The Amiga 2000 Computer (1987)

[KCNTV]

240p for audio

[xooxye]

no sound? :(

[singinglawnchair]

@xooxye Switch to 240p

[HomeskooledVideo]

I had my first Amiga in 1985, but I didn't score an Amiga 2000 with 3MB RAM & 40MB SCSI HDD until '91 and it cost me $1400 used with no monitor.

[isaklovetilda]

240p=sound



[BillA1016]

@isaklovetilda Glad I looked at the comments! Thanks for pointing that out! ^_^

[ITYuri]

@isaklovetilda > Thanks :) I was a bit sad when it very suddently stopped with sound: This helped :)

[bobjoe212x]

god... it took 25 years to become better than an amiga... and even then most computers are still lacking certain features...

[chrismofer]

dpaint back then is 100x better than ms paint today!

[speewave]

it took i think until 2003 to actually have a cool computer... the amiga seems more awesome then our 97 computer and the 2001 computer (that still works)

can't wait to get a A1200 soon :D

[ZroDfects]

Amiga was awesome even to this day I still think it was the best computer in the world, it had everything, awesome graphics and beyond it's time music like Super Cars and Hybris etc, and what was also great the Amiga was around when the best of arcade games were around like mortal kombat, street fighter, final fight, double dragon, r-type, tmnt and more. I wish the Amiga was better managed because if it was I would bet my life that we would be watching youtube on our Amiga.

[BigHater007]

This is where it all started for graphics way before MAC and Photoshop this set the standards!

[ChristopherSmith2010]

....I'm 13 and I want one...cause xp is crap compared to this.....

[MasterNaruto1214]

Why is there no sound in this video anymore?

[petsasjim1]

@MasterNaruto1214 TRY Flv 240p FOR SOUND (NOT 360p)

[MasterNaruto1214]

@petsasjim1 240P works,thank you!

[petsasjim1]

@MasterNaruto1214 I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT.SEE YA

[BassPounderX]

I love old technology something about ti was simpler and better quality now everything is shit due to windows

[omg101man]

did the amiga run on a shortcut file interface? like windows

[Dekonega]

@omg101man Yes and no. Depends a lot of what you mean by "shortcut file interface". AmigaOS is more like NextStep/OSX or Unix with CDE. But at the same time it's very unique and very feature rich PC OS. AmigaOS is a preemptive multitasking OS packaged with WIMP (window, icon, menu, pointing device) stylish "Workbench" GUI. If you want you can buy and run AOS4 in any PPC compatible PC. Latest version came out in April 2010.

[ryorta]

At 1:46 "Even artists, who never touch a computer before....creating graphics on amiga". C'mon, that's almost the same slogans for Toon Boom and Photoshop. AND people still struggle with the work flow with those bitches.

[CompTechMike]

Switch from 360 to 240 to hear the audio

[HarpGuitarTexas]

I've got a 2500 and a 3000. These were bad ass in their day.

[16mmDJ]

Audio?

[Echsenbrunnen]

He Strikes back!!!

THE AMIGA ONE X1000 !!!

[GentInIdaho]

Video professionals still use the Amiga 2000/4000 as a video switcher to this day. The NewTek VideoToaster switcher comes in handy for quick editing of old VHS tape...etc. My Amiga 2000 is still setup in my office for such applications. Saves time, no uploading...no transcoding or rendering. Great video.

[dtfageet]

Shitty computer. That is why it died. SHITTY SHITTY SHITTY SHITTY SHITTY SHITTY COMPUTER.

[janmansde3dede]

@dtfageet Yeah the Atari ST and EGA DOS computers where much better

(sarcasm)

[richardmaudsley77]

@dtfageet Nice troll dude.

[chrismofer]

ahhhh the coveted zorro slot. with moterola processer, video toaster, and blizzard accelerator. tastey.

[Borin81]

got a boxed one.

[Guacatechs]

Amiga was legendary for its graphics and sound capabilities, many are still used by sound and graphic artists.

