AmigaCorporation was a United States computer company formed in the early 1980s as Hi Toro . It is most famous for having developed the Amiga computer, code named Lorraine . History In the early 1980s ... , that could be upgraded to a full fledged computer. The initial start up financing of AmigaCorporation ..., the OS developed and the hardware design completed. From this point on the former AmigaCorporation ... 2005 , Variant Press. A book describing the formation of AmigaCorporation and subsequent acquisition ... Category Companies established in 1982 nn AmigaCorporation ru AmigaCorporation sv Amiga ...about the first Amiga company other uses Amiga disambiguation Infobox Defunct Company company name AmigaCorporation company logo Image Amigalogo16.png the 1985 logo br 1985 logo slogan fate Became a subsidiary ... Commodore Amiga, Inc. company merged into etc. foundation September 1982 as Hi Toro defunct August ... Computer key people Jay Miner founder products Amiga some of company s notable products num employees ...&scp 5&sq amiga&st nyt title Amiga s High Tech Gamble accessdate 2008 04 ... p.109 ISBN 0 07 223172 6 ref , later renamed to Amiga , where they could have some creative freedom ... bought the company. To raise money for the Lorraine project, Amiga designed and sold joystick s and game ... in 1983, Amiga had exhausted venture capital and was desperate for more financing. Jay Miner and company had approached former employer Atari , and the Warner owned Atari had paid Amiga to continue development work ref cite web title TOP SECRET Confidential Atari Amiga Agreement url http www.atarimuseum.com ... Erskine. History of Computers Part 2 p.39 CU Amiga , September 1992 ref . Tramiel immediately .... Tramiel visited Mindset run by Roger Badersher, former head of Atari s Computer Division , and Amiga. While initially entering talks with Tramiel, they eventually fell through as Tramiel told Amiga ... this time in late July that Tramiel s representatives discovered the original Atari Inc. Amiga ... more details
like 1985 Amigas. br Byte Magazine , August 1994 Development of the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer of AmigaCorporation . It was initially intended to be a next ... to market Commodore International bought AmigaCorporation and funded development. The first model ...About the family of home computers File Amiga Logo 1985.svg right thumb 265px The former Amiga logo, as used by Commodore Amiga Inc. File Amiga 1000DP.jpg thumb 265px The Amiga 1000 1985 was the first model released. The Amiga is a family of personal computer s marketed by Commodore International Commodore ... popular for its graphical, audio and multi tasking abilities. The Amiga provided a significant ... among computer enthusiasts. The best selling model, the Amiga 500 , was introduced in 1987 and became ... America success was more modest. The Amiga went on to sell approximately six million units. ref name ... 04 21 ref Second generation Amiga systems Amiga 1200 A1200 and Amiga 4000 A4000 were released in 1992 ... that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation ... family Motorola 68000 series of microprocessor s, the machine sports a original Amiga chipset custom ... to cast the computer as an all purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful ... control business, leading to affordable video editing systems such as the Video Toaster . The Amiga ... marketed successors to the original Amiga line. Genesi sold PowerPC based hardware running AmigaOS ... hardware and Commodore USA is releasing new x86 based Amiga. There is also open source successor, AROS for Amiga and x86 hardware. History Main History of the Amiga Rquote right The Amiga was so far ... what it was all about. Today, it s obvious the Amiga was the first multimedia computer, but in those ... Amiga Lorraine work Amiga History Guide author Gareth Knight accessdate 2008 04 21 ref ref http www.amigaforever.com games AmigaForever.com Bot generated title , Amiga Forever Amiga Games ref A prototype ... more details
EDITING GUIDELINES for DISAMBIGUATION DAB PAGES DAB pages are not normal articles and have a special style DAB pages help users find specific articles Please Point to link only one article on each line Please Start each line with the target article Remember These are guidelines not absolute rules More information WP MOSDAB Wiktionary Amiga amiga Amiga is the Portuguese language Portuguese and Spanish language Spanish word for friend in the feminine i.e., female friend and may also refer to Businesses and products Amiga is the name of a series of personal computers. The Amiga name may also refer to the following AmigaOS , the operating system of the Amiga personal computer Amiga Corporation , the company now defunct that originally developed the Amiga personal computer Commodore Amiga, Inc., a subsidiary of Commodore International both now defunct that developed and marketed models of the Amiga personal computer Amiga Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of Escom computer corp Escom both now defunct that was set up following their purchase of Commodore International in 1996 Amiga, Inc. South Dakota , the original 1997 Gateway subsidiary named Amiga, Inc. incorporated in the US state of South Dakota Amiga, Inc. , the company that currently holds the trademark to Amiga incorporated in the US state of Delaware Amiga record label is a record label that originated in East Germany People with the name Coral Amiga , an English actress See also Amigo disambiguation Amica disambiguation Amicus disambiguation disambig Category Spanish words and phrases Category Portuguese words and phrases de Amiga Begriffskl rung es Amiga ... more details
