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1990

  • The first fully 32bit system, with a 68030 and the ECS chipset (fatter agnus), named the A3000, was launched in the UK for 3300 (later 3200)..

    • Amiga 3000

    [Amiga]

    Processor Motorola 68030 16MHz (later 25MHz)/ 68881 FPU (later 68882)
    Custom Chips (4) Fatter Agnus, Denise, Paula, Gary
    RAM 2Mb Ram / expandable to 18mb[2mb chip - 16mb fast]


    The Kickstart was 2.0. It had an onboard SCSI controller and Zorro III slots. It was also available on a tower model, the A3000T, and a UNIX model, the A3000UX. A flicker fixer was also included so that the A3000 could easily be plugged in a VGA monitor.

  • A few months later, the A500+ was released. It was a European model, with ECS (Enchanced Chip Set), 1 Ram (expandable to 10mb), and Workbench 2.0.

    • Both the systems had graphics mode of up to 1470x580 (4colors). Kickstart 2.0, was a step forward. It occupied 512kb ROM (1.3 was just 256kb), but there was not very much backwards compatibility with 1.3. The compatibility problem was not Commodore fault, however, but the fault of bad programming by coders.

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