[kinmanyuen]

epic:

3:51 you can undo your last mistake, i like that part (big smile)

[OldMatador]

"It has something called Multitasking..." Something the iPhone has.. in 2010... finally... Well, soon. What took Apple so long again?

[maccagrabme]

This was a time when you had innovators that were prepared to take risks for the BENEFIT of people, real shame Commodore went bust. The equivalent today is Apple I guess, without them we would be at least 15 yrs behind where we are today.

[Chaniyth]

@maccagrabme

Mac's are just over prices PC's these days, I mean they no longer use custom chips anymore, the CPU's used in todays Apple computers are x86 Intel CPU's. Apple lost their appeal years ago when they transitioned to x86 architecture. They are just over priced run of the mill systems. The only thing that makes Apple's stand out today is Mac OS X. However a PC with Linux or FreeBSD and you have basically the same setup, only alot cheaper than a Mac.

[LOveERDos]

@Chaniyth i'm totally agree with you mac now are just expansive pc, In this blody world today is everything standardized even the cars if u drive today an a ford o citroen o alfa romeo u don't feel difference in past even the engine noise was different between different model

[aceyage]

The voiceover sounds a lot like RJ Mical who was one of the inventors of the Amiga!

[shootoed]

I loved my Amiga 2000. Nothing beats Marble Madness and Captain Blood!

[dtfageet]

@shootoed captain penis in the asshole

[thequeensxi]

Warm memories of Deluxe Paint, and I was only a young boy when I used it on my A500. Had I never owned an Amiga, I probably wouldn't be doing graphic/web design now.

Would have loved a higher end machine, but my A500, A600 and A1200(s) served me well, awesome machines.

Oh, and Sensible Soccer... :)

[themanamp]

Is it just my nostalgic memories or do the Amiga graphics seem more `warm' even when compared with the much more advanced PC graphics of today? Then again, I'm watching this on PC.... so I don't know, but PC graphics, particularly on games always look so stark, crisp and cold compared to the games of my youth.

[Murple333]

@themanamp agreed - though I think Commodore monitors may have a lot to do with it. Hooking a DVD/VCR up to an old Commodore or Amiga monitor gives incredible picture quality. Used an old C=1902A monitor as my TV for a few years.

[MrUnidyne]

The artist at 3:07 is Richard A. Payne, who is now a motion picture visual effects artist ("Titanic", "Dogma", "Avatar"). Check his listing on IMDb.

[nebby6]

Yeah, it was due to a competition for a design that was inexpensive and rugged. They ended up with something that looked a bit like a brick. But, it definitely performed. Then there was the A3000. It was nicer looking, but the case height was too low for the Video Toaster. For a sweet looking machine, see the A1200. No room for full size expansion cards, but damn -- she's a good lookin' computer. The best case for power users was the Amiga 4000T (tower case).

[JegHarEnLillePik]

Remind me to tell your daddy not to allow you to use his computer again.

[teamforteress]

why does everything have to be delux int his computer

[xxashyy]

LOL! SNAP products!

[stronzo5000]

the amiga 2000 was my first computer

[draven26]

I didn't realise you could send stuff online this early

[Blurredman]

If you think about it, Microsoft was waaaaaaaay behind in the GUI department. I wonder why its so successful :(

[bulletbutter]

Probably because it was funded by the biggest comptuer company in the world at the time...(IBM).

[avi8r1]

Apparently, MS-DOS only won out as the IBM PC's operating system of choice because the lead developer of the competition scheduled a meeting with IBM but never showed up. Instead, he decided he'd rather go flying in his private plane.

[steveUys]

You realise that that is the incorrect version of the story, don't you?

[avi8r1]

@steveUys

I just spent five minutes googling the story and found out I was wrong. Thanks, I didn't realize I had it wrong.

