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What goes up, must come down... Welcome to the story of the Commodore Amiga. This is part 1 of a 2 part documentary exploring the history and story of the mighty Amiga from its conception through to its buyout by Commodore. This episode deals with the "up" part of the story, and takes place during the 1980s. It charts the conception of the Lorraine machine (that would become the first Commodore Amiga), the early years and team spent working on the machine, the buyout of Atari followed by Commodore, the launch of the original Commodore Amiga machine (later renamed the Amiga 1000) and the subsequent Amiga 2000 and Amiga 500 machines which conclude before 1989 is out. In the second part, we'll look at the 1990s, when the Amiga peaked and then fell to its regrettable demise.
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Some of the research resources used for this video;
www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewt...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_K...
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Toro
www.amigahistory.plus.com/ahis...
www.retrocomputacion.net/yabbf...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/0...
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arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/0... - Copper Chip Information
www.retrocomputacion.net/yabbf... - Page 6 Custom Chip information
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuiti...)
www.amigahistory.plus.com/caos...
www.amigahistory.plus.com/trip...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/1...
www.amigahistory.plus.com/a200...
www.amigahistory.plus.com/a500...
cloanto.com/amiga/roms/help/m... - ROM Bits (A1000) WCS RAM, etc (ALL MACHINES)
Jay Interview - www.amigahistory.plus.com/comm...
www.amigahistory.plus.com/b52b... - B52 - Motherboards
Unseen Perspectives (Larry Kaplan Photo) - the-futurist.blogspot.co.uk/20...
www.amigahistory.plus.com/comm... - Amiga team photos
www.cbmitapages.it/foto/person... - Further team information
www.filfre.net/2015/03/ - Bouncing ball resource
Other Resources:
Amiga 3D renders used with permission by www.flickr.com/photos/tommesk...
• MESS WIP: Booting the ... - Amiga 1000 (CC) Footage
• History of the Commodo... - Commodore Amiga Documentary (PixelThing)
archive.org/details/amigaform... - Amiga Format Archive
• Commodore Amiga Boing ... - Amiga Boing Zen (The Guru Meditation)
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@RayTech70 5 лет назад

The story of Amiga is both amazing and sad at the same time. It was a TRUE personal computer. Owners loved and used it. The days of the Amiga are burned in my mind.

@animatewithdermot Год назад

It was clear that the engineers put a lot of themselves in the machine, the signatures and paw print inside the 1000 - I remember reading about that years ago.

@general8284 6 месяцев назад

Yes and no. It was sad at the time, but ask the best developers and engineers were always going to end up in the same place regardless of the banner. At the end of the day we would have had the Amiga MacBook or Amiga series X.

@Aerojet01 2 месяца назад

The Amiga blow my mind. Some of the things you could do on it was revolutionary for its time and it left its mark in computer history. Everything in life has a beginning and end. Yes, the developers had fun making it. However, people keep it alive by making new software for it.

@jean_mollycutpurse_winchester 6 лет назад

I used an A500 to make the video animation graphics for the film, Murder by Moonlight (TV Movie 1989 with Brigitte Nielsen) Great machine.

@flavorfulsoups 4 года назад

Really?? What’s your name, that sounds really cool.

@daveholden2711 4 года назад

I used my A500 and ribbon color printer to write a report for college speculating on the concept of a computer-based film editing program. I made a mockup screen-shot in Amiga's paint program, and included it in my report. That summer I was at SMTPE, and saw Avid 1.1 running on an Apple 640AV with TWO(!) 500MB(!) hard drives. Seems they had my idea long before I did...

@theadventuresofoldmort1746 3 года назад

Prove it.

@nebularain3338 3 года назад

@@theadventuresofoldmort1746 disprove it.

@theadventuresofoldmort1746 3 года назад

@@nebularain3338 nah, it's fine. I'm happy to not believe it until evidence is provided. Thanks.

@MrSEA-ok2ll 5 лет назад

Migrating from an Atari 130xe in 1988, I purchased an Atari STFM with colour monitor for $1000. 3 months later I saw a friend's loaded Amiga 1000 running Hybris and two weeks later I was flat broke, but now owned an Amiga 500 with the trap door ram expansion...fond memories.

@TheJeremyHolloway 4 года назад

I hope you hooked up your Amiga 500 and Atari ST via null modem cable and played Falcon and Lotus head-to-head.

@sasakalak4681 4 года назад

ah, my beloved amiga 500. I still have it in storage room, I can`t throw her away, not after those happy years spent with her in childhood

@doctormobius5 Год назад

How much for the Amiga?

@datacipher 3 года назад

One of the great tech ironies of the time is that the Amiga was supposed to be an Atari with Atari (jay miner) DNA. The Atari St was really a Commodore (Tramiel) creation. What a twist.

