Tony Bastable and Guy Kewney get a sneak preview of the Commodore Amiga from Tim King of Metacomco
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@Aerojet016 жыл бұрын
The Amiga was highly advanced for its time. Revolutionary machine which took computing to whole another level.
@dennis81964 жыл бұрын
Shame the Tatung Einstein failed to make mass popularity - It was at least a decade ahead of the rest, imagine the Amiga with many orders of magnitude performance and functionality.
@Inaflap4 жыл бұрын
@@dennis8196 "many orders of magnitude of performance" Over the Amiga? Trolling? The Einstein used a Z80A at 4MHz, 256x192 resolution, AY sound, and 3" floppy, all very similar to the Amstrad CPC 664 or 6128. Actually it was very like the spec of the MSX machines... plus the FDD. The Einstein 256 was similar to the MSX2 standard. You can see that by just looking at the games available. The 16 bit 68000 based Atari ST was a better choice by 1985, and the Amiga whilst a tad expensive (until the A500) was much better than the Einstein. What you could do on the 8 bit Z80 based Einstein, was run CP/M business software, or run some games that either looked like they'd been written for the MSX (hardware sprites and AY sound), or were more like straight ports from the 48K ZX Spectrum, which had the same Z80A CPU (clocked 10% slower), and 256x192 resolution.
@pqrstzxerty12964 жыл бұрын
Yep, and Commodore repaired all of Amstrad shite on the side.
@pqrstzxerty12964 жыл бұрын
and Sinclair.
@user-jt5vm3mi1w Жыл бұрын
amiga sux
@ainsleystones46002 жыл бұрын
When I was at school, the gag was that you could tell when someone was using an Amstrad word processor because there was Tippex all over the screen.
@speedbird7377 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine having to talk to Sugar to get a refund !
@SuperOldShows6 жыл бұрын
I think his reply would be something along the lines of 'oh piss off!'
@benconway90105 жыл бұрын
He would probably say your fired even tho you didn't work for him
@pqrstzxerty12964 жыл бұрын
Aftersales would be a premium rate phoneline, with option 5 for refunds which is 3 days hold music to be answered by a blundering idiot who talks jibberish make you quit trying.
@sovietonion724 жыл бұрын
@@SuperOldShows He comes across as a bit of a Willy wonka, no trade in 😣
@happysunshinydays63495 жыл бұрын
6:56 BRUTAL LOL I was 10 when Amstrad pulled this with the 664 owners LOL, the computer mags were always ablaze with folks coating off Alan Sugar LOL Great video.
@EMKWANREVIEWS3 жыл бұрын
Lol Alan isn’t going to give you a refund! 😂
@anonUK Жыл бұрын
"No income tax, no VAT, No money back, no guarantee..."
@artstatedigital4 жыл бұрын
A truly excellent behind the scenes 𝑨𝑴𝑰𝑮𝑨 demonstration. The hardware hasn't lost its magic after all these decades.
@Rabmac1UK2 жыл бұрын
I remember those days, I was an IT Manager at the time. I am Younger than that Now
@malcolmclements92543 жыл бұрын
Love the way at 643 that she leads Alan Sugar up an alley and ambushes him.
@S7EVE_P5 жыл бұрын
I like the succinct style of Database. Back when TV told you stuff. I learnt more in 10 minutes than I’d learn in an entire evening of modern telly
@RastaJew4 жыл бұрын
Incredibly lack of hype and bullshit coming from the manufacturers too. Except maybe some of the claims about compatibility and definitely Alan Sugar talking about dot matrix printers lol
@user-jt5vm3mi1w Жыл бұрын
false
@Baggieboy-zb8lw6 жыл бұрын
Alan Sugar would have sacked that woman for given him a hard time.
@MrAlwaysBlue5 жыл бұрын
£399. I could never imagine having that much dough in 1985.
@bassinblue4 жыл бұрын
@Kilo ByteInflation adjusted, £399 of 1985 is £1,218 today. The average month's worth of wages. For me personally, that's holiday money lol.
@Adrian-yp7nb7 жыл бұрын
I had a CPC6128 🙂👍
@psjehxhegxyhwqkq5 жыл бұрын
Still got Amstrad 6128 and german copy Schneider 6128
@ErectedGasCan4 жыл бұрын
I adore how the show goes from pip-pip savvy professional to truly british playful puns by just walking through a door. 😂
@cebudave6 жыл бұрын
That's must be the same Guy Kewney, who was upstaged by Guy Goma on the BBC news, taking about Apple Vs Apple.
@vhsvideovault6 жыл бұрын
Exactly the same one.
