So far ahead of its time. I loved these machines. I feel so old. I still remember walking into the mall and being blown away by the power and abilities of this computer. Years before the PC industry could even visualize the potential of PC's. The fact that it was used so heavily in TV and motion pictures is testimony to that.

"Introducing the only computer you'll ever need." Oh I love the exaggeration of the early computer times, everything was naturally best and would last forever.

"The only computer you'll ever need" sure..but thanks for the vid! the a.500 was my first computer!

I loved my Amiga 500.

This will always remind me of graduating grammar school! I miss my childhood:(

the best computer ever made, and his successors

Hey Roger Galleway! Thanks for uploading this! Much appreciated! Sluggo

I've still got my miggy 500+ and it still provides tons of fun! Not bad for a 20 year old computer. I really wish Commodore had not gone bust. The computer business can be so cruel at times :(

i was 3yrs old when it came out and iam typing from my galaxy s7......damn!!!

I was born in 87 and this was my first computer

All this talk about bringing the amiga back, it aint even gone, there's a massive amiga community out there, it's very much alive & kicking. I have all my amiga computers still, stored away unfortunately as I have no room to have them all set up along side my pc.

I can remember playing strip poker games on this, just hoping to get a glimpse!

@edstar83

3 жыл бұрын

Same and Leisure Suit Larry. :D

In retrospect it's even more amazing than back in 1987.

Promo of the Amiga. 500 years ahead in its time!

Is it weird that I love watching this old shit?

@AnneDussel1

3 жыл бұрын

No, in this case it's great :)

THE ONLY COMPUTER YOU WILL EVER NEED

Commodore was Best of the Bestt

Yep I agree with that, I loved me old commodore's

Amiga is more undead than alive, really. I would be extremely surprised if someone managed to bring the brand back in a big way.

a 500 have my same age :P i love it

I actually wanted to buy this after seeing this.

the amiga's multipurpose use reflects todays pc's with internet. only the graphics n hardware is old, but does well for its time

It was my first computer too.

The better computers of the history: C64 and A500! Commodore forever!

Great find. Never seen ever. I had the Batman Pack that was released 2 years later.

I love the bit where they're effectively derping with outlook whilst printing and working on two different word documents ... all that on a 68k with a half meg of memory. Did anyone ever do all that though? (I've recently come into the C-A world with an A600, and I still haven't figured out how to make Workbench multitasking work - the drag-down workscreens etc. I fear it'll be relegated to a games machine only...)

RGelleway, i know it was a while ago you uploaded this vid but do you happen to have a higher quality version? i would love that

There is a little bit of Amiga in every PC yep even an Apple !

extendable to 1 mb of ram, oh how times have changed.

"Business! Words! Music!" Words? Lol.

its faster than my laptop :D

Toll lee!

mmm...computer chronicles music...

During the 80's I was given a very expensive IBM PC... but with no software except for DOS and BASIC. Looking back, a Amiga would have been better. Inexpensive hardware and cheap software. LINUX would be such a great laptop/desktop computer only if it was as consistent and reliable as their server variant. All the software are free. But, currently plaqued with all sorts of incompatibilities, inconsistencies and bugs. Just setting up and keeping a desktop LINUX running takes a degree in computer science.

aboveboard of the MAC and AppleIIC and light years ahead of microsoft...before microsoft ever even heard of pipelining or multitasking.

0:51 That music sounds familiar!

"A system that moves immediately with the user to fill HIS needs" :))) ah, the old days.

@judgewest2000 , Me to, sadly I don't have a better version...

0:55 Computer Chronicles theme?

The whole problem was.... You never saw this commercial on TV! The Amiga adds were few and far between. Had they showed a series of commercials comparing Amiga VS (Mac or PC or ST or anything else), they could have taken the crown, but because of the man who owned the controlling stock, they never did it. Just a few stupid commercials that were fluff and impressed no one. Sluggo

@Shiznaft1

8 жыл бұрын

+sluggotg A friend and I saw an Amiga commercial a total of once in all the years that we owned and loved them. I agree totally they were so ahead of their time if only people had known...

