I loved my Amigas, but ultimately it died because pcs overpowered them with cheap graphics, sound, CPU, memory, and upgradability, combined with a “good enough” version oh Windows with memory management. The Amiga’s only hope was to exploit its integrated operating system into a Mac-like alternative, but Apple already owned that niche…when Apple declined in the nineties, Amiga had a chance, but it was too weak at that time to contest the niche. And then it needed to adapt to DVDs and the internet….by which time Amiga was defunct.

The rise -- and specifically fall -- of Commodore is a lot more nuanced and multidimensional than the typical narratives discussed in KZfaq videos and presented by any one individual, insider or outsider. I would encourage those trying to understand what happened to read multiple perspectives from multiple Commodorians and analysts, Brian Bagnal's book series, Dave McMurtrie's interviews, David Pleasance's books, and the perspectives of those who were actually there, not people regurgitating Wikipedia articles or bits and scraps they found on the Internet for their retrogaming hobbies.

Not Dead Yet..

I have 3 genuine amiga500s..i also use emulation on linux with fs-uae.Many choices out there.

My Amiga 1000 as killed by Wing Commander (PC 386).

I want to learn to use an Amiga, looks like such a vintage piece of technology with tons of fun to play around

This is frickin ace. Magic Pockets, Amiga, Early 90s Cheesy Novelty Dance, Betty Boo also Thighs 🤣

Great explanation/demonstration. Thank you for sharing the knowledge 🤗 Never heard of this until recently, and only just before this about reel to reel mixing! I stayed DJing with a tape cassette on one side and a portable cd player on the other when i was 14, then in the same year saved a couple of hundred quid and got me done twin tray cd decks, and the rest is history! Long in the tooth now and still learning about new/old ways to mix. Every day is a school day, as they say...

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Had commodore not been such a heap of idiots (marketing-wise), maybe we all would be working on Amigas these days.

And today its a Year 2024, People still run Amiga Machines, Some in FPGA, Some in emulators, Some on real or reproduction hardware. I have just finished building Denise board based machine - Equivalent to 500+ with 2 zorro slots and improved circuitry. Amiga Became Immortal, naturally it had to die first.

Brilliant 👏 I do the same. Respect

My Amiga days really were the greatest, the graphics, the music and some truly incredible games. I was an indy 500 and f1gp junkie. For me personally it was the golden age.

Hey man whats this first song you're playing?

I am getting them now in the esp32 and saw them in varnish too

I followed your instructions perfectly but it keeps saying invalid json. please help me with the json file

Is OctaMED SoundStudio'?

How young on here Ravi? Lol

Finally!!! I’ve got this on cassette, 7” and 12” records. Thank you!!!

1988 to 1994. AAA That's basically the entire lifespan of developing a chip.. Usually you'd develop chips for a purpose, not for 20 years because you don't have a market for it yet.. Even Apple doesn't think that far ahead.. That's a long time only to see it failed. It probably may not have help Commodore out of bankruptcy, but if they didn't start the AAA chip then they may of had a better chance ??

Hombre wasn't PowerPC since it's Commodore's custom PA-RISC-based with 3D extensions and Hitachi PA-RISC CPU implementation. Hombre would be similar to Rendition Verite V1000 with MIPS CPU-based instruction set with 3D extensions.

I feel like people tend to look down on anything "old" @39:20. But the reality is that they have more soul and passion when compared in todays' souless and cold, shareholder ensh itification era.

Scala was years ahead of the competition. I was doing digital signage way back in in early 90s using scala infochannel on amiga computers(it could even do full motion video using MPEG cards and it could push updates to clients using 28k8 dial in modems) and I recently started looking at options that are available nowadays. As far as I can see nothing even comes closes to the simple yet very effective interface scale used to have.

Superb video! Is it still relevant for 2024? (Any thoughts on a version for this year?). The worst thing I ever did was throw out my towered Amiga to make some room in the attic 😥 I really regret being so stupid 😔 Liked and subbed 👍🏻

but is it relevent?

I’ve still got classic Amigas and no emulation can beat them however I do have an old Mac g5 which I’m tempted to install MorphOS on.

My friend's friend had an Amiga 1000. I absolutely loved it.

I don't know I would call them strange, but Debian and NetBSD both still release current OSes for original hardware. I beleive they require the MMU, and like Amix like more memory, but otherwise they work. NetBSD even has drivers for things like the ZZ9000 and other newish cards.

As a reminder, Chris Edward Pimiga distribution uses Scalos.

70s Pop Music feverish dream meets 90s KLF and SNAP! lol

What in the name of all that is holy...?

Was there a sequel involving Worms content? Missed opportunity if not! 😂

Thank you so much for this!!! 🎉 1993 2Unlimited/The Shamen/KLF and now....Lemmings!!! Who is this guy?!!! Inspired!

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Gold.

The sheer number of people who wanted to do her do at the time was truly staggering.

I seem to remember liking this back then...but to be fair, I was off my tits.

Hah hi from Australia Ravi, this was originally recorded off RAGE, a music program from the ABC (Australian version of BBC) that's been going since 1987. Funny how things get around.

This was unknown to me.

if i had this when i was a kid... i would have gone crazy !__!! this is awesome

Magic Pockets in the house !!!

I attempted to make a track with Lemmings samples back in the day, I wonder if I was subconsciously remembering this when I came up with the idea...

Ooohh.. I had such a crush on Alison! And Richard Joseph's version was mint.

So... Didn't even realise this was a thing...😂

Well, if you had Woodpeckers from space in the 80's, it makes sense that you would have Lemmings in the 90's...🤔

Ravi, please don't be tempted to upscale and upload the Mr Blobby song as you seem to be on a roll with tunes from this era😂

Warum....

Magic 😄🕺🕺🕺

No 😂

...and I enjoyed her 1st Album too!