The Computer Chronicles - The New Amigas (1988)

God, I miss my Amiga... That age of discovery of doing something that few people knew about. GOOD TIMES!

That photographer was quite forward thinking; "The process won't change, only the quality will change." Also Heidi is doing some pretty dope anims!

The Amiga was way ahead of everything else on the market in 1988. Graphics and audio was and still is awesome.

My 1991 Amiga 500 is still on a desk upstairs, still working today. In the UK, it cost £399 (GBP) back then, no monitor, and came with a few games (New Zealand Story was one) and Deluxe Paint 2. When I was at Bournemouth University in 1998, they were still using an Amiga 600 to do the credits for programmes made in the media dept's TV studio!

The Video Toaster inside an Amiga, (all said about $4,000.00), was as capable as a $250,000.00 video editor at that time.      It was popular for a while to Mock Newtek because the "Video Toaster" was considered Vapor Ware. The Proposed Capabilities were considered "Absurd" at the time.      Then Newtek released it.. Holy Crap!! It did more than they ever predicted! A Lot of folks had to eat Crow on the release of the Video Toaster. Nothing had ever been created for a home computer that could compare.      They did Seaquest DSV and Babylon 5, (two TV series), using the Video Toaster. At that time most people had no clue.      You have to understand that computers back then were generally "Single Tasking, crap sound, crap Video machines". The Amiga was the first "Fully Pre-emptive, Multi Tasking Machine" and it had killer sound and Graphics.      Today the machines are literally Millions of times more powerful. So much of this sounds ho hum... but at the time it was Amazing! Sluggo

It’s nice when someone knows a product so well, they can demonstrate it, use it, and talk about it at the same time!

I still remember being over at a friends house and he had an Amiga 500.  He was playing a game then suddenly used the mouse to grab the top of screen pulled it down and showed the other application running !  This was 1989 and I was blown away!  He didn't like it though, he was sold the 500 based on the idea that his commodore 64 games would run, they didn't( at least most wouldn't) and he took it back and bought a commodore 128!

Commodore 64 and Amiga in 8 / 16 32 bits are unbeatable, unfortunately the "market" opted for the late but "professional" (and very expensive) Wintel PCs or Macs; Atari also suffered this injustice. Amiga is the first gaming platform, the first multitasking, the first (affordable) in video rendering, animations, etc. Thank you Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Tramiel, Miner, Mensch, Yannes, and all who made these wonders that I still enjoy.

I saved all summer working 3 jobs in 1986 to buy an Amiga 1000 when I was 16. Still the most incredible machine that has ever inspired me. The thrill of exploring its capabilities is still unmatched by any computer or smartphone since.

In Europe the Amiga was king! Especially for gaming.

I used to dream about owning a Video Toaster back in the early 90s.  The idea that you could actually hook up a home computer to a VCR and record video files was amazing to me back then.  The VT manufacturer used to really play up the fact that you could essentially produce broadcast-quality material at a tenth of the price.  But even that price was outside the range of my family's resources (or at least the will to spend) at the time!

I have a perfect collection of Amiga games on a Retropie on a Pi400. I never have an Amiga before....too poor as a kid to own one. Now i am glad i can enjoy all those games and experience i've missed.

Ah Amiga, you were so awesome.

I love being able to go back and watch these every few years

Damn i miss my old Amiga. If nothing else for the games i used long nights to play

I still have 3 Amiga500s in their original boxes stored up..I tend to emulate these days but i occasionally get the amigas out for a short power up..The amiga had a massive impact when it was released with it's advanced graphics and sound.

You walked into the store and just watched it play game demos. I was that kid with a C64 doing triple takes for the entire time my mom shopped.

suprised to see David Joiner in this video... he later did the game Faery Tale on the Amiga which had awesome music

A computer that was hardly marketed at all, at least here in the United States. Same for the Atari ST.

The eighties was the golden decade, a lot of innovation came from it and gave us the crap we have today !