I loved my A1000. The problem is, Amiga was TOO good. One person could buy a program, then copy it a couple dozen times, for all their friends in their local Amiga user group. When they started putting copy protection in the manuals, people would photocopy the manuals. When they embedded copy protection on the discs, someone came out with a peripheral which cloned the entire disc, copy protection and all. I watched the Amiga section at my local computer store go from an entire wall, to a couple sections, to one rack, and then to none at all. Some popular programs had 50-100 copies in use for every one copy sold. The software developers couldn't sell enough to make it worthwhile to keep developing programs for the Amiga.
She reads not only the text but also the melody because this ensures that one does not make a mistake and therefore prolong the expensive time in recording studio. She must be rhythmically and melodically absolutely correct for the producer to be satisfied.
Amiga was the Windows of its day, playing the best games with the best features and software. No surprize Windows copied Workbench and we're still using the same UI as today on all windows versions. You may be forgotten, but the memories you gave us live on in our hearts :)
I loved how in this commercial they showed off Amiga's power in CGI animations. I wondered if it really was easier to make them on what I still consider my favorite computer of all time. Mine died after a truck crashed through my bedroom window (no I wasn't home at the time) in the mid 90s.
I've did my first 3d work on a2000 computes, equiped with a framecatcher called videotoaster. That christmas i bought an A500+ i had loads of fun on that machine. Sometimes i really miss the old Amiga's
That was just amazing. It must been so long ago. I used to have Amiga 600 when I was 8 years old. This video is really unique. Brings back greatest time of childhood.
Also ich muss sagen leider bin ich erst Baujahr 85... ich hab den Amiga zwar auch noch erlebt aber diese Werbung hätte ich zugern im TV gesehen.... BEST ADVERT. I EVER SEEN
I was born in 1988, and we got an Amiga 500 in 1991. it educated me in what I know today. I used to experiment with workbench SBD software like disk master. I still think for the time it was a powerful machine and could do thinks windows could not do for years to come. I have 3 Amiga 500s in the attic and should resurrect one of them :)
my first amiga a500 game was lotus turbo challenge the game owned many hours of my life with co-op play and fast racing, fantastic stuff on 2 floppy disks :D
there's another amiga-song, called 'skyflight' by Annex ("NX"), produced for the OS3.9 release. btw. - the amiga was created by some very, very, very bright minds. those who have spent time with the official development docs know what I'm talking about. nowadays computer devices are being made to sell, quick. the amiga was made to last for a long time. :)
@raymangold22 I was talking about 1992, which was near the downfall of amiga ;) All I'm saying is amiga did not upgraded there hardware as fast as ibm, mac and other... And I was specific to the Amiga 1200, which came with 2mb of ram out of the shop and is painful to upgrade (up to 256 with new chips and all). Tut the Amiga 4000 in 1994 had up to 16 MB out of the shop... The P24CT was a better hardware for the price ;)
I've got an A2000HD with MC68030/882 @ 50MHz that's rarely been out of use since I've had it. I've got wonderful dual/quad core PCs that have 1000's MIP's more power than the Miggy, but there's things I can do on that old machine that just seem to take ages on the PC. ROCK ON AMIGA I LOVE YOU - AND ALWAYS WILL!
Yea, I remember the guys from Newtek coming to our CEBUG meeting back in the late 80's. I never did get into the amiga much, stuck with my 8-bitters. Well, my 128 is 16-bit now... :)
Well anyone who hasn't owned an Amiga, will have no clue, when you say it's a computer with a soul - you feel that when you use one. The passion and devotion than went into it. I was drawn in very late (1995/96). Why? Because it appealed to me in so many ways and blatantly screamed out at how wrong circumstances were/are in the computing world. I've been a 'fan' ever since =) Look at modern society...mundane, stagnant - blind to what the future needs. Amiga lives on. ;)
Y'know, I was thinking the other day ... "Only Amiga makes it possible." These guys and their rockin' theme song literally read my mind! Why don't they make music like this anymore? Ha ha ha!
Que recuerdos.. Tengo una Amiga 500 y de vez en cuando la enciendo y recuerdo mi adolecencia, esos dias de "intercambio" de programas en las tiendas Aurrera en mex. d.f. SALUDOS A TODOS LOS SOBREVIVIENTES. MIJOLIN SOFTWARE....
