Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems. This includes the Atari ST—released earlier the same year—as well as the Macintosh and Acorn Archimedes. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Amiga differs from its contemporaries through the inclusion of custom hardware to accelerate graphics and sound, including sprites and a blitter, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS.

The Amiga 1000 was released in July 1985, but production problems kept it from becoming widely available until early 1986. The best-selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 along with the more expandable Amiga 2000. The Amiga 3000 was introduced in 1990, followed by the Amiga 500 Plus, and Amiga 600 in March 1992. Finally, the Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000 were released in late 1992. The Amiga line sold an estimated 4.85 million units.

Although early advertisements cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, especially when outfitted with the Sidecar IBM PC compatibility add-on, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.[2][3] The Video Toaster hardware and software suite helped Amiga find a prominent role in desktop video and video production. The Amiga's audio hardware made it a popular platform for music tracker software. The processor and memory capacity enabled 3D rendering packages, including LightWave 3D, Imagine, and Traces, a predecessor to Blender.

Poor marketing and the failure of later models to repeat the technological advances of the first systems resulted in Commodore quickly losing market share to the rapidly dropping prices of IBM PC compatibles, which gained 256 color graphics in 1987,[4] as well as the fourth generation of video game consoles.

Commodore ultimately went bankrupt in April 1994 after a version of the Amiga packaged as a game console, the Amiga CD32, failed in the marketplace. Since the demise of Commodore, various groups have marketed successors to the original Amiga line, including Genesi, Eyetech, ACube Systems Srl and A-EON Technology. AmigaOS has influenced replacements, clones, and compatible systems such as MorphOS and AROS. Currently Belgian company Hyperion Entertainment maintains and develops AmigaOS 4 which is official and direct descendant of AmigaOS 3.1 - the last system made by Commodore for the original Amiga Computers.

c64?
Aiya wrong place symbol

What wrong place symbol?

Your dupe?

What wrong place symbol?

Mod

Pls check occurence of dupes here

Owaoii

Here's mine, still work in progress 😁

Fuiyo! Where did you get it? Working unit?

apple > all

Here's mine, still work in progress 😁

apple > all

man, those were the days, when games were released on both amiga & dos platforms, and amiga would always tapau dos in terms of sound and graphics

my friend got one b4,.. but in monochrome,.. no graphic card,..

Huh, Amiga already got built in graphic card, the AGA chipset was the best at its time.

nope,.. i remember my friend one is monochrome,..

You sure you not confused Amiga with PC? Amiga has always been coloured

confirm it's a commodore,.... no hardisk,..  OS is BASIC,.. 5 1/4 floppy disk,... i remember that era,.. PC just having 286 as flagship chips,.. common one using 8088,..

Don't make me laugh. I was light years ahead of crummy Apple back in 1985. Or anything else for that matter.

What? I thought Macintosh was released that year or around then. Macintosh was light years ahead of anything according to the literature.

Amiga workbench was way better then macos at the time. The multitasking capabilities which was way ahead at the time, compared to macos or microsoft single tasking os

Amiga got gui at that time?

You are too young to know the true history of computing I guess.

The AmigaOS was probably the first true multitasking OS for consumers.

Mac? They just stole Xerox UI and made it famous...like Apple does now...always stealing other people's tech. Even their screen unlock was stolen from Nokia

And in terms of Graphics and sound, nothing can come close to the Amiga then. The Mac was a joke by comparison.

You call  it steal, Jobs calls it standing on the shoulder of giants

If Amiga so superior, why did it disappear into history but mac and PC still around?

Being best seller doesn't always means you are the best. It's very shallow to perceive things by mere revenue figures.

Your own signature emphasizes that the c64 was the best selling computer of its time, so ironic that you say that.

If talking in revenue, Mac was almost much more expensive and sold fewer units than c64 or PC.

You call  it steal, Jobs calls it standing on the shoulder of giants

If Amiga so superior, why did it disappear into history but mac and PC still around?

Amiga got gui at that time?

my friend got one b4,.. but in monochrome,.. no graphic card,..

Huh, Amiga already got built in graphic card, the AGA chipset was the best at its time.

confirm it's a commodore,.... no hardisk,..  OS is BASIC,.. 5 1/4 floppy disk,... i remember that era,.. PC just having 286 as flagship chips,.. common one using 8088,..

That's not an Amiga, that is just commodore pc clone 😁

Yes, they also made IBM pc clone, the Amiga uses motorola 68000 processor, not Intel cpu