@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Amiga was 13 years ahead of everyone else... late 2000s level technology in the early 1990s. What killed off the home computers was POOR data storage. Imagine if the Amiga and Commodore 64 and Atari 128XE all came with a 1.44 MB floppy drive ? Now we know hardware needs to come with a suite of software out of the box... New improved Linux Distros replace new hardware today. Although Raspberry Pi and other build it yourself kits are a great deal of fun !
Nothing beats the real thing, more accurate colors and sound, but fully working units will cost more due to being harder to find... Emulation can accelerate easier, so Elite Frontier II will really fly
11:37 “These are just games and they’re not important”, as a kid I was always like “STFU STEWART” and my dad was like “Why are you yelling at the computer show again?”
Stewart talked about wanting to do it several years ago but came to the conclusion they couldn’t do it properly because it requires too big of a budget and he’d want to do it as a big professional production.
I was stationed in the Bay Area when this show was running. Loved it. Stewart was always the easy going, "What is the newest/coolest thing", Gary.. he hated Commodore and Atari. I don't know why Gary hated Amigas in particular, but he did. As for me... Mega Amiga/C64/Atari ST fan.... It was truely the Golden age of home computing. Deluxe Paint 3 was light years ahead of any Paint program in its price range.. (as in ... it would cost you thousands to do better). Things like Video Titling etc were in the 6 figure range. Shortly after this, the Video Toaster for the Amiga, (hardware/software created by Newtek, (With the sexy Kiki Stockhammer as the spokesman), came to the Amiga, (only). A $5000-8000 Amiga could out perform a $250,000 graphics work station for Video Production. I really Loved "The Computer Chronicles"!!!! It is totally cool to see them on RU-vid.. they are a significant part of history!
You have to remember when this was filmed he was less than 2 years away from selling Digital Research to Novell. Was a pretty bad time for him and was under a ton of stress. It’s a damn shame so many people don’t know who he was. If it wasn’t for him we probably wouldn’t be where we are in software today seeing as CP/M was the basis for DOS. Not to mention his companies investment in multitasking with MP/M, Concurrent CP/M-86, ConcurrentDOS 386, and DR-DOS with taskmax. Still to this day I use DR-DOS 6 for my DOS machines as I find it superior to the Microsoft offerings of the time.
Gary thought amigas were more like art tools than computers and he didn't why they covered them. He thought it was like covering a Quantel Paintbox of something - not relevant to most users. Very weird attitude but it's how Stewart says he felt.
Got my first computer in 1991 : an Amiga 500. It was great. In 1996 I bought my first PC running Windows 95. By many aspects it felt like a big leap BACKWARDS.
This actually has been a theme for a long time: "it looks like a gaming thing therefore we won't take it seriously" The GPU is the best example of purely gaming tech ending up playing a vital role in future stuff like AI, self-driving, and crypto
Bollocks. The GPU has been pivotal in pushing floating point performance. It also has uses in visualisation. Much of the funding may come from consumer purchasers but it definitely isn't "purely gaming tech". Real-time computer graphics doesn't have its beginnings in gaming. It was medical visualisation, CAD, architectural visualisation and engineering.
@smakfu That's truer, but even with that I don't think it was gaming which drove it. The TI 34010, Intel's i860 and the SGI geometry engine were all general purpose chips which were pressed into graphical tassk. It would be a mistake to think of ASICS like the Amigas blitter as being the route of graphics today. More advanced graphics systems predate the Amiga.
@@vapourmile Bullshit. GPU was coined by NVIDIA's GeForce 256 which combines hardware-accelerated T&L and effectively doubled TNT 2 raster, it's major launch title was Quake 3 NV15 map. NVIDIA's GPU definition requires a level of single-chip integration and features which SGI didn't deliver. The large PC gaming market is subsidizing professional PC GPU SKUs which slowly eaten SGI's OpenGL 3D hardware business. DX9a era FP16 pixel shader is NOT good enough for medical visualization. For AMD, significant Sony's and Microsoft's game consoles cash flow and upfront R&D payment funded AMD's Bulldozer dark era. Q4 2006 GeForce 8800 GTX was the start of CUDA and full speed graphics IEEE-754 FP32 performance for the PC while Xbox 360 has full speed IEEE-754 FP32 GpGPU in November 2005.
Too much. We just copied too much that eventually no one wanted to release programs on it anymore. I remember that i never bought any software on the Amiga back in the day.
Wow... it was way ahead of it's time. I had several Amigas. I had the Video Toaster, Opalvision, GVP accelerator boards, Super Denise, SuperGen, SCSI controllers, SyQuest, etc.... Too bad the greed of the board and lack of foresight killed Commodore and the Amiga. It was tough going to PC....
@@drphilxr I had several Amigas to work with. The Opalvision in one. Accelerated Amiga 2000 and the video toaster and another. I also had an accelerated 3000. The Opalvision was supposed to have later on video editing capabilities but that never happened. Corporate greed killed the Amiga.
The Amiga was way ahead of it's time. In 1988 it was running like a PC from 1995. For music this was the standard and couple it with a video toaster you had a full production studio!
it was the custom chips and dma channels. the amiga used dozens of dedicated direct memory access channels to speed up all kinds of operations while macintosh did it by software polling. dma was the key to true multitasking. and the custom chips, of course made it even better. "paula" for instance was responsible for audio and was way ahead of its time like blitter, gary and agnus. good old times, man.
This was about the year the Acorn Archimedes came out. Remember that had an ARM chip in it which, at 8MHz and RISC-based, ran rings performance-wise around anything else in its price range. Its misfortune was that it was non-IBM-compatible ... and British.
He was saying it was only loading from disk because he didn't have it downloaded to the machine. Because it's not his machine. He was using an optical drive. So if you had the drive space to download and install it, it wouldn't need to check disk for assets all the time.
