Amiga Forever 2012
Genre Documentary
Country USA
Language English
Running Time 380 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
Cast
Crew
Plot
These are, in our opinion, "must see" documents about the Amiga, the C64 and Commodore in general, which took a lot of time and hard work to find, license and process.

This video collection will allow you to connect people and facts in new ways, as it better exposes the relationship between Commodore, the Amiga, an increasingly mature PC market, and the ups and downs of the video games industry. The videos also contain touching biographical parts, precious insights into the history of personal computing and multimedia, and many an interesting lesson in project and business management, with a special focus on areas such as IT, startups, the consumer market and the video games industry.

The original sources of all videos usually were NTSC VHS tapes, often chosen from the best version of multiple available ones, and in a few cases combining the best data from different tapes. The Jay Miner Speech video was digitized from a combination of Beta SP tape for the event footage and digital MPEG data for the original titles. The Jay Miner interview has its own story. The Dave Haynie interview was digitized from a combination of 8 mm video and an additional MD audio source. The videos were digitized, enhanced and encoded to the highest quality standards using the latest technology.

We took the extra effort of adding subtitles in multiple languages in order to make these pieces of Amiga history and culture accessible to the widest possible audience. In addition to consuming an enormous amount of internal resources, the transcriptions and the translations would not have been possible without the generous help of a group of several dozen volunteers from all over the world.
Episodes
Disc 01:
1 Launch of Amiga (1985)
2 Inside Commodore (1988)
3 Jay Miner Speech (1989)
4 Jay Miner Interview (1990)
5 History of the Amiga (1992)
Disc 02:
6 The Deathbed Vigil (1994)
7 Dave Haynie 2001 Interview (2001)
Special Features
Disc 02: "Amiga Faces" extra feature, which includes thousands of pictures from Cloanto's Amiga event photo archives.
As these are memories taken directly from our own photo albums, currently the only way to be included in "Amiga Faces" is to take part in a public event where Cloanto staff also attends. The sections for some events include additional third-party photograph contributions (with due permissions and credits).
Personal Details
Collection Status In Collection
Links Cloanto
Edition Details
Format DVD
Region Any Region
Release Country USA
TV System NTSC
No. of Disks/Tapes 2
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; Italian
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer