History of the Commodore Amiga | A 1992 Documentary

The history of the Commodore Amiga, a documentary created on a Amiga 2000!
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[@PrimitiveBaroque]

This video explains everything. The AMIGA had a soul because the team behind it had one too. What an inspiring machine.

[@otherreality]

My entire childhood was filled with Amiga games, Protracker, Deluxe Paint, some Basic...Even if i collect 200 computers and consoles, it will always be my favourite computer/games machine, I just love this computer !

[@itsaPIXELthing]

+Alex Reality Indeed! Awesome machine ;) Over 50% of my videos are about stuff related to the Amiga :) Thanks for your visit, Alex! ;) Cheers!

[@pcretrogamer]

The Amiga team - Dave Needle, Dave Morse, RJ Mical, Jay Miner (among others) - utter brilliance all coming together at the same time. It was kind of a once in history alignment of stars type event.

[@Brond-mr8lt]

When I was playing shadow of the best in my high school, I never expected I would see such documentary .... Very touchy ,, thanks

[@maxpolaris99]

Rob Peck's book on the Amiga was outstanding. I learned how to do so much from that book. No other computer system has ever come close to fascinating and stimulating me like The Amiga! I bet I'm responsible for at least 10 people buying Amigas after watching me demo my A500 at home. I should have gotten some commisions.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

+maxpolaris99 Yeah! You should ;)

[@MegaGasek]

That's what got me into computer animation. I started with a friend's computer (Amiga 500) who was good at programming. I was more of an artist. With Deluxe Paint III/IV, Imagine, Real 3D, Caligari, Lightwave we've made so much money creating flying logos. One day, some guys from some company came to visit us. They didn't believe we could do all of that with one Amiga 2000 and one Amiga 500. When I showed them the sound, the graphics/animation and how it could TRULY multitask, with many windows open and at different resolutions they were, I don't know... I've played a flying logo at 60 FPS, it was so smooth, nobody else could do it. They were limited to 30, which in many cases would make the words rolling up or down the screen fuzzy... Speechless doesn't quite cover it. The SCSI drives/chipset could do many operations at the same time, that wasn't possible on PCs, on IDE. My Amiga 500 paid itself many times over... I also was (am) a videogames addict. I finished Eye of the Beholder III in one weekend. My friends could not believe it... So many wonderful memories. If you've had an Amiga it meant it was truly, really, like a friend and you most likely have fond memories of it. It saddens me to say that, to date, my computer, is just that... A tool! I've never found that magical brush, that mage's wand... Ever again.

[@Raydensheraj]

How true...i used it for music...Technosound Pro. And Turrican 1 & 2....plus the Rpg's....

[@tedvanmatje]

Rj mical says at the end that it felt like he sounded 'sappy'.... I'd have to disagree. I sat watching this with tears in my eyes, reminiscing back to my youth where i spent over 90 percent of my time learning and feeding an unquenchable thirst for knowledge which made me the man i am now. This amazingly talented group of people, whom I'll never meet, but am deeply indebted to, gave me ( and many others) a gift which can not be repaid. There's not much in the world which evokes an emotional response...but this did. Nothing sappy about that....nothing sappy about being passionate about something. Rj mical an co. are modern legends. Thankyou for uploading this! Cheers, ted

[@kefrensmegademo]

Endless thanks to Jay Miner for gifting us the Amiga... RIP ❤❤

[@heidirichter]

Thank you for uploading this, it's so sad that the place these people deserve in computer history is not as well known as it should be - in fact, most of the time, the C64 is given it's place in computer history, but the Amiga is totally ignored. The Amiga was so far ahead of it's time in so many ways, I honestly feel if it wasn't for the Amiga, computing would be very different today.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

+Troy Wilkins I share the exact same opinion ;) Cheers!

[@iainmclaughlan1557]

ditto

[@tarstarkusz]

Unfortunately, the thing that made the Amiga so great was also the thing that held it back. The custom chipset held the Amiga back in later years. The Amiga is not a particularly good game machine, IMHO. Where the Amiga really did shine was as a small business machine and the versatility it had.

[@pferreira1983]

@@tarstarkusz Oh no, if anything the Amiga was a great games machine!

