Documentary on the Commodore Amiga Computer and its Fans

[lpetrich]

Viva Amiga: The Story of a Beautiful Machine | Documentary

Some people for Apple fans to laugh at. Seriously, the Amiga was very good for video production in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Also music and 3D modeling. But then Commodore went broke. It was revived by Escom a few years later, but that company also went broke. It's been in a sort of limbo ever since with some half-revivals.

The Amiga line continues to have many dedicated fans, and some of them were interviewed in this documentary. An interesting bit of artistry with Amigas is "chiptunes", music made using early desktop computers' audio systems.

Amiga, History of the Amiga, AmigaOS, AROS Research Operating System

AmigaKit.com - the Amiga shop -- you can get Amiga hardware and accessories there

[ceptimus]

I still have mine, though I've not powered it up for a few years. The 30MB hard disk I bought for it back in the 80s cost a fortune - and 30MB was actually plenty of capacity!

I also have the Amiga Forever emulator that runs on PC hardware. It actually emulates the various Amiga models surprisingly well. I've not used that for a while though either.

[Corona688]

They should have marketed it as a audio synthesizer / videomachine from the first... That would have placed it nicely for the camcorder and digital music explosion. As often happens with such things, they didn't quite realize what they had until it was too late.

[Janet]

I used an Amiga when I volunteered at a public access cable station. My sister got even more into it and bought her own. One of the funniest things I remember from that time was turning the TV at my parents' house to the program guide and seeing "guru meditation".

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Interview with Camilla Boemann - Danish developer who is part of the AmigaOS 68k development team