"The Future Was Here, The Commodore Amiga" available soon!
 

Jimmy Maher, author of interactive fiction works and this blog (which I strongly recommend to anyone interested in computing history) has just released a book about the Amiga in the MIT Press Platform Studies Series:

The Future Was Here - The Commodore Amiga

If it's just half as well researched as the stuff at his blog (which I regularly follow for his posts on IF and retro-computing and will eventually be converted into another book) then It's a must-read.

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It's available now for $17.43 at amazon.com

I've had an order with Amazon since January... I hope they manage to dispatch it sooner than June!

These have started shipping - mine arrived on Saturday. I'm working on a review :)

Received mine from them last week, great read!

Better than "On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"?

More technical and less historical so far.

It's a different book for different reasons...

Just got my copy today - its nice to see Toni getting a mention for his work on WinUAE :)

After an expected prolonged wait, I was advised earlier that my copy is now on its way. A few days ago, I discovered a price increase after missing my intended placing of an order but the personal, friendly writing of the excerpts won me over and I wasn't going to miss this one.

Whatever the book manages to cover, it'll be a pleasure to read another outlook on 'our' beloved hardware, its innovation and its days. The premise of the worth of the Amiga being the first multimedia computer and a democratic platform in its inherent ability to bring 'high-end' features and functionality to the masses is a fine one, regardless of the computer at the heart of the discussion.

My thanks and my congratulations go out to Jimmy Maher for getting this book out there.

What do you think of the book so far?

I read it all in 2 days, fascinating.

this book seems really great ! :)