From Bedrooms to Billions: The Amiga Years! is a feature film documentary that explores the influence of the Commodore Amiga and how it influenced a generation of developers to take video game development, music and publishing to a whole new level which then changed the video game industry forever!

This film, which is the sequel to the acclaimed 'From Bedrooms to Billions' (2014) looks at the creation of the now legendary Commodore Amiga a remarkable and very personal tale told by the surviving team members themselves. The film then goes onto explore how once released in 1985 the Commodore Amiga helped evolve the video games industry as a whole new set of games and experiences were possible thanks to its incredible custom hardware. Many of these styles of games, music and demos as well as development techniques honed during the Amiga era are still present in the video games industry we know today.

Interviews include the creators of Populous, The Secret of Monkey Island, Sensible World of Soccer, Defender of the Crown, Syndicate, Alien Breed, Wings, Shadow of the Beast, Turrican II, The First Samurai, Another World, Flashback and many many others this film will be of great interest to anyone who enjoys either games or the history of the quite remarkable video games industry.

Your purchase will contain 2.5 hours of content made up of the main feature film and special features.

Trailer = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ooSiw83a8
Stream = https://vimeo.com/ondemand/amiga (£10.54)
Out May 19th!

DVD and Blu Ray to follow for kickstarters and on there store.

Glad I back this, still hoping viva amiga makes an apperance some point this year, but looking forward to seeing this!

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Glad I back this, still hoping viva amiga makes an apperance some point this year, but looking forward to seeing this!

The creators of this project had a family loss early this year and the project was only delayed one month! What problems have Viva Amiga had to warrant this perpetual 'When it's done' status?

Last edited by BigD on 13-May-2016 at 09:06 PM.

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We had Anthony and Nicola (the documentary creators) on our podcast recently to talk about the film, if you want to learn more about it:

http://www.theretrohour.com/the-retro-hour-episode-8-bedrooms-to-billions-interview/

@BigD

Guess we can be happy no amiga kickstart project has gone to this extrem instead of bulding what they said they would do they spent the cash on makeing a new house!.

peachy printer project

@danwood

Listening to your podcast now! Nice

Poor show having a go at the MiniDisc though Still going strong in our household Hi-MD 1Gb MP3 compatible Portable MiniDiscs rock! Back compatible, awesome field recorders and act like MP3 players but with the option of making 'Mix MDs' at USB2 speeds. Also you can convert you old MDs back to WAV files on your computer at USB2 speed.

MiniDisc the future the world didn't want! Pretty much like the Amiga then; a useful technology that the world just didn't want!

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"Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art."
John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios