"I am the Commodore Amiga 500: I am a game machine". That's all that needs be said. I had so many hours of fun with my Amiga

@alaincisera

2 жыл бұрын

T2, Simpsons, batman, FA/18 Interceptor, lemmings...... Oh the hours n hours of fun

@jpunyedvideorestorations9347

Жыл бұрын

@@kingvendrick1879 Mom I want Lotus for My computer! Mom: But we have Lotus at home! Lotus at home: Lotus 1-2-3

1 F U L L M E G A B Y T E

@jaworskij

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, and it didnt have the same memory problems as did MS-DOS machines with the same amount of RAM.

@ignaciosuarez9732

3 жыл бұрын

if you bought the expansion, the A500 originally shipped with 512KiB of RAM I remember getting the expansion and being able to run It Came from the Desert - those were the days

@IkarusKommt

3 ай бұрын

@@jaworskij Of course you had: Amiga had two independent banks of RAM (!) and every application had to move the data between them manually, as the components could access only one of them.

Funny how they show the monitor sitting mostly on top of the A500 but I've never seen anyone do that. Wouldn't it block the air vents?

@GURken

3 жыл бұрын

I used to do that, everything worked fine. I guess the top was made ribbing specifically for this so the monitor wouldn't block all of the air.

I had ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Atari 1024, but when I bought Amiga 500 my life changed. For the very first time I could sample music and create my own tracks using Soundtracker. One day I took Amiga to a recording studio. The sound engineer was in shock when he saw what was possible to achieve using samples. LOL Amiga 500 was just awesome. I ended up working in a local TV station producing music. Nowadays we use ProTools, but man, these were the times. We were so happy... and didn't know about it.

Advertized as professional computer, famous as gaming machine

@edstar83

6 жыл бұрын

Just like today.

The Amiga was life from 87-90. What great years. Copying all the games I could get hold of at school.

@tower62

5 жыл бұрын

In Poland we had 80s in 90s :)

I LOVE THIS COMPUTER!

@MrProfesorek15

6 жыл бұрын

czesc mgr!

Loved the Amigas I used back then.. from the A500 I had in 1988 to the A4000 I was still using in 1999. There was nothing to compare until PCs moved to 486 tech and even then the Win 95 OS was garbage compared to Amiga OS 3.1. I ran my AMAX (Mac emulator) and 486 PC bridge cards for many years, until it finally became impossible to ignore Pentium-based computing. Still have a tear in the eye remember nights up playing multi-player Falcon over modem connections and rendering 3D animations using Imagine, Real 3D and when I finally had the money.. Lightwave.

@valenrn8657

3 жыл бұрын

www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/compare.html Executor, a fast MacOS 68K emulator for 486 CPU. _Executor's 68040 CPU emulator is very fast because it uses dynamic compilation_ Running non-Amiga software on Amiga doesn't benefit the Amiga platform. Vortex Golden Gate bridgeboard has Cyrix Cx486SLC which is based on the i386SX 16bit bus. 486SLC doesn't include 486 instruction set until Cyrix Cx5x86. Cyrix's "486" label is BS.

WOAH!!!! ONE FULL MEGABYTE OF INTERNAL MEMORY!

@normanroscher7545

8 жыл бұрын

+CaptainCrape 512 KB, usually. 1 MB was already upgraded. ^^ But that was enough then.

@alpzepta

8 жыл бұрын

+Norman Roscher woah c64 got only 64 kb

@normanroscher7545

8 жыл бұрын

+CineRaphael Exactly! Yet to be fair it should be considered the C64 is five years older than the Amiga! It was still sold at the Amiga age though, well into the 90s, as a low cost machine (which it was not in 1982).

@edstar83

6 жыл бұрын

Commodore Amiga was ahead of its time back then. It shit on PC graphics and sound.

@f0rtuzer0

4 жыл бұрын

IKR! But remember... today's 8-16GB RAM, or 4-5 TB HD will seem equally tiny and amusing in 10-20 years!

The A500 was my First new Computer in late 1989, great machine..

hear the ASMR value of this wonderful commercial. even buzzing sound is perfect as if it's intentionally put in the video.

