Chris Edwards Restoration returns with an energetic walk through Amiga timeline tour history, from the Amiga 1000 to late-era towers and the CD32. He boots real machines, swaps expansions on camera, and shows how each system behaves under load. It’s fast, practical, and packed with hands-on details that screenshots never convey.
He opens with the Amiga 1000. Kickstart loads from disk, Workbench follows, and early add-ons appear: front RAM boards, external drives, and Pi-based helpers. Next comes the Amiga 500 and 500 Plus, where he demonstrates side-car hard drives, accelerators, and that classic A520 RF box. He multitasks apps to highlight the jump from simple task swapping to preemptive multitasking on real hardware.
Then the big boxes arrive. The Amiga 2000 shows Zorro expansion in action, flicker fixers, SCSI, and RTG. The Amiga 3000 adds Zorro III, onboard SCSI, and that beloved “pregnant mouse.” He even boots the rare Amiga 3000UX into Amix, walking through an X11 session to underscore the workstation ambitions of the time. This Amiga timeline tour doesn’t just name parts; it shows them working.
He detours into the CDTV’s lounge-friendly design. Caddy-based discs, infrared control, MIDI ports, and modern upgrades make it more than a curiosity. The 3000 Tower follows with heavy-duty build quality, long cables, and modern accelerators benchmarks included. You can almost feel the floorboards groan.
Next, the AGA era. The Amiga 600 gets a fair shake: compact, limited, yet transformable with modern accelerators and PCMCIA tricks. The Amiga 1200 brings 256-color modes, IDE storage, and a rich upgrade path. Chris fires up demos and shows how RTG preserves chip RAM. The Amiga 4000 and 4000T push further with SCSI, PCI-like workflows via Zorro, Ethernet, USB solutions, and serious CPU boards. Benchmarks tell the story.
He closes with the Mediator Power Tower and the Amiga CD32, complete with TF-series accelerators and CD-based gaming. It’s the perfect capstone to the Amiga timeline tour, blending console simplicity with 1200-class guts.
If you want real performance numbers, live boots, and expansion realities warts and wins you’ll enjoy watching Chris put these classics through their paces.
