Deathbed Vigil extended trailer

This is the newly cobbled together extended trailer (around 12 minutes) for my film, "The Deathbed Vigil and other tales of digital angst", about the last days of Commodore's main Engineering group in West Chester, PA. Check out http://www.frogpondmedia.com/dbv for information on the full DVD.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Commodore
• Amiga
• Haynie
• Retrocomputing
• Documentary
• Bankruptcy

[blade004]

Some people say its all nostalgia and my youth that makes me love the Amiga, but i had MANY systems before the Amiga in the 80's when i was far younger and as such would have had more nostalgia with those systems if that was the case. But in 1990 at the age of 16 i got my first A500 and then sold that for an A1200 in 1992 which i used till late 2000 for "Everything", so that would have made me 27 by the time i bought a PeeCee. So in a nutshell, its not about nostalgia, its about SPIRIT!

[wildworms]

Hello Dave, Hey guys,

I am not into all these things about the rise and fall of C=, I must admit. But I know how it feels to work for a company which is obviously facing it's last days. I just wanted to say: I still own an A500 (besides my new Apple stuff). And I just wanted to day "Thank you!" for the Amiga. When I was a teenager, the Amiga gave me the best time of my life. I so much enjoyed playing with it. And, from time to time, I still do. Dave, just thank you from Germany! Guido

[pikewerfer]

@wildworms Same here! I still own my 1200, and use it to do my emails and stuff. I got over 2000 awesome games, and am still adding to the collection, so why go PC? :-) OK, the internet experience is definitely missing - I do hope I can get one of those NEW Amigas with OS 4.1 on it - but they are sooooo expensive :-/

[peri2502]

Hmm so I am not sure if I'm getting the a-round to it joke. Was that just to have him round around? :)

[peri2502]

It is pretty sad. The amiga was a great machine with many innovations. Hadn't poor management run the company into the ground, it may still be the dominant home computer system.

[JLepping]

@jxhensley: That is not true: PC 10 and PC 20 were IBM compatible PC machines.



[lelezetec]

Mehdi Ali is the worst goddamn son of a bitch that the world ever seen. He killed Commodore for no reason and, believe me, I really wish to meet him face to face. And I am 6.1 footer, 260 pounds. No kidding.

[Tollshock09]

I grew ub with the Amiga 500 and thank you guys for this wonderfull platform!

[hazydave]

Well, look at the head to figure where the damage originates... Sydnes was a tool hired by Ali. Yeah, he did horrible things... he killed the real AA (AGA) systems, delayed AA by six months for no reason, refused to order enough parts for Christmas '92, etc. But he was Ali's boy, and so Ali gets all that blame, too. The A600 was Sydnes' too... it replaced the A300, which was supposed to coexist with the A500, at a lower price point.

[hazydave]

Actually, C= was very good at killing off old stuff... if it didn't sell, it died. This was guaranteed, based on the way C='s sales units worked.. each regional group only ordered the things they felt they could sell. So we didn't see many C= PCs in the USA, but they were available. And all PCs were and are pretty much "me too" products... its inherent in the architecture, then and now.