[steveUys]

In case that wasn't one of the things you found, I would suggest you spend some time watching a set of videos on YouTube of an old documentary/tribute that tried to set the record straight: watch?v=VipwFeJ1KMU

[avi8r1]

Thanks

[hondolespaul]

I had one of these!

[aegisforex]

4096 Colors!

[dgiors]

Pay homage to the Amiga 2000. It's stunning how far graphic arts have come in the last 20 years.

[toranamunter]

Wow, this is amazing. I could really use this to create some slides for a presentation, when is it being released? Can it run windows?

[Razorub]

Aliens definitely left this on our planet!

[nesossin]

what happened to the amiga One and OS4?

[4runnerOfTheFuture]

This computer is absolutely amazing. I can't believe it is from 1987! Well before Windows. It seems like it wasn't accounted for in computer history. I can't even seem to do some of that stuff on my computer, or atleast I don't have the right software.

[Fraiyia]

Did 3/4 inch broadcast video editing- genlock chroma key and other goodies. Did amazing things with an amiga 1000 and dctv...

[blade004]

Hence the reason why i used Amiga's from 1990 till the year 2000 for everything including the Internet, but new software dried up and it was time to move on, but i still use an Amiga 1200 :)

[JKBenchmarks]

Oh 1:09!

[dgiors]

OK, I laughed a little too hard at that!

[jasonhdvideoman]

to day they would use sd card not the flopy

[FfFfFEfF]

cant believe this is a computer from 1987 did aliens leave it behind or something ,,,just dosnt fit into computer history heh

[nebby6]

Amazingly, the chipset was complete in 1984 and released in 1985. The guys that designed this machine were seriously obsessed.

[redmartian]

@FfFfFEfF You've never seen a Symbolics LISP Machine, have you?

[jcmcgee1969]

NO, it Doesn't... What a MACHINE!!!!! :)

[jcmcgee1969]

No it doesn't. What a machine! :) I miss all of my C=ommodores

[jcmcgee1969]

No it doesn't. What a machine! :) I miss all of my C=ommodores

[fayeteville]

very good production-

great for graphic designers and advertising- i remember my first computer in 1992 a Mc intosh in madrid (spain) -

[Games5522]

Electronic Arts made Paint software?

[Scalibq]

@Games5522 Yup, EA's DeluxePaint was pretty much the PhotoShop of the 80s and early 90s. It was originally developed as a tool for creating their own games, but it became a very successful product on its own. A LOT of games were created with DPaint, even for other platforms such as Mac, PC and Atari ST.

[ZerqTM]

Lol cool retro goodness :3

[xxAlucarDraculax]

Lol "multitasking"

[dgiors]

Drop the quotes around multitasking. The Amiga OS had pre-emptive multitasking in 1985, a feature that took the competition around 10 years to catch up.

[aevin111]

Amiga is mac os .maybe mac 10.6 o late is amiga 10000

[buzzjunked]

would think this is in the year 2000 but its way back in 87 lol love it , in 2000 we had windows ME what a pile of crap that was

[will2993]

and windows 2000

[FfFfFEfF]

yeah i had windows ME as standand when i brought my pc if you left it to hang it would crash and when you tryed doing something productive it would crash ,,,if you tryed backing up your software it would crash heh everyone was saying to use windows 98 as it was better just to show how bad it was even banks goverment bodys etc stuck with win3.1 as they didnt want to take risks heh

[dtfageet]

@buzzjunked almost as shit as Work bench.

[thatsistheguy]

@buzzjunked At least the next year would bring us Windows XP (even though I prefered Win2000 but oh well.

OT: Amigas were amazing. Commodore just failed to market them well (at least to Americans).

[snake2006]

I know, but I don't want to live in a world without Amiga.

It's not fair.

[TehCupcakeBandito]

Crazy how sophisticated this is, considering its age.

[snake2006]

Why, WHY, WHY must we live in a world where Amiga failed and Microcrap and Crapple rule the market, when they couldn't even do half this stuff at the time.

WHY?????????

