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From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years

cstanton
cstanton over 10 years ago

Did anyone else back the Kickstarter?

 

This documentary is about 2hr 30min long and covers from microcontrollers, through to the Apple computers and introducing the birth and life of the Commodore Amiga. It's pretty fascinating, contains a lot of great interviews and sketches of computer design.

 

It's about £10 for the digital copy: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/amiga

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 10 years ago

    Rather than the BBC Model B it was seeing the Amiga that encouraged many people to have a software engineering career. I remember the incredible demo routines by bitmap brothers? pushing chips to the limit getting that extra bit of rendering and sound effects etc. I never owned an Amiga as a kid but I definitely wanted one! The next best thing was to study how computers worked image

    Is the video like the BBC Podfather documentary level?

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 10 years ago

    Rather than the BBC Model B it was seeing the Amiga that encouraged many people to have a software engineering career. I remember the incredible demo routines by bitmap brothers? pushing chips to the limit getting that extra bit of rendering and sound effects etc. I never owned an Amiga as a kid but I definitely wanted one! The next best thing was to study how computers worked image

    Is the video like the BBC Podfather documentary level?

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  • cstanton
    cstanton over 10 years ago in reply to shabaz

    I'm not familiar with BBC Podfather, however it does go into a lot of detail, it's interesting to see the schematics for the logic gates for various processor chips.

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