Seedgroup - Amiga Forever 2008

*** Movie created by: Seedgroup *** Music : PPK - Resurrection ***


The Amiga is a family of personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation. Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner as the principal hardware designer. Commodore International bought Amiga Corporation and introduced the machine to the market in 1985. The name Amiga was chosen by the developers specifically from the Spanish and Portuguese word for a female friend,[1] and because it occurred before Apple and Atari alphabetically.[2]

Based on the Motorola 68k series of microprocessors, the machine sports a custom chipset with advanced graphics and sound capabilities, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system (now known as AmigaOS). While the M68k is a 32-bit processor, the version originally used in the Amiga, the 68000, has a 16-bit external data bus (that transfers 32 bit of data in two consecutive steps, a technique called multiplexing -- all this transparent to the software, which is 32-bit from the beginning), and the original machine (along with its contemporary, the Atari ST) was generally referred to in the press as a 16-bit computer;[3] later models sported fully 32-bit designs. The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers such as the Commodore 64, and the Amiga quickly grew in popularity among computer enthusiasts, especially in Europe, and sold approximately 6 million units.[4]

It also found a prominent role in the desktop video / video production and show control business, and was a less-expensive alternative to the Apple Macintosh and IBM-PC. The Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, although early Commodore advertisements attempted to place the Amiga into several different markets at the same time.[5][6]

Since the demise of Commodore, various groups have marketed successors to the original Amiga line. Eyetech sold Amiga hardware under the AmigaOne brand from 2002 to 2005.
The Amiga was originally designed by a small company called Amiga Corporation, and initially intended to be a next generation video game machine, but was later redesigned into a general purpose computer.[7][8] Before the machine was released into the market the company was purchased by Commodore. The first model was released in 1985 as simply "The Amiga from Commodore", later to be retroactively dubbed the Amiga 1000. The following year the Amiga product line was expanded with the introduction of two new models; the Amiga 2000 for high-end graphics and business use, and the Amiga 500 was for home use. Commodore later released several new Amiga models, both for low-end gaming use and high-end productivity use. Throughout the 1980s, the Amiga's combination of hardware and operating system software offered great value, but by the mid-nineties other platforms, most successfully the PC running Microsoft Windows, reduced this advantage.

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who created the subsidiary company Amiga Technologies. They re-released the A1200 and A4000T, and introduced a new 68060 version of the A4000T.

However, Escom in turn went bankrupt in 1997. The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it. However, in 2000, Gateway sold the Amiga brand.

The current owner of the trademark, Amiga, Inc., has licensed the rights to make hardware using the Amiga brand to a UK computer vendor, Eyetech Group, Ltd, which was founded by some former UK employees of Commodore International. They are currently selling the AmigaOne via an international dealer network. The AmigaOne is a PowerPC computer designed to run the latest version of AmigaOS, which was itself licensed to a Belgian-German company, Hyperion Entertainment.

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[Seedgroup]

PPK - Resurrection

[Breton31]

Great music for a great computer. Forever!!!

[keeprighton2007]

A correction: Escom went bust in July 1996.

[jeenormus]

lol nokia decided to cancel escom in 2002

[Hoschi0913]

best part of the Amiga was the plug and play feature,not the plug and pray of the PC,gave my Amiga 500 a little update (solder work) to 1mb chip mem and added 4mb fastmem,men it had WB 3.0 ,hard drive (40mb) which i never could get full,could play a game,format a disk,print something and listen to some music at the same time,no PC back then was able to do that

[DreadStorm]

@YouTubed Knowing what I know now, though, fairly easy to fix.

[Gigas0101]

now I miss my amiga...

[pokerockmario123]

RIP Jay Miner..

[a1864aa]

AMIGA HAD KICK PC OFF - I renember that they were faster than PC. - but 68060 was to expensive - and they didnt go furter than this one !!!

Shame on them !!!

[dagbli]

I wounder what Amiga would been today if the Commodore company had not ended so tragic.

Would Amiga be better then the PC we know today?

[Sanosuke004]

Sad to hear but Jay Miner died a while back.

[gjc82071]

With so many free emulators out there I don't usually buy them. But I have to admit, Amiga Forever was a great investment. As was Magic Engine (TG16 emulator) I think I am going to buy Speculator also. I know there are close to 50 Sinclair Spectrum ZX emulators out there, & while a few work very good, Speculator is by far the best. Also I feel that buy purchasing some of these retro gaming emulators vs using only free ones, it will keep classic gaming alive. Amiga rocks btw!

[TableWolfMusic]

Did you lose the tv modulator of break it? If so, how on earth did you break a tv modulator? They were like a brick.