Amiga 2000 HD Professional Demonstration Video

[@danyoutube7491]

This presenter was very good, he has a very clear and engaging voice, perfect for educational and training videos.

[@BobRooney290]

his coifsealed the deal. the one parted to the right. not my right, your left.

[@TheGuruMeditation]

This is an awesome piece of history. Thanks for sharing it Shawn!

[@tomincanada]

It was a total baller move in 1990 to wear a jacket with a workbench floppy in the inside pocket.

[@j2simpso]

More like a Ballmer move! Am I rite?! 🤣

[@pookiewookie7679]

Lol

[@0326Hambone]

Thats what I was gonna say! You know he did that on purpose lol

[@Alianger]

11:17 the move of kings

[@steamrangercomputing]

In 1990 it was manditory to wear full business attire while using a "CPU".

[@StormWaltz73]

Thank you. I think one of my favorite parts was near the end as the video was showing the shelves of a software store fully stocked with classic games. I really miss those days.

[@miked4377]

those days were great!

[@mesutozil298]

Thank you for uploading... makes me want to time travel ... life was better

[@ChrisEdwardsRestoration]

its hard to believe i purchase mine new in dec 1991 and still own it. just did a restoration on my own chan. thanks for sharing this great video, it shows how basic tasks were major back then,.

[@tahustvedt]

Who else here is rewatching this now in 1995?

[@justsurfin5013]

WOW, definitely feels like the target audience for this are C-Suite folks. I really don't believe people back in the day were confused by printer ports (I.E. Parallel ports), or how to plug in a power cable. Now that he started talking about Workbench, I remember changing my pointer to be a sword using the Icon Edit program. Did anyone else customize their pointer? While as an experienced Amiga and PC user from back in the day I can pick on the early parts of this...but this is actually a really good and detailed demo. I could see new Amiga users getting use out of this

[@sandrodellisanti1139]

My First Amiga was a A 500 in late 1989..using for Tracker Music and gfx :)

[@Zontar82]

in retrospective, it was very well done, it was suitable even for a noob, and explained the basics in details

[@GJ67]

WOW!!! I can’t wait for my new Amiga 2000, it’ll be so much fun. 🤣

[@william2william]

The video thumbnail made me think of Phil Hartman

[@derpythecate6842]

Boy am I glad that HDMI exists, the number of audio cables as well as the bulky vga cable, haven't seen that mess in a decade!

[@psour33]

I still have my Amiga 1000 🙂

[@putter9198]

This was nostalgic!! thanks for sharing this!!!

[@ClassicGamerB]

I also keep my Workbench 1.3 floppy disk in my jacket pocket

[@BlackArroToons]

My original mouse eventually wore out but thankfully there are replacement mice out there for the Amiga 2000.

[@serpentza]

Did dudebro just initialize his workbench disk?

[@richardsibley1732]

My god this took me back, AMIGA 2000 was my first PC, I forgot how clunky the graphics were. I increased the internal RAM to 4meg and thought it was the dogs b*****ks. Oh yes and a dotmatrix printer.

[@anwerabdallah569]

at that time it was amazing

[@mk3interstate]

omg!!!!! i forgot so much.

[@VivianDanger]

I literally grew up with one of these in my home. I remember the internet in the late 80s. God damn it I am old... also, how did you FIND THIS!!!!!>????? I love you

[@VivianDanger]

We started with a Commodore 64... yeahhhh

[@mr_wildschwein]

Internet in the late 80s? you had No Internet until the early 90s

[@pookiewookie7679]

@@mr_wildschwein no there was internet in the 80s

[@tookitogo]

@@mr_wildschwein Well, there technically was, but there was no web yet, and there were no commercial ISPs. The early internet was used by universities, government, defense, and other research institutions. Public access began in 1991.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@tookitogo Bulletin boards began way before the 90s though. Modems were commercially available for home micros. I'm not speaking from personal experience (nobody in my household was 'surfing the information superhighway' before 2006) but from reading magazines and seeing retro KZbin videos.

[@steamrangercomputing]

Sure it's midnight and I have work tommorrow, but I really want to watch a guide for my 30 year old computer that I already know how to use.

[@NaeMuckle]

Looks like a Darma project video

[@sideburn]

35:42 - Action!

[@RonaldoGazel]

This is sooo cool

[@Fiilis1]

Wait what... I never knew Amiga had trashcan before windows. Woah.

