Met David at a trade show back in the day when the Amiga was in its prime. What a top bloke. Can't thank him and his team enough for what they achieved and did for the computing comunity all across Europe. Still have my towered A1200 up in the loft (68060 64Meg, Prelude1200, FastATA, A4000 Keyboard)
Looking forward to this book, nice to read about CBM from the European side, where as David says was much, much stronger than in the US. Being old enough to have gone through the rise and fall of Amiga, it'll be nice to hear exactly what happened.
Thanks Dan. Remember the Press Releases in CU Amiga, when the CD32, with David at the helm and was about to be bought to market. Just glad this great technology still going. Like the A2000 my monitor sits on. :). Agreed with Davids sentiment, about the Amiga. Where I first cut my teeth after my Vic 20 and C64.
Thank you David for the Batman Pack which was my first computer and set me on a road of creativity, music, animation and gaming. Looking forward to the book!
Really enjoyed this interview and will look out for the book. I was an Amiga user from 1990 to 2001, and it will be interesting to read the real reasons why machines like the 600 were released.
My Amiga 1200 was really the first computer that I actually created my first music three and half minute dance music track with just 4 channels which I then recorded onto tape from Octamed Sound Studio in early 1996 and without a midi keyboard. I quite literally blew my own socks off that I did that at the time haha... 21 years later I'm producing orchestral ambient trance filmscore music with a track count from anywhere from 100 to 180. I had an Atari Mega ST but didn't ever really make a proper track with it, and Atari 800 XL before that, which also had music software I used with it. There is actually some relationship I believe between the Atari 800 XL and the Amiga line in terms of hardware interestingly. For those interested in the music I create today in which the Amiga was the original catalyst springboard to launch my musical endeavor...you can check it out here :-) soundcloud.com/scott-moncrieff-1
The main relationship with the Atari 8bit line and the Amiga is with Jay Miner. He headed up design for the graphics chips for Atari before leaving and ending up with Amiga.
Batman pack the best gaming starter bundle ever sadly i ended up with cartoon classics.looking forward to this book David always comes across as a nice fella.
My first computer was a Magnavox Odyssey² and my second computer was a Commodore 64 :) My high school that I went to had Commodore 64's and I remember taking BASIC programming class :) LOAD"$",8 Fun learning to program! And the games were so awesome! I didn't know Commodore was based in Westchester. Westchester, New York is it? I live nest door in New Jersey :) Great interview guys!
Very sad day in the computer universe when amiga shut down..This amazing computer so deserved to survive into the internet age..thankfully i still have a couple of amiga computer but the buzz isn't the same as the late 80s.
Hi Dan, I'll be buying that book. I recently got my Amiga 500 from the loft with an add on hard drive Ive forgotten how it all works. Is there any RUclips videos you'd recommend? Could you do some how to vids. I loaded game but couldn't remember much else. Great vids 👍
Thanks for this. You can have him on once a week if it's up to me :) I wonder what's his thoughts about the vampire 2 and the resurgeance of the old machines in that way.
Another really cool interview Dan. Thanks for that. I'm signing up for Davids book... what an amazing Amiga time capsule he is... and I can't wait to read it from his POV. But I have to take issue with the A600 comment coz I really like this model. That's OK, he has a right to be wrong!
David Pleasance is what is best about Commodore, but the Batman pack rejuvenating sales may have been good only short term. Many of us were always pushing for a more serious presence in graphics and business software. The old argument about if it can run games this good, productivity software is no problem. Well that didn't get professionals or those so inclined to move over to Amiga. Gaming is all most ever considered it useful for, even if it was great at that. I enjoyed Deluxe Paint and other programs but had to go pc in the early nineties to do professional graphic work and use business software.
What a shame that David and his colleagues at Commodore UK never managed to buy the rights to the Amiga in the end, one wonders how differently things would have turned out...
The cheap pc would have still won out computerwise and the playstation would have destroyed the cd32 in the console market. Sony had so many devs on board plus very effective marketing that I really don't think commodore uk could have competed for long unless they could fasttrack a 3d focused console.
