You Tubular Dude!

I've been listing to this Retro Arcade Radio station again and it has a bunch of Commidore and Amiga commercials on it, as well as Atari, TRS80, etc, but I was thinking about how the computers I've owned influenced where I work now.

(If you're bored, this link will get you to a bunch of the Commidore commercials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=796KD4SNzwE&mode=related&search= )

So just for fun, (and because I'm doing a bunch of merging and have a little free time this morning) I typed 'Amiga' in on YouTube. Predictably, most of the videos are teen girls making some drivel about their friends.

Surprisingly, a lot of videos are idiots with camera phones showing their Amiga emulations running on various other machines. (Yes, you're a dork AND you don't know how to take decent video)

Then we got to the stuff I was actually looking for. Animations done by amiga fans.

Sorta vaguely in order of watchability with the more watchable ones nearer the top.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=glydlECUOZ0 (Truly the finest Amiga animation ever done)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P4Y8hz-xbzQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G26jkcNyBZg soooo stooooned
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSiYh1qX0A&NR
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sQrsvOPDUdw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8fjXC4HpG-w
http://youtube.com/watch?v=HEqWt7_4l6c
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nvGZinQR-KM&mode=related&search=
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zTtFFjw74H0&mode=related&search=

Bonus: Woo! I really like this 'drag the whole desktop off the screen' thing.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kWmMSPJZprQ

I was always envious of Commidore/Amiga owners. We had a TRS-80 which could do... spreadsheets and text editing and dull stuff like that. It made me what I am but how I would have loved to have played with some of those graphics and sound tools. I wonder how my career might have gone different if I'd actually gotten one.

Anyhow... In later years I came to hate amiga fans because they touch that same nerve as the 'The South Will Rise Again!' sorts. It's dead.

For example: Here's are a bunch of the current Apple Ads with Amiga inserted into them. This is about the best of them as a commercial for OS-4, but it's still bad jump cuts and audio patches that really fail and look sad and pathetic.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xgObNfDhvBI&mode=related&search=
You can view the related ones if you want to see sadder fare.
I need some spare time and a few friends that look vaguely like these characters and a smelly old beardo with a Fedora with pins stuck in it to play the part of Amiga, chugging beer and shouting at them.

And for a hefty dose of the 80s, I bet Amiga fans still wank to this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yckH20ngY4Y

Here's a video of someone touring the Commidore/Amiga plant on the last day before it was shut down. Kinda sad I suppose. They weren't bad machines, even if their commercials were aimed at paranoid yuppies and the people who evangelize them make me want to slap them upside the head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRI7hHwiRxk&NR