Amiga Story | Nostalgia Nerd
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as a wonderful, thorough telling of the Amiga story in threads about the machine.
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2018 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec iosjunkie · 2018-12 · on “Buying an Amiga 30 years later”
As someone who cut my teeth on an A500, I have quite the soft spot for all things Amiga. I came across a wonderful documentary of the Amiga saga on Youtube: Amiga Story by Nostalgia Nerd Part 1: [this video] Part 2: [LINK]
Cites davesmith1983 · 2019-07 · on “The Slow Death of Hollywood”
Nostalgia Nerd. This is his one about the Atari ST: [LINK] And the Amiga (Part 1 of 2) [this video] I don't watch a lot of this stuff anymore because I've seen the story told quite a few times. Then there is Kim Justice, who does "History of <Games Company>" style videos. [LINK]
Cites eesmith · 2022-01 · on “Xerox PARC Mesa Programming Language 5.0 (1979) [pdf]”
Some other pointers: "Fire in the Valley", "Soul of a New Machine", everything Maher has published on [LINK] , "Where Wizards Stay Up Late", the stories at [LINK] about the Macintosh. But bear in mind that the Mac became big, which is why it's easy to find Mac stories. There are similar stories about other communities too, though harder to find. For example, here's a 2-part story about the Amiga - [this video] . As a reminder, don't only read books about success, but also failure. "Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure", about an early pen-based platform in the 1990s. And there's fiction, like "Microserfs".