@TexasCat99 2 года назад

The ST was always sort of garbage. When they lost the amiga technology to commodore. They quickly through together off-the-shelf hardware parts. Then bolted on a clone of MS-DOS with a clone of the Mac OS wrapped around it. Atari was more all over the place then commodore. Amiga died because of commodore stupidity.

@conradojavier7547 Год назад

It felt more like a Battle between Jack Tramiel vs the Company he created.

@pianowhizz 2 месяца назад

Commodore had the better logo - and better hardware … Atari had a great run with the 2600 (30 million units sold) - but it was all down hill from there! Atari = 1970s King (7 year reign) Commodore = 1980s King (7 year reign) PC = April 1994 to 2020 King (26 year reign) M1 Apple = 2020 onwards King!

@supercellex4D Месяц назад

@@pianowhizz I wouldn't call a decicive victory to M1 yet, I see a fierce 3-way war starting up though. Think UNIX wars

@alex_smale 4 года назад

That Batman pack was what got me into the Amiga when I was like 12. And thanks to Deluxe Paint being included, I went on to be a graphics artist in the games industry for ten years.

@bluespartan076 2 года назад

what did you do?

@comatose3788 Год назад

Deluxe Paint was great. I found a free paint set that kind of follows the style of Deluxe Paint called: Ultimate paint.

@Michael500ca 7 лет назад

I have an Amiga 500 beside me right now. Still works and got it at a garage sale for $10 a decade ago. Nice piece of history to go along with my Apple //c that I got new in 1985 (my first computer) that also still works, for the most part, needs a new internal disk drive and keyboard. The history of these machines is so interesting. Thank you for uploading.

@rebelrailz. 5 лет назад

I also have an Amiga near me, but of a different type. It is an Amiga 1000, made in October of 1985. It's my father's friend's old computer. It has a couple of issues as well as it being a bit yellow, and hopefully we'll fix it soon!

@Daemonarch2k6 3 года назад

Nice thing is, you can upgrade the Amiga 500 today with an sd-card reader easily, and use an raspberry zero connected to the DENISE for hdmi-output

@lurkerrekrul 7 лет назад

The story of the Amiga is sad. It's like Commodore went out of its way to see that it didn't succeed. Instead of letting people decide what they wanted to use it for, they tried to force people to accept it as a business machine, shunning games, even though games were a huge part of what people wanted computers for. Almost no advertising in the U.S., no mass distribution, killing off promising new projects, firing people who were actually improving things. They shot themselves in the foot so many times it's a wonder that any of the executives could still walk.

@theseob 7 лет назад

lurkerrekrul It's not a bad story over here in Europe, where homecomputers had a better foothold then consoles. The Amiga did pretty well here in the Netherlands. Where i live there where more people using a Amiga then a ST. But the market of the IBM pc was gaining momentum. But in those early a500 years, it sold pretty good. Also in Germany and the UK the Amiga sold pretty good. Although i never owned a Amiga back in the day, we had a pc, i still have fond memories of the machine. Because friends of mine had them, and i spend hours upon hours playing games with them on the Amiga.

@Foebane72 7 лет назад

What do you expect?? The company was called CBM, or Commodore BUSINESS Machines.

@mjnurney 7 лет назад

Foebane72 Commodore tried to crack the U.S market but by 85,86 the IBM PC had the business market sewn up and cheaper computers were in the home. The Amiga had nowhere to go in this time frame. Commodore were also losing millions in 1985/86 and advertising wasn't selling the Amiga in anything like the numbers they needed. Eventually the A500 and 2000 sold in huge numbers but not in America. Europe was another story.

@Foebane72 7 лет назад

mjnurney I'm just saying that Irving Gould and all the other head honchos at Commodore were business-minded, reflected in the official company name. They weren't about to entertain the notion of games for the Amiga. It's like they decided that the C64 was the company's leisure machine. Sad, really.

@mjnurney 7 лет назад

Foebane72 I agree completely my friend, while the Amiga is a sad story in America. Commodore UK made some fantastic business decisions and the Amiga sold well, very well. Gould should not of had the backing of the board at this time but he did. Falling sales should of ousted him...

@ibitato 6 лет назад

This level of production value is amazing. You deserve much more visibility on the Internet.

@doorshotel 3 года назад

Mate, the Amiga 500 is what started my love of gaming! Thank you so much for this documentary.

@andrewwillard2313 7 лет назад

Maybe I am jaded but there is still a part of me that believes that had it been managed better we might all be using Amiga compatibles today.

@joshuaausel4549 7 лет назад

I agree, or at least some new commodore computer. AMIGA Lives Forever!