[pathammond]

again, marketing :/

[dirkdelshire]

Why did we ever go with the inferior IBM software of the time. The paint programs can do some things that MS Paint can't even do today.

[pathammond]

marketing.

[nebby6]

and price.

PCs were cheap, by comparison. Sadly, cheap often wins.

[pyt82]

That's not correct.

IBM PCs and MACs were more expensive compared to Amiga.

[nebby6]

Not from my recollection. I remember when the Amiga 1000 was first released, they were definitely more. Same for the AGA series. I was selling PCs in North America at the time the AGA machines were released, and recall the A4000 being alot more than the PCs available at the time. Of course, with an Amiga you got more for your money. Problem is, not alot of people knew that. Now, there was a period in-between when Amiga 500s dropped to a price point below Macs and PCs, but that was around 1989.

[pyt82]

Yes I meant... that IBM PCs and MACs were more expensive compared to what AMIGA got.

To handle video and music like AMIGA did at that time you had to buy far expensive IBM PCs and MACs.

I had to be more specific, sorry.

[nebby6]

Oh yeah, I totally agree. For years, there were things the Amiga could do that Macs and PCs just couldn't do. I sometimes wonder what it would be like if the Amiga approach to computing continued. What I miss the most is the efficiency of hard disk use and the smooth and robust multitasking. Personally, I'm tired of waiting for my "state-of-the-art" Windows PC to figure out that I inserted a DVD (or the nasty CPU usage spikes for what appears to be little or no reason).

[lurkerrekrul]

You know, I still believe that the Amiga would have been much more popular if Commodore hadn't been dead-set against even mentioning the fact that it had some of the best games of the time.

That and if their execs hadn't been complete morons. All total, I think I saw maybe three commercials for it. Literally, I think I saw a commercial for it on 3 occasions, and that was all.

[TVperson1]

All this before windows 95?

[stupidsoft111]

Yep, thats why I HATE Microsoft.

[RockTo11]

All this was in the same year as Windows 2.0!

[nebby6]

Since the Amiga 1000 shares the same hardware and GUI as the Amiga 2000, technically, this all came out before Windows 1.0. The Amiga 1000 was released in July 1985, whereas Windows 1.0 was released in September 1985. Of course, Windows wasn't really a GUI until Windows 95 was released. And at that time, Windows couldn't multitask nearly to the level of a stock Amiga 1000.

[CitronTech]

Looks a lot like Windows 7 and Vista!

[KKD1247]

Yes! It was a GUI interface before GUI was invented.

[sousuke121]

infact the Lisa GUI was brought out in 1984 so the GUI was out way before then because of Xerox had it for atleast 2-3 years before that

[pathammond]

you are correct sir. Xerox Parc (sp?) was the first GUI interface. And mouse. Xerox thought it was a stupid idea...

[Cryptic808]

@KKD1247 You mean other than the Atari ST computers, The Apple Lisa and Macintosh, and Xerox PARC project?

[avatarelite]

@KKD1247 Apple Lisa had a GUI and that was 1983

[acoustic404]

OMG! I cant wait for 1987.... I never seen ground breaking techonolgy. i wish my windows 9x work like this.... lol

[jahovahut]

4096 colors, wow!

[KikujiroChan]

you know not more than 18 :cool:

[djustplc]

Amiga Rulezzzzzzzzz <3

Amiga 4 Ever !!!!!

[blackflagqwerty]

Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing

[abbyxxoo]

80s commercials scare me.

D: because of the sound.

It's just, creepy.

Everything else 80s is amazing. ;D

[neglesaks]

It's fun how the Mac, which became the mainstay of the DTP-prepress world in the 90s, gets smacked in this video because it didn't have preemptive multitasking. heh.

[Hiraghm]

Amiga: Today's technology... yesterday!

[t0nito]

well if you want to give it to me I wouldn't mind at all :P

[wing54]

wow thoes graphics look pretty good (for 87'). This is one damn good persuasive video too.