The most memorable game I played on my Amiga 500 (well, my older brother's Amiga 500) was the Midwinter. It featured an open gameworld on a vast island resembling Iceland a bit, all snow covered and the only way to travel was 1) skiing, 2) using any motorized snowcat, 3) by cablecar, 4) hanggliding! You had an armour-piercing rifle that could destroy the enemy's snowcats and flying drones but if you became injured, you lost a few hours and if you lost too much time, the enemy would have taken over the entire island. The idea was to drive to a nearby village or garage to get a transport and/or recruit other people. Once recruited, you could also play as them. So with every few turns you would increase your network of resistance fighters, it was great! Trying to stop an enemy convoy could be challenging if the convoy was escorted by armed snowcats. But being caught in the open, on skis, with an enemy drone calling in artillery fire on your location or dropping bombs on you could be terrible and frustrating. But after becoming more experienced, you also got little bonuses like, if you had blown up or shot 20+ enemy vehicles, you got a message you killed the company commander and then the entire convoy would disband. Or, if more enemy companies were closing in on your location, you could be extremely fortunate to kill the regimental commander, meaning that all four subordinate company commanders would desert and their companies would also disband. The graphics were state of the art for its time but try telling that to kids of today... BTW, you had to slow the enemy advance by using a scorched earth policy, blowing up munitions warehouses and fuel refineries while you could still get fuel for your snowcat from the local garages and get ammo from the shops. Once the enemy advance had slowed to a grind, the thing was to infiltrate and get behind enemy lines, which was very tricky and you always lost your transport and had to travel the last few waypoints and villages on skis, being bombed and bombarded and chased by enemy snowcats all the time. But there was one safe mode of travel: cablecar. Unfortunately, you still had to leave the cablecar and continue skiing or try hanggliding.

Love these machines. Decades ahead of their time.

@IkarusKommt

3 ай бұрын

Amiga has the same graphic capabilities as PCJr (or Tandy 1000), designed in 1983-84.

@8bitbubsy

2 ай бұрын

@@IkarusKommt Amiga (OCS/ECS) has hardware accelerated graphics through the blitter chip and 32 colors (or 4096 in HAM mode). You can also use the copper chip to generate excellent gradients with fine granularity. It easily eats a Tandy 1000 or PCJr for dinner when it comes to graphics. I am a PC guy, but I still see how Amiga was better than anything else in the home computer segment at the time.

I used to have an A500 with the add-on of the A590 Hard-drive. My A590 had a whopping 20 Megabyte SCSI hard-drive in it. I had an extra 1 megabyte of memory plugged into the A590 memory sockets to bring my Amiga 500 up to 2 megabytes of memory. I later expanded my storage space by adding on the SCSI version of the iOmega 100MB zipdrive.

The real strength of the Amiga seems to be broadcast quality video effects. The only Amiga I've seen in real life was doing titles at a cable company in 1997.

this was my first computer ever!! i miss it so much

brings on the tears, had the A500 back in the day... recently bought 500, 600 and 1200 ;)

1MB back then, was like having 16GB of memory now. I remember sitting at my C64 and being awed at the immense amount of memory the A500 had.

@mlcs

2 жыл бұрын

16GB back then was like having 128GB of memory now.

@t-rozbenouameur5304

Жыл бұрын

@@mlcs 16GB back then didn't exist

@mlcs

Жыл бұрын

@@t-rozbenouameur5304 yeah, but I meant 16gb in 2007

@t-rozbenouameur5304

Жыл бұрын

@@mlcs what do you mean? That simply didn't exist.

@t-rozbenouameur5304

Жыл бұрын

@@mlcs are you confusing MB with GB?

"one whole megabyte of internal memory" I know it sounds inmature, but I loled when I heard that.

i've watched this video and every video about amiga several times. inspires me to program day in, day out. Merry Christmas Amiga & Friends of.

Amiga computers really were made for people who wanted to be creative themselves instead of just consuming. Too bad Commodore had no lucky hand with marketing and rested on their laurels for too long. The A4000 in '92 was the last machine I bought from Commodore. Shame the end for the company came two years later, but it was foreseeable.

BEST EVER for at least a whole decade and thats no BS

It's crazy to see how rapidly data storage capacity grows. Like even by the 90s we were getting video games that were hundreds of times the size of the Amiga 500s initial storage capacity.

i had an A1200, it was my 1st PC ever, i think i was around 6 or 8 years old... this thing brought me into the whole computer stuff... i really miss the days messing around with the workbench ;D

They used to run this ad at the 2 Amiga stores I went to back in 1988. Over & Over & Over I'd have to hear this while I was looking.

