The Amiga was YEARS ahead of PC as this shows in graphic range and multi-tasking

This was jaw dropping in it's day. I used to catch a bus into the city to see this on display in retail stores.

@craigthornton1971

4 жыл бұрын

Yep I had a ZX Spectrum at the time and seeing this was a jaw dropping moment that's never been matched. Years ahead of its time. How Commodore managed to go bust is beyond me

@ChristopherSobieniak

4 жыл бұрын

I probably felt the same way seeing this demoed at a Software Etc. in the late 80's.

I got goose bumps the second she said 'hello'. Brought me straight back to the good old days.

This machine was way ahead of its time without a doubt.

Wow. This demo brings back memories. I had a job after school selling these things back in 1988 and 1989 as a 17/18 year old. This demo was played over and over when I was in the store. When I saw this, I remembered everything about the demo.

Thank you for the disk noise!

This is hands down the biggest, strangest blast from the past I've experienced so far in life. These nascent capabilities in prosumer computing were so inspiring at the time, and to think it really wasn't that long ago... Just 35 years or so.

God, these were so awesome ! Kids today will never understand

WOW. This demoreel was the *ACTUAL REASON* I bought my first Amiga. Walked past an Amiga2000 on my way to *buy* an Apple IIgs and the thing said "Hello! Welcome to Newtek!" and I was sold. ... all thanks to "Maxine Headroom". (aka Laura Longfellow) I reallyreallyreallyreallyreally wanted to be able to do this myself... and I used to call up and harass NewTek... alas, "Digi/FX" was *NEVER* released. Damn. I feel old. But WOW did this feel good. Thanks for the trip down amnesia lane!

This demo & Dragons Lair demo were the reason I convinced my parents that I had to buy an Amiga 500 before I started Uni end of 1989. Watching this today after so many years hearing ' Hello welcome to Newtek" and that music transported me back to that time in my life. 18 years old, no car yet so I rode my BMX Hardtale to my mates to copy the new batch of Amiga games that came in via the bulletin boards. Ahh good years...

it got me into television production, i was probably going that way anyways.. but this got it. I wound up maintaining the amgias at dallas;s b side cable vision for about 3 years.. and ive been in tv production ever since

boy, it is so amazing, when i saw this 21 years ago i thought it was amazing. i didn't even remember that it was just an advert with so many stills. i bought digi-view. it had a color wheel you were supposed to use to do three scans for color pics. it never worked worth a crap for me and i just scanned B&W

This demo made me dump my 3 week old Commodore 64 for a A500. It looks so cheesy now. "Hey look, color photos on a computer!" And they leave them up there for 5 seconds each so you can really look at them for a good long time and wish you could do that. 24 years later I'm still playing with color photos on a computer.

Holy crap, this particular demo brings back memories. I remember I was in California at the time at a users group meeting in Berkeley when a team came in to demo the Toaster, the place was and has never been that packed. NewTek rules.

Yep I had this demo disk and at the time it was amazing to watch!

This brings back AWESOME CHILDHOOD MEMORIES. When my dad bought me my first Amiga... God rest his soul. I thought the Amiga was the best computer the world had ever seen, and it was. Newtek were the graphic Gods that uplifted the Amiga to new heights. So good network television studios all had Toasters. I remember watching this video, loved it then and sit amazed watching it now.

This was on display in a computer shop and sold me the Amiga. A machine WAYYYY ahead of its time, and in 30 years of computing/gaming I've never had such a jaw dropping moment from first using a machine

Easily 10 years ahead of it's time

This demo sold me on buying my first Amiga. That machine still has some amazing features even by today's standards. I later got the Toaster 4000 and became a free lance modeler and animator for a brief time on the side. Great times.

Brings back a ton of memories!

Been 30 years since I've seen this video. Blows my mind it's been that long.

WOW ... I used to drool over this, then came Stunt Car Racer and my life as a 9 yr old was complete, until Syndicate....then Walker.... ;)

Thanks for posting! This brings back memories of running this on my Amiga 500 back in 1988 - 1996. Also had a GVP A530 expansion module that souped up my Amiga to running on a Motorola 68030 CPU and gave it a 50 MB harddrive and more fast RAM!

My best time ever love you amiga

Thank you so much for this. I worked for a TV station at the time, and this NewTek demo reel completely changed our lives. Now any $300 desktop PC can do what Amiga did. But Amiga was special.

I remember when Tim brought us this demo--it was also the first public announcement of the development of the Video Toaster, which had been rumored for a few months before he came to the Slipped Disk to speak to us. NOTHING in this demo was possible on stock IBM PC-compatibles of the time, which were limited to a palette of (at most) 64 colors--and limited mono sound. It's worthy of note that the song "Paranomia" was assembled entirely from samples in real time to save disk space.

Da kommen mir fast die Tränen! Danke, Danke, Danke!

