Nostalgia: Amiga Computer Chronicles Episodes Online

[jon0x0]

The Internet Archive has 80's episodes of the Computer Chronicles TV show online as full quality MPEG-2 video.

The Amiga appears in several episodes, including one devoted entirely to the Amiga 3000 with a demo of the Video Toaster by Tim Jenison and Paul Montgomery of Newtek.  I was apparently the first one to download it yesterday...

You'll need fat pipes to get them; each >30 minute episode is 1.1 GB!
FroggerNG and AMP should be able to play the MPEG-2..
Otherwise they play well with VLC (amiga port anyone?).

Most of the episodes can be found here:
Computer Chronicles Amiga Episodes

Players:
VLC

FroggerNG
AMP
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Amiga 3000 and Video Toaster demo
Demos of the pioneering multimedia computer

Jeff Berger, Creative Technologies - Midi and Amiga
Tim Bajarin, Creative Strategies
Amiga user's group, Palo Alto CA
William Paicius, First Amiga Users Group
Hedley Davis, Commodore, A3000 and OS 2.0, and AmigaVision Demo

Sam Palahnuk, Disney Software, Disney Animation Studio
John Vernon, Hewlett Packard, technical animations
Lou Wallace, Senior Editor for AmigaWorld Magazine, AmigaVision demo, including animation and laserdisc video integration
Paul Montgomery & Tim Jenison, Newtek. Video Toaster, Lightwave 3D demo
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Amiga and Atari
12/3/1985

How much computer can you get at the bottom end of the market - comparison between the Commodore Amiga and the Atari 520ST.

Guests: Rick Geiger, Commodore; Tim Mott, Electronic Arts; Bryan Kerr, Atari; Jim Tittsler, Atari; Lewis Moore, Home Computing; George Morrow, Morrow Computing; Gary Kildall, Digital Research; Tim Bajarin, Creative Strategies

Products/Demos: Atari 800, Commodore 64, Amiga IBM PC Emulator, Commodore Amiga, Atari 520, STNEO Paint
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Low End Computers
4/8/1985

A consumer's guide to the most popular low-cost home computers.

Guests: Jack Tramiel, Atari; Leonard Tramiel, Atari; Frank Leonardi, Commodore; Gary Kildall, Digital Research

Products/Demos: Commodore Laptop, Commodore 128, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST 512
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Slowdown in Silicon Valley #2
9/10/1985

Part two of this special series looking at the causes of the downturn in the computer industry.

Guests: Ben Anixter, AMD; Richard O'Brien, Hewlett Packard; Trip Hawkins, Electronic Arts; John Merson, Ashton-Tate; Gary Kildall, Digital Research

Products/Demos: Commodore Amiga, Atari ST 520
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MIDI Music
10/3/1986
Computers and music, MIDI machines and interfaces, and music composition software.

Guests: Chris French, Music Software; Bob Moore, Hybrid Arts; David Schwartz, Compusonics; Chris Potter, Mimetics; Curtis Sasaki, Apple; Gary Kildall, Digital Research; Gary Leuenberger, Midi Revolution

Products/Demos: Casio SK-1 Synthesizer, Atari ST, Activision's Music Studio, ADAP Sampler, DSP-1000, Apple II GS, Ensoniq Sound Chip, Soundscape, Commodore AmigaEZ Track, Kidnotes

[bloodline]

The Episodes I'm interestd in are over 1 Gig!!!! I'm going to be able to dl that in a million years...
 hmmm maybe about 5 days...

[Hooligan_DCS]

Noticed that too... will take me 6 hours or so.. so that I will download tomorrow.

[Kees]

Downing it now ... Its not going past  22k a sec.  :-(

[amigamad]

Im going to download them 1 gig is a pain to backup to cdr though

[Beakster]

I'm getting all kinds of problems on their site just now with page not founds. Have to keep hitting refresh.

Also 1 GB is ok for 1 video, but I want to see them all.

Maybe we could email them and get have the Amiga ones put in a 300k streaming server.

[aMIGA_dUDE]

I can not log in to site, (being satalight internet connection is pain).  

If could find out e-mail address I would surject to them to convert it to DivX, say 30 mins = about 230m files.  That would look just fine.

[Psy]

1 gig for 1/2 an hour???

WTF? why the such high quality?  why not closer to 600 meg so an ep can fit on a SVCD? and so it doesn't take for ever to download them.  It is Computer Chronicles  I don't think too many people are going to care if it a is a blury on a big screen.

[MrZammler]

Should have the A3000 episode in about 20 h...

Damn.

[jon0x0]

Have watched the Amiga vs. Atari one now.. the first Amiga demo on the show.  
It has the host and Gary Kildall (creator of CP/M) watching in stunned silence as Commodore execs show the boing ball demo and simultaneous workbench multitasking.

Later, Atari execs counter with their own boing ball demo..
Everything is amusingly dated.. this stuff is almost 18 years old..

[bloodline]

Later, Atari execs counter with their own boing ball demo..

I want to see it!?!!? but it's just too big to download!?!?!?

[HopperJF]

If you can play MPEG 4 files its fine, they are typically around 75Mb