What goes up, must come down... Welcome to the story of the Commodore Amiga. This is part 1 of a 2 part documentary exploring the history and story of the mighty Amiga from its conception through to its buyout by Commodore. This episode deals with the "up" part of the story, and takes place during the 1980s. It charts the conception of the Lorraine machine (that would become the first Commodore Amiga), the early years and team spent working on the machine, the buyout of Atari followed by Commodore, the launch of the original Commodore Amiga machine (later renamed the Amiga 1000) and the subsequent Amiga 2000 and Amiga 500 machines which conclude before 1989 is out. In the second part, we'll look at the 1990s, when the Amiga peaked and then fell to its regrettable demise.

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♜Resources♜
Some of the research resources used for this video;
http://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_K...
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiToro
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/ahis...
http://www.retrocomputacion.net/yabbf...
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/0...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_C...
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/0... Copper Chip Information
http://www.retrocomputacion.net/yabbf... Page 6 Custom Chip information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuiti...)
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/caos...
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/trip...
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/1...
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/a200...
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/a500...
https://cloanto.com/amiga/roms/help/m... ROM Bits (A1000) WCS RAM, etc (ALL MACHINES)
Jay Interview http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/comm...
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/b52b... B52 Motherboards
Unseen Perspectives (Larry Kaplan Photo) http://thefuturist.blogspot.co.uk/20...
http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/comm... Amiga team photos
http://www.cbmitapages.it/foto/person... Further team information
http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/  Bouncing ball resource

Other Resources:
Amiga 3D renders used with permission by https://www.flickr.com/photos/tommesk...

   • MESS WIP: Booting the Amiga 1000 with...   Amiga 1000 (CC) Footage
   • History of the Commodore Amiga | A 19...   Commodore Amiga Documentary (PixelThing)
https://archive.org/details/amigaform... Amiga Format Archive
   • Commodore Amiga Boing Ball Zen   Amiga Boing Zen (The Guru Meditation)

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