Holly cow. Really wondering if I shouldn't apply to NYT as a field reporter simply based on my resume of investigation into the world of Commodore Amiga. 1). I physically possess an A1200HD/40 and 2). I bought one on Lay-Away at the Base Exchange in Spain. Other than that, it's apparently all rumor, innuendo and hearsay. I'm just trying to get the A1200HD/40 I found in a garage repaired. So far, my forum registration to SIMPLY post a "repair" query gets banned, and the 888 number I call just drops without a voicemail system. Google queries result in old posts, a 2014 post that references a repair shop that has apparently shutdown; no replies to emails. Anyway, there's my rant. Next options are hacker space meetup, and Television Repair shop down the road that I have to supply the A1200 schematics to. DOH and or WTF, really?
The very things that I can understand annoyed David about the Amiga 600 eg overpriced at the time and the wrong spec the PCMCIA slot and on board IDE make it an easy machine to use now, these features were very expensive to use when released but now the PCMCIA can be used to read from a cheap CF card reader and a CF Flash Card hard disk can be added to the onboard ide, so it ended up being good for retro users even if it was the wrong machine at the time, also due to poor sales the price was heavily discounted and the 600 allowed many to get there first amiga
Wow, an interview where the interviewer doesn't continuously interrupt their interviewee!! Media take note. Nice work Dan.
very good interviewer, Im thinking he must have radio experience :)
Ahhhh, the man himself. Great stuff. Really looking forward to this book.
Met David at a trade show back in the day when the Amiga was in its prime. What a top bloke. Can't thank him and his team enough for what they achieved and did for the computing comunity all across Europe. Still have my towered A1200 up in the loft (68060 64Meg, Prelude1200, FastATA, A4000 Keyboard)
Great video Dan.
Loved the interview Dan, now awaiting the publication of the BOOK :)
Poor old 600, looking at mine right now, and I still bloody love it. Great vid, look forward to the book.
Looking forward to this book, nice to read about CBM from the European side, where as David says was much, much stronger than in the US. Being old enough to have gone through the rise and fall of Amiga, it'll be nice to hear exactly what happened.
Excellent watch. Thanks to you both for making this video.
Get in, really looking forward to this. I was backer number 2 on the book :)
Thanks Dan. Remember the Press Releases in CU Amiga, when the CD32, with David at the helm and was about to be bought to market. Just glad this great technology still going. Like the A2000 my monitor sits on. :). Agreed with Davids sentiment, about the Amiga. Where I first cut my teeth after my Vic 20 and C64.
Thank you David for the Batman Pack which was my first computer and set me on a road of creativity, music, animation and gaming. Looking forward to the book!
I've just got round to watching this video and thought I'll go back that only to find the kickstarter finished yesterday. AARRRHH
Dan, is there any scope for adding a signed hardback book? I'd like a signed copy but don't want the C64 book.
I agree, great interview. I look forward to getting my copy, hopefully it will be on Amazon.
Really enjoyed this interview and will look out for the book. I was an Amiga user from 1990 to 2001, and it will be interesting to read the real reasons why machines like the 600 were released.
My Amiga 1200 was really the first computer that I actually created my first music three and half minute dance music track with just 4 channels which I then recorded onto tape from Octamed Sound Studio in early 1996 and without a midi keyboard. I quite literally blew my own socks off that I did that at the time haha... 21 years later I'm producing orchestral ambient trance filmscore music with a track count from anywhere from 100 to 180.
I had an Atari Mega ST but didn't ever really make a proper track with it, and Atari 800 XL before that, which also had music software I used with it. There is actually some relationship I believe between the Atari 800 XL and the Amiga line in terms of hardware interestingly. For those interested in the music I create today in which the Amiga was the original catalyst springboard to launch my musical endeavor...you can check it out here :-) soundcloud.com/scott-moncrieff-1
The main relationship with the Atari 8bit line and the Amiga is with Jay Miner. He headed up design for the graphics chips for Atari before leaving and ending up with Amiga.
Nice music! Yes the tracker software was the nuts back then, so easy to put stuff together and just stack sounds on tracks and sequence them.
Ironic that DP organised a 'kickstart' campaign to get a book about the Amiga (and Commodore) going... best of luck!
Will have to wait till the hardback copy is on Amazon as no more left.
It's going to be on Amazon? Did I miss something?
Good VOD guys, looking forward to the book when it comes out :) Being a C64 junkie this will be very interesting.
I've backed it! I can't wait, Mr Pleasance you are a legend sir :)
Nice vid Dan, David Pleasance is a legend.
Great interview! Well done, sir!
