Commodore: Classic Amiga

The classic Amiga was initially thought ofenvisaged and designed by Amiga Corporations in the year 1982. The ideology behind the Amiga was to produce a gaming machine that made all consdoles of that time obsolete. In other words, Amiga corporations wanted to put together a next generation device that would offer high quality graphics and sound system to the exponentially growing video game market.

Makers of the classic Amiga, Amiga Ccorporations initially used Hi-Toro as their name. After realizing that it caused a lot of confusion in the public, since there was a washing machine company named Toro, athe new name, Amiga, was chosen. The company was very clever in choosing the name Amiga-meaning ‘female friend’ in Spanish. Amiga appeared before its rivals Apple and Atari when looked at in alphabetically order.

Although Amiga was meant to be a gaming console, its hardware was so powerful that, with minor modifications, it could be used as a full functioning computer.Although at the beginning it was decided that Amiga would be a gaming console, the idea was changed to make a personal computer. Ourcomputer. Our classic Amiga went into production in the year 1985. Amiga had a powerful CPU (of that time) that had a processing power of 7.14 MHz. It was also capable of displaying 4096 colors, which was far more superior to most of the gaming machines atof that time.

In order to run the sophisticated games Commodore made, Amiga was equipped with 256 KB of RAM that could be extended up to 8 MB!

After three years of research and development, Amiga was sold for an introductory price of 1300 dollars in the year 1985. By 1989, over a million units of the classic Amiga were sold. In spite of being poorly marketed, it found a place in the hearts of many video game crazy fans.

With the games commodore and other companies made; such as civilizations and Lemmings, fame of the classic Amiga reached far and wide. In England gamers paid up to 1700 pounds for this piece of extraordinary gaming. Today gamers and collection hobbyists alike have Amiga proudly placed in their rooms. And itsit’s not just for show; Amiga is still as entertaining as it was back in its hey day.You know, not everyone can have it!