Seeing DPIII is taking me back. I used to fly text around for title graphics in my high school video class for all the productions. It was such a fun tool. Amazing what you could do on an A1000 with 1.5MB ram and no hard disk. I was constantly filling floppies with my animations.
Roosendaal wrote the first source files titled “Blender” on the 2nd of January, 1994, still considered Blender’s official birthday. Originally, Blender was planned as an in-house application for NeoGeo; it grew from a series of pre-existing tools, including a ray-tracer built for the Amiga. This early version of Blender was intended to address a perennial frustration among creatives: when a difficult client requires multiple changes to a project, how do you implement those changes painlessly? Thanks to its highly configurable approach, Blender aimed at providing an answer. (As an aside: the name refers to a song by a Swiss electronic band, Yello). LOL For those that KNOW!!!
Man i want that chess game that was brilliant can they put that on today's PC or ps4 or Xbox? Some one please tell we can get this battle chess game today???
You can see my Amiga 500 in two videos on my channel if interested. One was recorded in 1988 and the other was recorded in 1989. In one of them my younger brother is in my room while I was at sea playing Wayne Gretzky's Hockey. Had some amazing graphics for the time. Just used those years as search terms on my channel if you want to find them.
If Microsoft and IBM-compatible OEMs had looked seriously at the Amiga and what it was able to do, all the advances of the 90s in the PC arena would have happened 3 years earlier.
its so funny to think that there was a time when the general computing population somehow doubted the computing power of a machine known for its graphical capabilities (and it could multi task)
Same. How many hours did I spend staring at them doing graphics work? Far far too many. Came with my amiga and was by far the thing I used most. I wish modern dya paint programmes had such easy to use art features.
I totally remember Battle Chess, although my family never owned an Amiga. It shows how popular the game was, to the point that it was adapted for PC, as well. 💁🏻♂️♟️ 🖥️
A standard has to be open, so that others can copy it. The Amiga hardware took a giant leap forward, then stood still as others caught up, and then overtook it. It never had a good software layer, like the Macintosh, that was capable of adapting to newer hardware.
Instant.. take. When she said there database would soon reach a trillion bytes of data. Literally 1Tb. We have thumb-drives now with upwards of 4tb capacity. Just amazing to think about. Finished this video. I had both an Amiga 500 and a 3000 before moving onto IBM based PCs. Could never forgive Commodore for how they mis-managed this machine. If this computer was the Microsoft of the day and won it would have changed everything. Image a commercial Amiga in 2024 (not the homebrew stuff, I mean if Amiga had replaced Microsoft and was commercial)...just wow.
Kind of scary to know that some of these pilots that trained on that Amiga software served in the gulf war and probably in some of the more recent wars too.
@@GeeTheBuilder I meant 4gb RAM a few years ago, I had 64gb on micro-Sd plus the internal basic 32gb ssd so 100gb total for the whole computer and storage inside half my hand thin as a pack of gum
Might have to dig my A500 out of the loft. I also have 2 BBC model Bs with monitors and 5 1/4” disks. I cut my teeth programming on the Beeb. Then Amiga. Then MSX (I know, right 😄). Then PC Windows. Then Linux.
I still only just got one terrabyte of storage a few months ago and I'm blown away (i was using 500gb for a long time). Can't imagine a man of the 80's meeting a terrabyte of storage
Imagine a world where Amiga/Commodore wasn't shoved out of the market by a failing IBM and a reclusive Apple. We could have had mass market, user friendly multitasking software over 10 years sooner. Crazy world we live in.
Some typos in this episode! Febuary instead of February in the spreadsheet demo, and annimation instead of animation in the show titles. What is this, PBS? Oh, wait :)
17:24 .... what the heck? 3 to 4 times faster clock rate.... So 14 Mhz is somehow 3 to 4 times faster clock than the original 7.16 Mhz??? How did you compute that, on a Pentium 60 ?
Motorola didn't have Pentium Rating like marketing when discussing the difference between 68000 ~7.1Mhz with 16-bit bus to 68020 at 14Mhz with 32-bit bus. Amiga 2500's 68020 at 14 Mhz with 32bit fast ram is similar to Amiga 1200's 68EC020 at 14Mhz with a 32-bit fast ram.
Actually, the programs were very responsive but the various tasks the programs had to do took time. The CPU in the Amiga at the time ran at only 7.16 MHz. Compared that to IBM PCs in 1989 which ran at about the same speed but which were often stuck in text mode and one program at a time.
The 486 came out in 1989 and the 386 was already well entrenched and common for all but the most budget systems, with the 386 running circles around the 68k 7MHz processor. The A2500 was not a budget system, but it was the best you could get from C=. It stunk. Not fast at all, and had horrible graphic modes for productivity; PCs in this era could already be running 1024x768 modes flicker-free while the Amiga couldn't even do 640x480 flicker free. As evident here, 1989 was the beginning of the end for the Amiga, with the latest and greatest stagnating due to Irving Gould and his henchmen that had no idea what they were going to do with C=. The years before that were squandered as the system was already four years old since commercial release yet hardly had anything added to it. As the C= engineers stated, AAA was supposed to have been released around this time if they had wanted to stay competitive. AAA never saw the light of day.
In 1989, EGA or VGA was still the norm. If you had 1024×768 then you had an expensive graphics card, better than average monitor and you likely did it in monochrome. I remember articles on Desktop Publishing from that time. Progress was much faster on the PC side though, that's for sure.
If Amiga was called Thoth or TH computers I'm sure it would've been more respectable computer system. Thoth was the name of Egyptian God of intelligence or wisdom.
frankly this game is terrible :( it looks like sam coupe or C=65 not even like playstation I. My raspberry pi has better multitasking and compute power.