@rustcohle3803 6 лет назад

Amiga lives on within our hearts, and our basements

@wclifton968gameplaystutorials 5 лет назад

when the amiga left the market, a few years later a new OS was launched called BeOS which did all of what AmigaOS could do but also do it better and do more but the hardware it shipped failed in the market and Microsoft didnt want PC manufacturers to make hardware running BeOS so it dissapeared with the company being purchased by Palm Technologies for use of BeOS technologies. BeOS is still being developed though but named as HaikuOS which is free and open source. HaikuOS is similar to Linux except its more secure, lesser known, has less programs. BeOS was originally only supported on PowerPC CPUs such as those used on mac and mac clone computers but was later ported to x86 'Wintel' machines

@valleykid6577 5 лет назад

I don't disagree, but I wonder if other external forces, such as GNU might also have had an impact as to where we are today.. On the one side, we have entities like google/android making life horrible, but on the other side offerings like gnusense leveling the field, that said, I have no concept at the time of writing of where people lie... but between you and I... I hope we choose wisely...

@doncarlin9081 5 лет назад

Not jaded at all, you are spot on, it was blatant gross mismanagement from the top that caused Commodore to fail, from poor decisions to being slow to innovate. Seriously, the AGA chipset should have been released at least two years earlier and there should have been a full 24-bit graphics chipset by 1995. And yes Commodore should have licensed out their hardware and OS and allow Amiga clones, including laptops. The Amiga still remains my favorite computer, even over my old old Apple ][, and I still have an Amiga 4000.

@mrclaytron 5 лет назад

I have such fond memories of my many Amigas that I had owned since around 1988 (500, 2000, 600 & 4000). I've never been so passionate about any product or computer as I was for the Amiga - and so many developers managed to squeeze so much out of the hardware, doing some truly amazing things. The Amiga Demo scene was phenomenal. Really great documentary - I really think the Amiga was years ahead of the competition. It's such a shame that Commodore screwed everything so badly. My early teen years were all about the Amiga!

@LemonTubeAmiga 7 лет назад

An impressive collection of insights about my favourite computer! People have no idea how long it takes to put together a show like this, 10s of hours work over many weeks perhaps. I also had a go at trying to unpick the Amiga timeline this year for the LemonAmiga channel, although I only got as far as the launch of the Amiga in 1985 after 4 hours of trying!, and even then, I only just scratched the surface of that whole tangled mess of litigation and piracy. The computer industry really did move at a terrific pace back in those days, and I am impressed at how this video comes over so smoothly and slowly, so that anyone can understand it. (my show will be more like a high speed train!). Keep up the great work!

@BartBVanBockstaele 5 лет назад

Great video. It brings me back to different times. I wrote a lot of software for the Amiga. No games. I stopped programming when Commodore went belly-up. We are decades later now, and I still sorely miss the Amiga. It was often touted as the first real personal computer, I'd argue it was also the last real personal computer.

@chindleymuffin 2 года назад

...with character. It was also the first true multimedia computer with multitasking, a whole decade before PCs were capable of the same thing.

@davidstanden480 3 года назад

I'll never forget the day my buddy Mike, showed me his Amiga. It truly was 'one hell of a magic box'. I immediately started saving up for one. No regrets. Eventually (and stupidly) bought an Amiga 3000 because of the even better and faster graphics.

@vrfan 4 года назад

I still have my Amiga 1000. Incredible computer that was far ahead of its time

@MarkLada 4 года назад

I still have a 500 and a 1000, along with a filing cabinet packed full of games.. My uncle used to copy all the games for me and my brother..

@RasVoja Год назад

@@MarkLada WOW A1000 iconic! Best looking model, A3000 most functional, A4000T and DraCo highest end

@IljaSara 7 лет назад

Documentaries with this level of quality... You should have at least 10 times more subbers. Now I'm one of them.

@Nostalgianerd 7 лет назад

Ilja Sara thanks! Welcome aboard :)

@jedits1988 6 лет назад

I'll bet it doesn't sit well with the USA crowd that didn't have most of these machines. TBH, while I like Lazy Game Reviews, this trumps it!

@rustcohle3803 6 лет назад

you could say this youtuber is not so "Lazy"..... ;)

@fuzzywzhe 4 года назад

I have quite subscribing to users on youtube since youtube has decided to delete my subscriptions and to terminate accounts based on politics. I'm here not because I found it on youtube, but another site directed me here. Fuck google.

@thatboi6821 Год назад

@@Nostalgianerd yo what’s the song for 14:01

@taurusparke 5 лет назад

The sheer time and effort that goes into these videos is mind blowing! Better than most TV docs

@SteveBenway 7 лет назад

I waited a couple of days, so I'd have a spare hour to watch all in one go. Well worth the wait. Thoroughly enjoyable :)

@sevaarutyunov7301 3 года назад

I'm re-watching this video again and again! I just can't get enough of those history pieces!