Batman pack the best gaming starter bundle ever sadly i ended up with cartoon classics.looking forward to this book David always comes across as a nice fella.
My first computer was a Magnavox Odyssey² and my second computer was a Commodore 64 :) My high school that I went to had Commodore 64's and I remember taking BASIC programming class :) LOAD"$",8
Fun learning to program! And the games were so awesome! I didn't know Commodore was based in Westchester. Westchester, New York is it? I live nest door in New Jersey :) Great interview guys!
Gonna be such a good book, I cant wait, all the best!..
Very sad day in the computer universe when amiga shut down..This amazing computer so deserved to survive into the internet age..thankfully i still have a couple of amiga computer but the buzz isn't the same as the late 80s.
looking forward to it, lol I remember him ripping Petro!..
Very nice interview of an interesting man.
Hi Dan, I'll be buying that book. I recently got my Amiga 500 from the loft with an add on hard drive Ive forgotten how it all works. Is there any RUclips videos you'd recommend? Could you do some how to vids. I loaded game but couldn't remember much else. Great vids 👍
Thanks for this. You can have him on once a week if it's up to me :) I wonder what's his thoughts about the vampire 2 and the resurgeance of the old machines in that way.
Can't wait for the book.
Looking forward to the book.
Another really cool interview Dan. Thanks for that. I'm signing up for Davids book... what an amazing Amiga time capsule he is... and I can't wait to read it from his POV. But I have to take issue with the A600 comment coz I really like this model. That's OK, he has a right to be wrong!
David Pleasance is what is best about Commodore, but the Batman pack rejuvenating sales may have been good only short term.
Many of us were always pushing for a more serious presence in graphics and business software.
The old argument about if it can run games this good, productivity software is no problem. Well that didn't get professionals or those so inclined to move over to Amiga. Gaming is all most ever considered it useful for, even if it was great at that.
I enjoyed Deluxe Paint and other programs but had to go pc in the early nineties to do professional graphic work and use business software.
Im absolutely gutted I missed this! (god dam hospital!!) Does anybody no if theres a way to get a copy of this book?
What a shame that David and his colleagues at Commodore UK never managed to buy the rights to the Amiga in the end, one wonders how differently things would have turned out...
The cheap pc would have still won out computerwise and the playstation would have destroyed the cd32 in the console market. Sony had so many devs on board plus very effective marketing that I really don't think commodore uk could have competed for long unless they could fasttrack a 3d focused console.
polite tiger
I want to buy this book in ebook form and I can't find it. This really annoys me 😡
Another great video Dan, or do you prefer Polite Tiger, lol?
Sign me up.... cant wait
I must say .... David was very pleasant... WHAT!!?!?!
Holly cow. Really wondering if I shouldn't apply to NYT as a field reporter simply based on my resume of investigation into the world of Commodore Amiga. 1). I physically possess an A1200HD/40 and 2). I bought one on Lay-Away at the Base Exchange in Spain. Other than that, it's apparently all rumor, innuendo and hearsay. I'm just trying to get the A1200HD/40 I found in a garage repaired. So far, my forum registration to SIMPLY post a "repair" query gets banned, and the 888 number I call just drops without a voicemail system. Google queries result in old posts, a 2014 post that references a repair shop that has apparently shutdown; no replies to emails. Anyway, there's my rant. Next options are hacker space meetup, and Television Repair shop down the road that I have to supply the A1200 schematics to. DOH and or WTF, really?
Is it possible to hook up a 64 and play the old Bruce Lee game?
The very things that I can understand annoyed David about the Amiga 600 eg overpriced at the time and the wrong spec the PCMCIA slot and on board IDE make it an easy machine to use now, these features were very expensive to use when released but now the PCMCIA can be used to read from a cheap CF card reader and a CF Flash Card hard disk can be added to the onboard ide, so it ended up being good for retro users even if it was the wrong machine at the time, also due to poor sales the price was heavily discounted and the 600 allowed many to get there first amiga
Dirty tricks during management buyout.. snatched out of Dave's hands at the last minute.. shocking.
You should of interviewed Lionel Richie. Wasn't he part of the Commodores. WHAT?!?!!
This is all about him he does not have an idea about the users. Just marketing people are dull
two legends talking to eachother
he comes over quite bitter
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its a great (an expensive) couple of years to be an amiga fan!
Great video Dan.