Amiga/Retro YouTube Thread

[TCD]

Somebody 'fixes' Quake's ending in 5-ish minutes and calls John Romero his bitch for it: [ Show youtube player ]

(it's a bit of clickbait on my end, but the video is actually quite fun to watch if you know a bit of coding )

[gimbal]

I liked especially that he tries to answer how and why it happened.

[TCD]

The Computer Chronicles - Commodore 64 (1988): [ Show youtube player ]
Max Toy (god, I love that name ) president of Commodore at that time talking about the C64. It's fascinating and might explain why the Amiga 500 didn't do that well in the US.

[TCD]

The Computer Chronicles - Comdex Fall 1992 (1992): [ Show youtube player ]
Short segment (30 seconds) about the new A1200.

[TCD]

Hexen II - The Great Hecatomb by Civvie11: [ Show youtube player ]

[gimbal]

Want a new ZX Spectrum? Just build one from scratch.

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"Fun build" this guy calls it. Grab yourself a cup of tea and have a go.

[TCD]

Segment of Computer Chronicles about the AmigaOS set-top boxes in 1996: [ Show youtube player ]

[TCD]

Amiga segment on The Computer Chronicles - Consumer Buying Guide (1993) featuring Scala: [ Show youtube player ]

[TCD]

Build The Amazing Levitating Amiga BoingBall: [ Show youtube player ]

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by TCD

Build The Amazing Levitating Amiga BoingBall: [ Show youtube player ]

I'm impressed - few things on this channel that have caught my eye but that is very different. I like it.

[TCD]

Another Computer Chronicles episode about low end computers from 1985: [ Show youtube player ]
Features a longer segment with Jack Tramiel talking about the ST (starts at 4:35) and another segment about the post-Tramiel Commodore with the C128 and the Amiga (starts at 14:08).

[TCD]

The Computer Chronicles - Amiga 3000 (1990): [ Show youtube player ]
One statement from the video: "Commodore suffered from the image of being a entertainment computer from the early days and then also from what we call the chicken and egg syndrome."

[TCD]

The Computer Chronicles - Greatest Computer Games (1995): [ Show youtube player ]
Roberta Williams talking about Phantasmagoria (starting at 16:54)

[TCD]

David Rowe | Video Games and Knightmare Artist: [ Show youtube player ]
Interesting talk about designing box art

[TCD]

The Computer Chronicles - Slowdown in Silicon Valley #2: [ Show youtube player ]
Starting off with the 'new' Amiga & Atari ST. Quite interesting what was going on in the US computing market at the time the machines were launched.

[Paulee_Alex_Bow]

I’ll put this here too
Spectacular Software Synths of the Commodore Amiga

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[TCD]

The Computer Chronicles - Amiga and Atari (1985): [ Show youtube player ]

The Computer Chronicles - Amiga 2500 (1989): [ Show youtube player ]

[Seiya]

i think that Computer Chronicles staff was in difficult to speak about Amiga, but also Atari ST because they used to use and to tell about professional computer like PC and Mac. Also they not sure in what kind of market Amiga could be esploited by, mainly professional business.
Amiga has been in prototype stage for 2 years (if i understood well) and maybe if it was on market 2 years before could be very different.

[TCD]

The opening of the second video is quite interesting in that regard. The (business) computer press seems to have 'ignored' the Amiga and in the first video we have one developer that expressed that developing for the Amiga would mean they couldn't develop for other machines (and that's why they decided to develop for the [easier] ST). Also that they show two (Amiga 500) games to show off the Amiga capabilities in the second video about the A2500 is quite telling.

[Seiya]

A2500 was more professional than A500, but also the A1000, and ideal for serious things. A dream Amiga with accelerator cpu, SCSI, more RAM and Hardisk. For sure perfect for that business seen in the video