@RetroMMA 7 лет назад

For such a complicated history, you did very well! Must have been a daunting task trying to figure out the key points to cover and I'm looking forward to the second half.

@MrROTD 7 лет назад

I learned to model and animate in lightwave 3d on an Amiga and Used Deluxepaint for textures, it was suddenly possible to make 3d graphics on a cheap budget

@aaronosborne4906 6 лет назад

Imagine 2.0 from a cover disk for my a1200. I made a lightcycle animation (bike from Tron),Good times, good very looong waiting times between frames :)

@RaymondUpenieks 5 лет назад

@@aaronosborne4906 Started 3D with Turbo Silver (Impulse Software) which then became Imagine. For some strange reason the assumption is that 3D started in 1988 (Because of SoftImage) but for me it was 1987 on Turbo Silver, also later used Caligari trueSpace and then Lightwave (v0.98?) since that required the Video Toaster.

@doncarlin9081 5 лет назад

I got decent using Imagine on my Amiga, though later I used in on my PC.

@yuriwalkiw 7 лет назад

I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into these "story" videos. Awesome to have somebody sharing these important pieces of computing history.

@bilbobaggings 7 лет назад

This is the first of your presentations of past computers that i have had the pleasure to enjoy and i am very pleased to have done so. You encapsulate the enthusiasm through your dialog, that i remember feeling at the time of using the Amiga.

@ninjamaster3453 7 лет назад

this is probably your fav labour of love computer to review yes? thank you for your efforts. you're an impressive person to be able to produce this. i admire you.

@Pulsed101 5 лет назад

We had an Amiga 500, my brother saved up and bought it himself & It's what started my love for gaming at a very young age. This video was amazing, thanks for the hard work to make it. Their collapse makes more sense to me now. Shame.

@RoxieSniper 7 лет назад

Not only one of the most entertaining, well researched, and best edited Tech channels; Nostalgia Nerd is one of the absolute best available on all of RU-vid. Thanks for all of your hard work! It's really great stuff, especially on these longer days when work keeps stacking up across my desk. I truly appreciate this for helping keep my sanity while grinding through this stuff :)

@ItsBigIan 7 лет назад

Good to see youtubers citing their sources. Excellent work!

@takismail 7 лет назад

The Amiga 500 was the best pc of its Time , it was my dream to get one when i was a Kid

@crzces7500 6 лет назад

TAK Ism. Same here. I loved my C64 which you could nod into a 128, but the Amiga was the PC the cool dad's had. Playing games like Faerytale Adventure was just insane to me as a kid.

@grimfic 3 года назад

Loving this. Taking me right back to my youth. Brilliantly made documentary as well.

@kevinmcfarland3893 7 лет назад

Great video! I grew up with a nicely decked out Amiga 1000 as my first computer. I can't wait for part two!

@esseferio 7 лет назад

I can't believe the amount of work you have put into this. Thank you, sir!

@GerardKean 6 лет назад

"the, then, innovative electronic arts" lol

@daviddyer3543 4 года назад

We could use a Deluxe Paint...5 or 6 soon, or maybe buy the rights off EA to do that one.

@fabian24123 3 года назад

How times have changed...

@ThePOWERtoRULE 3 года назад

A gripe my friends an I share is that modern EA are the most lazy developers ever...

@lcb8333 3 года назад

One bland battlefield to go please!

@itdepends604 2 года назад

EA is very innovative still. They are the inventors of many great gaming phenomenons such as loot boxes and pay to unlock progression. They are so innovative that they don't even have to finish games anymore. They also invented numerous infinite money exploits such as EA sports. The only company any more innovative would have to be blizzard.

@ViralKiller 7 лет назад

it would be awesome to see a video about the 90's graphics programs, like truespace caligari, simply 3d, 3d studio and softimage

@xpez9694 3 года назад

And HOUDINI AND CINEMA 4D AND MAYA

@54321kola 3 года назад

Yeah. I worked wirh truespqce on amiga 4000 a Lot. In 90s. Best times ever of my lífe. I loved tsx extensions.

@BobKerns4111 3 года назад

Or how about 1980s', like S-Dynamics, S-Paint, and S-Geometry? These were used to produce, among other things, the graphics for the display screens in Star Trek III: Search for Spock, and this early animation classic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pbFEQv259yw.html The Symbolics hardware was the first to do genlock, realtime full video output, HTDV...

@anarxstudios5290 3 года назад

do an lesson on that or an retro video.. i would watch it =)

@myfaveyoutube 3 года назад

YESSSSSSS

@bardia8905 6 лет назад

Thank you so much for making this (and of course all of your other videos) Nostalgia Nerd. This one specifically isn't just entertaining and informational. Its inspirational. Thank you sir!