[@tarstarkusz]

@@pferreira1983 It might have been if the ST didn't exist. There are very few good arcade games (for example). Some modern games have shown the Amiga could have been a great games machine. The problem is nobody wanted to put a lot of money into the releases and so the ports were generally shared between at least the ST and Amiga. They were "game by committee" Just look at Bombjack. It's friggin horrible and has little in common with the arcade game. Or Ghouls and Ghosts. The lack of buttons really hurts it in my opinion. This is inexcusable! The Amiga was released in 85. It's not like they didn't know 1 button didn't cut it anymore.

[@pferreira1983]

This is a great time capsule into the Amiga at its zenith. Really touching and moving.

[@mrjotz]

One minute in, and I already feel like I'm watching a VHS educational video in high school.

[@abboodeno]

This brings tears to my eyes

[@jvburnes]

Great candid documentary. On a business trip a couple months ago, I visited Building 7 (Hi-Toro) and took some pictures. I sent the pics to my best friend (from college) and he asked where I was. I said Santa Clara and he just happened to be there on holiday so we grabbed some beers almost 40 years from the date of our graduation. Strange because back in 82, after our girlfriends dumped us, we were going to move to the bay and work for Atari. I really wish we did because I could have been part of something like this. I was and am a systems and graphics programmer. Bought an Amiga 1000 right out of college. Really wish Commodore hadn't screwed it up. Too bad Apple never bought the hardware and OS for the Mac.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your story! :)

[@jvburnes]

@@itsaPIXELthing Yeah its kind of funny. So many programmers were making big bucks writing computer games, so I bought an Atari 800 and started writing a game (Luna) and that little machine (also designed by Jay Miner) was amazing. I think a lot of the software/hardware geeks followed Jay's creations back then. He's one of my geek heroes. BTW: That's a really fast response for an 8 year old posting at 5:30am (mountain time).

[@KarlUKmidlands]

Great video, really shows the work and commitment that went into the Amiga before Commodore dropped the ball

[@gleggett3817]

I haven't seen this documentary since 1990s when I had Amigas. Emotional.

[@MrStarchild3001]

These people who're speaking are visionaries and computer gods who changed the lives of 10s of millions of people. A heartfelt thank you!

[@DJEonT1]

The Amiga computer/team was way ahead of the competition during their time in the 80s and early 90s. Its a shame that they couldn't keep it going. This was a great video, thanks. If I remember correctly, no one was sure if it was a gaming machine or computer for productivity. Well for me it was both. Can't complain about that.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

+DJEonT1 An amazing machine, no doubt about it! Check also my video about my personal top 26 games for it! ;) Cheers!

[@raymondmookhram5127]

Once in every couple of centuries things like fire, the wheel, the sail, papyrus, bookprinting, electricity, radiowaves, antibiotics and the Amiga happen. Such a great feeling to have experienced it from the very beginning. I saw the Amiga A1000 in Aachen, Germany. And soon after I got an A500; the world changed in 1985. People don’t fully grasp what this technology triggered. And how much more advanced we could have been if Commodore had not screwed up.

[@winstonsmith478]

The brilliant Jay Miner also designed the custom Atari 2600 and Atari 8-bit computer family chips, the Atari 8-bit system chips being uniquely powerful and covered in detail in a multi-part Byte magazine series. They and the systems based upon them, the Atari 400 and 800, came out well before the C64 which later used the same custom chip philosophy but not, of course, the same chips. Through an interesting accident of history, the later _Atari_ 520ST and 1040ST were designed by mostly _Commodore_ engineers who left Commodore with Tramiel when he left Commodore and bought Atari while the _Commodore_ Amiga was the brainchild of the former _Atari_ engineer, Jay Miner.

[@spearPYN]

Atari 8-bit and Amiga were the best computers of the 80s!

[@TheMadisonHang]

Amazing energy, Makes me wonder what they done!

[@RichardTroupe]

This was an interesting documentary... thanks for uploading!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Richard Troupe You're welcome! ;)

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

What a great little retrospective, such valuable footage! my later teens (and life there on) were defined by the Amiga and the sense of community that came with it. Even stuck at home it anyways felt like you were part of an exclusive, cutting edge club when you put on a new demo or intro. Marketing in the UK was pretty much non existent, it marketed itself. Word of mouth quickly spread. Indeed I myself had to see the machine before buying- it didn't take long before I was selling my Speccy and Master System to do so! I, too, must have turned many friends onto the Amiga and we had a great little group swapping disks (and buying when we could!). Today I just can't get enough of the history! Films like this, and Dave Haynie's Death Bed Vigil, are so important to the history AND future of computing. Even early V.R. (with the Virtuality units) originated here. To say Commodore 'paved the way' would be an understatement. Thanks again for finding this and thanks from the UK to all that worked at, or supported Commodore!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

I thank you for sharing those amazing memories! I also had a Speccy and Amiga background and this footage should be preserved, so I uploaded it so that everyone knows how great, and far ahead of its time, the Amiga really was :) Feel free to check my other personal videos, where I recall my favorite games, machines and greatest moments since I started playing around with home computers and consoles. Cheers!

