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Lady Decade: THE LOST AMIGA CD64 - After the CD32... - A Commodore History Documentary


Lady Decade always has the dirt on rare and obscure consoles from a UK perspective. This is about the lost Amiga CD64.
 
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Amiga A500 Mini Full Review - Every Game, Demos & Workbench

The Amiga FINALLY gets the mini console treatment. I give it a full workout, unboxing, set-up, testing every included game, how to load your own games onto it and then some thing it wasn't designed for. How well can it run demos and Amiga Workbench?
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LGR: So I Bought Those Weird New AliExpress Retro PCs…

An LGR review of the Book 8088 and Hand 386, newly-made retro computers on Aliexpress! No emulation here, these are DOS PCs running an 8088 and 386SX processor, using legacy chips on custom PCBs melded with open source projects, off-the-shelf components, and injection molded enclosures. They sure are neat! But lots of compromises, drawbacks, and odd design decisions.
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Amiga vs Atari ST - Computer Chronicles 1985

Step back in time and check out this 1985 Computer Chronicles television show where they discuss the technology of the time which happened to be the Amiga and ST.
 
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The Commodore 16: Why It Failed


Yes folks, I'm looking at oft forgotten 1980s Commodore machine, the Commodore 16. Woefully underpowered, Commodore still launched it in 1984, and they probably shouldn't have bothered.
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Amiga 3000 - The Best Amiga Ever?

The Amiga 3000 is often regarded as the best model of the classic Commodore Amiga machines ever. But why does it have that reputation and is it deserved?
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Board level upgrade video for the Atari 600XL


 
The Jack Tramiel Trilogy: From Commodore to Atari | Kim Justice


The three classic Kim Justice videos covering the life and career of Jack Tramiel in boxset, from the terrors of his younger days, his glory years in charge of Commodore and overseeing computers like the C64, and his war with his former company at the head of Atari with the ST. Enjoy!
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The 8-Bit Guy: The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation!


The 6502 CPU has powered so many computers. The 8-Bit guy breaks it all down and discusses the history.
 
The Tandy 1000 - The best MS-DOS computer in 1984


The Tandy 1000 was clearly the best MS-DOS computer of its time featuring better sound, graphics and being cheaper due to integration than the IBM PC.
 
Why The Gameboy's Engineering Is So Impressive


When the Gameboy first launched, its simple design was considered a drawback — but it's the very reason the console and its games became so hugely successful.
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The Story of Mastertronic and Arcadia: Masters of Budget Games | Kim Justice


Mastertronic became one of the biggest UK studios in the 1980's by releasing quality 8-bit budget titles on a large scale -- other companies hated them for it, but they all had to follow them. This video covers that success, but also their failings, including the Arcadia Select System -- an attempt to put Amiga titles on the arcade floor. Enjoy!
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Love these Kim Justice videos! They are usually about UK stuff we do not know about in the US but they are super interesting, extensive and long!
 
LowSpecGamer: The first LowSpec Processor


For years, an ongoing battle is fought by a group of Engineers to make a product that their industry thought impossible: a processor so cheap it could change the world.But to make it happen they would have to struggle in ways they could have never expected.
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OptiDoom v0.3 for the 3DO


Can the Doom 3Do port be turned into something more? Optimus6128 is going to try.
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How Nokia Secretly Failed N-Gage!


Nokia N-Gage's complete failure of a portable video game console + its totally forgotten sequel platform N-Gage 2.0 & Metal Gear Solid Mobile!
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Rerez!
 
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The Nintendo 64: Nintendo's First True Loss | VideoGameDocs


Eagerly awaiting one of the most electrifying announcmenets of the year, Japanese school children stood huddled outside of Makuhari Messe, a convention center located in Chiba, Japan. Inside Makuhari Messe, Nintendo's 7th Annual Shoshinkai was underway. A trade show where Nintendo regularly showed off their latest products and in development titles. This year wasn't much different from other Shohinkai's of the past. However, Nintendo fans, and Nintendo executives eagerly awaited one of the most highly anticipated announcements. The 64-bit, 3D capable, Nintendo 64.Today we take a look at the history of Nintendo's first 3D capable console, and the many mistake Nintendo made while developing it.
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Dragons Lair on the Amiga - How a laserdisc game fit onto 6 floppy disks | MVG


Dragon's Lair, originally released for arcades in 1983 by Cinematronics. It uses laserdisc technology, offering greatly superior graphics compared to other video games at the time. The game was ported to several other platforms, but as no home system technology of that era could accommodate the graphical quality of LaserDisc. But there was one port of the game that stood above the rest and was a faithful recreation of the laserdisc original. That version was the Commodore Amiga release from 1983. In this episode we deep dive and take a look at how Dragon's Lair on the Amiga came to be.
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Modern Vintage Gamer
 
Pentium Pro, was it a lemon?


The Pentium Pro in the 90s was regarded by many as a failure, an expensive flop from Intel. Was that commonly held belief true, let's find out.
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RetroBytes
 
AmigaKit launches a new Amiga that’s not an Amiga at all

I try to keep tabs on a huge number of operating system projects out there – for obvious reasons – but long ago I learned that when it comes to the world of Amiga, it’s best to maintain distance and let any important news find its way out of the Amiga bubble, lest one loses their sanity. Keeping up with the Amiga world requires following every nook and cranny of various forums and websites with different allegiances to different (shell) companies, with often barely coherent screeching and arguments literally nobody cares about.
It’s a mess is what I’m trying to say.

Anyway, it seems one of the many small companies still somehow making a living in the Amiga world, AmigaKit, has recently released a new device, the A600GS. It’s a retrogaming-oriented Amiga computer, but it does come with something called AmiBench, that’s apparently a weird hybrid between bits of Amiga OS 4 and AROS, so it does also support running a proper desktop and associated applications, but only AmigaOS 3.x applications (I think? It’s a bit unclear). It has HDMI at up to 1080p, and even WiFi and Bluetooth support, which is pretty neat.

Wait, Wifi and Bluetooth support? What are we really dealing with here? Once again the information is hard to find because AmigaKit is incredibly stingy with specifications – I had to read goddamn YouTube comments to get some hints – but it seems to be a custom board with an Orange Pi Zero 3 stuck on top doing most of the work. In other words, the meat of this thing is just an emulator, which in and of itself isn’t a bad thing, it’s just weird to me that they’re not upfront and direct about this.

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Can you still Dial-Up to Bulletin Boards today? Commander X16 BBS fun!


Step back in time and discover the nostalgic world of Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs) in 2024! In this video, we hopefully take the Commander X16 Retrocomputer online, diving deep into the vintage charm of BBSs via a real copper phone line. We’ll take a quick look at its MIDI too.
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