I comment on my own video because yes, I realize I should’ve said boing boing not boom boom but dang it. It really did feel like a boom so impressive it was!
The blue/orange colour scheme was intentional. It provided good contrast on bad TV sets, and for anyone using a B&W TV. It always makes me cringe, but there was reason for it, and you could customize it, as you point out.
Great Times. My first Amiga was the A500 with the 512KB slow RAM back in 1989 from an independent Computer shop here in the U.K. Takes me back. Cheers “Q” 👍🏻
I remember reading about the Amiga years before I finally got my hands on one…I drooled over what it made possible and made lists of what hardware add ons I wanted when I finally got one! When I finally got to see one in person I’m sure it was running the boing demo and soon thereafter an image viewer showing Sam fox while playing a sample of the pet shop boys “west end girls” which blew my mind! And here I am, all the these years later with a Amiga 1000 sat next to my Mac Studio. And I know which is the more interesting and fun machine… and it needs some retro-brighting when the weather is nicer!
@@SledgeFoxit really is. People celebrate the design of the original Mac, but to me the A1000 is a much more beautiful design. The keyboard garage, the well placed expansion ports, and the fact that you weren’t stuck with Steve Jobs choice of a tiny black and white display! I wasn’t lucky enough to have one when they first came out.. neither me as a young teenager or my parents could afford one so I had to wait for the A500 to appear. But I’ve lusted after an A1000 ever since and finally bought one a couple of months ago. Now just waiting for a Parceiro II+ to fully take advantage of it 😊
@@geordieal you are absolutely right! And from an technical standpoint the Mac was a toy compared to the chipset architecture of the Amiga. I was very fortunate and got the A-1000 when released in 1986 and still own it.
In reality, biggest difference C64 -> Amiga was a lot more memory. CPU performance was only 2,5x faster in Amiga than it was on C64. Sure graphic features was upgraded about as much there was more memory and basicly that allowed colorful graphics while C64 graphics were designed to work monochromatic palette and "color" was more like accent color somewhere or color tint.
I don't remember what year I first saw the Amiga but a friend of mine Rob had the A1000 which looked very cool and then he loaded Battle Chess and it blew my mind. He told me how much it cost and it was way out of reach for me. A few years later I bought an A1000 to run my BBS, then an A500 and then my dream machine the A2000HD all from various friends of mine. Of those 3 I kept the A2000HD which I still own. One day I woke up and wanted to archive my Amiga Software collection and get my A2000HD on my network and the Retro Bug came and bit me and with it the insanity kicked in and lets just say I acquired not only a bunch of Commodore 8 Bit's I used to own but nearly all the Amiga models except the CDTV, CD32 and tower system's. I think what I enjoyed the most was seeing my Grandkids using them and having fun with them. To my kids if you mention Amiga the first thing they think about is Lemmings.
back in the day we didn't know what the signatures or paw print inside the 1000 was, having exchanged messages with RJ all these years later is truly amazing, it really did change the world. i love tinkering with my Amigas still new things happening all the time, i recently built an A2000 replica and A500 another thing i would not of dreamed of back in its (our) youth, when i finally got an a1200 my kids asked where is the rest of it, i said that's it, their response was if they could make a computer so small back then why are the so big today :)
Thanks! I really appreciate that you make these videos. I never owned an Amiga myself although I did keep a friend’s A500 for a while. It’s nice to be able to look back and reminisce.
I remember the first time I saw an Amiga, I think it was an Amiga 2000, at the MSX (8 bit home computer) computer club setup with two desktop speakers and a color monitor (likely the 1084). It was running Populous and the sound effects with voices clear as day, the colours etc. blew me away. I must've been around 12 or 13 and it seemed like magic to me. About a year later I had an A500 myself. I was impressed with WB1.3 to be sure but didn't have many apps that could run from floppy very well. With the A1200 and a hard disk it was a lot more accessible so graphics apps could be run and many more.
I was at a computer store (I forget its name) at Upper Valley Mall in Springfield, OH, when I saw the Amiga A1000 for the first time. It was not running the Boing demo, but doing something far more of interest to the artist in me. It was showing a ballerina picture in HAM. I had never seen a photorealistic image on a computer prior to that moment.