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

It's a Pixel THING Thanks again -I'll check them out today; the weather here is awful already! I'm already in nostalgia mode ;) I'll be sure to sub, too. As we both agree, this is timeless stuff. (I've recently been getting back into my Pinball and was thinking about filming some meets for posterity.. we'll see!)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Gladly, here in Portugal, the weather is still really nice, with temperatures around 20ºC ;) A little rain, but nothing to worry about ;) Are you talking about "real" pinball or virtual? I've recently made a video with my favorite Classic Pinball video games! ;) Thanks again for your much appreciated visit and for your sub! :)

[@Kholaslittlespot1]

It's a Pixel THING Only just saw this, sorry! Have sampled your Spectrum videos also- good stuff! As for Pinball- I've been getting into the real thing over the past couple of years. I discovered a local club just after the release of 'The Pinball Arcade' which had many of the Tables I'd just seen. From that I got into 'Future Pinball', mainly to practice, and few other staples... (I've loved Pinball games since Pinball Dreams/Fantasies etc.) Will definitely have to check the video now- Look forward to seeing what you chose! Keep up the good work!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Cool to know :) Also loved real Pinball back in the day! Nowadays is really hard to find Pinball tables here in Portugal in decent working condition... :(

[@gregledbetter5942]

Love the stories. . Truly inspirational

[@paulthy1496]

Wow they had to emulate the hardware to work on the software, wow. I have been working on creating a very basic graphics API and i just love the amiga ball. Pure genius, most of us are just too dumb to grasp what these lads and ladies did. (Definitely myself included) so impressive, wow.

[@RetroHawk]

Really good channel very informative.Have subcribed and look forward to watching you other videos.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

+Retro Hawk Thank you so much for your comments and for subscribing, Retro Hawk! Really appreciate it! Feel free to check my other videos! Cheers!

[@TheMadisonHang]

This is how Bach compositions were written Different time, different place

[@peddersoldchap]

*ONE* word: "Right on!" LOL 😂

[@sean70729]

always wanted but simply couldn't afford it

[@AlexModeling]

Muito bom! O Amiga era completamente out of the box naquele tempo. .. passava horas e horas a jogar e a fazer musica (ou a tentar)... bons velhos tempos... nunca mais vi nada tão fora do comum ou extraordinario no campo da informatica como nesses dias... estavam anos luz de distância do PC... depois... acho que foram vitimas do mercado ou de algum tipo de "conspiração " porwue foram se abaixo e nunca mais se viu AMIGA

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Sem dúvida, foi uma grande perda na indústria. Eles ficaram, durante uns bons anos, à sombra do sucesso do Amiga 500 e acabaram por ser alcançados pela concorrência. Foi pena.. Continuo a jogar bastante, agora no meu Amiga 600 ;) Adoro o design compacto desse modelo! Abraço, Alex!

[@KgamesReviews]

Adorei este video amigo saber que se passou com amiga bem brutal grande abraço.....:)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Olá, K! Um grande documentário, sem dúvida! O melhor relato sobre a história do Amiga! Quem melhor para contar a história do que os próprios intervenientes ;) Abraço!

[@vamosjogar9574]

Best machine ever!

[@itsaPIXELthing]

+Vamos Jogar Indeed! ;) Abraço!

[@retrobeep2000]

Still have my AMIGA from back then :D

[@itsaPIXELthing]

You keep it! :) Awesome machine!

[@jvburnes]

@@itsaPIXELthing Still have my Amiga 1000, but it hasn't booted for about 10 years. Probably needs new caps. Recently booted one up again on the Mister FPGA system.

[@yingyanggreviews]

Amigo brutal isto adorei saber historia por trás da amiga grande abraço.....:)

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Olá, K! Obrigado por assistires! :) Abraço!