What I meant is that a prospective buyer (a musician) would care about which machine could hook up to his equipment faster -Atari ST did this out of the box, Amiga needed a peripheral-. It was an easy choice, and the computer's sound source didn't matter much, really.
Agreed. The Amiga is now 23 years old. Back in the day if you wanted 3d, you did it with a 7Mhz CPU - with Integer Math! Yeeep, when I was a boy you made your Own 3d...
well every pro studio i used to go to used ST's. why partly due to the massive amount of midi options (silly amount of ports) .. also cubase and moreso notator and c-lab .. serious programs by the team that went on to make "logic"
I think that what made the A500 era so special was that it was a pioneer era for computor games. There was a lot of experiments and different game consepts. Today the game market is dominated by Doom clones. New game consepts are all to rare.
@RabidRat88 The reason windows works is because it reflects what people want out of a computer. What's the point in having a faster operating system if no 2 builds are compatible. Microsoft have realised a dream, universal compatability for the entire world, it's windows that will expand civilisation into a future where everything and anything speaks the same language. Instead of going against the grain Linux developers should have joined together and standardised their OS.
@t0nes08 Don't worry. This kind of outright exaggerated, overblown appraisal of the Amiga's capabilities and potential has been prevalent amongst its fans almost since the day it was released.
IBM didn't allow other people, they just lost the power to prevent people copying it. It used off the shelf components and their BIOS was cracked by compaq.
I wonder what the Amiga would be like today if commodore hadn't gone benkrupt and were still making them. I'm sure a modern amiga would kick a PC or MAC's ass, like they did back in the 90's. The OS also looks better than windows and even mac.
The Amiga was the finest computer in the market at the time and nothing could compare to it. Even Steve Jobs was constantly worried by the Amiga. Pity that the folks at Commodore couldn't sell water to a dying man in a desert, otherwise, instead of Mac Vs PC, we'd have had Amiga Vs PC, with Apple being a memory.
Too bloody right. The great lost machine. Commodore didn't realise that they should have been competing with (and trouncing) the Mac rather than trying to compete with IBM-compatibles in the drab business marketplace. The Amiga was the first multimedia machine, not some crap CGA 386 rival.
@Ribnobs That's why it needs some major financial power to back it's rebirth. Anything else has absolutely no chance of ever competing with the PC/Mac world.
In a way, he's right: Wintel did eventually spell doom for the good old Amiga :-( If you just look it in terms of sales/market penetration, the IBM PC (in particular when using M$ software) easily beats any other computing platform in HISTORY (a computing platform also consists of its software, not just the hardware).
No, it was NOT a "quantum leap". Because a quantum leap is so small, you wouldn't even be able to recognize it. What you mean, my friend, is: It was a fucking HUGE JUMP!
@leerees Windows works because it is the only choice most people have at work. It is only the compromise between price and functionality that makes it the main choice at home as well. It remains a bloated half-assed effort (see Vista fiasco) that ignores a lot of basic user demands while trying very hard to lock in users to MS products. Let us hope that someone comes along to destroy this sub-par standard.
@snake2006 The Mac is progressing though as the Mac Mini is an affordable option for those who are sick of Windows and not just the luxury ripoff it mostly has been. People are realising there is an alternative with a company that supplies both hardware and software (even if is twice the price it should be). Mac is now more or less 10% of the market last time I looked. It's the only credible alternative these days.
It also did not help that Gates would take Amiga terms such as multitasking, video toaster (flying toasters), virtual reality (a 3d maze instead of headgear), etc. and pretend to invent the tech. The tech he marketed was highly inferior, but mainstream marketing made people hearing these words about the Amiga related them to what Gates defined them to be. Thus helping blind the public to tech we are still, in some ways, not caught up to.
@dogspawn Why would today's PC want to do HAM? That would be a bit of a step backwards since the next version of Windows will support graphics cards which can display 258billion colours on the screen.
Good Lord, I painted the sexy robot and the hummingbird at 1:05 back in 1986. I haven't seen this video in almost 27 years. Holy crap!
wait, you painted originally this robot?
Hajime Sorayama painted the original. I painted the ones in this video using Deluxe Paint II.
Fantastic memories!
I loved my A1000. The problem is, Amiga was TOO good. One person could buy a program, then copy it a couple dozen times, for all their friends in their local Amiga user group. When they started putting copy protection in the manuals, people would photocopy the manuals. When they embedded copy protection on the discs, someone came out with a peripheral which cloned the entire disc, copy protection and all. I watched the Amiga section at my local computer store go from an entire wall, to a couple sections, to one rack, and then to none at all. Some popular programs had 50-100 copies in use for every one copy sold. The software developers couldn't sell enough to make it worthwhile to keep developing programs for the Amiga.
Love that machine love it.
She reads not only the text but also the melody because this ensures that one does not make a mistake and therefore prolong the expensive time in recording studio. She must be rhythmically and melodically absolutely correct for the producer to be satisfied.
Amiga was the Windows of its day, playing the best games with the best features and software. No surprize Windows copied Workbench and we're still using the same UI as today on all windows versions.
You may be forgotten, but the memories you gave us live on in our hearts :)
Who is the singer? It's hard to tell, but she looks a lot like the actress who played Marales in the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line.
Slightly cheese? SLIGHTLY!?!?
Amiga can never be cheesy as it is too awesome!
Apparantly there was no such thing as too much cheese in those days.
I loved how in this commercial they showed off Amiga's power in CGI animations. I wondered if it really was easier to make them on what I still consider my favorite computer of all time. Mine died after a truck crashed through my bedroom window (no I wasn't home at the time) in the mid 90s.
How dare you sir!
This is one of the greatest songs in recorded history.
I've did my first 3d work on a2000 computes, equiped with a framecatcher called videotoaster. That christmas i bought an A500+ i had loads of fun on that machine. Sometimes i really miss the old Amiga's
That was just amazing. It must been so long ago. I used to have Amiga 600 when I was 8 years old. This video is really unique. Brings back greatest time of childhood.
Also ich muss sagen leider bin ich erst Baujahr 85... ich hab den Amiga zwar auch noch erlebt aber diese Werbung hätte ich zugern im TV gesehen.... BEST ADVERT. I EVER SEEN
Amazing. a quantum leap in computers back when it was released in 85. There will probably never be another computer so far ahead of its time.
I was born in 1988, and we got an Amiga 500 in 1991. it educated me in what I know today. I used to experiment with workbench SBD software like disk master. I still think for the time it was a powerful machine and could do thinks windows could not do for years to come. I have 3 Amiga 500s in the attic and should resurrect one of them :)
my first amiga a500 game was lotus turbo challenge the game owned many hours of my life with co-op play and fast racing, fantastic stuff on 2 floppy disks :D
there's another amiga-song, called 'skyflight' by Annex ("NX"), produced for the OS3.9 release.
btw. - the amiga was created by some very, very, very bright minds. those who have spent time with the official development docs know what I'm talking about. nowadays computer devices are being made to sell, quick. the amiga was made to last for a long time.
:)
Amiga rocks, was way before it's time, with rocking custom chips!
Myself I got a SAM440EP-Flex with AmigaOS 4.1!
Ah, well said! And a nice touch about the cartoons to finish off ;D
@raymangold22 I was talking about 1992, which was near the downfall of amiga ;) All I'm saying is amiga did not upgraded there hardware as fast as ibm, mac and other... And I was specific to the Amiga 1200, which came with 2mb of ram out of the shop and is painful to upgrade (up to 256 with new chips and all). Tut the Amiga 4000 in 1994 had up to 16 MB out of the shop... The P24CT was a better hardware for the price ;)
@carcm700 believe it or not I have yet to see a modern PC do a scroll as smoothly as an Amiga could back in 1986...
They played this song in a bar I was in. Weird.
Maybe the owners were big Amiga fans
r.i.p amiga! i still got my cartoon classics amiga under my bed lol
lol *slightly* ?? this is genius
I've got an A2000HD with MC68030/882 @ 50MHz that's rarely been out of use since I've had it.
I've got wonderful dual/quad core PCs that have 1000's MIP's more power than the Miggy, but there's things I can do on that old machine that just seem to take ages on the PC.
ROCK ON AMIGA I LOVE YOU - AND ALWAYS WILL!
Man... I miss my ol' Amiga 1200! Mind you, it's in the closet, and last time I checked, it was still working. Just the floppy seems to be misreading.
