In this video we are going to take a look at why the Commodore Amiga was just so awesome. This is from a hardware perspective and I've included lots of quotes from the designer himself Jay Miner. The Jay Miner quotes are taken from these 2 videos, they are really worth a watch The History of the Commodore Amiga - Rare Jay Miner Speech AmiExpo 1990 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-MqC35aWrQ Jay Miner. Lead designer: Atari 2600, Atari 800, Amiga. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daQNJMZblZ8 -- Other Links -- Bit Blit Algorithm (Amiga Blitter Chip) - Computerphile - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6g1tD66QBA Amiga 1000 Ad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k054ON8ikho Ed Logg GDC 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItH-mV32KQY Amiga 500 Mboard Picture - https://bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/media/download_photos/a500mb_rev5_3.jpg Amiga 100 MBoard Picture - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commodore_Amiga_1000_-_main_board-7421.jpg Amiga 1000 Picture - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amiga_1000DP.jpg Jay Miner at the 1990 Amiga Developers Conference in Paris, France, on February 9, 1990 Copyright 1990 Michael C. Battilana and Cloanto IT sr - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Miner#/media/File:JayMiner1990.jpg Top 10 Atari 2600 Games - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kJ_79ih9rI HAM Picture - https://www.nostalgianerd.com/the-amiga-story/ Creative Sound Blaster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster Menace Longplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXBpMCVicic MS Word for Mac - https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-word/1x-mac Amiga 500 Advert - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVl9dAqkDnc Windows Blue Screen Of Death - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW7Rqwwth84 -- Timestamps -- 0:00 The Amiga 0:48 RGB Video output 1:18 Bitplane Graphics 4:07 Hold and Modify 6:56 The Blitter 8:06 Memory 10:13 CPU 12:35 Copper 14:00 Open Platform 14:55 Compatibility 15:46 Multitasking OS 18:21 Sound 22:38 Sprites 23:30 Input 24:45 Storage 25:20 Conclusion -- Other -- Marty McFly image is from 1985 "Back To the Future" by Universal Pictures