Amiga: Videotoaster System 2.0 Demo from NewTek

[nihonam]

what is this music?

[maiki60fps]

I bet the sound is not coming out of Amiga... :-)

[BtizeF200]

reminds me of Babylon 5!

[electronash]

OK, some weird trivia (it's 3:30am, and I'm a bit bored) - the first Video Toaster prototype was built by Brad Carvey, who is Dana Carvey's brother (Garth, from Wayne's World).

The character of Garth was loosely based on Brad. You can see Garth wearing a Video Toaster t-shirt in Wayne's World 2.

That is all. :)

There sure are some weird videos on YT nowadays...

/watch?v=aDlnqV3npNY

[awesomepat]

Its now twenty years that came out and still is it been using around the world....thats is amazing!

[Digideus]

I remember that early episodes of Babylon 5 were created using the Video Toaster and a bank of high powered Amiga 3000's running on a network rendering individual frames. Sadly it was all replaced around season 3 as I remember, but it was still impressive for the time. I loved the Amiga. by far the best home computer in the 80s and early 90s. If only it had a midi port, the Atari ST would have been completely blown away!

[teamforteress]

could do more than windows movie maker

[FPDood]

I'd rather have this than After Effects

[ZeusDeusEx]

I came here for the chick object. She's at 0:45

[tanpal333]

Amiga and Video Toaster was really ahead of its time!!..I remember having a PC/AT machine which did crap compared to my Amiga 500 and Amiga 4000. I still have my Amiga 500 and my Amiga 4000 with a Video Toaster and I will never sell it, ever!!..Most people will never understand only the Amiga Elite who had Amiga, used Amiga will know the awesome power and flexibility of the Amiga Computer. I cannot believe that Amiga is still used Today..Long Live Amiga!!

[crompton33001]

@tanpal333 Fantastic machine I still have an operational A4000/040 and a A500 with a 50mb HD and 4Mb FastRam. Does anyone know where I can get a PSU for a GVP HD, the one that slid on the left hand side of the A500???

[ezeben]

Music track? Yello?

[CelentAle]

Resurrection! New new news

Amiga Hardware Next Generation! AMIGA OS4.1 NEW Official Link  Amiga amigaos.net :)

[Tarrdica]

Mmm... Legs...

[Superbatron]

I believe the PC can do stuff like this these days.

The Amiga. A generation of pure innovation, lost.

[rednight2476]

@Superbatron The Amiga's greatest strength as well as it's Achilles heel is that it worked with analogue video. Most computers (including PCs) use frame buffers for video. The audio equivalent is like comparing a sampler to an analogue synthesizer. The Amiga is the synth, the PC is the sampler.

The Video Toaster is a software controlled hardware solution that takes advantage of the Amiga's analogue video system. (and it came with Light Wave)

[Superbatron]

@rednight2476 My comment was a stab at the PC. I know windows sucks compared to AmigaOS.

I miss are the screens, MCP, Assign command.....

[app0the]

anybody know where to get this and amiga emulator? :P

[kinglonewolf104]

@app0the WinUAE (or UAE if you have a Mac) is one of the best Amiga emulators. However, the only legal way to get the ROMs (required for any Amiga emulator) is by buying the Amiga Forever package - Cloanto (who make Amiga Forever) have the rights to distribute the ROMs.

You can probably download the software from some retro Amiga sites, but I'm no expert with the Video Toaster. I have only owned Amiga 600's (both broken) and WinUAE (for my laptop).

Long live the Amiga :)

&eB

[makrisj]

@kinglonewolf104 or, buy yourself a pair of Kickstart chips, store them in the closet, and use any "illegal" set of the equivalent ROM available on the internet - legally.

[kinglonewolf104]

A quick google reveals that the Newtek Video Toaster was a combination of special hardware and software. I have no idea whether you could actually use the Video Toaster with an emulator. Perhaps it would be best to stick with modern day software, unless you get your hands on the original hardware? *shrugs*

&eB

[Zejjnt]

@kinglonewolf104 Yes, the Video Toaster is both hardware and software.

[nicolunacba]

My video tape of my preschool graduation was done with this! :)

[TheEricBooth]

Damn Kiki was hot then and is still hot. She was the queen of Toaster.

[NedsMissingTeeth]

Great upload, cheers : )

[laserblight]

This was used in a TV SIFI show to do all the space craft, which for the life of me can't remember. Do anyone of you know of the name of it, as it's bugging me?

[LogiForce86]

@laserblight Babylon 5 I think you're referring to en(D)wikipedia(D)org/wiki/Baby­lon_5 check out the "Visuals". ;)

[mkhokett]

@laserblight The name of the place is Babylon 5

[electrictroy2010]

@laserblight It was also used with seaQuest and Space: Above & Beyond

.

[tomi7711]

Music: Yello - The Hawaiian Chance

[LarixusSnydes]

This looks very nice and creative even by todays' standards. Comodore was way ahead of it's time. I used an IBM clone in those days ...

[Nvidiaguides]

Also: HOLY CRAP RAYTRACING BACK THEN! That still takes hours today, even days sometimes!

[LogiForce86]

@Nvidiaguides Showes you how much power is basically unused and/or not used properly these days. ;)

[roadjoy]

@LogiForce86 Yeah really... I found this while looking for stuff about NewTek SpeedEdit - I don't want to buy it if it isn't fast!

[steveski74]

@Nvidiaguides I remember leaving a hi detail ray trace running in the command line POVRay on my Amiga 500 for over a week.

[rvounik]

@Nvidiaguides one of the cool things was that you could hook up multiple Amiga's to work on rendering the same scene. Such a renderfarm dramatically decreased rendering time. THey must have used something like that to render the 3D scenes for Babylon 5.

[Nvidiaguides]

3:05 to 3:11 must have taken atleast 72 hours of computation time.

[cellowww]

Back then videotoaster used to take a humongous crap load of time to render a single frame, I would like to see a 24 core Mac pro running it now.

[zoidburg111]

hey what year is this from...im trying to prove that windows sucks ass and macs kinda suck ass too(cuz they cost so much)

[hyraxaus]

@zoidburg111 It was 1992 (see end credits), but the Toaster dated back even earlier than this. This promo was for v2.0 of the software.

It was such a shame Newtek never produced a PAL version of the Toaster. Lightwave did eventually become a separate product, however and the OpalVision 24 hardware ended up being king in PAL territories.

[Pumpitupfrance]

Only Amiga MAKES it possible !

[MSTRadock]

I fucking WANT this thing so badly

[ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

i want this

[dstrauss]

Ah, Kiki Stockhammer. I remember her.

The video also includes some of the very first test renders for BABYLON 5, around the 3:00 mark.

[cellowww]

@dstrauss gingers DO have souls

[Dvs35]

yeah man old days  , ouwe dagen , jemig . . . prachtig vic 20 ,c64, amiga500 ,amiga120, amiga 3000

peace

[tommyjones1978]

Only Amiga made it possible!!!

[pyrogyra72]

I wish apple would incorporate some of these organic, action and sports effects into Final Cut Pro.

[USTUBE4000]

Back in the day.