@AkioAkemi 5 лет назад

Your production value is superb! Enjoying the ride through your content. Thank you for putting in the love!

@justanotheryoutubechannel 5 лет назад

Whoa. I’m watching this with headphones for the first time, and I never realised that this video has stereo sound support! The music is split between both ears! That’s so cool!

@SomeOrangeCat 7 лет назад

When I was younger, I had assumed Amiga was a European computer. It was way more popular there, and that's where most of the games were, whereas in the states it had a pretty small install base.

@Foebane72 7 лет назад

Don't ASSUME, it makes an ASS of U and ME.

@KaitainCPS 7 лет назад

Yeah, it was a strange time. Americans were mainly playing on Japanese consoles, whereas Europeans were mainly playing on American computers. It still seems strange to me that my American friends often have almost zero knowledge about their own country's hardware and software between around 1985 and 1992. All they know is Mario, Sonic and Metroid.

@RedLegBlazer 7 лет назад

I had an Amiga 500... I played Populous, and Lemmings. That was all. Much later I worked at an arcade that had those early VR pods with the giant helmet. Those ran on a 2000, and were unbelievable at that time. The problem with being ahead in the tech industry is that the product ends up costing more for features no one knows what to do with. Then the competition copies it, but with all of the ground work done, so they're spending more on polish. Remeber the Dreamcast. lol.

@paul8079 7 лет назад

I'm American and had an A500. None of my friends had this machine. They would come over and marvel at it. It just didn't receive advertising in America. But any kid that had one was envied. The kids that had Apple II and IBM were just blown away by the graphics and fun games.

@despicabledog 6 лет назад

American people will never understand the influence that Amiga had in Europe, it changed the life of millions of kids like me in the early late 80s to early 90s and got them into computers and gaming. In America most people associate Commodore with the Commodore 64 and they rarely even remember the Amiga, in Europe the Amiga was king. It was huge here, also because it was very easy to pirate games. I remember my father buying pirated games (floppies) from a guy who had a newsstand near my house, and this is was in 1991 when very few people had computers and yet EVERYBODY had an Amiga 500. Watch this video to understand more about Amiga piracy and demoscene and how it made the Amiga huge in Europe: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-W68M26UjgAU.html

@zaugitude 6 лет назад

Thanks for putting together this excellent documentary. Brought back lots of good as well as painful memories; I remember being so hopeful for that next real and proper Amiga in spite of all the indications it was not ever going to be. CheerZ!

@dosplayer7692 7 лет назад

Almost an hour of full-blown, well put documentary... Hats off to you sir! :)

@segaprophet 7 лет назад

This must have been a huge effort to put together - loved it! Keep up the excellent videos.

@RichardTroupe 7 лет назад

Every time I think about how Commodore's senior management botched the position they found themselves in, it brings a tear to my eye. Argh! What could have been, eh?

@Orlor 7 лет назад

Indeed. Gould was a class A asshole for firing Rattigan. Get rid of the guy who was turning Amiga around? What a brilliant strategy!

@zo1dberg 6 лет назад

If you haven't already, watch this inverview of Commodore UK cheif David Pleasance - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V3ef8ronz9E.html Basically Commodore head office in the US bent the Amiga over and gave it a good rodgering. Absolute crime.

@evansdm2008 7 лет назад

This is definitive. Like your other history videos. This is good enough to be archived. Genuinely this should not be lost.

@99FriedEggs 5 лет назад

What an incredibly well put together documentary. Thank you!

@sauenrolf 6 лет назад

Ah yeees! The Lotus turbo challenge sound track! Now that's true nostalgia

@arashikage878 4 года назад

Stian Schmooples yep and also the main theme from Space Crusade. Love that track!!!

@TheyTalkOnline 5 лет назад

One of our favorite computers of all time : Commodore Amiga 1200. Damn we miss those times. Btw... still have Commodore VIC-20, Commodore C-64 & Commodore Amiga A1200. All of them work!

@Pat_S 3 года назад

I had the A1200 and loved it. My A500 had a special place in my heart though. I had it on layaway and was a happy guy the day I got to take it home. I then upgraded the Chip ram and then put the 20MB hard drive expansion on layaway. The store owner let me take it after a week and keep making payment. I’ll never forget how fast the machine was with a hard drive and how huge 20MB was!

@aussieglen1 2 года назад

Oh how I loved Defender of the Crown. So many good memories of all things Amiga... thanks for all the effort behind this video!

@mchief190 7 лет назад

Love your videos, I could have a nice warm meal while nerding out hard on highly informed briefing on retro gear like this.

@lofiprototype 7 лет назад

ow man, that lotus turbo challenge intro song at 26:56 puts a big smile on my face!

