Amiga Story | Nostalgia Nerd
What it is
Part 1 of a documentary on the Commodore Amiga, from the Lorraine prototype and the Atari and Commodore buyouts through the Amiga 1000 launch in the 1980s.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a wonderful, thorough telling of the Amiga story in threads about the machine.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 1 strong recommendations
- first 2018, last 2022
What HN commenters said
“I came across a wonderful documentary of the Amiga saga on Youtube”
Wonderful documentary of the Amiga saga
iosjunkie, 2018-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Buying an Amiga 30 years later”
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Topics: amiga, commodore, retro computing, jay miner, 1980s
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