key people Bill McEwen industry products Xpedio tablets, Amiga Anywhere, AmigaOS 4 revenue operating income net income num employees homepage http www.amiga.com www.amiga.com Amiga, Inc. is the company that holds the intellectual property associated with the Amiga personal computer originally developed by AmigaCorporation , including the Amiga trademark. Brief history of Amiga brand In the early ... court Cite court litigants ATARI Corp. vs. AmigaCorporation reporter U.S. court Santa Clara, California Federal Court date March 6th, 1984 contract between Atari Inc. and Amiga Corp. included in evidence filings url http www.law.corn ref 500,000 was advanced to Amiga to continue development of the chipset. ref name atari inc Citation title AMIGA S HIGH TECH GAMBLE pages newspaper New York Times location New York, New York date 29 August 1984 url http www.nytimes.com 1984 08 29 business amiga s high ... news atari commodore settle.html accessdate 2010 11 27 ref See AmigaCorporation . In 1994, Commodore ... that was developed by AmigaCorporation and Commodore International . Timeline of events 2007 04 29 ... KLT See also Amiga, Inc. South Dakota AmigaCorporationAmigaAmiga computer AmigaOne AmigaOS 4 References ...about the current Amiga company other uses Amiga disambiguation Infobox company company name Amiga, Inc ... under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi Toro later renamed to Amiga, Inc. , where they could have ... pdf misc atari amiga contract.pdf ref went into contract with Amiga for licensed use of the chipset ... Amiga negotiated with Commodore 2 weeks prior to the contract deadline of June 30, 1984. ref ... 5098,634690&dq amiga 500000 atari&hl en accessdate 2010 11 27 ref In August 1984 Atari sued Amiga ... PC manufacturer, who in turn went bankrupt in 1996. The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000 , which had announced grand plans for it. However, in 1999, Gateway sold Amiga ... news title Amino Development Buys Amiga Name, Inventory From Gateway date 1999 12 31 accessdate 2010 ... more details
Cleanup date June 2009 The following history of the Amiga documents the development and commercial history of the Amiga , a home computer product line manufactured from the middle 1980s up to today. AmigaCorporation The Amiga s chipset was designed by a small company called AmigaCorporation during ... new company called Amiga, Inc. no relation to the original AmigaCorporation was incorporated in the US ... ckb secret lorraine.html 090427 floodgap.com ref Amiga Corp. funded the development of the Lorraine ... the original prototype for the first Amiga and said there was too much hardware Citation needed date July 2009 . He was in the midst of work on the Macintosh at the time and was reportedly worried that the Amiga ... to be extremely worried about the Amiga, but fortunately for him and Apple, Commodore had absolutely no idea what they were doing. ref Verify credibility date July 2011 However, before Amiga Corp ... 87, The early years The first Amiga computer was released in 1985 by Commodore International Commodore . It was simply called the Amiga devoid of references to Commodore. Commodore marketed it both ... . It was later renamed the Amiga 1000 Commodore Amiga 1000 . File Amiga 1000.jpg thumb right 250px The Amiga ... affordable base price of nowrap 1295 USD the Amiga could display up to nowrap 4096 colors ... in a consumer oriented computer and gave the Amiga 1000 a significant technical lead on its ... the Amiga faded from the mainstream market. Poorly marketed, the Amiga 1000 was not an instant success ... the Amiga, asking that it be referred to as The Amiga, from Commodore by the press and designing new ... a new 8 bit computer alongside the Amiga, confusing the general public about Commodore s direction and the Amiga s advantages. In 1994 Byte wrote The Amiga was so far ahead of its time that almost ... it was all about. Today, it s obvious the Amiga was the first multimedia computer, but in those days ... 7 April 2007 ref This marketing confusion would plague the Amiga throughout its lifetime, even ... more details
Amiga Survivor was a monthly computer magazine published by Crystal Software. This publication originally started as a black and white A5 size fanzine called The Domain but eventually became a full colour A4 magazine. See also Amiga Active Amiga Computing Amiga Format Amiga Power Amiga User International Amiga World External links http www.amiga survivor.uklinux.net Official website http www.magazines.ch amigamagsuk.html Amiga Survivor Information http www.magazines.ch List of Amiga magazines Amiga magazines Category Defunct British computer magazines Category Amiga magazines Category Video game magazines Category Monthly magazines Category British video game magazines UK compu mag stub ... more details
