PLEASE READ ME! This video demonstrates the desktop-environment and the sound-capabilities of the Amiga-computer. You will see it running an audiotracker-application called (Octa)MED created by Teijo Kinnunen, playing a .mod audio-file (at circa 170 kb) of the song “Macrocosm” composed by Tip & Mantronix (and Firefox?). In 1985, pretty much no other personal computers could handle the type of sound the Amiga could process back in the day, all of this thanks to the infamous sound-chip (Paula) with its sampled high-quality 8-bit stereo-audio at 4 channels. You can download “Macrocosm” (.mod) from this link: modarchive.org INFORMATION: I have just started to record footage of my newly received Commodore Amiga 1000, the first model in the relatively successful line of personal computers which was released back in 1985. It revolutionised the use of pre-emptive multitasking on a 16-bit computer, running at a processor-speed of slightly above 7 Mhz with a couple of extra processor-chips used for handling visuals and sound, a feature unheard of back then. It “lived” between 1985 to 1994 , the year Commodore went down and ceased support for the computer-line. The Amiga-franchise gave birth to many classic computer game-series and greatly innovated in the GUI-development, providing the user with blazing-fast computing years before Windows stole that title… ABOUT MY VIDEOS: The computer in my videos is a fully working beast in an externally nice condition, equipped with an …
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