Amiga Story | Nostalgia Nerd

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.