infobox Software name Amiga Forever screenshot Image Amiga Forever 2008 on Vista.png 200px caption Amiga ... software Proprietary website http www.amigaforever.com Homepage Amiga Forever is an Amiga preservation ... Amiga software to run on non Amiga hardware legally and without configuration. The Windows version of Amiga Forever includes two Amiga emulators, WinUAE and Fellow computing WinFellow , while the other ... and support to run a large range of Amiga games and Amiga demos demoscene productions which are available for free download from different software publishers and Amiga history sites. The Windows version also includes an Amiga Explorer ref citeweb url http www.amigaforever.com ae title Amiga Explorer publisher Amiga Forever accessdate 2009 03 06 ref which allows access to Amiga resources ... version of Amiga Forever was released in 1997 on a CD ROM which contained an early version of UAE Ultimate Amiga Emulator for DOS and Mac platforms, Fellow for DOS and a selection of Amiga Kickstart ROM images and Workbench disks. There was also an Amiga floppy disk available which contained the Amiga Explorer. ref citeweb url http www.amigahistory.co.uk aforever.html title Amiga Forever publisher Amiga History Guide date 2006 08 09 accessdate 2009 03 06 ref Features Image Amiga Forever 2008 Player.png right thumb 160px The Player in Amiga Forever 2008. Features, among others Emulation of Amiga hardware allows Amiga software to run on a PC or mobile device Officially licensed Amiga ROM and OS ... Additional emulation and drivers SCSI, TCP IP, AHI, Commodore CDTV CDTV , Amiga CD32 CD , etc. Amiga Forever player software for Windows to access and launch content Preconfigured WinUAE and WinFellow ..., etc. Support for a large amount of downloadable Amiga games , Amiga demos demos and Amiga software applications Amiga Explorer and Amiga Files data sharing framework Optional Live CD , based on Knoppix Light boots a PC or Intel Mac directly into Workbench More than five hours of Amiga videos two ... more details
Infobox computer Photo Image Amiga3000UX.jpg 300px Amiga 3000UX Name Commodore Amiga 3000UX Type Personal computer Released 1990 Discontinued 1992 Processor Motorola 68030 16 25 MHz Memory 2 megabyte MB OS Amiga UNIX System V Release 4 The Commodore Amiga 3000UX is a model of the Commodore AmigaAmiga computer family that was released with Amiga Unix , a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4 SVR4 , installed along with AmigaOS. The system was otherwise equivalent to the standard Amiga 3000 A3000 , once the Right Mouse Button initiated a boot to Kickstart Amiga Kickstart Amiga s BIOS . At one point, Sun Microsystems approached Commodore Amiga Inc. with the offer to produce the A3000UX under license as a low to mid range alternative to their high end Sun workstations . http www.amiga hardware.com showhardware.cgi?HARDID 29 That this offer was declined was one of the many management decisions that led to the popular belief that Amiga would have been a real success story but for the Commodore International Commodore management. It is possible that Commodore or a third party repurposed A3000UX machines for standard AmigaOS, as some standard A3000 models have been found with labeling suggesting they were originally to be sold as A3000UX machines. See also Amiga models and variants CBM computers Amiga hardware AmigaOS AmigaOS 4 DEFAULTSORT Amiga 3000ux Category Amiga de Amiga 3000UX es Commodore Amiga 3000UX fr Amiga 3000UX hr Amiga 3000UX it Amiga 3000UX pl Amiga 3000UX ru Amiga 3000UX ... more details
Amiga Active was a monthly computer magazine published by Pinprint Publishing , it launched at a time when most other Amiga magazines had already closed, and as a result only had one major competitor Amiga Format . A large proportion of the Amiga Active staff were from CU Amiga Magazine , which closed the previous year. In total 26 issues were published, the first in October 1999, and the last in November 2001. The closure of Amiga Active ended the news stand distribution of UK Amiga magazines after almost 14 years. See also Amiga Survivor External links http www.amigactive.com Official Website dead link date November 2010 http www.amigau.com aig amigactive.html Historical Information Category Defunct British computer magazines Category Amiga magazines Category Video game magazines Category Publications established in 1999 Category Publications disestablished in 2001 Category British video game magazines Amiga magazines UK compu mag stub hu Amiga Active ... more details