Yea, I remember the guys from Newtek coming to our CEBUG meeting back in the late 80's. I never did get into the amiga much, stuck with my 8-bitters. Well, my 128 is 16-bit now... :)
Well anyone who hasn't owned an Amiga, will have no clue, when you say it's a computer with a soul - you feel that when you use one. The passion and devotion than went into it.
I was drawn in very late (1995/96). Why? Because it appealed to me in so many ways and blatantly screamed out at how wrong circumstances were/are in the computing world. I've been a 'fan' ever since =)
Look at modern society...mundane, stagnant - blind to what the future needs. Amiga lives on. ;)
Not the words, THE NOTES !
Y'know, I was thinking the other day ... "Only Amiga makes it possible." These guys and their rockin' theme song literally read my mind! Why don't they make music like this anymore? Ha ha ha!
Que recuerdos.. Tengo una Amiga 500 y de vez en cuando la enciendo y recuerdo mi adolecencia, esos dias de "intercambio" de programas en las tiendas Aurrera en mex. d.f. SALUDOS A TODOS LOS SOBREVIVIENTES.
MIJOLIN SOFTWARE....
Me+Amiga= Awsomness!
Amiga in my freckn heart, dude!!
Just superb...
ONLY AMIGAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! I AM LOVING IT ! RAISE YOUR AMIGA !
Damn the Amiga was awesome, had an a500 which survived and operated perfectly until the day I gave it to a young cousin who's still using it today.
Best computer commercial EVER!!!
Agreed!
Great, just great!
hahahahaha cheesefest!! damn i loved my amiga. this video is making me emotional...
I miss my amiga, wish i would have never sold it, i miss it almost everday, corny commercail, but a great machine, you will be missed commodore amiga
Only amiga make it's happen !
AMIGA IS THE BEST
AMIGA FOREVER !!!
AMIGA RULEZ FOREVER ! ( Lightwave Pro )
What I meant is that a prospective buyer (a musician) would care about which machine could hook up to his equipment faster -Atari ST did this out of the box, Amiga needed a peripheral-. It was an easy choice, and the computer's sound source didn't matter much, really.
"Only Amiga" is right up there with "The Wow is now"
If only I had recognized the power of the amiga "back then" when I was young. Only used it for gaming stuff. What a shame.
LOL
its soooooooooo cheesy
"ooh ooh oooh"
and the juggler snimation between verses... classy XD
Damn, I just overdosed on CHEEEEESE. haha...brings tears to the eyes ;) thinking how different things could have been now *ponders*
I still have my Amigas (1200+4000). I love them too much to even consider selling them.
I WANNA GO BACK IN TIME AND SELL THESE!
Agreed. The Amiga is now 23 years old.
Back in the day if you wanted 3d, you did it with a 7Mhz CPU - with Integer Math! Yeeep, when I was a boy you made your Own 3d...
yeh but we are the ones who go against the graaaiinn
ahead of it´s time
This actually showcases what went wrong with the Amiga: Commodore used this lady, Microsoft used the Rolling Stones. :(
well every pro studio i used to go to used ST's. why partly due to the massive amount of midi options (silly amount of ports) .. also cubase and moreso notator and c-lab .. serious programs by the team that went on to make "logic"
Amiga byl legendární počítač
i have mine too, under the bed :D
Only mine is an older version, the box only says Commodore Amiga 500.
I think that what made the A500 era so special was that it was a pioneer era for computor games. There was a lot of experiments and different game consepts. Today the game market is dominated by Doom clones. New game consepts are all to rare.
i like how the singer seems to be reading (lyrics?) while she sings. i couldn't memorize them either.
I have Amiga 1200 :) i love this computer
Amiga has the guts to do things that you cant do on other hardware.....
Thats sick man XD
Best Home Computer Ever Made. Ever.
"ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT POSSIBLE" !!!
I love how she needs scores to remember : only amiga
@RabidRat88 The reason windows works is because it reflects what people want out of a computer. What's the point in having a faster operating system if no 2 builds are compatible. Microsoft have realised a dream, universal compatability for the entire world, it's windows that will expand civilisation into a future where everything and anything speaks the same language. Instead of going against the grain Linux developers should have joined together and standardised their OS.
