VCF SE 5.0 Special: Joe Decuir - The Formative Years of Amiga Computing & More...

Joe Decuir was one of the intial system architects / hardware engineers for the Amiga computer. He also played a pivotal role in the creation of the Atari VCS / 2600 games console and the 8-bit Atari computers - 400 and 800.

The interview was conducted prior to the Viva Amiga Question and Answer Panel, which was the Vintage Computer Festival South East, April 29th - 30th 2017.

Follow the links below for more information relevant to this video:

Remotely interested website:

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing article on Amiga and Retrospective Computing:

Remotely Interested Podcast:

Joe Decuirs and Ron Nicholson’s IEEE CEM article on Amiga Computers:

Atlanta Historical Computing Society:

Computer Museum of America:

Vintage Computer Federation:

The Future Was Here:

The Guru Meditation VCF SE Interview:

Ron Nicholson:

[TheGuruMeditation]

Great interview Adam! Can't wait for Saturday!

[perplexedmoth]

Damn, I love the internet for this, you get to see and almost meet these amazing people who's touched you somehow, and designed amazing magical stuff. I wish there was more of Jay Miner, and more of the deeper technical material about the work that was done.

[perplexedmoth]

It would be amazing to hear the development story of Amstrad CPCs.

[bknesheim]

The last 2 minuttes are very thrue - The most fantastic GPU can not tell any stories and you need a good story before a game become good.