The classic distribution is Müller's version 2, containing a compiler for the Amiga, an interpreter, example programs, and a readme document.

Peter Clarke, Tim Follin and David Whittaker converted the music for the home computer ports ( some versions feature the ending sequence track for the title screen music, such as on the Commodore Amiga version by David Whittaker ).

A world map screenshot from the Amiga version of Civilization

* Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World ( 1988 ; Apple II, Amiga, DOS, Commodore 64, Mac, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( Europe only ), SNES ( Japan-only, different from the European version ), MSX, PC-Engine CD )

For the Amiga, the AGA A1200 version with 256-colour graphics was available on 9 double-density floppy disks.

Shortly afterwards, a 64-colour Amiga 500 edition was created so that any Amiga could play it, and finally a CD32 version was released on CD with 256-colour graphics and voice acting.

This was the first Amiga adventure game to feature full voice acting, but only on the CD version.

The Amiga version of Simon the Sorcerer received generally high ratings.

The game was originally created by Andy Davidson as an entry for a Blitz BASIC programming competition run by the Amiga Format magazine, a cut-down version of the programming language having been covermounted previously.

It was also the last version released for the Commodore Amiga platform from which the game originated.

An Amiga version is available, although it has been discontinued and released as open source.

As a result, many Amiga games of this period were, in most cases, identical to the ST version.

Atari responded by releasing the Atari STE in 1989, an " enhanced " version of the ST to match the specification of the Amiga 500 by adding a blitter, more colors and DMA driven digital audio.

Screenshot of the Amiga version

It was heavily hyped upon its initial release, including being bundled with the newly launched Amiga 1200, although not the AGA version with enhanced graphics which followed later.

The Amiga CD32 version has original red book audio tracks by Neil Biggin and has the option to have both sound effects and music.

This and the Acorn Archimedes port are the only two incarnations of the original Amiga version to have this.

Reviews for the Amiga version of the game were mostly very positive, including 97 % in Amiga Computing, 95 % in Amiga Format, 91 % in CU Amiga and 90 % in Amiga Power.

The Lost Vikings was originally released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, then subsequently released for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, MS-DOS, and Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis systems the next year ; the Mega Drive / Genesis version contains five stages not present in any other version of the game.

Ultimate Soundtracker was written by Karsten Obarski and released in 1987 by EAS Computer Technik for the Commodore Amiga.

The first version of the format was created by Karsten Obarski for use in the Ultimate Soundtracker ; tracker software released for the Amiga computer in 1987.

Amiga sceners formed a smaller alternative called TRSAC (" The Real Scene After Christmas "), while C64 and PC sceners started tUM (" the Ultimate Meeting ") in Germany.

The 68000 became the dominant CPU for Unix based workstations including Sun workstations and Apollo / Domain workstations, found its way into heralded computers such as the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, Amiga, Atari ST, and was used in the first generation of desktop laser printers including the original Apple Inc. LaserWriter and the HP LaserJet.

The Amiga Skyline BBS software was the first in 1987 featuring a script markup language communication protocol called Skypix which was capable to give the user a complete graphical interface, featuring rich graphic content, changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

In 1988 the British artist and friend of Weizenbaum Brian Reffin Smith created and showed at the exhibition ' Salamandre ', in the Musée du Berry, Bourges, France, two art-oriented ELIZA-style programs written in BASIC, one called ' Critic ' and the other ' Artist ', running on two separate Amiga 1000 computers.

The support of overscan, interlacing and genlocking capabilities, and the fact that the display timing was very close to broadcast standards ( NTSC or PAL ), made the Amiga the first ideal computer for video purposes, and indeed, it was used in many studios for digitizing video data ( sometimes called frame-grabbing ), subtitling and interactive video news.

On the Commodore 64 and Amiga, a clone called Katakis was produced by Factor 5.

They set up another chipset project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro ( later renamed to Amiga Corporation ), where they could have some creative freedom.

To raise money for the Lorraine project, Amiga Corp. designed and sold joysticks and game cartridges for popular game consoles such as the Atari 2600 and ColecoVision, as well as an odd input device called the Joyboard, essentially a joystick the player stood on.

These games were usually called " straight ports " and did not utilize Amiga specific features, such as the blitter and hardware sprites ( useful for animations ), copper ( useful for raster effects ) and superior color capabilities ( the Amiga has larger color palette and can display more colors at the same time ).

inline help files and reading manuals with sort of hypertext formatting elements was launched in AmigaOS and based on a viewer called simply " AmigaGuide " and it has been included as standard feature on the Amiga system.

UAE was released in 1995 and was originally called the Unusable Amiga Emulator, due to its inability to boot.

It was primarily authored by Ton Roosendaal, who had previously written a ray tracer called Traces for Amiga in 1989.

This operating system was used as the basis of AmigaDOS ( file-related functions of AmigaOS ); MetaComCo won the contract from Commodore because the original planned Amiga disk operating system called CAOS was behind schedule ; timescales were incredibly tight and TRIPOS provided a head start for a replacement system.

An updated version called Video Toaster 4000 was later released, using the Amiga 4000's video slot.

The game was released on floppy disks for the PC ( with VGA graphics ), Macintosh and Amiga ( with standard 32-color graphics ) in 1991, and was later included on a CD-ROM compilation of Monkey Island games called The Monkey Island Bounty Pack.

Amiga Power called it the most eagerly awaited game of 1992.

There was an Amiga clone, released by Avisoft, called Coloris.

There is also a similar game from the same era called Tank Wars and another on the Commodore Amiga computer system called Scorched Tanks.

There is also a sequel of this game called Armour-Geddon 2: Codename Hellfire available only for Amiga.

Graphics from Shadow of the Beast and Shadow of the Beast II were featured in two special levels in the original Lemmings game ( Amiga, Mega Drive, PC, Super Nintendo, and Atari ST versions ), called " A Beast of a Level " and " A Beast II of a Level ".