Infobox computer Photo Name Commodore Amiga 3000T Type Personal computer Released 1990 Discontinued 1992 Processor Motorola 68030 25 MHz Memory 5 megabyte MB , expandable to 18 MB ref http retroport.de resources Werbung A3000T Flyer 02.jpg Amiga 3000T specifications retrieved 14 October 2011 ref OS Amiga OS 2.0 The Amiga 3000T is the tower version of the Commodore International Commodore Amiga 3000 computer. Although technically equivalent, it was housed in a large metal tower case repurposed from Commodore PC compatible systems Commodore s PC compatible line . ref http amiga.resource.cx mod a3000t.html Its case was taken from Commodore s PC line and its motherboard had slightly different layout. ref The A3000T supports a variety of drive bay s two 3.5 inch drives one 5.25 inch half height drive, mounted horizontally and two 5.25 inch half height drives, mounted vertically. Inside, behind these drives, there is space for two more internal 5.25 inch half height drives. The available drive bays make it possible to internally install up to seven devices in the A3000T. The expansion slot layout is more like the Amiga 2000 s with five Zorro III slots, one inline with the video slot, and four 16 bit Industry Standard Architecture ISA slots passive , two of which are online with Zorro slots. ref http www.amiga hardware.com showhardware.cgi?HARDID 25 Big Book of Amiga Hardware Amiga 3000T retrieved 08 May 2011 ref ref http amiga.resource.cx mod a3000t.html retrieved 08 May 2011 ref Not many were produced, as they were quite expensive to build. Citation needed date August 2011 See also Amiga models and variants References reflist CBM computers Amiga hardware AmigaOS AmigaOS 4 Use dmy dates date August 2011 Category Amiga microcompu stub de Amiga 3000T es Commodore Amiga 3000T hr Amiga 3000T pl Amiga 3000T ru Amiga 3000T sq Commodore Amiga 3000T ... more details
unref date March 2009 Image Amiga1000.jpg thumb Amiga 1000 with external A1010 Floppy disk drive and A1060 ... by Commodore and released in 1986 for the Amiga 1000 computer. It features a complete PC XT system mounted in an expansion case which connected to the expansion bus on the right side of the Amiga ... was built around an Intel 8088 processor. All I O procedures from the PC side are performed by the Amiga. Software was included to allow data to be exchanged easily between the PC and the Amiga side of the system ... DOS and AmigaOS environments. This was the first hard drive produced by Commodore for the Amiga. Video display and user input were performed through the Amiga s monitor, keyboard, and mouse. This allows the user to control both computers simultaneously. Characteristics The Amiga Sidecar was a complete IBM PC XT system, with the exception of I O devices and operations which are handled by the Amiga ... Graphics Emulation Dependent on Amiga settings. Can use real 8bit ISA graphics cards Sound Emulation Dependent on Amiga settings. can use real 8bit ISA sound cards One internal 5.25 drive bay normally fitted with a 360K 5.25 floppy drive 3 x 8bit ISA slots for using real PC cards Amiga 1000 Expansion Bus connector for Amiga connectivity History Early in its life, the Amiga was strong in entertainment .... Commodore s intent was to let the Amiga take advantage of PC compatibility to shore up its weakness ... expensive and it required a non trivial amount of desktop space compared to the Amiga 1000 by itself. The device was also taller than the Amiga 1000, which made it seem even further disconnected to the main ... to the lack of adoption of the Sidecar. Newer Amiga models like the Amiga 2000 provided internal ..., but without the need for a bulky external chassis. The popular Amiga 500 could not be used ... to be released for AmigaOS , reducing the need to run MS DOS applications on the Amiga. Simultaneously ... and graphics software base, began to make the PC a viable competitor in areas where the Amiga ... more details
Infobox computer Photo Name Commodore Amiga 1500 Type Personal computer Released 1990 Discontinued 1991 Processor Motorola 68000 clocked at nowrap 7.14 MHz Memory OS nowrap AmigaOS Amiga OS 1.3 predecessor successor manufacturer Commodore International Commodore price nowrap 999 Pound sterling GBP unitssold related Amiga 2000 media 2 3 inch nowrap 880 kB floppy disk drives memory nowrap 1 MB on board Random access memory RAM , nowrap 256 kB Read only memory ROM display nowrap 320 x 256 to nowrap 640 x 512 screen resolutions, nowrap 32 to 4096 colours audio 4 voice 8 bit Pulse code modulation PCM The Commodore International Commodore Amiga 1500 , also known as the A1500 , was a 16 bit 16 32 bit home personal computer released in 1990 . It originally sold for 999. It was a variation of the Amiga 2000 , and was released only in the United Kingdom . It differed from the A2000 by having two internal floppy disk drive floppy drives instead of one, the second being in place of the hard disk drive . The A1500 had no hard disk drive as standard. A1500s were easily convertible into A2000s by addition of a hard disk controller and associated drive , and then simply peeling off the A1500 label revealing the A2000 label beneath. The reason for the UK only release may have been the existence of a desktop upgrade kit for the Amiga 500 made by Checkmate Digital and also called A1500 ref http www.amiga hardware.com showhardware.cgi?HARDID 6 Checkmate Digital Checkmate A1500 ref , and Commodore trying to keep the name for themselves. References reflist See also Amiga models and variants External links http www.amigahistory.co.uk a1500.html Amiga history page http www.old computers.com museum computer.asp?st 1&c 624 old computers.com CBM computers Amiga hardware AmigaOS Category Amiga Category 1990 introductions microcompu stub fr Amiga 1500 it Amiga 1500 pl Amiga 1500 ru Amiga 1500 sr Commodore Amiga 1500 sv Amiga 1500 ... more details