I so clearly remember seeing this for the first time. I was 12, and the Grace Bros department store in Bondi Junction, Sydney Australia had this on loop. Geeky as it sounds, it changed me, made me realise what I wanted to do. Here I am, 20 years later, working as a CG supervisor. Thanks Amiga, thanks Newtek! (Never learned lightwave though, shame on me...)

@jestronixhanderson9898

3 жыл бұрын

What about 32 years later :)

@AmigaRulz

9 ай бұрын

​@jestronixhanderson9898 35 years 👍😀

Back in the day this blew my mind.

Great computer.... I still have two Amiga 2000's .... both still work..... I love Deluxe Paint... the easiest to use animation app ever written.. bless you Dan Silva...

Daaamn, that brings back memories! I remember editing all those pictures in digipaint to make my own slideshow... those were the days...

The other Amiga demo that was a thing of legend was the running cat animation 'El Gato'

i actually bought this, still have all the hardware, a baxall video camera with a dutch lens, great stuff.

Thanks for the memories!

It made history, this demo. At thoses times, the Amiga kicked the butt of the PC :) And thanks for posting. I did never saw this historical demo.

Oh sweet memories!

A channel seems to be missing.

Quite nostalgic. I have this demo and run it once in a while on my A3000...

Oh holy crap I remember this on my Amiga 500. Man those were the days. Folks, remember this thing only had the 8 bit NES to compete with in terms of gaming.

Actually more jaggies than there actually were, due to the youtube capture.

Lol. I remember this amiga demo. I think this was one of baddest demo I saw on the amiga. But you remmember me great moments on this one! lol

i love the sound from disk drive!

Remember... Thanks!!!

on the pure amiga it should rule, the color representation is exact... feel it...

AM-EE-GA! What a machine.

You needed either purely dedicated hardware that could cost $30k, a $10k Macintosh-II color, or an astronomically expensive SGI system (I think the '87 vintage was the Crimson) to do what the $1400 Amiga could do. But, as the easter egg says: Amiga - We Made It, Commodore Fucked It Up! (seriously, that was an easter-egg in the OS itself!)

@ChristopherSobieniak

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, they didn't know a good thing when they had it.

Esta demo la tenia yo, que fuerte😂😂

yeay!

I originally saw this shortly after it was first released on the amiga a500, and seen it countless time since, so the demo is pretty hard coded in my brain. Your copy appears to be broken because the sample used for the first phrase of the music (over the pasta sauce) misses 6 whole notes, twice. lol I thought i was having a moment, but a quick YT search of other peoples recording of the demo shows im not going mad.

What's wrong with your sound at the end (~7:20, on). It shouldn't cut out like that. Also why does the sound speed up at 4:00? FYI, it's a little too slow before that. At least compared to the way it was on my A500.

LOL the tik-tak-tak of the disk.. recorded from a real Amiga i suppose? :)

@ChristopherSobieniak

8 жыл бұрын

+Michiel Erasmus Probably, some emulators throw that in.

@vcv6560

3 жыл бұрын

Yes that's the emulator the sound from the actual disk drive you don't hear through the speaker it was a great time it seemed that AmiExpo 88 that it ran on a continuous loop all day that Saturday

@pyrofella i've been missing this for years on PC. then i found "cosmigo pro-motion". give it a try, if you don't already konw it

Holy load time.

PCs with 256 colors back then? Rather 16. :)

Anyone know where to get the ADF for this so I can run it in UAE?

@vcv6560

3 жыл бұрын

I could probably help with this if you haven't found it already hit up my Gmail

Awesome, how is this possible to use video in a computer? Wow!

@treksterjsc

5 жыл бұрын

If you're trying to be sarcastic or facetious you simply don't understand

Who's that at 3:30?

@hypsilofodon

8 жыл бұрын

+uriituw Maxine Headroom aka Laura Longfellow

Haha... Are you sure is was steam driven, I thought this was pulled by a horse.

is there a way to get it on hd?

@compfox

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. On a HD Amiga. Hahaha...

@vcv6560

3 жыл бұрын

I have a floppy of this I think I'll see about getting it into a ADF, hit my gmail

Something's wrong with the music in the early part of the demo. And please reissue this WITHOUT THE FRICKIN' DISK SOUNDS!

@cubdukat

5 жыл бұрын

Foebane72 Nope. This is just how Art of Noise’ “Paranoimia” sounds when it’s crunched down to eight bits.

@malk6277

Жыл бұрын

Stop whining

what on earth is wrong with this machine? No Amiga I know had such a horribly noisy drive...

The music sounds cheesily distorted.

Incredible how we've found this amazing in 198X and now all of this sounds like a huge pile of shit!

@TheLarryBrown

3 ай бұрын

I don't know what you were watching. It all looked and sounded good to me.