If you're interested in the history of Commodore, I thoroughly recommend the Commodore International Historical Society at https://commodore.international/. Dave has pulled together many of the people who were there at the time. For example, here's an Amiga panel from the recent VCF East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AYDkuMg-U
There is an older one from VCF, which were a couple of sessions, where I was proven wrong, some of the engineers actually wanted the Amiga to be UNIX like first, the way it turned out to be was a sequence of decisions that eventually made it the way it was in the end. Thankfully, as it had plenty of cool ideas, many of which never got out of the Amiga into other platforms.
Looking forward to watch these.
leoc•7mo ago
There are also Brian Bagnall's Commodore history books, of course.
jandrese•7mo ago
> Running a 5-micrometer-technology chip at an 8-MHz clock rate caused it to dissipate a great deal of power—nearly 1.5 watts.
So quaint in our era of 500w graphics cards.
sohkamyung•7mo ago
I'm currently reading "Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer" by Jesper Juul [1]. An interesting look at the history and influence of the C64 in games, the Demoscene and as a retro computer. He also has a companion website [2].
crb•7mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30895210
If you're interested in the history of Commodore, I thoroughly recommend the Commodore International Historical Society at https://commodore.international/. Dave has pulled together many of the people who were there at the time. For example, here's an Amiga panel from the recent VCF East: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_AYDkuMg-U
pjmlp•7mo ago
There is an older one from VCF, which were a couple of sessions, where I was proven wrong, some of the engineers actually wanted the Amiga to be UNIX like first, the way it turned out to be was a sequence of decisions that eventually made it the way it was in the end. Thankfully, as it had plenty of cool ideas, many of which never got out of the Amiga into other platforms.
Looking forward to watch these.
leoc•7mo ago