every time i see these interviews with the creators I feel sad. "With the Amiga ,Commodore was 10 years ahead of Apple and IBM". Imagine what could have been had C= marketed it properly.... I bet we would all be typing on our new Amigas right now

If Joe spoke for another 2 hours, I'd be listing to it all!!!!!!! Really interesting stuff!

Amiga engineers were a unique group of people brought together in harmony at the right time..thank you joe and the rest of the wonderful amiga team.

He wants to get an Amiga going? Someone get this man a working Amiga!

"Mitchy the dog was badge 0"... love that :)

10 years ahead pc/mac, fell sad to !! first multi-tasking system !! they had gold in their hands.... but we keep the Amiga spirit Alive, thanks for this amazing interview !!

What a wonderful interview. It was all quite seat of your pants back then eh? Mitchy was a real mover., pulling the strings to get them to make a machine, so his wonderful singing voice could be heard world-wide. Seriously, I agree, it would be great to see more people making NEW games on the Amiga. Im up for it!

As a kid in high school I had an A1000 and the kernel manuals and learned all about messaging, multi tasking, graphics, c and it made me millions of dollars in my career. Thanks Amiga!

Long live joe decuir so he can accomplish his planned tasks 🍻

again this sound of life ... Amiga was and is life ... spent to much of it, but no regret! First love, first Amiga! Beeing in the Internet with my Amiga and Zyxel in 1992! Had the best User dates and meetings, the best people ever seen, copy party's without end ... Amiga, you will ever be my friend!

Decuir is the nicest person in interviews I've seen. I'd love to meet him in person one day.

This is an amazing interview. Thanks Bill and Anthony. I think, Amiga community should do something for Joe. It is not right to left this amazing guy out. He already paid the price to be left out of the case signatures and I guess a lot of more things. He looks an awesome dude with a lot of Amiga history behind.

incredible interview. i love how amiga systems were built with animation/sound output in mind - an absolute dream machine!

Oh, seeing how this was born is so beautiful. This is history. Amiga made history. Jay Miner and all the guys in C= made history. But... as always happens, history has a dark face on its medal. Usually it is called "money". And sad to say, money can destroy a man's dream, but see what we are today: nothing will destroy nor kill Amiga community. It's a social truth. It's probably the unique case in mankind related to a "simple object". There are strong communities out there about everything but nothing is like Amiga fans. Nothing. Microsoft, IBM, Apple: like it or not, we would change you in a week if you go but we will never change the way we are thanks to a dream embedded in silicon. A dream called Amiga.

Jay Miner's influence on the industry _and the people who worked in it_ can never fully be realized. I never got to meet him, but other than John Williams the film composer he is the one person I most want(ed) to meet some day. Seems like a great guy by all accounts. And the results speak for themselves!

Great interview! Thanks for sharing this. I am amazed by how literally every person who was involved with creating the Amiga still loves it so much after all those years. It's so much more than just a computer! :D

Mega, Mega, Mega! Thanks for making this video!

One could assume by what Joe said about the Commodore marketing ppl, that it was Cs intend of not seeing the Amiga successful. Great spirit and enthusiasm of Joe of what he’s up to and his goals.

I love to hear about the path from the Atari 2600 to the Atari 8 bits to the Amiga. There is something magical about all those machines... I still use my Atari 2600 quite a bit - just yesterday my boy and I were playing "Wizard of Wor" on it. Thanks for helping archive Joe's knowledge, guys!

I always thought it was funny when I learned the path of the designers. Back in the day, it was Atari vs Commodore. Atari 8-bit vs C64 and then St vs Amiga. Most people stayed with their company. I was Vic-20, C64, SX64, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200. True Commodore. Then I found out that the actual path should have been Atari 8-bit to Amiga and C64 to ST. Who knew.. ;-) The Amiga (ex Atari) guys were/are great. Thanx for this interview.

Was really awesome to see Joe at VCF East this year! He's a great gentleman! EDIT: +1 for "ANTIC became AGNUS"

I used the Amiga for sound exactly as he describes back in the late 80s. We used MIDI-X as the sequencer. It was truly ahead of it’s time for music.

Amazing/Inspiring Interview, come back to us Joe, we need you, Amiga forever :)

Bless all involved with Miggy. If I hadn't "met" the Amiga, Im sure my childhood would have been less happier. Good times spent playing Sensible Soccer with my friends and being angry with the goalkeeper for not defending a shoot from midfield :( I wish the people that have the Amiga copyrights would just do one more thing. An oficial mini cd32 like the mini nes and mini snes.

