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This ended too soon! For me the real age of the Amiga started with the 500, which this article - wonderful as it is - stops exactly short of.

mastazi 6y ago
Yes we need a Part 2, it was a very enjoyable reading! The YouTube channel “Nostalgia Nerd” [1] could scratch that itch in the meantime - look for the “Amiga Story” documentary (made up of 2 videos, about one hour each), it’s well done. On the same channel there are also several longer videos about the various Atari product lines (ST, Jaguar etc). [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/Nostalgianerd https://www.youtube.com/c/Nostalgianerd
- ansible 6y ago
  For even more about the computers back in the 1980's, check out The 8-bit Guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22 https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22
  - mastazi 6y ago
    Oh yes, great channel I agree
- detritus 6y ago
  Just so you know - you have cost me at least four hours of background cognitive potential so far, as I've had this on whilst I worked.
  - mastazi 6y ago
    Ahah :-D
w4tson 6y ago
Yeah I grew up with A500. I loved that machine. It came with a paper BASIC reference manual. It was years before I worked out what it’s purpose was. Once I did though, I was hooked, I tried AMOS basic, though this was a little difficult because of patchy intel. No YouTube tutorials to learn from. Only books from the library or AmigaFormat magazines. Blitz basic was easier and I had some better tutorials. I progressed to writing my own games. When I finally moved to PC I picked up rudimentary C++ to write a game, I managed but but it was difficult. Then pascal at school. Java at university. Now it’s my day job. JavaScript was learned on the job. On the side I’ve learned groovy, scala, kotlin, go, rust. I’ve now been a software dev for 16 years professionally and have started a consultancy this year. All pretty much thanks to the Amiga. That machine was an Xmas present, I almost got a Nintendo instead. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been!

mastazi 6y ago

Yes we need a Part 2, it was a very enjoyable reading! The YouTube channel “Nostalgia Nerd” [1] could scratch that itch in the meantime - look for the “Amiga Story” documentary (made up of 2 videos, about one hour each), it’s well done. On the same channel there are also several longer videos about the various Atari product lines (ST, Jaguar etc). [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/Nostalgianerd https://www.youtube.com/c/Nostalgianerd

ansible 6y ago
For even more about the computers back in the 1980's, check out The 8-bit Guy: https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22 https://www.youtube.com/user/adric22
- mastazi 6y ago
  Oh yes, great channel I agree
detritus 6y ago
Just so you know - you have cost me at least four hours of background cognitive potential so far, as I've had this on whilst I worked.
- mastazi 6y ago
  Ahah :-D

w4tson 6y ago

Yeah I grew up with A500. I loved that machine. It came with a paper BASIC reference manual. It was years before I worked out what it’s purpose was. Once I did though, I was hooked, I tried AMOS basic, though this was a little difficult because of patchy intel. No YouTube tutorials to learn from. Only books from the library or AmigaFormat magazines. Blitz basic was easier and I had some better tutorials. I progressed to writing my own games. When I finally moved to PC I picked up rudimentary C++ to write a game, I managed but but it was difficult. Then pascal at school. Java at university. Now it’s my day job. JavaScript was learned on the job. On the side I’ve learned groovy, scala, kotlin, go, rust. I’ve now been a software dev for 16 years professionally and have started a consultancy this year. All pretty much thanks to the Amiga. That machine was an Xmas present, I almost got a Nintendo instead. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been!