Commodore 1992 Amiga 1200 unboxing original Introduction! Computer History video Restored
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Restored video introducing the Amiga 1200 personal computer. The Amiga 1200 was released by Commodore International and designed for the home computer market. It became very popular for its powerful graphics, sound quality and ease of use.
Amiga 1200 was launched October 21, 1992, with a base price of £399 in the UK and $599 in the US.
Restored from an original PAL format VHS tape by Computer History Archives Project. Quality is quite good for a 30 year old video tape. (Amiga 1200 was released in 1992, the video seems to date from around 1994). --- Did you own an AMIGA? Hope you enjoy!
Originally Published by Future Publishing, publishers of "Amiga Format" magazine.
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Greetings from Ukraine! in the 90s he had an A600 and then an A1200. The use was only on floppy disks. In 2000, he sold the A1200 and switched to the PC. Now I have again purchased the A1200 from 68060 - 128mb. Already 6 years with her :-))
Hi Apacher, thank you very much for your sharing your experience with the Amiga models. Sound like you had good experience. Glad you found our web page also. Thanks for the feedback! ! Charles, CHAP
060 1200 here as well, still TONS of fun.. back in the day I only had A500, 40 MB (!) SCSI HDD and 2 MB memory expansion.. haha.. 40 MB hard drive.. Amiga
Amiga 1200, Atari Falcon 030, and Archimedes 3010 were exceptional computers for their time
Loved how the editorial office was stuffed full of Macs
Good to see all those Amiga Format editors using Amiga's for their work........
Amigas for work AHAHAHAHA
Amiga rulez 4ever!
Owned a Commodore 64 in 1992, and Amiga 500 in 1994....(then sold than to get my first PC in 2000)
Didn't last long... but today everything bieng emulated so i got my childhood back :) *almost*
I still like the hardware, but i feel i've got way more emulated floppy/hard disk images, plus PDF of Amiga Format and CU Amiga (...my two best mags at the time....:) ) i can';t bring myself to get hardware, even though i'd like to..
Perhaps if i didn't have soo much stuff, then perhaps.
Just discovered your channel. The restoration of these videos is not only well done but a much needed endeavor for the preservation of the history of these machines. Well done!
Hi Retro Repair Guy! Welcome to our channel! Glad you found us and thank you for the kind words. Hope you enjoy exploring some of our vintage films and presentations. ~ Victor, at CHAP
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Hi Victor! Yes, catching up on a few of them already and subscribed! 😉
ah... precious memories of using Workbench and Gadgets. Disks, write-protect notch etc.... I wonder how many actually read the original Amiga manuals (if they were even included at all in your Amiga box). I'll vote i never did..
Great. Amiga 1200 was beem super computer in 1992 year. I'm from Poland.
This is the best channel on youtube
Hi ClownCar666, thank you for the kind words. Glad you are enjoying our vintage tech videos! ~ VK
There were 3 types of computer based on graphic in use : contrast, saturation and hue (DOS)
I didn't have any Amiga and didn't know it existed in 1992 :-)) Soviet union just collapsed and being early teenagers we wanted Sony trinitron and good VHS player. Well it cost like a fortune in Alibaba's cave...
Its now 2022 and I live in Australia.... I still want a Sony Trinitron and a good VHS player......
@@goofyrulez7914 yea we find all of our best retro gear in the pouches of Kangaroos 🙄
@@Veksta I'd like to wander around your neighborhoods and pick up old PCs like e-waste ben does :-)))
We had Trinitrons supplied to eastern europe from UAE and somewhere from S-E Asia, but actually most of the devices suffered from the components early death :-( So in the beginning of 2000s Sony was considered to be unreliable.
@@goofyrulez7914 I find what little I've read about the history of home computing in E. Europe to be really interesting, learning about the tech you guys had at the time with all the Sinclair clones and the impressive lengths that programmers pushed that technology to in the 90s,
"Here we are at Amiga Format magazine. What better place to see how great Amigas are! Let's take a look inside." *EDITORS ALL USE MACS*
quite rare in the uk now..i had one and sold it...i want one again lol
This brings back some memories, watched this on VHS as a kid because of my older brothers, came in handy when I eventually got my own A1200 about a decade later.
I never owned anything after Amiga 500,,,
Thank god for emulation today :) Now i own more systems (and lots more) I could even dream back then.
To some degree.. i'm more than happy, but still no matter how much digital stuff i have, it will NEVER replace true hardware,CRT monitors i had..