Sorry, that was a freaking typo. I meant 1GB HD (like the IBM 3380). Btt about MegaByte drives, the smallest I recall was the 5MB Seagate.
All together now! :)
The Amiga was doing this years before Apple or PC's. Since the late 80's and early 90's.
Cool stuff, I stil have my 500, 2x 600 and one 1200 :D Pinball Dreams, Fantasy and Illusions FTW!!!
Word to ya mutha!. Only Amiga makes that 5 o clock rush hour cocaine business deal possible. Fo' sho!
@t0nes08 Don't worry. This kind of outright exaggerated, overblown appraisal of the Amiga's capabilities and potential has been prevalent amongst its fans almost since the day it was released.
Amiga my neegga
Thanx for the explanation, but it was only meant as a joke comment. I'm sure she's doing a great job :)
IBM didn't allow other people, they just lost the power to prevent people copying it. It used off the shelf components and their BIOS was cracked by compaq.
Great I'm gonna have this dumb song stuck in my head all day now!
that would be cool
I got my first Amiga in '91, and it was the PC that was getting fucked back then, pal.
I wonder what the Amiga would be like today if commodore hadn't gone benkrupt and were still making them. I'm sure a modern amiga would kick a PC or MAC's ass, like they did back in the 90's. The OS also looks better than windows and even mac.
only amiga makes it possible
The Amiga was the finest computer in the market at the time and nothing could compare to it. Even Steve Jobs was constantly worried by the Amiga. Pity that the folks at Commodore couldn't sell water to a dying man in a desert, otherwise, instead of Mac Vs PC, we'd have had Amiga Vs PC, with Apple being a memory.
Very nice song ;-)
the best computer ever!!
I feel so nerdy watching this :-D
Too bloody right. The great lost machine.
Commodore didn't realise that they should have been competing with (and trouncing) the Mac rather than trying to compete with IBM-compatibles in the drab business marketplace. The Amiga was the first multimedia machine, not some crap CGA 386 rival.
@Ribnobs That's why it needs some major financial power to back it's rebirth. Anything else has absolutely no chance of ever competing with the PC/Mac world.
@optimystikill He didn't steal the Amiga GUI he stole from the Mac, however the sane thing to do would have been to atleast use a microkernel.
that was really true
@dogspawn I disagree - and I've got an Amiga 4000 (with a phase 5 PPC board no less installed).
@snake2006 You got it.
In a way, he's right: Wintel did eventually spell doom for the good old Amiga :-( If you just look it in terms of sales/market penetration, the IBM PC (in particular when using M$ software) easily beats any other computing platform in HISTORY (a computing platform also consists of its software, not just the hardware).
yep. had to replace the blade, and the handle.
No, it was NOT a "quantum leap". Because a quantum leap is so small, you wouldn't even be able to recognize it. What you mean, my friend, is: It was a fucking HUGE JUMP!
How can I possibly argue with these professional opinions?
@leerees Windows works because it is the only choice most people have at work.
It is only the compromise between price and functionality that makes it the main choice at home as well. It remains a bloated half-assed effort (see Vista fiasco) that ignores a lot of basic user demands while trying very hard to lock in users to MS products. Let us hope that someone comes along to destroy this sub-par standard.
AMIGA RULEZ
LMAO it's the most cheesy thing I've seen lately. :DDDDD BTW I love Amiga and C64.
@snake2006 The Mac is progressing though as the Mac Mini is an affordable option for those who are sick of Windows and not just the luxury ripoff it mostly has been. People are realising there is an alternative with a company that supplies both hardware and software (even if is twice the price it should be).
Mac is now more or less 10% of the market last time I looked. It's the only credible alternative these days.
It also did not help that Gates would take Amiga terms such as multitasking, video toaster (flying toasters), virtual reality (a 3d maze instead of headgear), etc. and pretend to invent the tech. The tech he marketed was highly inferior, but mainstream marketing made people hearing these words about the Amiga related them to what Gates defined them to be. Thus helping blind the public to tech we are still, in some ways, not caught up to.
I miss video toaster on Amiga.
@dogspawn Why would today's PC want to do HAM? That would be a bit of a step backwards since the next version of Windows will support graphics cards which can display 258billion colours on the screen.