about emulating the classic Amiga computer on modern computer platforms information on emulating legacy computers on the Amiga platform itself Emulation on the AmigaAmiga emulation refers to the activity of emulator emulating mimicking the hardware of a Commodore Amiga computer system using another computer platform. Most commonly, a user will emulate the Amiga using modern platforms such as Wintel or Apple Macintosh Macintosh . This allows Amiga users to use their existing software, and in some cases hardware, on modern computers. Attempts have also been made to create a hardware Amiga emulator on FPGA chips Minimig . ref http www.acube systems.biz index.php?page news&id 23 Minimig available announcement by Acube Systems ref One of the most challenging aspects of emulating the Amiga architecture is the Original Amiga chipset custom chipset , which is extremely complex even though today s graphics processor s and digital signal processor s outperform it easily and relies on critical cycle exact emulation, particularly for some game titles. As a result, early emulators did not always ... of Amiga systems. Amiga emulators At the time of writing there exists no emulator capable of emulating an Amiga with PowerPC accelerator or PowerPC AmigaOS AmigaOS 4, MorphOS Image Phantasie III combat.png thumb 400px Amiga version of Phantasie Phantasie III running in WinUAE . Note the emulator s simulated ... developed emulator capable of emulating all the common Amiga configurations. A500, A600, etc ... OS, Linux, Unix and other systems, including the Amiga itself. It is capable of emulating an 68K Amiga, including undocumented behavior, with Original Amiga chipset OCS and or Advanced Graphics Architecture ... and AHI AmigaAmiga AHI 16 bit audio subsystem. See also Amiga Forever External links http fellow.sourceforge.net ... www.winuae.net WinUAE http www.pspuae.com PSPUAE Amiga emulator for PSP http cpc464.back2roots.org Amiga Emulation for Beginners References Reflist Category Amiga Category Amiga emulators Emulation stub ... more details
Not to be confused with the computer games Walker video game Walker or Mind Walker . Image Amiga Walker.png right thumb The Amiga Walker 1996 . The Amiga Walker , sometimes incorrectly known as the Mind Walker , is a prototype of an Amiga computer developed and shown by Amiga Technologies in late 1995 early 1996. It was planned as a replacement for the Amiga 1200 A1200 with a faster CPU, better expansion capabilities and a built in CD ROM. The Walker was never released Escom and Amiga Technologies went bankrupt, and only two prototypes were made. ref citeweb url http www.blachford.info computer walker walker.html title The Amiga Walker publisher Nicholas Blachford accessdate 2008 11 26 ref ref citeweb url http bboah.amiga resistance.info cgi bin showhardware en.cgi?HARDID 5 title Amiga Technologies Walker publisher Big Book of Amiga Hardware accessdate 2008 11 26 ref ref citeweb url http 66.196.80.202 babelfish translate url content?.intl se&lp fr en&trurl http 3a 2f 2fobligement.free.fr ... concept walkerconcept.html title The Walker concept publisher Amiga history guide accessdate 2008 11 26 ref Despite Amiga Technologies bravery in producing an innovative case, it did ... Doctor Who s electronic dog K9 . Technical information Specifications Image Amiga Walker Motherboard.png right thumb The Amiga Walker motherboard. CPU Motorola Motorola 68030 68030 33 MHz in the prototype version Motorola 68030 40 MHz compared to Motorola 68020 68020 14 MHz in Amiga 1200 A1200 Chipset Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture AGA Memory 1 MB Kickstart Amiga Kickstart ROM compared to 512 kB in the original Amiga 1200 2 MB Amiga Chip RAM Chip RAM 4 MB Amiga Chip RAM Fast RAM only ... Additional Amiga keyboard See also Power A5000 Amiga models and variants References reflist External links http www.youtube.com watch?v gI2gSEZSPfg Short video of an Amiga Walker on YouTube microcompu stub Amiga hardware Category Amiga Category Vaporware ... more details
Amiga World was a magazine dedicated to the Amiga computer platform. It was a prominent Amiga magazine, particularly in the United States , and was published by IDG Publishing from 1985 until April 1995. The first several issues were distributed before the computer was available for sale to the public. Issue 3 Vol 2 No 1 featured the artist Andy Warhol . See also RUN magazine the parent magazine from which Amiga World was spun off. Amiga Survivor External links http www.youtube.com watch?v R2WbusNJie8&mode related&search Amiga World Animation Video Vol. 1 from 1990 on youtube.com Amiga magazines Category Amiga magazines Category Defunct American computer magazines Category Video game magazines Category Commodore International Category Magazines established in 1985 Category Magazines disestablished in 1995 Category American video game magazines Category Article Feedback 5 compu mag stub ... more details
