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Service and Repair (Country)
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AmigaSource.com - AMIGA
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Links specifically about Amiga history
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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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Author:
Tom R. Halfhill
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Archived:
2011-08-24 |
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Aug 03, 2026
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id: 2258 |
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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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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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Author:
GREG LINDSAY
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Archived:
2000-10-22 |
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Sep 15, 2026
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id: 6049 |
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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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