Also, watched Micro Men on BBC Four yesterday. One of the guys from Acorn Computer actually said "We need to keep advertising like IBM and Commodore". Weren't Commodore almost infamous for not advertising? Again, no mention about the Amiga, even though they did really well in the UK.
Has there ever been a credible documentary made about computing (including the Amiga)?
Micro Men wasn't about the Amiga and wasn't even about 80s computers really - it was about Chris and Clive. Hence it missed out the sale of Sinclair computers to Amstrad, missed out the cancelled Loki, had nothing about the Archimedes etc. Also it only went up to about 1986 so the Amiga wouldn't have got a look in regardless.
You're right though - I've seen many computer history documentaries, in the rare event that they do mention the Amiga, they seem to miss out the Spectrum! It's as if the two are mutually exclusive and cannot be seen in the same programme. Some docs focus on consoles after a point and bypass the Amiga that way, others skip straight to the PC (which as we know is far inferior to the Amiga available at that time). It's shocking how little coverage it gets - I'd have thought at the very least, the competition and crossover between Commodore and Atari would make an interesting segment, if not an entire show. The Amiga was very popular and a lot of games developers and even current games series started there.
It's a shame but I suppose as it isn't British it doesn't deserve a mention, even though none of the computers or consoles that came after were British either.
Chris