The Amiga 2500 , also known as the A2500 , was not a distinct Amiga model, but simply a marketing name for a Commodore International Commodore Amiga 2000 bundled with a Motorola 68020 or Motorola 68030 68030 based accelerator card. ref name Amiga2000 cite web title Amiga 2000 url http www.old computers.com MUSEUM computer.asp?c 63 date 2005 accessdate 26 December 2009 ref The accelerator cards used by the A2500 the A2620 and A2630 were also available separately as upgrades for the A2000. 68030 versions were referred to as A2500 30 . ref name Amiga2500 30 cite web title Amiga 2500 30 url http www.amiga4ever.nl systems.php?id 25 date 2004 accessdate 26 December 2009 ref Because the A2500 had a Motorola 68000 on the motherboard that was otherwise unused, the design was not very cost effective. A project to replace it with a 68020 on board began, intending to be a Zorro II based 68020 machine, but the project eventually became the Amiga 3000 when Dave Haynie sought to include his new Zorro III bus. The A2500 remained in production after the release of the A3000, primarily because the original Video Toaster would not fit in an unmodified A3000 case. Until the release of the Video Toaster 4000, the A2500 was the fastest computer available for use with the Toaster. See also Amiga models and variants References reflist CBM computers Amiga hardware AmigaOS Category Amiga es A2500 fr Amiga 2500 hr Amiga 2500 it Amiga 2500 pl Amiga 2500 ru Amiga 2500 fi Amiga 2500 ... more details
Original research date August 2008 Infobox OS name Amiga UNIX logo screenshot caption developer Commodore International Commodore Amiga, Inc. family UNIX Unix System V System V R4 source model primarily closed source latest release version 2.01 latest release date 1992 kernel type Monolithic kernel Monolithic license Proprietary software Proprietary website working state Historic supported platforms Motorola 68030 Commodore International Commodore Amiga, Inc. , in 1990, did a full port of AT&T Unix System V Unix System V Release 4 for the Amiga computer family in addition to the proprietary AmigaOS shipping with these operating system systems by default , informally known as Amix . Bundled with the Amiga 3000UX , Commodore s Unix was one of the first ports of SVR4 to the 68k architecture. The Amiga A3000UX model even got the attention of Sun Microsystems , though ultimately nothing came of it. http www.amiga hardware.com showhardware.cgi?HARDID 29 Unlike Apple Computer Apple s A UX , Amiga ... native applications available to take advantage of the Amiga s significant multimedia capabilities, it failed ... of the time, Amiga Unix included the source code to the vendor specific enhancements and platform ... license terms as the binary part of the system it was open source but not free software . Amiga Unix ..., Amiga Unix vanished into the mists of computer history when its vendor, Commodore, went out of business. Today, Unix like operating systems such as Minix , NetBSD , and Linux are available for the Amiga platform, but the commercial and AT&T licensed Amiga Unix has not been revived. External links ... of the Amiga 3000UX system from UnixWorld s December 1991 issue. http www.amigaunix.com tiki index.php The Very Unofficial Commodore Amiga Unix AMIX Wiki Unix like AmigaOS Amiga hardware Category Amiga Category System V Category Discontinued operating systems unix stub de AMIX es Amiga Unix it Amiga Unix pl Amiga Unix ru Amiga UNIX ... more details
Infobox Magazine title Amiga Computing editor Derek Meakin initially frequency Monthly category Category Computer and video game magazines Computer and video games company Europress IDG IDG Media firstdate June 1988 finaldate October 1997 finalnumber 117 country United Kingdom language English language English issn 0952 5948 Amiga Computing was a monthly computer magazine of a serious nature, published by Europress and IDG in both the UK and USA. A total of 117 issues came out. The games section was called Gamer, although later Amiga Action was incorporated into the magazine and became the games section. See also Amiga Survivor External links http www.amigahistory.co.uk amigacomp.html Amiga History Guide Amiga Computing history http www.davidviner.com mags.php David Viner UK Computer Magazines Category Defunct British computer magazines Category Amiga magazines Category Video game magazines Category Magazines established in 1988 Category Magazines disestablished in 1997 Category British video game magazines Category American video game magazines UK compu mag stub Amiga magazines hu Amiga Computing ... more details
Infobox Magazine title Amiga Action image file editor frequency Monthly circulation category Video game magazines company Europress IDG IDG Media firstdate October 1989 country United Kingdom language English language English website issn finaldate December 1996 finalnumber 89 Amiga Action was a monthly magazine about Amiga video game s. It was published in the United Kingdom by Europress later IDG IDG Media and ran for 89 full issues, from October 1989 to December 1996, making it the longest running UK Amiga games magazine. After its closure, it was merged into sister publication Amiga Computing , replacing its games section. This ran for 10 issues until September 1997 when that magazine also folded. ref http www.amigahistory.co.uk amigaction.html Amiga Action at Amiga History guide ref reflist Amiga magazines Category Defunct British computer magazines Category Amiga magazines Category Video game magazines Category Magazines established in 1989 Category Magazines disestablished in 1996 Category British video game magazines UK compu mag stub ... more details