I would like to see what an AMIGA type computer would be doing TODAY. Don't forget that in the same generation as the other machines these guys were at least 10 years ahead of the PC. Heck, PC's have only JUST gotten fast enough to emulate an amiga properly. The PC vs Amiga battle is a tribute to how well you can do with a good marketing department even if your eng. dept is (comparatively) retarded. Commodore got Dumb. "Sure we loose a little on each one but we make up for it in volume!"

all great stuff but will it run crysis?

@skunkkey666 And even more: you can even crash the whole system with a single dereferenced pointer. Thanks to missing memory protection.

True enough but the Amiga had a functional and reliable (as of 3.1 anyways) operating system that could work in under 1 MB of RAM...think about it. Even WIndows 98 wasn't happy unless you had 32MB of RAM and current OS's will use up to 512 MB JUST FOR THEMSELVES. Sometimes to 1 GB. More than 1000 times more memory needed...is there 1000 times more functionality? Not really... Don't get me wrong what windows machines are doing today is, on the whole, way cooler than the old amiga...

My smart phone still can't do some of of this stuff with 4000 times more ram and my pc can do it but it has a lot of strange bugs causing lag and slowdown it seems completely random sometimes i can have 100s of tabs open but with no problem but other times it just fucks up im not sure how much you could run at the same time on the amiga or how much it crashed.

@matawin2 LOL!!, no I am afraid not, it will however run Syndicate, Elite, Project X and UFO Enemy Unknown or UFO Defence (as it was also known for you American miggy fans out there) ;)

Where did C= "hide" this kind of promo? It's a bit controversial to watch this now, knowing that the revolution AMIGA could have brought in business productivity (MANY,MANY years before the "abominable" pc's :-) ) was never adopted by society, and AMIGA was mainly treated as a "GAME" machine. If C= could only invest a little bit in the right advertisement, maybe today no one would know words like "Microsoft"or "windows". Too bad for the world, that possibility never happened :-(

After 24 years i decided to buy other Amiga 500 now i have a problem the amiga was sold without a modulator or a RGB scart cable. Now i´ve got to buy a modulator or a RGB cable. Do you sugest me wich one? and the software is part of the problem where i can get tested games on floppy discs ?

@RogerGalleway

10 жыл бұрын

Great! A modulator A520 just Google it for more info, floppydisk see a hobbyclub or ebay... Also you can try emulation on winuae see www.winuae.net...

@thereasonforyou7048

10 жыл бұрын

Roger Galleway YOU ARE A COMMODORE AMIGA LOVER LIKE ME AND YOU HAVE ONE? THEN ADD ME ON SKYPE : luso.lusofono

@sluggotg

10 жыл бұрын

You need to buy an actual "Scan Doubler" that will output to at least a VGA Signal. the A520 will give you an absolute crap picture compared to an actual monitor. (Try to find an old Amiga monitor, then compare the picture quality using an old style TV and an A520 adapter). Here is one option on Ebay, (there are many so look them up, I still have yet to find an Amiga to HDMI adapter, which would be the ultimate!). This is a popular one on Ebay : www.ebay.com/itm/RGB-RGsB-RGBS-With-Hf-15Khz-to-VGA-Scan-Line-Doubler-Amiga-Atari-Apple-IIGS-/251196334841?pt=US_Video_Cables_Adapters&hash=item3a7c77e2f9 Good Luck Sluggo

@thereasonforyou7048

10 жыл бұрын

Do you have facebook account? send me your facebook link then i´ll add you ok mate ?

I Pad my arse

has this computer usb 2.0? XD

All this power and it's mainly used to watch porn

Heh, not sure if Amiga was ahead of it's time, or IBM was a major drawback.

@bajusz994

2 жыл бұрын

@Neb6 Wow, that looks great! Thanks! The Amiga was ahead of its time. Too bad it did not survive.

Amiga's multitasking was a nightmare. I was lucky if I could get a text processor running next to a file manager without any of them crashing after a minute. If Windows 95 is a big improvement over your previous system, you _know_ you were in trouble before!

@Noone-of-your-Business

2 жыл бұрын

@Neb6 Well, maybe the Kickstart 1.3 was the problem. And that was already upgraded from the 1.2 my A500 came with.

hahaha "graphics"