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Commodore successor won over gamers, graphic artists alike.. On July 23, 1985, Commodore kicked off a new era in its history with the launch of the Amiga 1000. Through the 1980s and into the early 90s, the Amiga built for itself a cult following and gained a reputation as a personal computer ahead of its time. |
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uber-leet
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Aug 23, 2026
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I came across this video titled "history of the amiga" as told by Jay Miner, RJ Mical et al. This video is available as part of Amiga Forever (Premium Edition) by cloanto collection. {Lots of pics} |
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The Amiga is a family of personal computers. They were designed and sold by the Amiga Corporation and later by Commodore Computing International. These computers were popular from 1985 to 1994. |
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Can the reconstituted company recapture its former glory? If it does, Linux, Java and Jini will loom large. Amiga fans wondering whether their beloved brand will recapture its former glory will need to wait a bit longer for a definitive answer. No, Amiga is not getting back into the PC business, per se. Instead, the reconstituted company acquired by Gateway Inc. a couple of years ago will supply operating system software and hardware reference specifications to makers of PCs and appliances. Amiga designs will use Linux as well as off-the-shelf components, such as Universal Serial Bus, for connecting peripherals. |
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Aug 15, 2026
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Dr. Tim King passed away at the end of July, his family confirmed upon request. King played a key role in the development of AmigaDOS and thus in an important chapter of the Amiga's software history. |
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1996-10-19 |
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Aug 15, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} A look at an innovative computer industry pioneer, whose achievements have been largely forgotten. Obituaries customarily focus on the deceased's accomplishments, not the unpleasant details of the demise. That's especially true when the demise hints strongly of self-neglect tantamount to suicide, and nobody can find a note that offers some final explanation. There will be no such note from Commodore, and it would take a book to explain why this once-great computer company lies cold on its deathbed. But Commodore deserves a eulogy, because its role as an industry pioneer has been largely forgotten or ignored by revisionist historians who claim that everything started with Apple or IBM. Commodore's passing also recalls an era when conformity to standards wasn't the yardstick by which all innovation was measured |
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Tom R. Halfhill
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2011-08-24 |
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Aug 03, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} {Compute! Magazine article from Aug 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Issue 64. Vol 7, No 9.} |
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The “Story” Of Clikboom... You might think you know all about Clickboom and PXL by now, many probably does, but I keep hearing people putting way too much credit in last years Clickboom reveal video, a video that sadly only tells half the story, or rather a half true story. I love Clickboom as a quality brand, but as this blog post will show, there is a lot of options to hate it more than most. With that said, I must add to all developers, artists, musicians, QA, testers, translators and so on, that had a finger in the games – you guys did an fantastic job |
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For most Amiga users, the story of the machine is a story of chips, demos, strange brilliance and loyalty that long ago passed the point of medical explanation. {..} But one of the most important figures in the later Amiga story did not come from the familiar world of engineers, coders or user-group legends. Dr. Pentti Kouri came from finance, and that made him a very unusual character in a very unusual computing saga. |
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GREG LINDSAY
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2000-10-22 |
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Sep 15, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} If you're not already part of the Amiga flock, entering the cramped exhibition hall at an Amiga convention can be profoundly disorienting. Browsing through the software racks and glancing at the aging Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 machines running demos at the AmiWest conference earlier this month in Sacramento, I felt as if I'd entered a parallel universe where software development stopped in the early '90s. |
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What links the following? #1: a best-selling home computer, #2: one of the most beloved non-console gaming machines of the 80s and 90s, and #3: the first personal computer to sell over 1 million units. A lot of people over 30 will probably name a Commodore machine as the first computer they ever used, be it a Commodore PET in the late seventies, a VIC-20 or Commodore 64 from the 1980s, or even one of the Amiga line in the early nineties. Some will have played their first game on one or wrote their first program in BASIC, perhaps leading them to a life-long career in the tech industry-I'm one of many who owe a debt of gratitude to the company. |
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The Commodore Amiga 1000, launched in July 1985, revolutionized personal computing with its multimedia power, but its exterior stole the show. Young Commodore industrial designer Howard Stolz, despite his inexperience, crafted a sleek case that overpowerd bulkier rivals like the Apple Macintosh or IBM PC, & compatibles. {...} Stolz's enclosure framed these perfectly, turning hardware into a legacy of the 80s. Stolz's deepest collaboration unfolded with Sanyo Electric Co. in Japan, a pivotal story of global manufacturing finesse. |
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An Unauthorised History of the Amiga was last updated 16th May 1999 - This page will not be updated in the future - It is a legacy page. |
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Parallel computing pioneer went on to found early British ISP UK Online. OBIT Dr Timothy James King, the programmer behind the 68000 version of TRIPOS that became AmigaDOS, has died aged 70. His most widely experienced work was a key component of the original Commodore Amiga's operating system. His port of Cambridge University's TRIPOS OS to the Motorola 68000 CPU became AmigaDOS. His rapid work getting it running on prototype Amiga hardware helped Commodore launch the machine in 1985 after its in-house OS project failed to deliver. As he put it himself: "As a result I have the distinction of having written software used by over 2 million users." |
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Aug 02, 2026
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What happened to AmigaDE? Inside Amiga’s failed portable platform: The oddest Amiga ever launched was not a computer. It did not come in a case. {...} AmigaDE was something else. It was a software layer, a runtime, a business plan and a brand exercise rolled into one. Later pushed as Amiga Anywhere, it tried to take the Amiga name away from the idea of a specific computer and attach it to portable applications running across different devices. That made it one of the most revealing products in the long post-Commodore Amiga story. It showed a company trying to move the brand into the device era, but also showed how hard it is to make an old computer name mean something new when the machine itself has disappeared. The hook was brutal because it was true: the brand survived by leaving the machine behind. |
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Oct 09, 2026
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Power Computing look like a pretty obscure company. How obscure? As far as I can tell, they only released three games Breathless (1995), The Big Red Adventure (1997), and Red Mars (1999). All three were released for the Amiga after Commodore had declared bankruptcy. Unless you know differently, there's not even a cover online for the Power Computing version of Red Mars That's all pretty darn obscure. Here's the Rod Serling-type twist, the company is still trading successfully today. |
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