That was always the coolest thing that an Amiga could do, run a task in the background and then pull down the screen to watch that background task doing it's thing.
Yeah I think the Boing ball demo artifacts are definitely an emulator thing, I've never seen that on any of my own Amigas. Great upload - keep the momentum going! 👍🏻😁
While my friends got gaming consoles I had an Amiga 500... I have to admit that I was quite envious of one of my friends having a Sega Mega Drive capable of playing Sonic etc... On the other hand the Amiga let me explore graphics programs and got me started learning BASIC before I could even read the English manual. For a very long time I didn't have a monitor, so I stuck with the blue/orange clown outfit for quite long time as it worked quite well on a TV over RF. Besides, it showed off that my computer could do colours, unlike the Mac and Atari OS's.
Yup. A true testament of what Jay and his team did. I never had the privilege of owning one (they were not allowed to be sold in my country during the 80's) but got the experience later through emulation and loved reading about them in the magazines. But like any company, it was greedy management that sunk it. I see more and more people turning to retro computing as those were fun days and using computers was fun. Right now we live in dark days brother and we have to "rent" everything and not even your data is yours anymore. It's people like you who keep the Amiga alive so keep doing what you doing. 🤓
First thing I did is change the default Amiga Workbench colors. I went from C64, messed with someones Mac 128K (or 512K) and quickly found out I ran out of memory trying to do things (lost interest), a short time messing with Intel 386 and 486 (again quickly ran into their shortcoming) and I started building custom PCs for myself then finally bought an A3000 16 & 25 and networked them to my network. Now reworking my home network, reduce my WinDUD systems (down to a personal and one dedicated for work) others replaced with Mac Minis, and network with my A3000/25 & A1000, Sun Servers & Workstation along with lots of NAS units.
I had 2 Amiga 500 and got 1 Amiga 1200, the game changer was with the 1200 once I got a hard drive for it, it had enough power for real multitasking, enough memory to play with and the hard drive allowed me to really set up the Workbench how I like. That for me was my first real taste of real computing and for the most part, you could do a lot of the things we did now but on the Amiga, but a lot slower. A lot of other computers were either too expensive, not as flexible, and most couldn't do multitasking. I have to admit, I wish I knew what I know today about the Amiga and wished I had internet access back then, that would have opened up so much more possibilities, but at the time, I was only a kid and I pretty much learn how to use it by magazines, friends and other things like that, if the internet was more common back then, I would have had a field day with it lol. Also, the first time I saw the Amiga, it was an Amiga 500 in a shop window in the UK running Shadow of the Beast, I remember people being blown away by the visuals and I knew at that moment, I wanted one, which basically means I had to start begging my mum and dad to buy me one lol, they eventually got me one, but it was shared with my brother, eventually we got another which was mine, and then after that, I got the A1200, and at the time, I didn't think anything of it, but those times, partly thanks to the Amiga, holds a special place in my heart that I remember fondly.
The first time I've seen any Apple computer IRL was in university in 1992. I needed to print something out and went into a computer lab I hadn't been in yet and it was full of Mac Classiscs. There were students in there typing out papers with laser printing galore. I sat down and started using the Mac and let out a "Hah". I couldn't believe how clunky the OS was or slow compared to my home Amiga and with a price tag nearing double that of an Amiga setup, it wasn't even in colour. I kept thinking to myself, yeah this definitely feels like "1984" (referring to the first Apple Mac computer commercial). Not to bash on Macs but give me a break I was a 20 year old Commodore fanboi 😂😂
In '88 I went to a popular computer exhibition in the RAI conference center in Amsterdam. When I walked in the first big stand was Apple with a lot of Macs with mostly black&white screens. Hardly anyone went to this stand, because almost everybody walked past it straight to the Commodore stand with Amiga's running cool colorfull stuff on bigger screens and playing sounds in stereo.
6:17 I had that exact drive, a 52MB Quantum SCSI drive with 8MB Fast Ram inside. all my PC mates who had 40MB drives said I was mad because I would never fill it!