[@OffTheBeatenPath_]

And xerox before that....Xerox Star 8010 in 1981. Not sure if the Alto had it even earlier?

[@madigorfkgoogle9349]

Actually every computer with GUI had the trashcan before windows.

[@danyoutube7491]

As far as a mouse driven GUI goes, the Amiga (and all others, as madigorf said) had everything before Windows. It also had multi-tasking 10 years before Windows.

[@puschelhornchen9484]

Why couldn't they find sheets for the background which look clean? ^_^

[@aleben6009]

The future of actual computers.

[@Great-Documentaries]

Not in 1991 when this video was produced! This was an old 16-bit machine in a 32-bit world that was already being forgotten!

[@danyoutube7491]

@@Great-Documentaries It was only 4 years old in 1991 when the video (according to the note under it) was produced. Although it is true that the 68000 CPU inside the A2000 was mainly 16 bit (the 68020, released in 1984, was fully 32 bit), that isn't really relevant to Ale's comment. In terms of the functionality of the computer and the user experience, the Amiga was still very modern at that time.

[@mr_wildschwein]

Amiga was ahead of its time they even showed how one can Copy disks... 😏 pircacy was born

[@danyoutube7491]

:) Unfortunately it was already thriving by that time! But it was important for floppy disks, because there was a danger of disks getting corrupted through use, so it was standard practice upon buying any software to make a copy that you would use on a daily basis while the original sat safely in a box, needed only if your copy failed at some point.

[@chrisb9360]

If you watch the video at half speed, it sounds like Vincent Price is presenting it!

[@Dinosword2000]

What he refers to as the CPU is actually the hard disk. Jokes aside, great video! :)

[@oubrioko]

People have been mistaking the system unit for the 'CPU' and the 'hard disk' since the 1980s.

[@tahustvedt]

"Plug the TV into the hard disk"

[@Great-Documentaries]

What the hell are you talking about? No one made the mistake back then, and he didn't here! There is NO hard disk inside his Amiga 2000! And yes, they did refer to the whole PC as the CPU back then. Nothing wrong with that. Sheesh. Don't comment if you have no clue!

[@Dinosword2000]

​@@Great-Documentaries The "don't comment if you have no clue" part put me in defensive mode, and I wrote an insulting reply. Then I got to my senses; I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but the boomer generation refers to the PC/Amiga case as "the hard disk" and I made a joke about that - on behalf of myself. I DID add "jokes aside". The video is fantastic, btw! :)

[@madigorfkgoogle9349]

Have you turned the computer on? *Yes, but nothing happens...* Ok, let me see... *You see, I pressed this big button on bottom of the "TV" to turn the computer on, the bulb is green but it doesnt work.* Ok, so you turned on the monitor, why dont you turn on the computer for a change, like this... *Oh, so I do have to turn on the hard disk as well, I didnt want to store any data, so I thought I dont need the hard disk....?* "BTW this is true story I lived many times doing IT support in a factory trough 90s" @Sean Mondout: I hope this explains what others here are telling, same experience.

[@mr_wildschwein]

"Peripherals"... I have never heard of that 😱

[@danyoutube7491]

Yep, that was the standard term for devices like printers or scanners that you would plug into the computer.

[@flappospammo]

Mac OS still wiped the floor with it in 87

[@AmigaA-or2hj]

Only Amiga makes it possible.

[@EZO.FUZZ.IS.OFFLINE]

Nobody: Set dressers in the 80s: *B I I I G C L O T H*

[@netcreature]

Thanks for posting this. I was wondering about the "Amiga 2000HD Professional" guide and software that I have as I've never looked at it. Was this package included with the Amiga 2000HD? I ask because I have a very complete & boxed 2000HD as well as this software package and am curious if they go together.

[@ShawnTewes]

I'm not entirely sure, but I believe this video was bundled along with a software package by Gold Disk. I don't recall whether it came bundled with the A2000 or if it was purchased seperately by the original owner.

[@netcreature]

@@ShawnTewes Thanks. I was hoping someone might know, but it's been a long time :) I'm guessing it's on VHS.

