Amiga was soooo waaaaay ahead of its time. Amiga was in the space-age, when PC was in the stoneage. True multitasking back in the 80s & 90s, 3 separate chips for gfx, audio & video. I wish Amiga had taken themselves more seriously, instead of positioning themselves as a game machine. I LOVE Amiga ♥️♥️♥️
That’s why I’m really interested in the US market of the Amiga. Here in Australia, just like the UK, the Amiga was most definitely a games machine that happened to also do other things. In the US, it seems like the Amiga was a productivity computer which happened to also have some great games. Case in point, compare Amiga Format (or any of the many UK Amiga magazines) with AmigaWorld. The later was similar to Mac World or PC World.
What's also funny about this is that before the Commodore buyout, Amiga spoke with Steve Jobs about a deal but were told that it had too many chips. But SJ then did the NeXT which was a chip heavy system in excess of the Amiga.
As much as I love all 80s computers, including the Amiga, I have to say that "better" is in the eye of the user. The Macintosh most definitely had it's place. It had a very sharp monochrome screen and a brilliant laser printer. Matched with a hard drive and some hard hitting commercial software of the time (e.g. Pagemaker, Microsoft Word, Excel etc) and it was a very compelling business computer of the day. Yes it's sad to see that the Mac made it into the present day and the Amiga didn't, but the Amiga's demise has much more to do with the success of the PC clones than it does with Apple.
Every now and then I stumble upon a comment like this and I'm like "what is he talking about, Amiga was a huge success..." But that was in Europe, did they actually fail in America? It's hard to believe, they even targeted it to the right customers - the artists... Even for a fair price.
hes talking about commodore's bankruptcy and how different the computer industry would be like without the cold and corrupt feeling of windows 10 and if the amiga brand were still around well into the 21st century
@@MilanPokorny Having lived in America for 18 years I think the issue is ppl like choice, as long as it's not too different from everything else. There is only a small minority of ppl who want to try something different, and in this case Apple already had them. I miss good bacon, cheese, sausages, pies and cheese and onion chips (crisps) :-(
Amiga 1000 and 500 were a success, So what you on about?? The company went bankrupt yes but over some stupid stuff, But their first few machines sold millions and were a success sooo
Yes...very sad. To those commenters here that say "it was a success,' that may be true on some level but on the other hand we still have the PC, Windows, and Mac, but no Amiga for a long time now. There are many reasons why the Amiga eventually failed, but one thing to learn from it is that having a better mouse trap will not always win the game.
This IS Magic since,BUT sadly THESE public were not got into the Magic like Steve did it to them. Sigh....Ahead Of Its Time. May the Force forever be With You;my First Girlfriend in 1986, I Will Never Forget You!!! It could have been,THE WAY.
The guy on stage talking to the audience about the Amiga has the same style as modern day Tech guys intruducing new products today in 2018!!!!! so this type of stage performance hasn't really changed
@@chicapercebe You also have other solutions like the SIDI FPGA which for less than 100€, it will give you the feeling of having a real Amiga. I have opted for this option and do not regret it.
Well amiga os was clearly heavily derivative of mac os and Xerox before it. The two os that had most enduring influence toward what we use now, other than windows, were macos and riscos.
15:47 see guys Kinect smoke and mirrors done at launch even back in 1989. Holy cow 12:40 Andy Warhol was a tech enthusiast !!!! look him go on Paint ! with Debbie Harry
@@fstltna2 is not an official Amiga in retail shop that can comptete with modern Pc. We want a new Amiga with a competititve price with a new Arm cpu. Lorraine was created only in 4 years from project to market, why is not possible today??? Arm board is ready low cost. We need visionaire managers, is not a money problem, is a managers problem.
Yes, I thought exactly that. When they played that first orchestra piece with the marimba, I thought they would reveal that it was actually the Amiga we were hearing,
So, if the Amiga was a superior computer to the Apple Macintosh, released about a year and a half earlier, what killed it? The name "Commodore"? To me, "Commodore" Amiga is as if K-Tel Records decided to compete with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab by producing half speed mastered records. The product is there, but the company behind it... cringeworthy.
Yeah Commodore was a mess for sure. The real issue is it was too advanced and that confused people. It was like 10 years ahead of it's time. I grew up during this. Just imagine, well he shows Lotus 1-2-3. That's what computers looked like they were all text based. So we all used IBM, C64 or Apple II computers, etc. Now you have a computer with a GUI, mutli channel audio, 4096 colors capable of multitasking? As a kid I was floored and used an Amiga 500 then later a 1200 for years. But no one really knew what to do with it. Is it a game machine? Business machine? Graphics or sound machine? The answer is it was all of those but people just didn't get it and Commodore could never market it right.
Not at the time. Commodore Vic20 and Commodore 64 computers were great and exciting computers for the time. The Commodore name was not poison. There are many factors that killed the Amiga. Commodore mismanagement was one. Commodore infighting was another. Commodore floundering was another. One major problem was the hacker/piracy market. Amiga's advanced feature set appealed to a programmer/DIY demographic. Such people were good hacker, good at pirating software. That hurt the 3rd party software market, which decreased the dev of software for Amiga, which hurt the platform. There are many reasons, No way to state it in just a few sentences.
@@TheLarryBrown The Vic20 and the C64 were colossal successes and generated wild profits, however, many times this is the worst thing that can happen to people or companies becase they are no longer "hungry" - They lost "The eye of the tiger", and then fail to produce something that would answer the demands of a changing market. They were building computers, not tires or light bulbs. Like Apple with the Apple II, Commodore got too comfortable and didn't envision the future correctly. They didn't see for to adopt expandability (slots), and intercommunication protocols so that machines from different manufacturers could talk to each other, except via a BBS. Granted, no one had a crystal ball, but there should have been a better effort. In the end Commodore just became another PC Clone manufacturer.
Two things killed it. First, the chairman of Commodore stupidly fired Jack Tramiel, the founder of the company, who was behind its success. Stupidest firing since Steve Jobs. Tramiel went on to buy Atari and Commodore got stuck competing with Atari for most of its remaining life, meaning they couldn’t ever get big enough to take on Apple. Second, Commodore management was incompetent. The one strong manager they had, Thomas Rattigan, saved the company by launching the Amiga model that sold most units - the 500. Then he was fired a couple months later. They coasted for years on that model while investing almost nothing on R&D. The new model 1200 they launched to replace it didn’t come until six years later, and wasn’t a big enough improvement. Commodore management allowed its advantage to be squandered and by the 1990s, PCs had better graphics and sound capabilities.