Hi - can anyone explain to me the different versions of the Commodore Amiga, like how many there were and the names of them? What was different about them? Just seems like there were loads! Thanks, Tom

My 1st computer was a IBM PC/XT that my grandfather gave me. 1 color (orange) monitor, no mouse, 10mb hard drive, and a whole meg of ram. :D But that computer is responsible for making me the geek I am today. Got thrown away during a move, and I sorely miss it today.

I just realized that my heart is still attached with Amiga :) Hail Commodore we need it back.

I like how that guy during the sound and video portion was in an episode of Tales from the Crypt

I had an Amiga 2000 and it was so GD advanced for its time. Too bad it was mismanaged out of existence. I'm an artist and some of my Amiga artwork was published in the computer magazines of the day. There is no telling how far the Amiga could have gone if properly managed. Nothing could touch it back in the day.

I still have 3 amiga500s boxed and tucked away..I am 51 and most of my teenage years were spent on a A500.

Frankly, this is AMAZING. Laser printers, mice, colours screens, video editing softwares in 1987 : it was already all there ! There was nothing on earth like these machines back then !

@sollidottingen But there is nothing that will enter my bios! I can press whatever I like, and nothing will ever happen. The problem is - is that both OS in the dual boot are both the same...and I have absolutely no idea which install my computer runs off. How am I going to figure that out? I have no idea...so maybe as soon as I press my power button I start pressing random keys? I know the bios is usually Esc, Del, F8, F9, F10, for me, idk...

can't wait till this comes out

That Was Amazing Thank You Bro For This Upload

0:43 Faery Tale Adventure! Best game for the era. The start of all RPG's! Massive for it's time!

Thats really great to hear that the Amiga is alive! You proove what the Amiga is capable of. Its a very underated computer.

I've never owned one, but I remember my first computer - Timex Sinclair 2048. Thx for this video!

I wonder if you can do all of this on the A500 Mini that Retro Games is going to release next year in 2022.

@mattx5499

2 жыл бұрын

If you can load adf files you can basically run all the software for Amigas it can emulate. The problem is with additional hardware that is shown in this video. If it allows plugging an USB mouse and keyboard it'll be possible to use productivity software like word processors, spreadsheet, painting programs, music making tools etc. But it would be more convenient to use an emulator on your PC instead. You can emulate various configurations and make virtual harddrives that will make the whole experience better.

Amiga zawszy rządziła!! uwielbiałem ten dźwięk ze stacji dysków :)

I was an Amiga fan... the best computer I had in that time. It was an amazing technology for its time.

Can't wait until it's 2045 and I search for the iphone 6 or the PS4. It's going to be so cute.

who remembers 'interceptor F22' i think it was?! it was amazing at the time, as was 'apprentice' :-)

I never saw this one before. Nothing compared to it back in the day, but I was poor and continued to use my C64 up til 1992. Thanks for posting.

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 ?

@JohnLRice

10 жыл бұрын

There are usually lots of Amiga stuff on eBay.

Amazing!! I want one! Remember the days?

This was my first computer, when i bought it i had the memory expanded from 500kb to a whopping 1meg, but it utilised that 1 meg very well...i wish i still had it...

I still use my Amiga computers every day. With my 2MB A600 I can go online, chat to friends on MSN and IRC, read E-Mail and News, play MUDs, and listen to music all at the same time. I use my A500 for games mostly, but I love it just as much :)

At least in this commercial they show some good productivity software for the Amiga. It should be better advertised for business market. There were great apps that could compete with software from DOS and early Windows. I've tried many different office apps and I was impressed how advanced they were for the time.

@danyoutube7491

Жыл бұрын

From what I've read about 1980s computing, I think the problem was (not entirely, apparently there were limitations with the max resolution output of the Amiga, and also without a flicker fixer long work was apparently uncomfortable) that IBM had given office consumers confidence to jump into computing to replace manual systems like typewriters, and so IBM had become the defacto choice. Before IBM entered the PC market, the market was much smaller, because a lot of general office people (or perhaps more specifically their managers and company owners) hadn't had the confidence to go ahead and comptuerise their workplaces. Quite simply, the name of IBM carried a lot of weight. After this, the best software that ran on IBM became the standard, and anything that couldn't run the exact same program (ie anything that wasn't an IBM or compatible) was a hard sell to say the least.