@themadplotter 7 лет назад

Love the music, it's like I'm in the 90's watching new Robot Wars and Red Dwarf again. Wait a second....

@onlineamiga 7 лет назад

I can't even imagine the amount of work that must have gone into making this. This is just... AMAZING!. Loved every minute!. You're giving Viva Amiga a serious run for its money (ie your video is free!) Thank you so much for putting this together. It taught me a lot about the history of my favourite platform. I jumped into Amiga in 1992 so was a bit unaware of its 80s origins. I'm very much looking forward to watching the second part which I will do tomorrow! Thank you again!

@pauljones-tj5vs 7 лет назад

I have been waiting for this from you. Just started the video, I know it's going to be great, thanks, I will get the popcorn out and enjoy.

@wielku 7 лет назад

I'm only 5 mins in and the editing is already great. Love your videos, and I wish you more subs, you deserve it.

@ShishakliAus 6 лет назад

His fan base is slowly dying of old age and shitty pop music

@franknitti9126 6 лет назад

ShishakliAus which group are you in?

@ExtremeWreck 5 лет назад

wielkus This should have over 50 million views!!!!!

@fivesquaredyt2521 5 лет назад

wielkus 69 likes

@luisgonzalez5482 7 лет назад

Hell yeah, 51 minutes. Time to learn and enjoy.

@marksankey175 2 года назад

Love the music used in this video. Project X - Pinball Dreams - lotus ll turbo challenge - supercars - the chaos engine... and more.. the games i grew up playing on Amiga 500. A great watch!!!!

@dirkardostevergreen4827 2 года назад

The day I got my Amiga 500 at the tender age of 15 was, up to that point, the best day of my life! Although my mum seemed a bit disappointed that I mostly played games on it.

@niamaru2 7 лет назад

Can't wait for the next one, thank you very much

@SE09uk 7 лет назад

next Amiga ??? same lol

@niamaru2 7 лет назад

ever heard of the MiST FPGA ? it's not an amiga per say but you can run AmigaOS 3.1 natively on it. plus it has USB and VGA so... its pretty awesome!

@RasVoja Год назад

@@niamaru2 Yes, Mister and FPGA Arcade are closest to it for now. Too bad mister is not much available

@electricmiragemedia 7 лет назад

Fantastic video! You deserve more subs

@mieszkogulinski168 4 года назад

My first computer was a PC with 386, and I'm too young to experience platforms different from the PC. But some of my friends had an Amiga - and I considered it as something interesting and different. I was young enough that I didn't know that PC software won't be understood by Amiga, so I brought a 3.5-inch diskette with Fractint and tried to run it on the Amiga. It didn't work. The computer displayed blue? violet? purple? screen and returned to the animation of inserting a diskette. Now, I find learning about all these older and defunct platforms really interesting :) And I really appreciate how long we went from there - now, a regular USB drive and most of its files can be understood by PC, Android, Mac, and even a Raspberry Pi, and we have easily portable cross-platform software in languages such as JavaScript or Python.

@Popmetalj 5 лет назад

Excellent documentary. Highly detailed and strong production - this is top drawer stuff

@crisisnite1 Год назад

The Amiga animation program was freaking amazing! I'd love to find a ported version.

@johneygd 7 лет назад

Well, the amiga was a beast in it's porfomance and it was very ahead of it's time, and since it also became a gaming machineit technically. crunched the pc engine, the snes & genesis aswell .

@levicassidy9312 7 лет назад

performance* machine it*

@madpixel262 7 лет назад

This makes me feel so nostalgic. Great stuff!

@mik310s 6 лет назад

Been watching these all day, dude thanks so much brings back my childhood

@SynthoidSounds 4 года назад

The LucasFilms game development group was using Amigas (I worked at the Droid Works, another Lucas company), got to see these machines first hand. I was convinced, immediately bought a 2000 . . . and a few months later a friend was developing a 3D raytracing engine (Raydance) for the Amiga. Nothing else that even remotely approaching this existed then . . . and then of course, the Video Toaster came out, I immediately bought a 2500. Nothing could touch the Amiga platforms for graphic and video work . . . at least then. Fun times it was!

@lookoutforchris 3 года назад

>Nothing could touch the Amiga platforms for graphic and video work... at least then. #SiliconGraphics has entered the chat

@dramaticusflatudicus3839 3 года назад

Nothing could touch...for the price..... Alias etc always looked really good but the hardware/software costs put them beyond most of us unless we got in the big studios. SGI only got affordable much later, but by that time us LW artists had migrated to PC (via DEC Alphas)...

@BongoBaggins 7 лет назад

Television quality documentary there, fella.

@Cmm4626 6 лет назад

More accurate than the History Channel that's for sure!

@CakePrincessCelestia 3 года назад

Disagree. This is waaaaaaaay better than TV.

