The Amiga is a personal computer from commodore that comes in a variety of configurations.
Overview
The first Amiga computer model, the A1000, was released in 1985 by Commodore Inc. The design team was headed up by Jay Miner and development of the system began in 1982 under the Amiga Coporation company. Commodore acquired Amiga Corporation in the summer of 1984, snatching the Amiga chipset from under the nose of Atari, who originally funded the project. Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994, despite the success of the A1200 and CD32.Hardware
The Amiga range was based on the Motorola 68000 chipset, but made use of proprietary graphics and sound co-processors (codenamed Denise and Paula respectively), which took the load off of the CPU and allowed the Amiga to process gaming graphics extremely efficiently. Over the lifetime of the computer, three chipsets were used: OCS (Original ChipSet), ECS (Enhanced ChipSet) and AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture).Models
The most popular Amiga models were as follows:- A1000 (1985) $1,295
- A2000 (1986)
- A500 (1987) $595.95
- A1500 (1990) £999
The A1500 was virtually identical to the A2000 apart from a 2nd Floppy drive that replaced the Hard Disk. Released in UK only
- A3000(1990)
- A500 (1991)
- A600 (1992)
- A1200 (1992) $599
- CD32 (1993)
Operating System
AmigaOS is the native operating system for the Amiga family of home computers.
Amiga - Recent Games
Amiga - Upcoming Games
| Name | Platform | Developer | ||
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Golden Axe expected release 1989 |
AMI, GEN, SMS, CPC, AST, C64, SPEC, SCD, TGCD, WSC, ARC, XBLM, WSHP, PC | Sega, U.S. Gold Ltd., Aspect Co. Ltd. |
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| Platform Name: | Amiga |
| Release Date: | Oct. 21, 1985 |
| Online Support: | False |
| Install Base: | 6,000,000 |
| Original Price: | $1295 |
| Producing Company: | Commodore Electronics Ltd. |
| Total Games: | games |
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