Incomplete date February 2009 Infobox Magazine title Amiga Force image file amigaforce.jpg image size 200px image caption Amiga Force 10, September 1993 editor frequency Monthly circulation category Video game magazines company Europress Impact Europress Impact Magazines firstdate Autumn Winter 1992 country United Kingdom language English language English website issn 0967 702X finaldate March 1994 finalnumber 16 Amiga Force was a video games magazine launched towards the end of 1992 by Europress Impact . It lasted for 16 issues before going down with its publishers. The first issue of Amiga Force went on sale around September 1992. The magazine would switch to monthly release soon after. Amiga Force showed many similarities to other Europress Impact titles, particularly Sega Force . Unlike rival magazine Amiga Power , Amiga Force decided not to include any coverdisks on the issues. The magazine went through various designs and staff through its lifetime. The March 1994 issue was the last Amiga Force published when Impact Magazines went bust. See also Video game journalism Magazine Computer and video game industry Video game Computer Computing External links http www.amigahistory.co.uk amigaforce.html Amiga History article on Amiga Force Category Amiga magazines Category Defunct British computer magazines Category Video game magazines Category Magazines established in 1992 Category Magazines disestablished in 1994 Category British video game magazines videogame mag stub UK sci mag stub hu Amiga Force ... more details
Amiga 64 is a term used to incorrectly refer to one, or both, of the Commodore computers the Commodore 64 the Amiga No computer by the name of Amiga 64 exists. disambiguation Short pages monitor This long comment was added to the page to prevent it being listed on Special Shortpages. It and the accompanying monitoring template were generated via Template Longcomment. Please do not remove the monitor template without removing the comment as well. ... more details
Amiga E , or very often simply E , is a programming language created by Wouter van Oortmerssen on the Amiga ... . Amiga E is a combination of many features from a number of languages, but follows the original C programming language C programming language most closely in terms of basic concepts. Amiga E s main ... oriented programming Object oriented programming . A hello world program hello world program in Amiga E looks like PROC main WriteF Hello, World ENDPROC Amiga E was used to create the core of the popular Amiga graphics software Photogenics . History 1993 The first public release of Amiga E. 1997 The last version of Amiga E is released 3.3a . 1999 Unlimited compiler executable of Amiga E is released. ref cite web url http wouter.fov120.com files lang e ec33a.readme title The Amiga E v3.3a compiler author Wouter van Oortmerssen accessdate 2012 02 04 ref 1999 Source code of the Amiga E compiler ... e ec33a src.readme title The Amiga E v3.3a compiler source author Wouter van Oortmerssen accessdate 2012 02 04 ref 1999 First version of CreativE is released. Based on Sourcecode of Amiga E. 1999 First ... of PortablE for Windows OS . r4 Implementations Amiga E , by Wouter van Oortmerssen. The first compiler ..., source available, freeware . CreativE , by Tomasz Wiszkowski. Based on the GPL sources of Amiga E and adds many extensions to the compiler. Platforms AmigaOS and compatibles. Targets Like Amiga ... . Targets C and Amiga E. Status Stable, mature, under development, closed source, freeware. References Reflist External links http strlen.com amiga e Amiga E home page http www.blubbedev.net ... a free Windows & Amiga compatibles implementation http www.freelists.org list positron Amiga E mailing list http cshandley.co.uk amigae The original Amiga E manual for v3.3a http cshandley.co.uk JasonHulance A Beginner s Guide to Amiga E AmigaOS Category Procedural programming languages Category Amiga ... Category Programming languages created in 1993 de Amiga E es Amiga E ms AmigaE nl Amiga E pl AmigaE ... more details
Infobox computer Photo File Amiga 1000DP.jpg 280px Amiga 1000 1985 Name Commodore Amiga 1000 manufacturer ... Kilobyte KB 8 Megabyte MB Maximum graphics Original Amiga chipset OCS 640 × 256 5 color depth bpp Sound Original Amiga chipset Paula Paula nowrap 4 × 8 bit channels at max 28 kHz in stereo OS AmigaOS 1.0 Introductory price 1,285 United States Dollar USD successor Amiga 2000 The A1000 , or Commodore International Commodore Amiga 1000, was Commodore s initial Amiga personal computer ... of a complete Amiga system to 1,595 USD. Before the release of the Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 A2000 models in 1987, the A1000 was simply called Amiga . In the US, the A1000 was marketed as The Amiga from Commodore , however the Commodore logo was omitted from the casing. Additionally the Amiga ... 