@@Tech-geeky Software enulation is now also being used to enhance original hardware, such as the pistorm.
I recently got a pistorm32, although I'm having some issues with it.
@@tech34756 or the Amiga 500 mini.... Still there is some things you never do. As a nostalgic Amiga owner i know the hardware/emulation may bring new users, or just want to connect to a 16:9 display, over HDM, but its just not the same.... Its the same reason when you take emulation software, and expand it to fill the entire screen as it changes the aspect ratio.... everything looks stretched on a wide screen... And people are ok by that ?? Your messing with the classics.
Complimenti,video stupendo,un'ottimo tributo storico all'A1200,un'AMIGA divenuto leggendario come il mitico A500 !
The narrator almost has a Jim Butterfield quality to him.
Still got two in service over here. One of them recapped and running fancy new OS 3.2
Hello, early childhood as long as it can play Indiana Jones and search for Atlantis. That is the game my parents bought for me in 1992.
I owned and sold Amigas at the ByteShop in Merrick N.Y. Most of the customers wanted a Amiga 2000 with Video Toaster which I must have sold over 400 or so during my time at the store. I personally had a 2000 with Video Toaster myself along with a single frame recorder and LightWave 3D to render frames to then of course things changed to digital and the rest is history.
Hi Donald, sounds like quite a fascinating time! What would you say was the most popular model at that time?
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Well at first of course it was the 1000 which I owned as well then the 2000 for a long time (due to the Toaster) if someone was into gaming we would suggest an Amiga 500 or 1200 but when the 4000 came out everyone (Video people) switched to that. so it was based on budget and what you wanted to accomplish that was the factor in selecting an Amiga.
Thanks... well that makes sense. ! : )
I bought one back then and can say I did a brand new unboxing.
Too bad I was stupid enough to sell it 1 year later...
Ciao ragazzi, io ho iniziato con il commodor Vic 20 con tanto di stampante e floppy disk, una vera goduria e poi sono passato al 64. Ora la tecnologia ha fatto passi da gigante ma i ricordi di quei tempi non si cancellano.
Google translate says: "Hi guys, I started with the Commodore Vic 20 complete with printer and floppy disk, a real pleasure and then I moved on to 64. Now technology has made great strides but the memories of those times are not erased."
Guido, Thank you for your great feedback! ~ VK
"Welcome to Amiga Format, the biggest, best Amiga magazine..."
😁
(Nothing against Amigas, just thought that was kinda funny. Of course Amiga graphics at the time could generally run rings around the Macs, and Macs were widely used in publishing.)
ya ya,,, ,.... ..... I mean how many companies who sell Apple products actually use a PC to encode video ? That bouncing ball demo on the Amiga of a *garage door closing* was pretty cool ... *still is in 2023* but not all of it was done on a Amiga either... The end part was done on a Mac.
Despite the mix and match stuff. even today, i still call it 'cheating''' Back then, i could understand if the tech was not up to spec. or "you prefer to edit video" whatever, but still, A part of me still thinks if your true to the Amiga, everything should be recorded that way, even if it sounds crappy for whatever reason..
To use anything else, would just be.... well.. shocking.
CU Amiga ,... opps.. wrong channel...
well..... Both were British... 😃
29:18 😆I like how he just went ahead and ripped that floppy disk open with no concern. Must be a bank disk, or of no use.
I lived in communist Poland and in 1988 I bought an Atari 65XE with an XC-12 tape recorder
In 1990, after the fall of communism in Poland, I bought an Amiga 500, then I had an Amiga 2000
and in 1993 I bought an Amiga 1200 - I bought a HD-420 mb. and fast ram 4 mega
I remember this computer, now I have a PC RYZEN 1600AF and a laptop with I3
and Sony PS5-Greetings from Poland👍👍
Hi Rafal, that sounds like a fascinating series of machines to have used! Thank you for visiting our channel and sharing a bit of your computing history. ~ Vk
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject Thanks for the recognition as a curiosity, I can say that I designed and constructed the Joystick on microstats myself
and the diagram of how to connect the cables I had from Bajtka-Computer magazine about 8-bit computers published in Poland
It was in 1988 in communist Poland you were earning 20 dollars a month and electronic equipment was difficult to access
8:06 Small correction, if your using a TV, you *will* need to use these for audio.... You'd be connecting these to a the side of the TV modulator instead.
Otherwise you won't get audio.
