Oct 8, 2007

The launch of the Commodore Amiga (video)


Here it is luvs; the 1985 event that officially and rather impressively presented mankind with the Commodore Amiga 16-bit home-computer powerhouse in all its Debbie Harry - Andie Warhol glory. Not much else to say then, is there?

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25 comments:

  1. I never knew it was even possible to play music on a keyboard.

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  2. On the Amiga everthing was possible ;) Well, sort of...

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  3. you could say Debbie Harry again!... (elderlies bottom lip quivers.....)

    oh dear i'm going to drooool!!.. sorry bout this...

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  4. Naaahhh.. it's ok... I drool all over the place too...

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  5. I drool in my sleep, but never when I am awake.

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  6. Why does my video have no sound???

    It's the lizards isn't it?

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  7. Nope, it's them miniature antillopes... Bastard things...

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  8. Wow...it could do all that, and I only used the systems to play games.

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  9. Well, didn't we all really dear anonymous? I mean just beating Shadow of the Beast left you too exhausted to even experiment with AMOS...

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  10. there was that rather pervy voice sythesiser... oh happy days...

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  11. .....sigh!.... i think it's time for the time machine... i know we promised we'd never use it again.. but.. i feel melancholic... whadda ya say!!

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  12. Think we should wait for 1984 before using it again. I feel something wnt terribly wrong last time around...

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  13. ...i understand your trepidation.. but 1984, we could be dead by then... look the chances of having our intestines wrapped around our necks half-buried in a prehistoric cave wall are extremely low... statistically..

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  14. Oh can we use it please? I was in a coma in 1984...

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  15. Statistically... Right. Unfortunately MR. Elderly the whole thing is based on bistro-mathematics and they tend to ignore statistics.

    No, Father, no. It's dangerous and 1984 was way overrated...

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  16. bistro maths huh!.. right well if my insurance company signs off on it... im in...

    (rings insurance company......)

    damn there closed on Saturdays... how's Monday for you?

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  17. Hope they answer, but better be prepared:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistromathic_drive

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  18. lol, fantastic. He's not quite Steve jobs huh.. but there was flashes of genius. The moment where they REVEAL the Amiga can run MS DOS using **EMULATION** - "how it works...thats a secret."

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  19. Well, not being like Steven Jobs isn't necessarily a bad thing, really... ;)

    Oh, by the way Freesome is an excellent blog. Just linked to it!

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  20. thank you for this video, thank you very much

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  21. You're very welcome kind anonymous friend... Cheers!

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  22. Brilliant! Amazing to be able to see that event. It should have changed the world much more than it did. So far ahead of anything else remotely near the price!

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  23. Coouldn't agree more with you Iain

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