@sovietonion723 жыл бұрын
@@vhsvideovault That's what I thought, the name reminded me straight away, still can't understand how the BBC got him mixed up with a African dude coming for a job interview 🤔
@vhsvideovault3 жыл бұрын
@@sovietonion72 A production assistant came out, asked him if he was Guy, and was he there for the interview, when he said yes, just brought him in to the studio. The PA wouldn't have any idea what Guy Kewney looks like.
@sovietonion723 жыл бұрын
@@vhsvideovault Ok thanks I get it.
@64bakes5 жыл бұрын
"Make it talk"
@pinkyn0se6 жыл бұрын
AMS always had an attitude didn't he.
@adrianevans59535 жыл бұрын
Back in the day come a long way since then
@Darkmotive4 жыл бұрын
"Interesting" Show's what a nasty bit of work Alan S really is !
@benconway90105 жыл бұрын
The things we take for granted now
@benconway90105 жыл бұрын
OMG I had to laugh at Alan sugar wen she asked him something technical thinking she was oh yeah I know wat I'm on about then he simply said "no not really " and "I don't know wat you're on about "
@sandiagatha12885 жыл бұрын
Lol. The presenter definitely stood her ground in Amstrad interview. Alan was being difficult.
@speedbird7377 жыл бұрын
Did Metacomco create Amiga Workbench?
@vix_in_japan6 жыл бұрын
No, but they created ABasiC which came with the first few Amigas, and AmigaDOS which is the command line interface and literally the disk operating system. Commdodore replaced a lot of Metacomco's work by AmigaDOS / OS 2.0 in 1990. Metcomco's AmigaDOS was largely based on BCPL code which was eventually converted into C more or less entirely by 1990. Metacomco picked up the pieces when the CAOS project well, ended up in chaos I think in 1984... (CAOS - Commodore Amiga Operating System) - if you google TripOS which was Metacomco's 68000 based DOS and then compare it to AmigaDOS, that is what Metacomco ported. Amiga Workbench itself (the icons etc) is a bit hard to trace who did that but the graphical user interface was called Intuition (you see it in the Workbench screen in this video, only early versions did this) and was created by RJ Mical, who came to Amiga from Williams, and went on to work with Dave Needle on the Lynx and 3DO.
@evertonshorts93762 жыл бұрын
There is an interview with Dr. Tim King about what he did. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptNdpt2m17OZho0.html
@malcolmclements92542 жыл бұрын
As I stated a year ago about Robert Maxwell. Now we have his ghastly daughter in the news.
@pqrstzxerty12964 жыл бұрын
Piece of junk, I used to repair this junk for Amstrad. There was no further development for this product, they where left out in the cold, thats Amstrad, "buy, bin it and buy another cheap rubbish product". Never trust a barrowboy salesman. CP/M old and waste of time when it came out.
@Aerojet016 жыл бұрын
I bet Alan gave her a roasting off camera for asking those kind of questions. He wasn't happy.
@davesmith19295 жыл бұрын
Quite justifiably! They were ridiculous assertions! The CPC 464, 664 and 6128 were compatible with each other!
@raw57425 жыл бұрын
If he did she will probably claim a morale refund through the me too movement any day now.
@truthteller46894 жыл бұрын
Women had higher voices in the olden days.
@Macho_Fantastico4 жыл бұрын
6:49 Alan Sugar hasn't changed a bit since.
@maverickhistorian6488 Жыл бұрын
He's still a complete tosser
@maniacsatwork3 жыл бұрын
She's clearly clueless and had no idea that the 664 was a 464 with a disk drive, therefore it had heaps of software to run, and with continual support during that time.
@kamikazilucas3 жыл бұрын
wdym uk version? whats so hard about making it
@BrianSmith-yq7ys7 жыл бұрын
Dam at 7:00 she was really hard on that amstrad guy
@FunkySpunkyJunky4 жыл бұрын
Lol... "That amstrad guy"
@binarysignals95934 жыл бұрын
@@FunkySpunkyJunky lord sugar is barely known abroad...
@TheBenzer94 жыл бұрын
There all in their 20s but look like there well into their late fifties..lol
@NathanChisholm0412 жыл бұрын
Thats the 80s! Even kids then shaved...
@installtekzdotcom97774 жыл бұрын
alan hasn't got a clue about computers he can't see past the dollar signs
@RealHealthyGuidance4 жыл бұрын
2:27 wow holy shit. a pc can do that now!?
@VULTUSPRIME4 жыл бұрын
I wonder if microsoft was even at this show?
@bsasteve7 жыл бұрын
Alan barrow boy sugar
@damianeadie5105 жыл бұрын
Danny Dyer's dad
@binarysignals95932 жыл бұрын
Alan had the shittest heap of junk there
@JoeBetro5 жыл бұрын
6:48 You go girl!
@malcolmclements92543 жыл бұрын
Robert Maxwell, imagine buying something that that greasy character had his paws on!