I heard there was problems with Surface mount:
Strict requirements (power must be an issue, because if a component drew too much power it could melt the soldier joints..
That would have gotten better over the years
Qué gran y exitoso proyecto fué Amiga, es una pena que no continuó por los problemas ya conocidos de Commodore. En mi opinión eran muy superiores a Macintosh y también más populares; el IBM PC ganó su popularidad por un efecto no buscado que fué la clonación y gracias a ello fué posible la masificación... ¡Qué lindo sería si hoy existiese una competencia entre PC y Amiga!
Ha, it's a US Robotics 56k external modem on top of the hutch. I haven't seen one of those since.. well 1992. Oh geez, never mind, it's a 14.4Kbps
Who else one day got a copy of X-Copy and starting copying everything they could get their hands on? And felt like they were a criminal mastermind pulling off a massive devious heist whilst doing it?
... it made one feel powerful, didn't it?
Why oh why Amiga Format did you go with the "green" screen!? 🤣
Oh the irony at 4:33
This is not an accusation, (or likely very interesting) just curious. The video is from '92', but during an early cutaway shot the Jurassic Park video game is seen. Movie premiered in '93'. A clear memory thanks to young age & excitement! Regardless, this isn't meant to question the dating of your video.
I remember a long lead promotion for the film, but what's fuzzier is recalling the degree to which "parallel" content was once created for big, 'anticipated' movies (larger ticket items, not happy meal toys :).
Seems risky, but those days were filled with much less sense overload, when focus could be measured in months & not click-speed.
Ah well, if nothing else this recalled a real movie "experience". And thank you for all the great history!
Hi Bryan, thanks very much for your info and feedback! The date of the video might be 1993. We could not find any date on the video itself. The 1992 date was when the Amiga 1200 was released. We'll look again and probably correct the 1992 vid date. Thanks for spotting this! ~ VK
The chip dates shown around 4:43 tells you this video wasn't released before 1993.
@@danielkarlsson1815 didn't see that, cool. Like I said, the date couldn't have mattered less. It's a 40min computer demo, and suddenly all I was thinking of was the time around JP release! Trying to remember how big they used to go with tie-ins, etc. Maybe a bit out of place for this video. But thanks. Peace.
The CD32 magazine at 1:20 was only published twice. The copy shown is the first issue, published in march 1994. I think this video was included on a CD-ROM attached to a copy of Amiga Format
@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject you're very kind for writing, but please don't give it a second thought. I already feel my detailed interest over movies is out of place in the context of the video.
PS: Someone replied mentioning seeing chips dated 1993. But again, I didn't intend for it to matter. In fact keeping it as '92' sounds more prudent, otherwise you're sure to get "it shipped in 92, not 93"! All the best.
Writes about Amigas on a Mac, relatively cursed
I think the Mac was long established as being the first choice for DTP, and reputedly had the best software. I imagine an A2000 or A3000 with flicker fixers, and perhaps 24-bit graphics cards and good monitors, would have been effective but it's probably the case that the staff had gained computing qualifications or trained on Macs and so had become familiar with them. Alternatively, perhaps the Amiga set ups I described above would have been more expensive than a Mac or the Amiga software simply wasn't quite good enough for professional use.
@@danyoutube7491 You're right, it's all about the industry standards, Mac ruled the DTP roost and you'd eventually have to send that file off to the printers, who were using Macs. Could an Amiga do it? Probably, I don't have any experience with that kind of software on the platform, but like you said it gets to be a bit rube goldbergy when an out of the box solution existed.
optimistic... yet do-able.
I still had the Amiga 500 in 1992. I still have it today, but unfortunately the floppy disk drive is defective. I also had to throw away the approximately 200 diskettes prematurely because they had become unreadable.
I would look into a Gotek to replace the drive, they're relatively cheap and there are ways to internally mount them.
@@tech34756 Many thanks for the notice. 'retrofriends' is of course subscribed to. Have a nice Sunday.
should of backed up ....Developers at the time got away with notes on floppy disks "Back up and store the originals in a safe place" Fast forward to 2023, few did that... haha
30 years, and nothing much has changed.
@@Tech-geeky Many of the 5 1/4" floppy disks for my C64 survived the test of time. Only this stuff was crap --> 💾
all of that will erode over time... Then you'll get to the point you can't repair anymore because parts are harder to find...on eBay/other market places. Nothing lasts forever, we just think it does
Those nails 😖