@nathandivino 7 лет назад

Great video, looking forward to the second part.

@1teamski 4 года назад

The Amiga was one hell of a system and I really had a ball with mine. It is a true classic.

@SeverityOne 7 лет назад

Pleased to have met Jay Miner at the Amiga Expo in Cologne in 1989, where I shook his hand (and contributed to his handshake-induced injury) and got an autographed T-shirt.

@D6team 4 года назад

Great computer.... Great material - great job :) The times of Amiga were the beginning of the end, where engineers had something to say as for the things they have designed... Amiga is/was the best computer designed on this planet so far :) and was also responsible for the boom of many (even "modern") creative enterprises.

@EDcase1 7 лет назад

Brilliant series!!! Very well edited and informative. Love seeing the old Amiga stuff again ;)

@tarandeepnijjar9841 6 лет назад

Nostalgia Nerd - thank you very much for your efforts! Really enjoyed the video!

@LordHorst 5 лет назад

When a friend of mine gave me his Amiga (because he bought himself a PC) my schoolgrades began to go down... but I still don't think there was any correlation between the two events, lol.

@skelejp9982 6 лет назад

AMIGA was Way ahead of it's Time... Just the Fact that U could have more Windows opened ,with a Different resolution !~!!

@edism 5 лет назад

Screens* you mean, but as much as I love Workbench, you can do that better on Windows with: WIN + CTRL + RIGHT

@leerudd1294 4 года назад

@@edism We're talking 1990's here, not 2020. It was far ahead of the field and in lots of ways made some of what we have today.

@edism 4 года назад

@@leerudd1294 True, I must have been utterly disagreeable that day lol

@leerudd1294 3 года назад

@@edism No worries. I was probably a little drunk at the time and going on a youtube rampage. :D

@austinramsay 3 года назад

There was much more powerful hardware out there though so I don't know about way ahead of its time. Workstations from Sun or DEC or any other workstation company were much more powerful weren't they?

@dwinterx 6 лет назад

A great video, brought back some fond memories of the constant upgrade cycle and PC gaming back in the day!

@andrewporter9908 3 года назад

Great documentary! Brings me back to the days when Amiga promised to change the world and I jumped on with the intent of becoming a multimedia developer using Amiga Vision.

@keiranbowes1979 7 лет назад

Damn you! I was going to go to sleep and then you put this up.

@Nostalgianerd 7 лет назад

If it helps, this video has caused me a vast amount of sleep loss myself.

@keiranbowes1979 7 лет назад

I'll bet. I've started a Retro Gaming channel myself and I can't imagine how much time and effort this has taken to produce.Now I'm going I've got a documentary to watch.

@darianmccants 6 лет назад

keiran bowes lol

@Nostalgianerd 7 лет назад

37:08 Freme Fraze?! XD What the hell had I been drinking. Hahaha (that one skipped through QC)

@TheJamieRamone 7 лет назад

No probs m8, the vid is spectacular anyway!

@blunderingfool 7 лет назад

Didn't even notice that, even after you pointed it out in the comments. Had to go back and triple check. Heh.

@mkmot530 7 лет назад

Great video mate, even if your loyalty to Atari show's at time's, not like there is anything wrong with that.

@mkmot530 7 лет назад

Lol are you talking about the Trap door intro haha, I wonded what the hell that was all about

@kristina80ification 7 лет назад

At least that mistake won't show up in three videos in a row. ;)

@gemmel3197 6 лет назад

I loved my Amiga 500, thanks for the memory refresh.

@johnmarshall8395 5 лет назад

I just watched From Bedrooms To Billions: The Amiga Years and Viva Amiga last night. I still prefer your documentary over these two. Not that they are bad, they contain more info at times than the Amiga Story but also a lot less personality. I'm now watching your video for the 8th time or so. I just can't stop watching it as it's such an addictive video. Thanks so much for taking the time to make such a great documentary!

@RaptureMusicOfficial 3 года назад

Amiga rules!

@zelphx 5 лет назад

I miss Amiga more than MOST ex-girlfriends I've ever had. If my wife asks... I was never here.

@ShanePleasance 4 года назад

Bradley Greenwood she was everybody’s girlfriend.

@paulmichaelfreedman8334 4 года назад

@@ShanePleasance Literally.

@uiopuiop3472 4 года назад

god damnit Bradley, that's so much not you

@Game_Hero 2 года назад

Did you use it to get dates with them

@morten1 2 года назад

Ask your wife if you can.. insert disk :)

@paulcordingley3434 6 лет назад

THANK YOU for this! Fantastic documentary.

@Zizzily 7 лет назад

Thanks for another great video. Amiga/Commodore was really ahead of their time with some of their features. Still hope to own an Amiga 1200 one of these days.

