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;
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.
I conclude the Commodore Amiga Documentary with the second part of it's story. This episode is based heavily in the 1990s. We start out with the Amiga 500 and the UK Batman Pack, before moving on through the further developments, staff changes, The Commodore CDTV, Amiga 500+, Amiga 600, Amiga CD32, Amiga 1200, Amiga 4000, Amiga 3000 and the later models and revisions. We go through the peak of Commodore and the Amiga and it's downfall and the various factors which influenced its fall from grace.
Many thanks to Jimmy Maher for writing "The Future was Here" - http://amzn.to/2jwyOYu - a valuable Commodore Amiga resource which I read before making this video!
Thank you to my fellow Youtubers for lending their superlative voices;
LGR - https://www.youtube.com/user/phreakindee
Techmoan - https://www.youtube.com/user/Techmoan
Pixelmusement - https://www.youtube.com/user/Pixelmusement
Dan Wood - https://www.youtube.com/user/techguruuk
Kim Justice - https://www.youtube.com/user/elmyrdehory
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Many thanks for all of those who helped with resources for this video. Please do let me know if I've missed anything.
Many websites were used for research.... Please check back soon for these updated resources and music listings.
Many thanks to Thomas Koch for use of his renderings - https://www.flickr.com/photos/tommeskoch/
And zgodzinkski - http://zgodzinski.deviantart.com/
Excerpts and magazine images;
http://www.archive.org
CC images;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Pages used for reference, CC;
Ranger Prototype Photos - http://www.amiga.org/forums/member.php?u=7641 (Chris Collins - ChrisXYZ of Amiga.org Forums)
Rev3 Photo - http://s1236.photobucket.com/user/nikos-rizos/media/500rev3/rev3.jpg.html
Amiga 2000 Memory Board (Bill Bradford) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/480624381
Amiga Memory Bus Diagram - https://www.cypherpunk.at/download/eagle/32c3/AMIGA/
Amiga Unix - http://bboah.amiga-resistance.info/cgi-bin/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=26
Mud Biking - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-8sGxEOnws
Background Wallpapers (Andreas Argirakis) - http://andreas.blazer.nu/wallpapers.php
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