Meanwhile....on the Amiga

[Dronecatcher]

Quite incredible that whilst PowerPC no longer has a dedicated, working Youtube app, AmiTube is providing the goods even on a 14Mhz 68020 powered A1200!

AmiTube allows you to search Youtube, then the video is quickly transcoded into whatever format your Amiga is equipped to play.

My Amigas are long gone so I tried it out in WinUAE....

 

[Lastic]

I've been following this YT channel https://www.youtube.com/c/MichalBergseth-AmitopiaTV/videos

Currently I'm modding the heck out of my Atari STe trying to get it 19Kbaud Wifi over serial TCP/IP using STing.

Should really get around to build a plipbox to have network on my A500 also then I could give it a try.

 

[Lastic]

Nevermind minimum Requirements 68000 Version: 68000 OS3.0 8MB RAM MUI 3.8

I'm running Kickstart 1.something on my A500, OS and ROM upgrades are not yet planned on any of my 16bit machines.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Nevermind minimum Requirements 68000 Version: 68000 OS3.0 8MB RAM MUI 3.8

I'm running Kickstart 1.something on my A500, OS and ROM upgrades are not yet planned on any of my 16bit machines.

I always found the A500 a bit primitive - no easy expansion, whereas the A600 and A1200 had an easy HDD upgrade path and a PCMCIA port.

I don't miss the hardware and config woes though - it's nice to have endless variations within an emulator.

 

[Amethyst1]

I always found the A500 a bit primitive -

Wasn’t it the low-end gateway drug?

 

[B S Magnet]

Quite incredible that whilst PowerPC no longer has a dedicated, working Youtube app, AmiTube is providing the goods even on a 14Mhz 68020 powered A1200!

AmiTube allows you to search Youtube, then the video is quickly transcoded into whatever format your Amiga is equipped to play.

My Amigas are long gone so I tried it out in WinUAE....

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Hey Dronecatcher? You’re the voice, try and understand it.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Hey Dronecatcher? You’re the voice, try and understand it.

Eh?

 

[Amethyst1]

Eh?

A reference to John Farnham, visible in your screenshot?

 

[Dronecatcher]

A reference to John Farnham, visible in your screenshot?

I didn't even notice that...and that song is a gruesome memory I'd forgotten had existed until this very moment....

 

[B S Magnet]

I didn't even notice that...and that song is a gruesome memory I'd forgotten had existed until this very moment....

Whenever I can drop in an earworm, I will drop in an earworm.

 

[Bug-Creator]

Dedicated Youtube app??

More of like a super lowres streaming service that does have a backend to Youtube on the server side:


Nice gimmick, just don't expect it to be around for long.

 

[Duncan-UK]

On seeing the first post all I could say was “Aha!”

 

[eyoungren]

Whenever I can drop in an earworm, I will drop in an earworm.

Baby Shark…

 

[B S Magnet]

Baby Shark…

Fortunately, I don’t know how that song goes.

But how about, “don’t put another dime in the jukebox, I don’t wanna hear that song no more…”

Or, “It’s peanut butter jelly tiiiiiime!”

 

[eyoungren]

Fortunately, I don’t know how that song goes.

But how about, “don’t put another dime in the jukebox, I don’t wanna hear that song no more…”

Or, “It’s peanut butter jelly tiiiiiime!”

 

[B S Magnet]

Saved by… the YouTube firewall:

 

[Saturnine]

Hey Dronecatcher? You’re the voice, try and understand it.

We’re not gonna sit in silence!

 

[B S Magnet]

We’re not gonna sit in silence!

WE’RE NOT GONNA LIVE IN FEAR

 

[MysticCow]

Would it work under Morph? Legit curious.

 

[Dronecatcher]

Would it work under Morph? Legit curious.

I think there's a Morphos specific version or maybe it runs natively as some Amiga apps do.

 

[Runequester]

I dont have networking any longer on my 1200, but that's pretty badass.

 

[Macbookprodude]

Will it work on a TI-99 ?

 

[Nermal]

Nice gimmick, just don't expect it to be around for long.

A similar utility for Risc OS, Murnong, has been around for more than a decade. If AmiTube works the same way then it can probably survive too.

 

[Bug-Creator]

If AmiTube works the same way then it can probably survive too.

AFAIK AmiTube relies on a server at the developer to do the heavy lifting.

Even the wget based download tools do require constant maintaince as Youtube changes the format every once in a while.

 

[CooperBox]

Quite incredible that whilst PowerPC no longer has a dedicated, working Youtube app, AmiTube is providing the goods even on a 14Mhz 68020 powered A1200!

AmiTube allows you to search Youtube, then the video is quickly transcoded into whatever format your Amiga is equipped to play.

My Amigas are long gone so I tried it out in WinUAE....

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That workbench screenshot brought back a few vague memories.
My Amiga 500 'low-end gateway drug' (now long gone) certainly provided the daily fix necessary for myself and young son. Very fond memories! I still have a Sinclair ZX81, Spectrum and Oric Atmos packed away somewhere.