@ExplosiveAction 7 лет назад

Another great video. Have you thought of trying to get these aired? These are professional quality and your voice would suit television.

@Foebane72 7 лет назад

Television is DEAD. RU-vid is the FUTURE. Don't look back.

@nellyfish9692 7 лет назад

yea, I don't watch normal TV anymore.

@infinidominion 7 лет назад

we gotta keep the CRT's for the games tho. it just feels right

@dacoda930 7 лет назад

Only watch tv when I go to my mum's

@AudieHolland 6 лет назад

Don't even have cable. I don't watch football anyway but documentaries... RU-vid is filled with them.

@aceventura999 7 лет назад

I miss so much my Amiga...

@random_archivist 6 лет назад

Too me...

@rustcohle3803 6 лет назад

with you, may the force be

@HavenMarches 6 лет назад

Lol I miss it too master Yoda

@elit3darkness 5 лет назад

I know this video is old but I still appreciate it! Some of my fondest computing memories were on my AMIGA 500 and 2000. Both were hand-me-downs.

@MsMadLemon 7 лет назад

Fantastic documentary! I look forward to part 2!

@kristina80ification 7 лет назад

A movie about Amiga needs to be made.

@FedorSteeman 7 лет назад

Kandi Gloss Micro Men ?

@kristina80ification 7 лет назад

***** micro men isn't about the amiga team at all though.

@stevenwarner9156 7 лет назад

A full 2 hour documentary has at least: www.frombedroomstobillions.com/amiga I got the original film about the development of video games with a lot of focus on 8-bit micros and helped on kickstarter for this one, but this is an excellent and informative documentary with loads of great interviews and information. Worth checking out.

@stevenwarner9156 7 лет назад

But yeah, a movie of the development like Micro Men would be great.

@KaitainCPS 7 лет назад

"Viva Amiga" is worth a watch as well, even though much of the same material is covered.

@pmedwards42 7 лет назад

Great video. I owned an A1000 (bought used), 'upgraded' to an A500 and kept it going for years with aftermarket upgrades - hard drive adapter, memory, bigger PSU, etc. I only moved to the x86 world with great remorse about the time the cheaper 386sx chips came out.

@curcumin417 4 года назад

Fantastic documentary- well researched and presented. Subbed!

@moabt.frican7163 5 лет назад

"You use it for your homework, you use it to get dates." Apparently they were serious

@RedSkyHorizon 7 лет назад

Yay! I had the Amiga 1000. I had asked for it and unbelievably my mum bought it for me even though we had little money. The sales guy said it was the first one sold in the UK. Anyone remember fairey tale adventure and all those demos ?

@spatulasnout 6 лет назад

Just found this interview with David Joiner, covering the development of Faery Tale: www.abime.net/interviews/view/interview/id/71

@No-jb6fy 7 лет назад

I've watched many of your videos. Great work, keep it up!

@musictomotion 4 года назад

Great documentary! Very much like I remember. I've lived it and had all of those machines, even programmed assembly on the C-64, back in the day. You give a lot of information though, more than I knew! Great stuff :)

@hanniballecter4924 3 года назад

10:16 When they "Ground yourself" they mean ground yourself to prevent ESD, Electro Static Discharge from damaging the sensitive equipment. You ground yourself by wearing rubber shoes and plugging your ESD strap bracelet in to an ESD device before entering the room.

@volundrfrey896 2 года назад

Yes ofc, but the joke is that they wrote "thyself" making it sound like a religious ritual.

@trejkaz 6 лет назад

PC "at" machines... no, we used to pronounce the letters AT one by one.

@timnorton4000 5 лет назад

Dude is British. I have heard numerous folks across the pond pronounce it "wrong". He also has the th-fronting dialect which is fine when you know what it is... he does say the word "further" fairly often in is videos which comes out as "furver" of course. As long as he has a fervor for retro stuff I'm cool with it.

@davekp6773 5 лет назад

Welsh guy here and I pronounce it A tee, and XT machines as X tee.

@davmar9923 5 лет назад

He also mispronounces "Portia". It is not a three syllable word "por-tee-a", it is a two syllable word, "por-sha". By the way, "Porsche" is just the Germanic spelling of "Portia" and is also pronounced "por-sha".

@mvl71 5 лет назад

@@davmar9923 This German dude disagrees: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mG7GBGcABYQ.html

@chipheadnet 5 лет назад

Also the Commodore "One Hundred Twenty Eight" was pronounced "One Twenty Eight"

@nrdesign1991 7 лет назад

Definitely worth subscribing! Looking forward to part II

@JohnnyBareToes1 7 лет назад

Fantastic video as always buddy. I pretty much know this story inside out but still very entertaining to watch and kept me interested right to the end. Looking forward to part 2 :)