@IkarusKommt

3 ай бұрын

By 1987, office computers had SuperEGA cards that could do 800x500x16 non-interlaced video or 132x40 text modes. Amiga, with its 320x200 TV screen instead of a monitor could not compete there.

Thanks for posting... Very interesting, wish I was born 20 years earlier!

Nice setup with a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer. I never had an Amiga, but had an Atari 65XE, and then 1040STe. 1987, great old days. I miss those older computers. Although I have to say that the IBM PS/2 and the Macintosh were very exciting in those days too. Today? I don't find computers exciting. They are simply a chore these days. In the 80's computing used to be fun, really.

@oostermanju are you really using amiga!? and if you are im really happy for you. cuz im planning to buy this too cuz amiga iz far more trustable for saving text documents. i had amiga but it broke!!:(

So true. I was watching an old TV movie where they used one of those old cell phones the size of a brick with a long car radio antenna. Amazing.

How did you get it? Did they give the videos away at the time?

The Amiga was another example of when the better technology lost out because of poor marketing and management. My older brother bought an Amiga 500 with the memory expansion. I blew a lot of time on that thing playing games, screwing with paint programs, and tinkering with Amiga BASIC. I loved The Bard's Tale. Faery Tale was also amazing to me at the time. It was the first game I remember being what I considered open world. You could basically walk off in any direction. Good times.

@danyoutube7491

Жыл бұрын

To be fair to Commodore's marketing people, this advert shows that they were touting the strengths of the Amiga pretty well. I think what worked against them was the reputed late 80s distrust of home computers by much of the American market (consoles became more popular after the 1983 'video game crash') and the domination of general office use (i.e. word processing, spreadsheets and databases) by IBM PCs, which was pretty much worldwide and certainly so in America (America being the largest market for computers). There are countless tales of poor management by Commodore which are undoubtedly true, but I think this TV advert did a good job of getting the message across about how good the Amiga was.

@IkarusKommt

3 ай бұрын

@@danyoutube7491 Even ATARI was sane enough to realize you cannot do the office work on a TV screen - They provided a monochrome monitor and 640x400 resolution. Amigas could do only 640x200, wasting the precise vertical space.

Legendary computer of 90s. Just a legend :)

Cudo. Wspaniała maszyna!

i remember getting my Amiga 500 in the early 90's - it was the bomb!

A machine that was truly ahead of it time and launch a generation of computer animation professionals.

I was lucky enough to use an Amiga in elementary school for animation with deluxe paint...got hooked and now I work at a Studio.

Thank you so much!

The Amiga was the best system. I used mine for years and years too. It was so innovative. It had the best sound processor too... Too bad it ended like it did, those systems really deserved to last and we would have a alternative to Microsucks and Jobs's fashion products today...

What a truly amazing machine, it's a shame many people overlook it in favour of modern gadgets and emulators, people who watch this and say the amiga must be crap because it's old, what can new computers do that old ones couldn't? Long live the amiga :)

@gamez1

9 жыл бұрын

and with only 2Mb of RAM ;)

@peteralexander2941

9 жыл бұрын

G. Gamez Gamez 2 mb? The a500 had 512k!

@gamez1

9 жыл бұрын

Peter Williams ahahah you are right i mistaked the 500 with the 1200!

@realgroovy24

8 жыл бұрын

I'm late to the comments but how much ram or processing power etc... it has doesn't mean it can do all that much less, it depends how bloated and efficient the software is, modern software is incredibly bloated and that's why we need at least 1.5gb of ram (and this is on XP)to do a typical task when computers before then got the same job done (although a bit worse) on much less power

@Colddirector

6 жыл бұрын

I'm not so sure about the amiga, but musicians are still using the Atari ST because of those two little MIDI ports that were essentially an afterthought during development lol

After this there was a vacum for Amiga hardware, especially for the video marked, so there was also made some clones named DraCo. A bit like the A4000T, but did not have the custom chipsets, hey did feature a few other imprevements though. There have been some new PPC hardware released, a few AmigaOne models and these days the SAM440 and SAM440-Flex boards. There are also some hardware for the MorphOS platform (Amiga-like OS, but without the Amiga brand).

i love watching old commercials

Brings back memories! I miss my Amiga 500! It was my first home computer and in it's day it was a kick ass machine! I had to sell it to pay some bills. I then bought a DOS based computer. Talk about going backwards! The Amiga ruled!