This was fantastic, thank you so much for sharing this with us all! Such an interesting guy, such an important person in the history of modern computers, and yet so sadly unknown by the majority of people. His insight and perspective are so valuable, I think anyway. And it was lovely to hear his recollection of working with Jay Miner.

Awesome video! Love it how/waht he talks about Jay Miner. And about his future plans! Go, Joe!

Thanks for sharing. As long as I have been running Amiga's its amazing to me that no matter how much you know there is way more out there still left to learn. Sad that Commodore missed the mark and did not market the Amiga properly here in the USA. I remember the very first time I saw an A1000 at a friends house and the very first game I saw was Battle Chess and it blew me away. I simply love all my Amiga's and I still continue buying them but I also run Amiga stuff in emulation, on a Raspberry Pi, Mist and on Win UAE. Always learning, always fumbling but still enjoying the Amiga experience. Imagine what could of been had Commodore properly marketed the Amiga and not gone out of business.

This man is amazing. Everyone involved in the amiga was amazing.

I think what I enjoyed most from this was hearing this guy who's recently retired talking about getting back into the Amiga scene and learning to code again. Fantastic interview and inspiring stuff.

Wow ! The Amiga core creators - The Engineers !!! FANTASTIC

What a great guy. I could listen to this for days!

Thank you Joe for your time. And thanks Bill and Anthony for a superb interview. It was awesome, I find Joe's thoughts at the end very evocative on the focus should pivot to fostering creativity and allow people to create and innovate easily without all the complexity of modern systems. Very interesting that Joe had to lay low for many years... That whole Atari/Commodore lawsuit settlement to this day remains a bit of a mystery of what actually happened.

It is ironic how people ask if I am an Atari fan or a Commodore fan. Since, I still praise the Atari 2600, Atari 800 and Amiga 1000, I suppose I am simply a Jay Miner Fan.

OMG!! I thought I had heard of all of the so-called Amiga heroes. This guy is like the forgotten Beetle.

It must have been awesome to have been there back in the day. Amiga was certainly one of the most exotic hardware projects to have come out of the 1980's. You could also have been stuck at IBM designing printer ports or something, or writing code in MUMPS. Amiga, and most stuff that went on at Atari and Commodore, was the stuff of legend. This guy seems to be all talk, though. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that. What was it again, oh yeah repair my old Amiga's.. someday. There's people that talk, and there's people that do.

FANTASTIC..... EXCELLENT....... Why is it that AMIGA..... *to this day* keeps offering new information about itself that AMAZES ME??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Joe Decuir........ HERO..... GOD!!!!!! THANK YOU GURU MEDITATION........ you're heroes too, in your own way!!!!!!

Awesome guy. His plan makes sense too. If you have ever done the RV life you can live well on 12 volts DC. Lights, fans, refrigeration, most electronics like laptops just need a different adaptor and a wide range of appliances that already exist specifically for that market that could become mainstream if it was a more widely used standard. I wish him luck he has done great things and sounds like he is doing more.

Great interview thanks for sharing this

Congratulations for this HUGE interview and acknowledgement to Joe Decuir. So much appreciated. It's a real shame what happened with Commodore and specially with the Amiga as we all know. Hope one day Amiga can be truly relived.

I enjoyed that interview very much. Glad to see someone who was part of it all in the beginning and is still here to give us the positive vibes. Going to play Sidewinder now....

I'm not even finished watching but i've watched loads of Joe's videos( for others watch them, theyre fantastic ) but the Amiga angle on this one is fantastic, great work guys.

Thanks for uploading this! I know that the Amiga sold really well in Europe; particularly in the UK, and in Germany. But I've read that they had much better marketing over there. I'm 42, and I saw that 1989 Amiga commercial with music from "The Goonies" in it, but that was it.

It's important to remember that the Amiga was really an Atari computer, and the ST was really a Commodore. Interesting times indeed.

Merci Monsieur Joe Decuir ! Amiga pour toujours.

Thank you for capturing these great stories! 🌟

Great video, always the best from you guys , thank you so much for this interviews, they are priceless!!

As always, absolutely awesome stuff!

Thank you so much for this Interview, Loved every minute of it! Thank you very much!

Another excellent video taking us to the roots. Thanks guys! ❤👍

Very nice, guys. Another very important interview. Thank

What a legend, great video guys, thanks for sharing !

A lot of this goes over my head becauae im not technically minded but still, it was a great interview, he recollected it with a lot of energy.

Thanks for posting!

I've not even had the chance to watch this yet Bill but I know it'll be awesome so already thumbs up from me!