[@jamesgravil9162]

9:50 "Initialise" a disc? Doesn't he mean _format?_

[@tookitogo]

No. Many operating systems other than Windows referred to “initializing” a disk, in part because not all disks actually use low-level formatting (i.e. it’s permanently done at the factory). It’s basically observing a distinction between formatting (laying down physical tracks and sectors) and initializing (writing a file system onto a disk that has been formatted).

[@NicolaiSyvertsen]

The face of the person that followed this and realized they couldn't make as long song with that few mouse clicks.

[@cygil1]

Like the man said, this tutorial is in video time, not real time.

[@cugal1613]

Doom!

[@rickybe]

Gutted your Stardust-Rick Astley Video got taken down. Can i get a copy of the track anywhere?

[@Bandit_Senka]

Тяжело поверить что большая часть функционала оффисных программ, не менялась с тех лет

[@FlexxVision]

I have too one , with AT Card 286 and an quantum 5/4° Drive with 10 MB has cost with VGA Flicker 8000 DM lol .. he wont start anymore damed..

[@Ramel34]

How much can I sell a great condition Amiga 2000 for if I have all the accessories plus games? I have the monitor, mouse, joystick, Roger Rabbit, Basketball, Shinobi, and a couple more games.

[@SuperVstech]

List it all on eBay, and see. The 2000 isn’t as popular a computer. Fully restored and battery replaced, should be worth 500+ ndividual parts are worth more... if you sell them all...

[@tjlazer71]

Depends if you still have the original battery in and if it's leaked! I would check on this asap and remove it and clean the area thoroughly with vinegar and isopropyl alcohol.

[@rickybe]

Shawn- any chance of a audio only re-upload of your stardust/rick astley video? I miss that

[@ShawnTewes]

Hey Ricky. Well, after fighting with KZbin's editing tools for months to try and trim the video (stuck in processing limbo), as luck would have it, it magically got put back up! The copyright claimant got changed, but the new claim no longer affects the video's visibility. Just incase it goes down again, here's an alternate link. Thanks for the support! vimeo.com/343543103

[@flappospammo]

4 colours , hold me I feel dizzy

[@purefoldnz3070]

everything was called 2000 back then lol

[@BobRooney290]

shyte, i got lost after the part where you double click. what's a double click? are you not supposed to wiggle a screw driver in the floppy drive? how do i rewind the youtube videotape and rewatch that part? And how do i save my Advantage spreadsheet to the screwdriver? crap, it does not work in Excel 365! arghhhh!

[@sideburn]

It’s a WIMP GUI! I know this!

[@jaimeperezdelafuente9521]

It's better the original machine, the Minimig implementation in UnAMIGA haven't the PAL 28'37516Mhz Clock!

[@LILIANOSCOTTO]

Io lo conservo ancora con con scheda 386 e scheda vga

[@davidbell9196]

Io ho un Amiga 500, la usavo negli anni 90, tre anni fa ho provato a riattivarla, ancora funziona però di tanti dischi con giochi (tutte copie), ho notato che alcuni non li legge più, o a fatica... probabilmente nel tempo le informazioni sul floppy si perdono per smagnetizzazione...però é stato un bel salto nel passato anche se non senza malinconica nostalgia... L'ho strausata giocando tantissimo dai 6 ai 13 anni...proprio sfruttata, me la sono goduta 😪... Poi arrivò Playstation1 anche lì grandi ricordi...Peró Amiga sicuramente resta il primo amore.

[@JB_inks]

You don't copy it to your computer's internal memory. No wonder users get confused between memory and hard drive space.

[@tookitogo]

Where exactly do you think the data was held between reading it from the source disk and writing it to the destination? Additionally, they show it having a RAM disk, which is literally using a section of RAM as temporary file storage.

[@madigorfkgoogle9349]

@@tookitogo well, he is probably too young to realize that A2000 didnt have a hard drive.

[@danyoutube7491]

@@madigorfkgoogle9349 He could have paid attention to the presenter who stated at the start of the video that this video guide presumed that the user was using an Amiga without a hard disk :) I expect joyork never used an Amiga and did not know what the RAM disk was.

[@KlausLademann]

Golddisk ? Does it exist?

[@myawen_]

I still call window controls “gadgets”, like a civilized person. Calling everything buttons is too generic. 😅

[@loadinglevelone]

That's one BIG CPU. Lol, fail!

[@tookitogo]

It used to be completely common to refer to the computer itself as the CPU.

[@marcosalexandreandrade6199]

I had one.