Lover of Retro Technology, I explore the world of old systems, events and retro video games. From reviews, modding guides to Dj mixes using old technology. One of the oldest Retro channels on youtube I have been focusing on technology since the days when nobody was talking about it.
Commodore Amiga is my main passion and the main content of this channel. Since I was a kid I cannot put the Amiga down and love seeing the recent resurgence. I am a writer for the now Commercial Amiga Magazine, Amiga Addict. Founder and co-host of The Retro Hour Podcast and Founding member of the Uk's Video Game heritage society.
This channel is all about being informed and educated in a chilled and non hype way. Hacking, modify and messing about with technology is so much fun and there is always something new and excited to discuss. Check out some of the Playlists of interviews and events around the world. I have filmed in Germany, Netherlands, America and the UK and aim to bring more!
The Amiga 500 was my first computer. The Amiga 600 was my second. The A600 wasn't bad but outdated. I got it on sale for $175 with built in Hard Drive. I should have kept it but left it at my sister's house when I went overseas, and she threw it out later. What a shame. Wish I would have put it in my suitcase and kept it.
I love my commodore computers..c64c and amiga500 but there was no way commodore would of kept up with windows pc progression...the writing was on the wall for the amiga in the mid 90s.
Commodore wasted too much money on unsuccessful projects like the C64GS, CDTV, Amiga 500 plus and 600... So at a certain point they just didn't have enough money to keep themselves alive. And still, they discontinued the classic Amiga 500 while still producing the Commodore 64 untill the end. And in the early 80s, the CBM2 line was a big waste of money also, not to mention the badly marketed 264 line. The company has never been very profitable even when they had a big market share. I wish they had invested more on research... They needed a in house 16 bit and 32 bit CPU, an improved version of SID with more channels that could be used on Amigas also as a support to Paula. That way, we could have more music in games without using to much memory... But hey, things went this way, complaints are useless now.
People always seem to get AmigaOS XL wrong. AmigaOS XL was UAE running on top of the QNX Realtime Operating System. Amithlon was Bernd Meyer's project that ran a custom linux kernel and needed specific hardware as that was the only hardware that Bernd had written drivers for. There are updated versions of the kernel with more drivers available but they need Amiga-Side driver support using OpenPCI and other such projects. AmigaOS XL sacrifices speed for hardware compatibility, Amithlon does the reverse. It just so happens that the AmigaOS XL Release CD came with both AmigaOS XL and Amithlon on it, people don't do their due diligence when describing this on youtube, the version of Amithlon released alongside AmigaOS XL has a wallpaper that says AmigaOS XL and the AmigaOS XL CD boots into Amithlon. There's more work required to get AmigaOS XL itself running. AmigaOS XL - www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/emulators/amigaosxl.html Amithlon - www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/emulators/amithlon.html
I remember the CD32 was based on the Amiga 1200. Before thinking of a CD64 I think Commodore should have equipped both machines with at least 8 MB of Fast-RAM first and a full version of the 68020 CPU right from the start. Some Fast-Ram really speeds up the CPU, because it has exclusive access to it, no need to share small and slow 2 MB graphics RAM (Chip-Ram) with the custom chips.
I loved my Amigas, but ultimately it died because pcs overpowered them with cheap graphics, sound, CPU, memory, and upgradability, combined with a “good enough” version oh Windows with memory management. The Amiga’s only hope was to exploit its integrated operating system into a Mac-like alternative, but Apple already owned that niche…when Apple declined in the nineties, Amiga had a chance, but it was too weak at that time to contest the niche. And then it needed to adapt to DVDs and the internet….by which time Amiga was defunct.
The rise -- and specifically fall -- of Commodore is a lot more nuanced and multidimensional than the typical narratives discussed in RU-vid videos and presented by any one individual, insider or outsider. I would encourage those trying to understand what happened to read multiple perspectives from multiple Commodorians and analysts, Brian Bagnal's book series, Dave McMurtrie's interviews, David Pleasance's books, and the perspectives of those who were actually there, not people regurgitating Wikipedia articles or bits and scraps they found on the Internet for their retrogaming hobbies.
Great explanation/demonstration. Thank you for sharing the knowledge 🤗 Never heard of this until recently, and only just before this about reel to reel mixing! I stayed DJing with a tape cassette on one side and a portable cd player on the other when i was 14, then in the same year saved a couple of hundred quid and got me done twin tray cd decks, and the rest is history! Long in the tooth now and still learning about new/old ways to mix. Every day is a school day, as they say...
And today its a Year 2024, People still run Amiga Machines, Some in FPGA, Some in emulators, Some on real or reproduction hardware. I have just finished building Denise board based machine - Equivalent to 500+ with 2 zorro slots and improved circuitry. Amiga Became Immortal, naturally it had to die first.
My Amiga days really were the greatest, the graphics, the music and some truly incredible games. I was an indy 500 and f1gp junkie. For me personally it was the golden age.
1988 to 1994. AAA That's basically the entire lifespan of developing a chip.. Usually you'd develop chips for a purpose, not for 20 years because you don't have a market for it yet.. Even Apple doesn't think that far ahead.. That's a long time only to see it failed. It probably may not have help Commodore out of bankruptcy, but if they didn't start the AAA chip then they may of had a better chance ??
Hombre wasn't PowerPC since it's Commodore's custom PA-RISC-based with 3D extensions and Hitachi PA-RISC CPU implementation. Hombre would be similar to Rendition Verite V1000 with MIPS CPU-based instruction set with 3D extensions.
I feel like people tend to look down on anything "old" @39:20. But the reality is that they have more soul and passion when compared in todays' souless and cold, shareholder ensh itification era.
Scala was years ahead of the competition. I was doing digital signage way back in in early 90s using scala infochannel on amiga computers(it could even do full motion video using MPEG cards and it could push updates to clients using 28k8 dial in modems) and I recently started looking at options that are available nowadays. As far as I can see nothing even comes closes to the simple yet very effective interface scale used to have.
Superb video! Is it still relevant for 2024? (Any thoughts on a version for this year?). The worst thing I ever did was throw out my towered Amiga to make some room in the attic 😥 I really regret being so stupid 😔 Liked and subbed 👍🏻
