Amiga 3000 - The Best Amiga Ever?

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I was a software engineer working for Commodore in the UK in 1990. Steve Jobs' Next inspired more than the new Workbench L&F.. Commodore wanted to copy the Next's approach to printer driving: use Postscript from display all the way to paper. Commodore invested in creating its own cleanroom Postscript implementation (to avoid paying license fees to Adobe). This project was an internal R&D success, but Commodore marketing (in the US) decided to pull the plug on the whole idea. At the time, Commodore was led by people with little to no strategic vision. No wonder they went bust.

I still own my Amiga 3000. I ran a real estate company until 1997 with the A3000 presenting color home photos and also for word processing using final writer and a spreadsheet program.

Remembering me drooling at the A3000 presented in the window of the Belgian Amiga distributor Click. It took me about one hour on my bike to reach the shop, drool and go in to pick up the latest booklet price list. I regularly spent vast amount of time calculating my dream machine with all possible options. Good times 🤟

As a young teen with a newly released A1200,, that will always be the best Amiga to me... The amount of horsepower they managed to fit in a device not much bigger than a keyboard was incredible. The 2meg of ram, the AGA chipset... if only they could have got it out sooner, maybe instead of the A600,,, things might have been different.

Speaking about that compact case design, Hedley Davis (my manager at CBM), stated that it should be built strong enough for him to stand on it. It was and he did! It was IMHO an elegant design.

Best machine I've owned was an Amiga 3000. I miss that machine. To this day, there's aspects of AmigaDOS that I miss living in the PC/Windows world. Thanks for the video!

I don't have time to use my Amiga's anymore, but sure do get nostalgic watching videos on YouTube from time to time. Great job!

I loved my A3000 desktop, got it new in 91. My first experiences on the Internet were with that computer and the AMosaic browser, of course on a dial-up connection. That computer died in 96, but I now have another Amiga 3000 desktop and an Amiga 3000 Tower.

Had an Amiga 3000 on my desk in 1990. Sweetest machine ever.

The A3000 remains my favorite computer of all time. Absolutely LOVED that machine! I wish I still had a working one. If I did, I would still be using it to this day.

2.0 with MagicWB was my favourite back in the day. I had an A2000 where I upgraded it to WB2.0 and loved it. I also used to drool over the A3000. I used to connect to a multiline BBS in our city that was run off of an A3000. The guy that ran it went on to start one of our city's first Internet services and it is still going to this day.

I agree, the most beautiful Amiga of all times (at least the Desktop version). I used to have one of these beauties until a few years ago, bought at one of the legendary fairs in Cologne, 1993 I think. One of the bigger mistakes in my life was when I decided I no longer used it enough to justify the space occupied by it. Didn't even get 450 EUR for it. And I would so like to turn back the clock now.

My A3000(s) are still cranking along, 30 years after they popped out. Love'em. When a local repair guy did some amazing work on my A500, he explained that the old girls were so tolerant of voltage fluctuations, that they were actually far more resilient than hardware manufactured today. Keep on truckin'! :)

My dad worked at Commodore back in the late '90s and got an A3000 for work purposes, along with a surplus A500 for little kid me to play games with. His A3000 had a dual-boot setup, with the main boot going to a contemporary Unix build, and if you held down the two mouse buttons during startup it would load into Workbench 2.0 instead. (My mother remembers the startup process being quite different and far more complicated, so I suspect the simpler method was added in later.) The machine wound up becoming difficult to use after a while, but in hindsight I think it was because I loaded too many games onto the hard drive and made it impossible to save anything new. Oops. By then, though, Commodore was already crumbling and my dad hardly even used the machine anymore. I had a lot of good memories on both of those machines, and I wish we'd been able to keep one or both of them.

I worked for Commodore Australia, I was manger user support & was using the A3000 before anyone new about it, in fack I got to use one a lot of new amiga , it was a good Amiga the A3000 & I had a change to take it home a lot to play with

I miss my old digital friend. Played Gunship 2000 for hundrerds of hours on it. Learned to do real desktop publishing on it. Ran hundreds of hours of rendering on VistaPro and Scenery Animator.

@Dan Wood: Awesome presentation of the sexiest Amiga model ever released! 👍 Also happy to see my A3000 poster making an appearance! Many thanks for the link to my Amiga posters & artwork website.

Great job again Dan! Always fun to have a true Amiga enthusiast give the run down on this legendary machine.

Thank you for another great video. I love the NeXT connection which clearly also inspired the look of Windows. Back when I was a proud C64 owner I remember that there was a company making a desktop conversion kit for the C64 ditching the wedge look and making it resemble an Amiga 1000 or C128D. With separate keyboard. Getting an Amiga 500 made me forget the desktop dream though, but boy did it return when I saw the A3000 in a magazine. It just looked so good. Such a clean design. Super sexy. Like the Mac IIci with its striped snow white design. Soon everybody wanted tower cases.