Commodore Amiga 500 Promo Video 1987 #amiga500 #amiga #commodoreamiga

Added: 2026-05-16

[00:00:01]You are about to step into a brave new world of power, performance, [music] and productivity made possible by the new Commodore Amiga 500 home computer. Sit back and get set for the ride of your life.

[00:00:13]>> [music] >> I am the Commodore Amiga 500. I am the ultimate home computer. So easy to use with powers and abilities [music] far beyond anything you may have ever experienced before. I am dazzling graphics [music] and animation, a home office productivity wonder. I am extraordinary home [music] video production and special effects, a versatile composer of thought as well as music. I am arcade quality games in stereo, [music] a teacher of fact and a teller of tales. I am 512,000 [music] bytes of pure power expandable to 1 full megabyte of internal memory. I am the mighty Motorola 68000 microprocessor, a built-in 3 [music] and 1/2 inch disk drive, and a floating keyboard with 10 function keys and a numeric keypad.

[00:01:03]Versatile, easy-to-use menus and [music] pull-down windows make me adaptable to virtually every goal and aspect of your life at the touch of a button, at the click of a mouse. I am yours to command and control at a price you can afford. I am everything you ever thought possible and impossible in a home computer. And now, >> [music] >> you can be everything that I am.

[00:01:32]I am the Commodore Amiga 500, [music] the ultimate creative computer with graphics so advanced and animation [music] so striking, you won't believe your eyes. My incredible information processing capabilities [music] and state-of-the-art software like Electronic Arts Deluxe Paint II make creating your own high-resolution artwork and graphic design simpler, more rewarding. With NewTek's DigiPaint, choose [music] from a palette of 4,096 vibrant colors, all on screen [music] at once. 16 shades of gray. Create vivid masterpieces complete with simulated lighting and shadows. My mouse is your paintbrush, or expand your artistic [music] horizons with a peripheral drawing tablet like Anakin Research's easel, or [music] with a photo digitizer like NewTek's DigiView. Produce pictures, charts, any precision drawing with breathtaking accuracy [music] and in exacting detail. With Byte by Byte Sculpt 3D, you can add an uncanny new dimension of realism.

[00:02:36]I am ingenious microcomputer aided design with an array of powerful professional design programs like Aegis Draw Plus >> [music] >> and MicroIllusion's Dynamic CAD. In fact, professional architects, engineers, and designers [music] actually use the Amiga to generate designs, schematics, and blueprints.

[00:02:55]Plus, I can literally bring your Amiga creations to life. Aegis Animator and VideoScape 3D and Electronic Arts Deluxe Video are just some of the programs that let you create moving images as simple as stick figures [music] or as complex as detailed professional quality cartoons.

[00:03:14]I am your home art, animation, and design studio. I am beautiful.

[00:03:22]>> [music] >> I am the Commodore Amiga 500, a computer of unique vision, four-voice stereo sound, [music] and unlimited possibilities. The first [music] home computer designed to let you join the revolution in home video and music. I can be linked directly to your VCR via an Amiga RF modulator, letting you record [music] on the video anything your mind is capable of creating or composing. With the simple addition of [music] a Memotec's Imagen, and your center of home video production. This genlock system lets you overlay computer generated images [music] and sounds directly onto any live or pre-recorded videotape source.

[00:04:00]Now, the fun begins.

[00:04:02]With packages [music] like Aegis' Video Titler, Sun Group's TV Text, and JDK Images Pro Video CG-1, [music] you can produce titles, captions, and multi-layered special effects combining [music] computer generated images and 3D animation with any video image to create your own customized video [music] production.

[00:04:20]Go from this to this. Turn your home movies [music] into Hollywood epics.

[00:04:24]Produce your own music videos. Even customize your favorite pre-recorded [music] video cassettes so that this time the gorilla gets the girl. Better still, add a photo [music] digitizer like NewTek's DigiView. With this affordable device in place, I can scan any non-computerized image, a photograph, a document, a drawing, and feed it directly into my memory.