Ahhh... good old days, when it was all so exciting and new.... the agonising anticipation and excitement of waiting 5 minutes for a low res image to download, line by painstaking line....Ohhhh Yeeeeaa... you know what I'm talking about if you were online in the late 80s early 90s. And BBS's, and STAG disks...

BLOWING MY MIND RIGHT NOW, COMMODORE.

this is the greatest video I have ever seen...

think we got ours for about £400! Never realised how fortunate i was at the time getting one for christmas! lol Brilliant!

THE computer for the creative mind. But a lot of missed opportunities. AGA was too little too late, and I can't believe they didn't even bother to upgrade the sound system.

This was a very special computer so far ahead of it's time, just wish there was a version of workbench for this day and age you could only imagine how great that would be!

@jpunyedvideorestorations9347

Жыл бұрын

AROS is Workbench for the modern day OS there' s also AMIWM for Linux, that makes your normal x86 machine look like Workbench

one of my first computer

Almost! Just as they were fading away, I saw an external hard drive available for the 500.

@rtv05 youtube keep 3 copies of every video, low quality, medium and high. theres clearly a problem with the high quality video file

Loved this. It blew the IBM compatibles out of the water in every aspect. When my family "upgraded" to a 386, I thought we downgraded, but glad that I got to use the old family computer for games.

I borrowed this tape from the public library, just to watch it a few times. I never was able to save up enough to buy my own Amiga 500. :( May get one now, there's a few games I'm sure I'd like to play on it.

Wow. I got one of these for my 8th birthday, complete with the modem and a panasonic dot matrix printer. I was the first person I knew who had a computer by at least 3 years. Also, I feel very, very old now. :P

Ahh how I loved my Amiga 500 & my Amiga 4000 & Video Toaster Flyer.

@ginbim I fully agree. Memory gluttons are all people are these days. That was the amazing thing about the Amiga. They not only did a lot more than the competition did, they also did it with much much less.

I agree with you. Back then, people didn't even have a clue what a KIlobyte was either!

LOL I never saw a computer commercial like this!

a true classic i used to play pinball dreams for ages on the machone

BUT IT'S DESKTOP PUBLISHING THAT REALLY TURNS ME ON. greatest youtube video ever.

I got Amiga Forever on CD, and even though I only used the original Workbench for a few minutes, it had a lot of surprises in it, with the biggest shocker being 'holy crap, they could do this in 1985?' In all honesty, a lot of the stuff didn't seem possible for PCs until at least ten years later.

@SSMATT08 Depends on what model. The 500's, 600's and 1200's were a few hundred. Stuff like the 2000 or 3000 were a couple thousand.

Looks like the antiques from the show window in Back to the Future.

My favourite bits: 4:00 "Now the fun begins!" 5:40/5:53 - Jeeez look at that guy! He's "literally" in the music!

incredible that they are already referring to what we know as the internet, in a 1987 promo - about 8 minutes in when they talk about the modem

@winhate Why do you have 3 of the same computer?

Open Windows was originaly designed by Sun Microsystems for their SunOS. It was a windows manager, that looked quite a bit different than motif or troff. Then, Open Windows was available with Linux distribution such as Slackware. That was like in 1995, so I don't even know if Slackware is still available. Anyway, the Open Windows was sometimes called Open Look GUI. It is very nice, very customizable, etc. That's why it is my favorite one. And also because I like the look and feel of it.

i'm so old i remember when this looked both good and futuristic

Does anybody know how much this cost brand new in '87?

OMG I so want this!

Wow! What a rockin' video, especially the music segment in the middle... from abound 5:40 with the musician on the DX7, to around 5:55 when the dude in the blue sweater just goes off!!!

this is awesome!

sound?

5:49 these guys are over flowing with creativity!

THE SPIRIT OF AMIGA IS STILL GOING STRONG !!!!...

Commodore Amiga ruled! - and to this day still does. Imagine an computer from the late 80'ies still being able to access the internet and do true hardware multitasking - amazing. Deluxe Paint was originally invented and created for the Amiga, the MS-DOS version was just a minimalistic imitation of the original :-)