backplane needs re-soldering. If not, check out the VGA to LCD converters that are out there. There are at least two that support the Amiga's scan rates.
nebby6 3 years ago
I actually never had a 1942 Monitor but a friend of mine did once and that is why i was drooling over yours because i liked the way it looked back then :) But the "good news" is that i managed to get my Scan Doubler to scan on my Diamond View 17 Inch PC Monitor in full interlace modes with no flicker and no display distortion, so it now looks as clear as day! :)
blade004 3 years ago
Which brand of scan-doubler did you get? Does it work with most Amiga games?
nebby6 3 years ago
Not sure of the actual brand, i will need to take a deeper look but it works with ALL Amiga games!
blade004 3 years ago