[00:04:46]Once here, you can save it, change it, color it, customize it for use [music] with any of your other Amiga creations.

[00:04:53]With your VCR's freeze frame control, I can even animate frame by frame, letting you produce [music] your own fully animated features. Sound incredible?

[00:05:02]Keep listening. My four-voice, nine-octave stereo sound lets you recreate dozens of musical [music] instruments and sounds. Anything from the tonal clarity of a xylophone to the powerful resonance of a full choir. [music] No matter what your musical background or skill, there's an Amiga music software package suited to your needs.

[00:05:22]Deluxe [music] Music Construction Set and Instant Music from Electronic Arts, Aegis' Sonix, Activision's [music] Music Studio, and MicroIllusion's Music X are scoring hits everywhere.

[00:05:34]And with an optional Mimetic's Musical [music] Instrument Digital Interface firmly in place, you can add electronic synthesizers and other MIDI instruments to your setup. Now, [music] you can compose music the way professional musicians do, fantastically.

[00:05:48]>> [music] >> I can help you score your own video productions, adding an unforgettable dimension of sound, music, and realism to your imagination. [music] I am your total home video and music studio. I am sight [music] and sound.

[00:06:07]I am the Commodore Amiga 500, the ultimate home office computer designed for maximum ease [music] of use. I can do virtually anything you would use an IBM compatible for, only more.

[00:06:20]Even your most routine tasks become faster, easier, [music] more enjoyable with my brilliant color, advanced graphics, and point-and-click mouse control.

[00:06:30]I turn word processing into idea processing.

[00:06:34]I provide true freedom [music] of thought and expression. I help you say what you want to say, the way you want to say it, in words or pictures or both.

[00:06:44]I run [music] powerful word processing programs like WordPerfect, currently the world's best-selling word processing software. And I'm compatible with a full range of dot matrix and laser printers [music] for a wide variety of superior quality outputs. Database management, no problem. Precision Superbase, [music] MicroSystems Organize, Taurus Impacts, and Acquisition, just some of the programs that let me help you put [music] things in their place.

[00:07:14]And both Superbase and Software Visions Microfiche Filer [music] can create dBase files of pictures or photographs. Add an Amiga modem, >> [music] >> and now you're talking to a vast network of other computer users.

[00:07:28]Tap into a variety of Amiga bulletin [music] boards or information retrieval services for quick, easy access to Wall Street stock reports [music] or electronic encyclopedias.

[00:07:38]Download free programs developed by other Amiga users, even play games online.

[00:07:45]But it's desktop publishing that really turns me [music] on. Now it's possible to combine my extensive graphic and information processing [music] features to produce professional quality reports, pamphlets, newsletters, flyers, brochures, any printed communication [music] for business, school, home, or recreation.

[00:08:04]With a desktop publishing [music] package such as Gold Disk's Page Setter, MicroSearch's City Desk, or Brown Wase's Publisher 1000, plus an Amiga compatible dot matrix printer, [music] I can produce amazingly sharp documents and publications.

[00:08:19]Make it an Okimate or HP color printer, and affordable [music] color output is within your grasp. Make it a laser printer, and you've got your own small business [music] at minimal investment.

[00:08:33]I am the Commodore Amiga 500. I am all that [music] you have seen, all that you have heard, all that you have experienced, and more.

[00:08:44]I am the center of the entire family of Commodore [music] Amiga hardware, software, and peripherals, including the Commodore Amiga 2000, the ultimate professional computer.

[00:08:55]I am beautiful.

[00:08:57]I am sight [music] and sound.

[00:09:00]I am productive.

[00:09:02]I am enlightening.

[00:09:04]I am fun. And now, you can be everything [music] that I am.

[00:09:10]Only Amiga makes it possible.

[00:09:13]Only Amiga makes it possible.

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