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

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 !

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

My 30th birthday, 30 years ago, my wife bought me the 1200 with pinball and monkey island, it didn't change my whole life but it affected it quite deeply, I was so proud of my 420 Meg hard drive and 6 Meg of ram, the speed of a boot up from hard drive( external, attached to a ribbon) was staggering, I will always have a warm feeling when I think of my amiga

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

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

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

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

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

This brings tears to my eyes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

Amazing energy, Makes me wonder what they done!

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.

*ONE* word: "Right on!" LOL 😂

Love the stories. . Truly inspirational

Nice to see glenn keller in this film...

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

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

always wanted but simply couldn't afford it

Best machine ever!

Still have my AMIGA from back then :D

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

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

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

I didn't know Manuel worked for amiga :P

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Amiga = good memories.

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

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

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.

What do these people have to say now

Story of a managing disaster. Although high potential

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

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

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 !

always wanted but simply couldn't afford it