I love it when someone has fresh ideas and thinks really well about what role it needs to play in the market. Thumbs up! :)

What a nice guy. Fantastic stuff, I could listen to him for hours

Thanks for that really interesting interview! :D

Love this. Great interview guys.

Really enjoyed this, thank you

Great interview! and added a lot of Amiga history! Sad he's signature was not there but for obvious reasons...

Really excellent interview.

Very sharp dude! Thanks for the interview.

Great interview guys. Added to "watch later" but stuff it, I watched it in the background at work. Don't tell anyone. ;) :D

Where Commodore failed primarily was to get the Amiga used in a professional capacity and out of the home. Windows had Office and the Mac was used for everything DTP (Quark) and Graphic Design. Even the Atari was used for Cubase through the 90's. There was no killer-must-have app that was driven into the corporate market. Apple would have gone the same way if it wasn't for just about every magazine and graphic designer using Mac's. Windows wasn't a great OS but if you spend 7 hours a day using Word and Excel in the office then it's going to translate much easier if you want that at home. The Amiga had Lightwave, which was fantastic, but not enough and too niche. Had they stuck some MIDI ports in (or at least a cheap upgrade) then studio's might have favoured them over the Atari's. And for games....well, the PS1 blew anything away that wasn't 3D accelerated and it was too late by then. Tragic.

Awesome interview ☺👍

Wow ! … really interesting interview and like always great*2 video from u :D …. greetings from Finland (A1000 owner) ;)

Sounds like he's got some solid nerding planned, while I'm just considering my next treehouse build.

Great man! Very interesting interwiev

GREAT stuff. Love his idea of a retro-game development system on a Pi 3 (now 4).

Oh I sooo much agree with him on the 'retro game machine' idea ...

Fascinating man.

Great job!

Thanks a lot. Very interesting :)

Amigazing! :D (Amiga+Amazing) More, please! :)

Amazing guy!

1:29 Air Jordan IV :D Great computers and great shoes!

Suddenly hear the title music to Yoomp! for the Atari XL at around 20:15 🤩

As a c64 and early PC user i have to admit, that the Amiga was a superior powerhouse. It's a shame that Commodore drove it all into shit. I switched from c64 to PC early 90s, because it's supposed to be more flexible and professional. But it took like 5 more years for the PC to keep up with the Amiga back then, when win95 and win98 took over.

I remember the interlace flicker being a necessary evil to get higher resolutions, but did any Amiga titles use it for smoother (both spatial and temporal) animation?

I started with an Atari 8-bit. But I guess we were too naive at that time to see that the natural extension was the Amiga and not the Atari-ST

It's an interesting fact, that the Amiga computer is the REAL "Atari ST" , as the Amiga was built by the Atari engineers. And the Atari ST is the real "Commodore Amiga", as the Atari ST was headed by Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore. ...crazy.

Amiga best computer ever! WE ARE AMIGA!

🙏Dankeschön 🙏

I own a working amiga 500 and have hundreds of games with it

👏🥂

Well that's a longwinded way to describe 4 channel 8 bit audio capabilities.

What's that game with the orange logo, demoing on screen of the Amiga on the right side? Sidewinder? Joe something? It looks kinda cool.

4:47 you're wrong when saying "2 frames make up a screen". It's 2 fields make up a frame, and a frame is what you would call a "screen". In interlancing half a frame is drawn which is a "field".

Only Amiga makes it possible!

Has anyone come across a install disk for a a2630 Commodore in a adf format

What he's talking about at 18:25 sounds a bit like Godot Engine

Amiga Gurus, given a basic a500 model roughly how much memory is available for an assembler program and data ?, i wonder.

Atari Amiga Commodore ST

His Name was Jay? Like, the J. stands for Jay 😂

Joe's never heard of software like AMOS or Gamemaker or even Unity or hundreds of other game making software it would seem.

Windows95 still wasn't a multitasking OS

I had the ATARI 800 because it just kicked Commodores 64 computer's butt graphics wise. It's sad that the Amiga got picked up by Commodore because Jack Tramiel was a cold blooded businessman.I don't see how he could even try to buy the Amiga for less than bottom dollar.He literally tried to screw the Amiga's developers.

The 3 dislikes must be from Sam, Leonard and Garry Tramiel

second! Joe Decuir ..... Joe Pillow?

To this Neb6 that doubts my opinion on Ataris blitter chip is all I know the ST had a blitter chip.Atari owned patents.Sega and Nintendo had give them alotta cash because of their patents.As for the blitter,Atari had problems with it just like the Amiga.Gee,I wonder why.And Commodore settled out of court with Atari for some undisclosed reasons.I don't know what this Neb has to say because his reply is NOT on this clip,even though I got a notice