Dave Haynie Talks About Developing The Commodore Amiga

[SysAdmin]

News from Fran Blanche on YouTube.

Dave Haynie talks at VCF East on April 6, 2014 about developing the various Amiga systems, up into the last days of Commodore in April 1994. Introduction by Bil Herd. This was a fascinating hour of must-hear stories for any serious Commodore fan. Dave even wears his Commodore Death-Bed Vigil shirt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcr2CFV0T4I

[paul1981]

News from Fran Blanche on YouTube.

Dave Haynie talks at VCF East on April 6, 2014 about developing the various Amiga systems, up into the last days of Commodore in April 1994. Introduction by Bil Herd. This was a fascinating hour of must-hear stories for any serious Commodore fan. Dave even wears his Commodore Death-Bed Vigil shirt!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcr2CFV0T4I

Really enjoyed watching that. Ta very much.

[Iggy]

Dave talks about the past again.
Ever notice he never has anything good to say about the present?

[Niding]

Dave talks about the past again.
Ever notice he never has anything good to say about the present?

Well, quite a few of us, amigans and in general, do have a certain degree of intrest in the past.
On my harddrive there are tons of historical documentary being narrated by the heros/innevators of the past.

Jim Lowell, Chris Kraft, Gene Kranz....long list (yes, I have a semi-unhealthy admiration of the old NASA crew).

They still do documentaries and speeches on their past developments and expiriences. I for one find it intresting to listen to, even tho its "anicent" history, with archaic technology.

The same could be said about people like Haynie, the guys that have first hand information about the research and development of Commodore technology. I would not be suprised him (like others) are invited with a speech on the birth of Amiga in mind.

[Kremlar]

I could listen to stuff/stories like that all day.  I was hoping to attend VCF but couldn't justify a trip knowing there would be videos a few days later.  

I'd still love a trip to CommVex, or maybe AmiWest.  I went to VCF a couple years back, but no one else close to me is interested in the retro scene and not enough C= content at VCF for me to justify the trip on my own again.  Boring ride.  

[Iggy]

NASA I can understand, Haynie...not so much.
Jay Miner on the other hand...

Actually, there are a lot of people in the Amiga community I greatly respect, some of whom are still around developing.
Dave gets too much attention.

[Niding]

Iggy, why rate their "worth" in that way?

And either way, Jay Miner has been dead for a good while, so Im sorry to say they "have to settle" for Haynie.

Gene Kranz gets tons of attention for example thru the Apollo 13 ordeal, while Chris Kraft was his mentor and "inventor" of Central command/mission control. Its not until you watch some documentaries/read some history you realise each of them are important parts of the whole construct.

[gertsy]

NASA I can understand, Haynie...not so much.
Jay Miner on the other hand...

Actually, there are a lot of people in the Amiga community I greatly respect, some of whom are still around developing.
Dave gets too much attention.

Understand where you're coming from Iggy, and forums are for the expression of ideas and opinions but expressing a negative opinion of someone you're branding as negative is.. Well you know, hypocritical.

I'm not really interested in what Dave Haynie has to say either but I'm not gonna bag him.

[ElPolloDiabl]

The people with the negative comments, didn't actually watch the video that is linked too?
He covers some of the technical apsects and that was very interesting.

[Oli_hd]

Loved the video! loved the talk of AAA and AA as well as the nyx.
Also I have one of those German A2K's and the memory card to go in it (although there a 2630 in the slot)
really nice talk touching on very interesting subjects!

[bloodline]

Dave talks about the past again.
Ever notice he never has anything good to say about the present?

Dave's a hardware guy, he talks about hardware... There is no new Amiga hardware, so he doesn't talk about the present.

[bloodline]

Fantastic video with some great history!

[som99]

Thanks a lot! I had a great time listening last night when I couldn't sleep

[Iggy]

Dave's a hardware guy, he talks about hardware... There is no new Amiga hardware, so he doesn't talk about the present.

Dave's done plenty of talking about software, which might be the core of why I resent his opinions.
Although the point about being negative about negativity sounds pretty valid.

As far as there not being any new Amiga hardware...
What's the stuff the runs OS4 (when you're not running it on modified legacy hardware)?
Then again, I don't feel like arguing that point yet again.

[save2600]

Loved the vid! Some tidbits in there I was unaware of and glad to see people like Herd and Haynie are still around to talk about this stuff that is so important to us.