I had a A500 back in the early 1990s(in the UK). Eventually, I had to make the jump to DOS PC(MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1) - and I missed things from the old Amiga, like long filenames, and also not having to mess around with memory managers, manage interrupt setting for the soundcard, etc.
If your running at least kickstart 1.3 and you don't have a hdd but have the ram its worth setting up a floppy size recoverable ram drive, if you have never used one your going to be amazed how quick they are, its simple to do and they run lot faster than floppies and will survive a reboot, a lot of multi disk games work with them even some NDOS disks with trackdisk loaders that workbench wont read because they dont have a BAM at key880 on the disk, thats if you set up more than one, all you have to do is disk copy whatever disk into into RAD0: remove the floppy and reboot, that way you dont suffer the torments of floppy seek times, and saves wear and tear on your floppies and the drives too... if memory serves 1.3 came with a 3rd disk the extras disk that had some things on it like edlin and memacs. BTW did you know there was a reason for those default colours? it was done to be legible on the absolute worst TV screens through the modulator, they were also the colours that NASA used as they were the ones easiest to recognise under difficult conditions.
To test and see if the Amigas true multitasking would choke, using multiple drives, an external CD drive I simultaneously installed all three platforms Amiga OS3.1, Windows 95 & Mac 7.6 just to see if there would be noticeable paging from each drives' activity light, but no, all the lights came on, and stayed on throughout their entire respective installation (checking each screen along the way). What can I say, I was curious. Do you get curious? I get curious.
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 windows prior to 95 were dos programs. Win95 finally brought the user interface up to a comparable system with what the amiga had been doing for a decade...also, the amiga OS and workbench had improved over the decade. Also, win95 was still half DOS and didn't have preemptive multitasking... You might go check again...
@@simonebernacchia5724 I can't do the "suffix" but no...however I do remember a post that read "Windows (ce) + Windows (me) + Windows (nt) = Windows (cement)" Lol 😂
In the early 1980's, I owned an Atari 800 home computer. However, by the late 1980's, looking back wish that, I owned an Apple IIGS computer system with all the options (smile...smile).
The iPadOS still doesn’t have a calculator, because the first version of iPad only opened apps full screen, but that isn’t the a problem anymore. This is why an iPad isn’t a computer to me, and Amiga in the 80s could do more.
Commodore had the most advanced computer of 1985-87. Leave it up to their marketing department to fail in selling it, at least in the numbers it was capable of.
Got an A500 with A590 HD then the A3000 myself back in the days. The Amiga was the target of a massive smear campaign from PC and Apple/Mac vendors. It was a wonderful machine.
They kept on saying this Amiga computer was a games machine only, and it will never take off because it wasn't compatible with MS-DOS!!!. What I saw, I loved, but was always disappointed it didn't at least become as mainstream as Macs did around that time. Boing! Boing! ;-)
The Boing-Demo going bad probably has to do with the fact that you switched off your fast-mem while the programm was running. I mean, I'm guessing and it may still be just emulator-related, but generally hitting "No Fast-Mem" while you have other software going is going to be a bad experience ;-)
yes i’ve seen alot of rage for the incorrect config. i used a preset. Still, the video is about how the Amiga made an impression. Colors or not, it made a great impression.
Why are you running WorkBench 1.x on KickStart 2.x? Amiga OS was never meant to look like that with orange title bars. This makes as much sense as running Program Manager from Windows 3.x on Windows 95.
@@HoldandModify That's very interesting, I am in New York and never saw one. There was no Babbages here until the late 80s and they only sold computer software. If you wanted a computer in NYS you went to Radio Shack or a independent computer dealer. Or like me a computer fair and built your computer from parts.
I comment on my own video because yes, I realize I should’ve said boing boing not boom boom but dang it. It really did feel like a boom so impressive it was!
I am sure, Dale Luck and RJ Mical didn't say boing while banging against a garage door to digitize the sound... 😁 I tend more to boom too...
☝️
They do a great job of retelling the story of the audio. I totally get a visual of them with a giant foam bat smacking that garage door.
@@andycraig7734 😁
Preemptive multitasking on the Amiga was years ahead of its time.
The blue/orange colour scheme was intentional. It provided good contrast on bad TV sets, and for anyone using a B&W TV. It always makes me cringe, but there was reason for it, and you could customize it, as you point out.
I remember hearing one of the founders say that they went out and found the worst color tv they could get to test the original WB colors.
Great Times. My first Amiga was the A500 with the 512KB slow RAM back in 1989 from an independent Computer shop here in the U.K. Takes me back. Cheers “Q” 👍🏻
Hah sweet! Thanks for stopping by and sharing!
that 512Kb would have been "Chip Memory" not Slow RAM
i have a few amigas. why do i do them? beause "I believe in the Amiga"
The doctor has spoken!
I remember reading about the Amiga years before I finally got my hands on one…I drooled over what it made possible and made lists of what hardware add ons I wanted when I finally got one! When I finally got to see one in person I’m sure it was running the boing demo and soon thereafter an image viewer showing Sam fox while playing a sample of the pet shop boys “west end girls” which blew my mind!
And here I am, all the these years later with a Amiga 1000 sat next to my Mac Studio. And I know which is the more interesting and fun machine… and it needs some retro-brighting when the weather is nicer!
Ain’t that the truth! All my current modern computers are boring.
A-1000 is just so special! 👍
@@SledgeFoxit really is. People celebrate the design of the original Mac, but to me the A1000 is a much more beautiful design. The keyboard garage, the well placed expansion ports, and the fact that you weren’t stuck with Steve Jobs choice of a tiny black and white display!
I wasn’t lucky enough to have one when they first came out.. neither me as a young teenager or my parents could afford one so I had to wait for the A500 to appear. But I’ve lusted after an A1000 ever since and finally bought one a couple of months ago. Now just waiting for a Parceiro II+ to fully take advantage of it 😊
@@geordieal you are absolutely right! And from an technical standpoint the Mac was a toy compared to the chipset architecture of the Amiga. I was very fortunate and got the A-1000 when released in 1986 and still own it.
Going from a C64 to an Amiga was like "Boom".
😁👍
In reality, biggest difference C64 -> Amiga was a lot more memory. CPU performance was only 2,5x faster in Amiga than it was on C64.
Sure graphic features was upgraded about as much there was more memory and basicly that allowed colorful graphics while C64 graphics were designed to work monochromatic palette and "color" was more like accent color somewhere or color tint.
I don't remember what year I first saw the Amiga but a friend of mine Rob had the A1000 which looked very cool and then he loaded Battle Chess and it blew my mind. He told me how much it cost and it was way out of reach for me. A few years later I bought an A1000 to run my BBS, then an A500 and then my dream machine the A2000HD all from various friends of mine. Of those 3 I kept the A2000HD which I still own. One day I woke up and wanted to archive my Amiga Software collection and get my A2000HD on my network and the Retro Bug came and bit me and with it the insanity kicked in and lets just say I acquired not only a bunch of Commodore 8 Bit's I used to own but nearly all the Amiga models except the CDTV, CD32 and tower system's. I think what I enjoyed the most was seeing my Grandkids using them and having fun with them. To my kids if you mention Amiga the first thing they think about is Lemmings.
Battle Chess and Sword of Sodan. Lemmings might just be the most memorable for all.
back in the day we didn't know what the signatures or paw print inside the 1000 was, having exchanged messages with RJ all these years later is truly amazing, it really did change the world. i love tinkering with my Amigas still new things happening all the time, i recently built an A2000 replica and A500 another thing i would not of dreamed of back in its (our) youth, when i finally got an a1200 my kids asked where is the rest of it, i said that's it, their response was if they could make a computer so small back then why are the so big today :)
Thanks! I really appreciate that you make these videos. I never owned an Amiga myself although I did keep a friend’s A500 for a while. It’s nice to be able to look back and reminisce.
My pleasure!