[Tektemir]

Had this been bradcasted on normal TV or was this a video-ad for artists?

[KKD1247]

This was a VHS promo tape I got from an independant computer store way back when.

[Tektemir]

Ok, thx. Good that you kept and recorded it, rare thing.

[KKD1247]

Thx. Both this and my Amiga 500 demo are posted.

[dragonforces]

Ahhh, ahhh, I remember when my mom bought me

an A1000 for my 9th birthday, it was like

1800 Deutsche Mark (almost the same as the US$ in value back at those times)

Good old times... miss them :(

[maxcool8]

one word macintosh and macintosh plus!!!

[KKD1247]

Here Here !!

[darthfuzzel]

oops im on my brothers account. i am really

chrismofer.

[darthfuzzel]

am geting an amiga 2000 today! arent i a

lucky duck.

[KKD1247]

Well...in a way....yes!

[Mercury888]

whoa cool amiga is pretty kick ass!

wonder why they dissapeared?

[foreignaustrian]

Commodore became a bit snooty in their later years ... and too expensive and incompatible: the PC took over.

[jci10]

Not true. C= got snooty with their uber-lord engineers like Miner, Luck, Sassenrath, etc back in 1985. C= essentially said, "We want you here in West Chester, Pa", the California engineers essentially said, "Bugger off". The end. C= thought that they could simply find other uber-lord engineers. They did not. Shame, C= could have had AGA graphics back in 1987.

[nebby6]

Poor management, faulty marketing, relatively high price, and totally proprietary design.

A great machine, great designers, excellent technical support staff, but substandard corporate 'leadership'.

[fenderguitar1975]

i had amiga 500, it was the best computer ever

[mrssarcasmo]

Holy crap, thank you so much for posting this! Richard Payne is my husband. One of the first people to do this. Back then there were no schools for it. Twenty two years later and he's still kicking ass in computer graphics. :)

[magicianspirit]

My first use of a computer in art EVER was at the Ray College of Design in Chicago, where I took an intro to Computer Graphics class using an Amiga. That was in '91-'92. I don't remember what model Amiga I used. Can anyone hazard a guess???

[korgkiller]

lol I guess this 'powerfull graphic software was' deluxe paint

[gabba2000]

AMiGA 1200T 64MB PPC 603e+ @210mhz BVision SCSI-HD !

I sell these Power-Monster 4 only 999.- euro ! ;)

[texrider2008]

Brings back old days .. I still have a few here to .. did the parrelle cable network (parnet) I think .. cost me a few cia chips ha ha .. but the old amaiga days where fun.. I wish they would have kept up .. can you imagine ha ha

[KKD1247]

At the time, I thought they were the coolest!

[Russ641]

I love my mac, but these things were way ahead of their time.

[jaculainen]

Step back 20 years it says. Well, for windows users it should be: step back for 10 years.

[CoolGuy64]

Sorry if this is considered spam, but:

Anyone want to buy a Commodore Amiga 2000HD from me? I have one with a BOAT load of software, MOST of them in their original boxes, and TONS of extras. The Amiga itself is in beautiful shape and works REALLY well.

[maxcool8]

i want to buy one do you want to send it to belgium i don't now the sise of the amiga but i pay for the sendig pleas anser very sone ps don't look on the spelling faults

[kinmanyuen]

Looks very innovative... the tablet and colour choice.

[antogrimes85]

Wow 4/096 colours those days were great

[Lightfromsirius]

out of the 16 Mills!

[LucidFlight]

"out of the 16 Mills!"

Actually, I think the original Denise in the A2000 was only 12-bit, i.e., 4096 total possible colours.

AGA (1992) then allowed 262,144 colors (18-bit) HAM-8, and 256-colour 'indexed' palette from 16,777,216 total possible colours.

[Rebecca263]

I still have our old Amigas somewhere!

[KKD1247]

They were cool!

[numpty1972]

They were, and thanks for the video.