5&sq amiga&st nyt title Amiga s High Tech Gamble accessdate 2008 04 11 first Susan last Chira work ... it from later Amiga models It was the only model to feature the short lived Amiga checkmark ... a keyboard garage and the inside of the case was engraved with the signatures of the Amiga designers ... accessdate 2009 06 28 ref There are two distinct variants of the Amiga 1000 using different television ... television standard. Notably, the first NTSC systems lack the Amiga Halfbrite mode EHB video mode which is present in all later Amiga models. Because AmigaOS was rather computer bug buggy at the time ... Amiga Kickstart . The WCS was write protected after loading, and system resets did not require .... In 2006 PC World magazine PC World rated the Amiga 1000 as the 7th greatest PC of all time http www.pcworld.com ... article.html . In 1994, as Commodore filed for bankruptcy, Byte magazine called the Amiga 1000 ... art 9408 sec14 art1.htm Technical information The Amiga 1000 has a 68000 CPU running at 7.15909 ... from the video frequency, which simplifies glue logic and allows the Amiga 1000 to make do with a single ... as well as a TV MOD output into which was plugged the available Amiga 1000 RF Modulator, which allowed ... more details
Refimprove date March 2008 File Leander Amiga500.jpg thumb right 300px The Amiga 500 running Leander video game Leander 1991 Amiga games are video game s compatible with the Commodore International Commodore Amiga . The Amiga was an important platform for games in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Of all .... A game made for the Amiga platform generally had much better sound and graphics than the same game ... ST . Citation needed date December 2010 History From the Amiga s introduction in late 1985, through to the early 1990s, Amiga games were developed in parallel with the Atari ST as both machines utilized ... the Amiga. Additionally, developers found it easier to develop for, and it was easier to port from ST to Amiga than the other way. This was due in part to the ST s minimalist hardware design, which ... the transition to 16 bit easier. In contrast, the Amiga uses 2 chips to form its graphics hardware ... the Amiga a harder task in comparison to the conventional design of the ST. Citation needed date June ... converted to the Amiga. As a result, many Amiga games of this period were, in most cases, identical to the ST version. These games were usually called straight ports and did not utilize Amiga ... , Original Amiga chipset Copper copper useful for raster effects and superior color capabilities the Amiga has larger color palette and can display more colors at the same time . Additionally, games that did not make use of the Amiga s hardware often ran slower on the Amiga because the ST s CPU was clocked slightly higher at 8 MHz versus the Amiga s 7.09 MHz. This went against the Amiga ... difference in these games were apparent in audio effects and in game music. The Amiga used digitally ... the introduction of the Amiga 500 in early 1987. The Amiga 500 allowed the Amiga platform to compete ... its focus to the Amiga. By 1988, an increasing number of games were developed specifically for the Amiga. Games of this period began to show the Amiga s power, as programmers became more familiar ... more details
about the Amiga emulating other computers information on emulating the Amiga itself Amiga emulation Unreferenced date July 2007 The Amiga computer can be used to emulate several other computer platforms ... PC and the Apple Macintosh . MS DOS on Amiga via Sidecar or Bridgeboard MS DOS compatibility was a major issue during the early years of the Amiga s lifespan in order to promote the machine as a serious ... released the Amiga Sidecar Sidecar for the Amiga 1000 , basically a Intel 8088 8088 board in a closed case that connected to the side of the Amiga. Clever programming a library named Janus , after the two faced Janus mythology Roman god of doorways made it possible to run PC software in an Amiga window ... was stunned to see the MS DOS version of Microsoft Flight Simulator running at full speed in an Amiga ... card named http bridgeboard.infologist.com Bridgeboard for Amiga 2000 models. Bridgeboard cards appeared ... by Commodore, later third party cards also appeared for the Amiga 500 and Amiga 600 expansion slot ... of speed and compatibility. Amiga Transformer Early Amigas could use a program called Transformer ... only run on Amigas using the 68000 microprocessor, and would not run if the Amiga had more than 512K ... multiple hard disk files and hard disk partitions. It supported high Density floppies and CD ROM if the Amiga ... Hercules graphic cards with 512 KiB to 2 MiB RAM, and up to 256 colors on Amiga AGA machines, and could make use of Amiga graphic boards e.g. Cybergraphics, EGS Spectrum, Picasso . Parallel, Serial and PC speaker emulation, and mouse support, including serial mouse emulation were also granted. If the Amiga ... to run multiple PC Task processes on the same machine, run MS DOS applications in an Amiga window on a public screen e.g. on Amiga Workbench GUI . PCTask could also transfer files between Amiga side ... allow the Amiga equipped with expansion slots to get complete control of its silent ISA slots and use ... of RAM for activating this feature. Mac OS on Amiga Also introduced for the Amiga were two products ... more details
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