I remember the first time I saw an Amiga, I think it was an Amiga 2000, at the MSX (8 bit home computer) computer club setup with two desktop speakers and a color monitor (likely the 1084). It was running Populous and the sound effects with voices clear as day, the colours etc. blew me away. I must've been around 12 or 13 and it seemed like magic to me. About a year later I had an A500 myself. I was impressed with WB1.3 to be sure but didn't have many apps that could run from floppy very well. With the A1200 and a hard disk it was a lot more accessible so graphics apps could be run and many more.
I was at a computer store (I forget its name) at Upper Valley Mall in Springfield, OH, when I saw the Amiga A1000 for the first time. It was not running the Boing demo, but doing something far more of interest to the artist in me. It was showing a ballerina picture in HAM. I had never seen a photorealistic image on a computer prior to that moment.
ah yes that demo! i never saw that in person actually.
That was always the coolest thing that an Amiga could do, run a task in the background and then pull down the screen to watch that background task doing it's thing.
Still impresses me today.
Yeah I think the Boing ball demo artifacts are definitely an emulator thing, I've never seen that on any of my own Amigas. Great upload - keep the momentum going! 👍🏻😁
thank you confirming. I was suspect. I’ll email the dev too.
Or perhaps it didn't like the no fast RAM whilst it was running?
Amiga is an awesome hobby (past time). Expensive but I love it. All the new stuff coming out keeps things exciting and keeps me poor haha
The wallet still feels the sting of Amiga.
While my friends got gaming consoles I had an Amiga 500...
I have to admit that I was quite envious of one of my friends having a Sega Mega Drive capable of playing Sonic etc... On the other hand the Amiga let me explore graphics programs and got me started learning BASIC before I could even read the English manual.
For a very long time I didn't have a monitor, so I stuck with the blue/orange clown outfit for quite long time as it worked quite well on a TV over RF. Besides, it showed off that my computer could do colours, unlike the Mac and Atari OS's.
I began much the same. heck I never owned a console. Not until I was a young adult. PS1.
BTW, what's up with TH-cam squashing the video info and comments over to a tiny column on the side now???
no idea. been alot of weird lately.
Yup. A true testament of what Jay and his team did. I never had the privilege of owning one (they were not allowed to be sold in my country during the 80's) but got the experience later through emulation and loved reading about them in the magazines. But like any company, it was greedy management that sunk it. I see more and more people turning to retro computing as those were fun days and using computers was fun. Right now we live in dark days brother and we have to "rent" everything and not even your data is yours anymore. It's people like you who keep the Amiga alive so keep doing what you doing. 🤓
Thanks for sharing and ...hey...thanks. Computing was more fun and even special then. Yes. For now, glad to help keep Amiga going!
I believe the boom noise was actually sampled on an apple computer. It was one of the developers hitting their garage door.
Yeah someone else mentioned something about that, heh. NEAT.
I don't even remember why and how I got my Amiga... or even where.
it was ..damn!.. it was 36 years ago.. 😯
time slips by fast!
First thing I did is change the default Amiga Workbench colors. I went from C64, messed with someones Mac 128K (or 512K) and quickly found out I ran out of memory trying to do things (lost interest), a short time messing with Intel 386 and 486 (again quickly ran into their shortcoming) and I started building custom PCs for myself then finally bought an A3000 16 & 25 and networked them to my network.
Now reworking my home network, reduce my WinDUD systems (down to a personal and one dedicated for work) others replaced with Mac Minis, and network with my A3000/25 & A1000, Sun Servers & Workstation along with lots of NAS units.
Whoa.
This sounds like a very interesting life! 👍
OMG, I remember Electronics Boutique in the Arndale in Manchester when I was a kid, first place I ever saw import games
Was a great place to grab games from for a long time.
I had 2 Amiga 500 and got 1 Amiga 1200, the game changer was with the 1200 once I got a hard drive for it, it had enough power for real multitasking, enough memory to play with and the hard drive allowed me to really set up the Workbench how I like.
That for me was my first real taste of real computing and for the most part, you could do a lot of the things we did now but on the Amiga, but a lot slower.
A lot of other computers were either too expensive, not as flexible, and most couldn't do multitasking.
I have to admit, I wish I knew what I know today about the Amiga and wished I had internet access back then, that would have opened up so much more possibilities, but at the time, I was only a kid and I pretty much learn how to use it by magazines, friends and other things like that, if the internet was more common back then, I would have had a field day with it lol.
Also, the first time I saw the Amiga, it was an Amiga 500 in a shop window in the UK running Shadow of the Beast, I remember people being blown away by the visuals and I knew at that moment, I wanted one, which basically means I had to start begging my mum and dad to buy me one lol, they eventually got me one, but it was shared with my brother, eventually we got another which was mine, and then after that, I got the A1200, and at the time, I didn't think anything of it, but those times, partly thanks to the Amiga, holds a special place in my heart that I remember fondly.
Love this share! thank
you! Some crossover memories
for sure!
Thank you excellent video. cheers
Thanks for stopping by!
The first time I've seen any Apple computer IRL was in university in 1992. I needed to print something out and went into a computer lab I hadn't been in yet and it was full of Mac Classiscs. There were students in there typing out papers with laser printing galore. I sat down and started using the Mac and let out a "Hah". I couldn't believe how clunky the OS was or slow compared to my home Amiga and with a price tag nearing double that of an Amiga setup, it wasn't even in colour. I kept thinking to myself, yeah this definitely feels like "1984" (referring to the first Apple Mac computer commercial). Not to bash on Macs but give me a break I was a 20 year old Commodore fanboi 😂😂
oh man, I have a similar story as well. Good times back then.
In '88 I went to a popular computer exhibition in the RAI conference center in Amsterdam. When I walked in the first big stand was Apple with a lot of Macs with mostly black&white screens. Hardly anyone went to this stand, because almost everybody walked past it straight to the Commodore stand with Amiga's running cool colorfull stuff on bigger screens and playing sounds in stereo.
6:17 I had that exact drive, a 52MB Quantum SCSI drive with 8MB Fast Ram inside. all my PC mates who had 40MB drives said I was mad because I would never fill it!
Yeah some pal of mine had a 120mb drive and I thought him insane.
I had a A500 back in the early 1990s(in the UK). Eventually, I had to make the jump to DOS PC(MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1) - and I missed things from the old Amiga, like long filenames, and also not having to mess around with memory managers, manage interrupt setting for the soundcard, etc.
when i came to Windows boxes having to deal with IRQs was the most infuriating thing ive ever experienced.
If your running at least kickstart 1.3 and you don't have a hdd but have the ram its worth setting up a floppy size recoverable ram drive, if you have never used one your going to be amazed how quick they are, its simple to do and they run lot faster than floppies and will survive a reboot, a lot of multi disk games work with them even some NDOS disks with trackdisk loaders that workbench wont read because they dont have a BAM at key880 on the disk, thats if you set up more than one, all you have to do is disk copy whatever disk into into RAD0: remove the floppy and reboot, that way you dont suffer the torments of floppy seek times, and saves wear and tear on your floppies and the drives too... if memory serves 1.3 came with a 3rd disk the extras disk that had some things on it like edlin and memacs.
BTW did you know there was a reason for those default colours? it was done to be legible on the absolute worst TV screens through the modulator, they were also the colours that NASA used as they were the ones easiest to recognise under difficult conditions.
really, the colors part, that does make some sense then.
Pioneer times, wasn't it great to be alive at that time? 👍
It was the best era. I think.
I will always remember the demos they had running all day on an Amiga 500.
NewTek Demo Reel 1
Juggler
El Gato
Those were so great. Would load up and watch over and over.
I definitely appreciate that Florida Gators colors are seen as clown colors... orange and blue. 😉 Go Dawgs
haha…ok ok
Everything you mentioned plus more about the Amiga was the reason I bought one, then another, and another, .............
To test and see if the Amigas true multitasking would choke, using multiple drives, an external CD drive I simultaneously installed all three platforms Amiga OS3.1, Windows 95 & Mac 7.6 just to see if there would be noticeable paging from each drives' activity light, but no, all the lights came on, and stayed on throughout their entire respective installation (checking each screen along the way). What can I say, I was curious. Do you get curious? I get curious.
Always curious.
