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. ☟Sharing☟ If you wish to share this video in forums, social media, on your website, *please do so*! It helps tremendously with the channel! ☟Subcribe☟ https://www.youtube.com/user/nostalgianerdvideos?sub_confirmation=1 ✊Support Me! ✊ *Please consider supporting the channel on Patreon*: https://www.patreon.com/nostalgianerd?ty=h Visit my eBay Shop: http://ebay.to/1QQpYyy Buy From Amazon (Amazon give a small commission to my affiliate account): http://amzn.to/1OzCQWR ★Join me on Social Media★ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nostalnerd Face: http://www.facebook.com/nostalnerd Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/nostalgianerd Web: http://www.nostalgianerd.com ★Equipment★ Lumix G6 with Vario 14-42mm Lens Nikon D3200 with 40mm Macro Corel Video Studio Ultimate X9 Corel Paint Shop Pro X6 Blue Snowball Microphone ♜Resources♜ Some of the research resources used for this video; http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12673&sid=07c9318287747c61e60c51c1ef3f9866 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Kaplan https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-Toro http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/ahistory.html http://www.retrocomputacion.net/yabbfiles/Attachments/ch019_Amiga.pdf http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/07/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-1/4/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Corporation http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/08/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-2/3/ - Copper Chip Information http://www.retrocomputacion.net/yabbfiles/Attachments/ch019_Amiga.pdf - Page 6 Custom Chip information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Amiga) http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/caos.html http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/tripos.html http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/amiga-history-4-commodore-years/2/ http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/a2000.html http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/a500.html https://cloanto.com/amiga/roms/help/machine.html - ROM Bits (A1000) WCS RAM, etc (ALL MACHINES) Jay Interview - http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/comment-5.html http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/b52board.html - B52 - Motherboards Unseen Perspectives (Larry Kaplan Photo) - http://the-futurist.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/i-was-amiga-user-back-in-day-and-this.html http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/commphoto.html - Amiga team photos http://www.cbmitapages.it/foto/persone/persone.htm - Further team information http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/  - Bouncing ball resource Other Resources: Amiga 3D renders used with permission by https://www.flickr.com/photos/tommeskoch/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxQIfXTS_Bw - Amiga 1000 (CC) Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq1s77nzpYk&t=217s - Commodore Amiga Documentary (PixelThing) https://archive.org/details/amigaformatmagazine - Amiga Format Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWDFWT4Na84 - Amiga Boing Zen (The Guru Meditation) You can purchase the Amiga Launch Video (along with others) from Cloanto at https://www.amigaforever.com/videos/ If you believe I have forgotten to attribute anything in this video, please let me know (Twitter is usually the best), so I can add the source in. It takes time to make these videos and although I try my utmost not to, it can be easy to forget things or make a mistake! All clips are used under fair use for educational purposes.

Comments

1. 37:08 Freme Fraze?! XD What the hell had I been drinking. Hahaha (that one skipped through QC)
2. 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.
3. Loved my A500... Kicked the ass of PCs that cost twice the price for ages. Shame Commodore was run by half wits.
4. Using the batrope to knock Jack Napier into the vat of acid! Why didn't I think of that?
5. Amiga 500 woohoo Had this one before the sega mega drive and remember playing street fighter one on it lol
6. well i see you got some cameos here
7. If not for the amiga i wouldn't have the love for point and click adventures that I have today, they simply weren't relevant on consoles of that era
   Simon the sorcerer, monkey island, beneath a steel sky, Aahhh the memories
8. Love these in-depth docs.
   (By the way, Groton rhymes with rotten...)
9. Seems like they should have been making graphics cards for the PC. Their focus was all about graphics, but making your own system requires fostering a whole hardware and software ecosystem/market and selling it to a critical mass of consumers, which is tough just for graphics. Imagine instead if your dad's stuffy office PC could have been upgraded to the best gaming system available with a $250 add-on card. No need to write a new operating system, no need to develop your own disk interfaces, etc., so you save on development costs and get to market more quickly; you can even piggyback on IBM's marketing of the base system. Then partner with a few game companies to ensure there will be exclusive products at launch that really show the power of your card. We might still be using that brand today and playing sequels of those games.
10. The Amiga was like a female friend, especially if you had ELIZA on there - anyone remember that? Apparently it was programmed in the 60's and early users thought it could pass the Turing test - not quite guys!
    
    I loved my Amiga, thinking about it though I was almost an ST kid - we got one which broke down straight away, then the replacement broke down (!) so we moved to Amiga - no problems at all and I played that thing for over a decade easily - games like Civilization and Colonization still held up well at the end of the Amigas life and beyond - I owned a Playstation before it finally broke, and even then I got an Amiga 600 in!
11. Nice doco. Can't help wondering how things would've turned out if Commodore were not such a bunch of self-destructive idiots. They didn't deserve it, never did.
12. Where is the music playing around 3.47 from? I think I remember it from a cassette off one of the spectrum magazines.
13. I've watched many of your videos. Great work, keep it up!
14. it would be awesome to see a video about the 90's graphics programs, like truespace caligari, simply 3d, 3d studio and softimage
15. Anyone get Escape From The Planet Of Robot Monsters theme close to the end of the vid?
16. So many ugly filthy jews mentionned.
17. ow man, that lotus turbo challenge intro song at 26:56 puts a big smile on my face!
18. well it is no wonder that amiga didn't take off, the entire team were and still are a bunch of fuckin knobs. The youtube comments section in a lot of Amiga gameplay videos is absolute cancer. If you have anything negative to say about it, they become edgelords. Fuck the Amiga and fuck that Viva Amiga movie for wasting nearly 2 hours of my life.
19. 24:11 Mmmm... Coke!
20. Thec misses me