Commodore Amiga in Pixels Kickstarter goes live and hits goal in one day

The date is Saturday 11th June. The venue? The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge, England and another exciting Kickstarter launch event for Chris Wilkins and Fusion Retro Books, who’s previous works include the The ZX Spectrum in Pixels Vols. 1-3, Ocean The History and The Story of US Gold amongst others. This time it is for a book on the mighty Commodore Amiga entitled The Commodore Amiga in Pixels.

Relaxed faces prior to the Q and A session

Q and A session in progress with Darrell Etherington, Roger Kean, Oliver Frey, Archer Maclean and Ben Daglish

Stoo Cambridge signing a Sensible Soccer canvas

Mevlut Dinc signing a canvas perk

Archer Maclean signing IK+ canvas perks

Stoo Cambridge, Mevlut Dinc, Archer Maclean and Robin Levy

Q and A session with Robin Levy, Mevlut Dinc, Stoo Cambridge, David Pleasance and Archer Maclean

One day later and the book is already 110% funded (at the time of writing) and heading towards the stretch goals, which currently include a new album by Allister Brimble that will include re-imaginings of 10 of the best tracks that David Whittaker composed for the Commodore Amiga and a copy of Retro Now!, a new 68 page magazine covering all aspects of retro games, movies, cartoons and comics. I these weren’t enough to get your retro appetities truly whetted, Chris has just announced the latest perk; an Amiga version of the Spectrum and C64 classic Starquake, which is being produced by Galahad with the full blessing of original programmer Steve Crow. This perk will feature a boxed disk version of the game with artwork by Trevor Storey.

Stretch goal: Alister Brimble CD

Stretch goal: Retro Now! magazine

The book itself will be a high quality 268 page hardback or softback featuring the usual ‘in Pixels’ treats; a foreword by David Pleasance – former managing director of Commodore UK, double-page games reviews and over 30 memoirs from Amiga luminaries such as David Lowe, Stoo Cambridge, Archer Maclean and Jez San.

Also featured within The Commodore Amiga in Pixels will be an article on the history of the Amiga computer written by Roger Kean, joint founder of Newsfield Publications who gave us Crash, Zzap! 64 and The Games Machine. This section will contain new images of each and every Amiga released by Commodore taken by Johnnathan Taylor who took photos of his C64 collection for The story of the Commodore 64 in Pixels which we reviewed here.

You can back this awesome looking book by pledging on the Kickstarter page here.