I always said "Win95 = Amiga85" 😂
Haha. nice.
except the Win95 was so much more advanced and more modern system then AmigaDOS+WorkBench 1.x from 1985. Day and night difference...
@@madigorfkgoogle9349 windows prior to 95 were dos programs. Win95 finally brought the user interface up to a comparable system with what the amiga had been doing for a decade...also, the amiga OS and workbench had improved over the decade. Also, win95 was still half DOS and didn't have preemptive multitasking...
You might go check again...
Well you remember the old T-Shirt? Hiroshima 45, Chernobyl 86, Windows 95 ^^
@@simonebernacchia5724 I can't do the "suffix" but no...however I do remember a post that read "Windows (ce) + Windows (me) + Windows (nt) = Windows (cement)"
Lol 😂
Enjoyed the content bromingo
Hah! Thank you.
In the early 1980's, I owned an Atari 800 home computer. However, by the late 1980's, looking back wish that, I owned an Apple IIGS computer system with all the options (smile...smile).
Well that is very...nice. Thank you for sharing!
The iPadOS still doesn’t have a calculator, because the first version of iPad only opened apps full screen, but that isn’t the a problem anymore. This is why an iPad isn’t a computer to me, and Amiga in the 80s could do more.
the iPad Os is ridiculous
I remember typing fast and randomly in the "say" program, to scare my grand mother with the computer voice
lol evil!
Commodore had the most advanced computer of 1985-87. Leave it up to their marketing department to fail in selling it, at least in the numbers it was capable of.
Very true sadly
Another stupid thing the Commodore manglement did was halting the R&D on the AAA chipset.
Got an A500 with A590 HD then the A3000 myself back in the days. The Amiga was the target of a massive smear campaign from PC and Apple/Mac vendors. It was a wonderful machine.
Yes we took a LOT of grief.
@@HoldandModify I suppose the sweet 'response' was the Mac emulators which did a pretty good job.
@@francoisleveille409 VERY GOOD job.
They kept on saying this Amiga computer was a games machine only, and it will never take off because it wasn't compatible with MS-DOS!!!.
What I saw, I loved, but was always disappointed it didn't at least become as mainstream as Macs did around that time.
Boing! Boing! ;-)
AGREE 100x
The Boing-Demo going bad probably has to do with the fact that you switched off your fast-mem while the programm was running. I mean, I'm guessing and it may still be just emulator-related, but generally hitting "No Fast-Mem" while you have other software going is going to be a bad experience ;-)
haha OMG! That’s right! A testament to the Amiga that it didn’t just crash when I did that!
boom
boom…….boom….
Two words: Copper List.
Actual 1.2 or 1.3 workbench (with 1.3 or older ROM) doesn't look so orange. :)
Yes, this is WorkBench 1.x running on KickStart 2.x. It's completely WRONG!!! Who did that back in the day? No one!
yes i’ve seen alot of rage for the incorrect config. i used a preset. Still, the video is about how the Amiga made an impression. Colors or not, it made a great impression.
@@HoldandModify Yeah, it really made a great impression. I can thank my career for it :)
Why are you running WorkBench 1.x on KickStart 2.x? Amiga OS was never meant to look like that with orange title bars. This makes as much sense as running Program Manager from Windows 3.x on Windows 95.
No clue. was using the emulators preset. The video was about the impression the Amiga made. Not Workbench really.
Computers in Electronics Boutique? I never saw a computer in Electronics Boutique back in the 80s. You must have been in Canada?
Michigan. All of ours had Amigas. Mostly A500 only.
@@HoldandModify That's very interesting, I am in New York and never saw one. There was no Babbages here until the late 80s and they only sold computer software. If you wanted a computer in NYS you went to Radio Shack or a independent computer dealer. Or like me a computer fair and built your computer from parts.
@tigheklory BP Photo Video or B and H around then?
We did have display computers in PA stores. A1000 replaced with A500, along with various other 8-bits and Apple/DOS clones.
That's clearly not Workbench 1.3 - entire Workbench.library is in kickstart, and yours is... 3.1 or something, no 1.3.
So... try again, please?
the video wasn’t about Workbench. It was about the Amiga and the impression it made.