[@newsolution5669]

Does anyone have documentation for these specialized integrated circuits and 68060 processors? Where can I download documentation for these chips? Does anyone have any information on this?! Because I would love to see how they built it back then.

[@Mike.Garcia]

I didn't know Manuel worked for amiga :P

[@Huddison]

Looking at them all sat at the table talking, I thought for a moment that I was looking at a real life movie remake of Mario 64.

[@jesuszamora6949]

92... So, this was after Commodore went to crap? The guys here sound like they're waxing super nostalgic. Sounds like they loved the job.

[@itsaPIXELthing]

+Jesus Zamora Indeed ;)

[@freebretth]

Jay was so damned cool. I can easily see why he inspired so much loyalty.

[@Tech-geeky]

This my be a 'few' 'years to late, but stuff it :) I always reckon the moment someone said "we emulated in software" back in the day to substitute hardware, to me, that always means 'disaster' regardless of the issues, of things always failing, that alone, says there were in debit. Because if the money was there, why would you be rushing to "fix in "emulation" ?? You could argue perhaps, they also fell behind as well, so you need to show something.. Good videos... I have the Amiga Forever Premium with DVD videos of this stuff and best money i ever spend.

[@SuperAlexPetrov]

21:53 THIS a BIG board of AGNUS???

[@andrewdupuis1151]

I never own Amiga . I always wanted one I brought Amiga forever with c64 forever emul. Amiga is great system

[@No-jb6fy]

I had an 8 bit computer and I used to go to CompuCentre with friends to look at the Amiga and the demos like the boucing ball and all. I never owned one. It's only much later in life I discussed with someone who had been using the videotoaster and doing pro stuff with that and I just couldn't believe what this computer could do. Then I tried lots of the software in emulation and I was so impressed. I'm interested to learn whether such OSes as AmigaOS+Workbench can do bare metal. I believe one day the OSes of old will be reborn... The entire market was stalled on generation because of MS/Intel and now because of Apple and Android. Those are commodity oses, like the OS on my stove or fridge. I want flavorful OSes like the Amigas of old. Time will tell.

[@madigorfkgoogle9349]

anyone else caught the typo at the end? Special thanks to ... Jay "Minor"?

[@moonman1209]

Amiga = good memories.

[@PauloConstantino167]

what astonishes me the most is the fact they used to think mustaches were cool

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Ah ah ah ah! Indeed! :)

[@eddiecampion2410]

sold my commodore 64 so I could afford an amigo . When I got it i was so disappointed I thought it was crap and wished I kept my 64.I gave it away years later to a charity.

[@arongooch]

That's the problem. You got an Amigo not an Amiga!

[@Faserone]

Story of a managing disaster. Although high potential

[@stormshadow2k]

Wow, you sure you couldnt cram one more commercial into this? Jees...

[@itsaPIXELthing]

KZbin does that if you're watching on your phone or tablet.

[@insoft_uk]

Interesting how things turn out, Commodore becomes Atari, Atari people go and become Amiga, those left at the old Commodore C64 with failed C128 buy Amiga and we have Atari v Amiga but who's who

[@TheMadisonHang]

What do these people have to say now

[@gvibes69]

they not even make reference to commodore ??? AMiga is a commodore computer right ? And its a english company how major sucess with is computers was in europe ,but all the guys are americans ? Now im confused !

[@itsaPIXELthing]

Ricardo Amiga was an American brand, just like Atari and Commodore. Amiga Corporation, formerly known as Hi-Toro, developed the first Amiga computer, the 1000, and were later aquired by Commodore. The Amiga was in fact popular in Europe and not in its home land. In the US consoles were the big thing, more plug n' play, if you know what I mean.

[@thatguyontheright1]

+It's a Pixel THING Also IBM PC clones were the thing to get in the US and Canada due to the loads of software you could get, the computers that were getting cheaper all despite being inferior.

[@jesuszamora6949]

+TGOTR Yep. At school, you saw Apple IIe or IIgs, and at home, if you were into computers, you had an IBM compatible, such as the Tandy 1000. The crash of '83 created a schism that would ensure that the US and Europe would grow up on different paths in the 80s to mid 90s. After the crash, the "affordable computer" market (Commodore, Atari 8-bit) was looked down upon, Nintendo moved in and swept up gaming (Remember when it was called "playing Nintendo"?) and IBM compatibles became the machine for work and school.

[@sean70729]

always wanted but simply couldn't afford it