Histroy of Amiga's

Developed in the mid 80’s the Amiga was popular with computer artists. When released in 1985 the Amiga 500 was powerful, cheep, small and easy to use also released in the same year the Amiga 1000 looked more like a PC than the Amiga 500. Some years later Commodore released the Amiga 2000 similar to Amiga 1000 but just more powerful at the time the Amiga 1000 and 2000’s where not aimed at the home user but more as a business computer.

The next development from Commodore was Amiga 500+ it had the same arcutecture as the Amiga 500 but came with 1MB of ram instead of the usual 512K ram it also included the new OS Workbench 2.0. Later in 1990 Commodore developed the new Amiga 600 it contained the same technical specs as the Amiga 500+ but it’s physical arcutecture was redesigned now the numeric key pad was “cut off” this caused some problems using games that required the numeric keypad but later some 3ird party company’s developed an external key pad that solved this problem.

The early 90’s where good to Commodore they developed the first CD gaming console the Amiga CD32 and in 1993 created there most popular computer to date the Amiga 1200 looked like the Amiga 600 only with a numeric keypad but was much faster incorporating the new Motorola 68020 processor and now had 2MB of ram and now using the new AGA graphics chip set this was the most popular Amiga to date used by computer artists, gamers, programmers.

Soon after the release of the Amiga 1200 Commodore developed the Amiga 3000 and 4000 both looked like PC’s but where much faster then the Amiga’s before them. Commodore continued to develop computers and software up until 1998.

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