The earliest documented use of the term gadget in context of software engineering was in 1985 by the developers of AmigaOS, the operating system of the Amiga computers ( intuition. library and also later gadtools. library ).

He was a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1985, just before his death in 1987.

The Amiga is a family of personal computers marketed by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s.

The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers, such as the Commodore 64, and the platform quickly grew in popularity among computer enthusiasts.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

The Amiga went on to sell approximately six million units.

Second generation Amiga systems ( the A1200 and the A4000 ) were released in 1992.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

Although early Commodore advertisements attempted to cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine, the Amiga was most commercially successful as a home computer, with a wide range of games and creative software.

Since the demise of Commodore, various groups have marketed successors to the original Amiga line, including Genesi, Eyetech, ACube Systems and A-EON Technology, and AmigaOS has influenced replacements, clones and compatible systems such as MorphOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS.

Development of the Amiga began in 1982 with Jay Miner, developer of the Atari 800 chip set, as the principal hardware designer of Amiga Corporation.

In order to bring the design to market Commodore International bought Amiga Corporation and funded development.

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 for home use.

Commodore later released other Amiga models, both for low-end gaming use and high-end productivity use.

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who created the subsidiary company Amiga Technologies.

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 without having released any products.

The current owner of the trademark, Amiga, Inc, licensed the rights to sell hardware using the Amiga or AmigaOne brand to computer vendors Commodore USA, Eyetech Group, Ltd. and A-Eon Technology CVBA.

Users with earlier versions of Workbench could view the files by downloading the program and library AmigaGuide 34 distributed with public domain collections of floppy disks ( for example on Fred Fish collection ) or it could be downloaded directly from Aminet Amiga Official Repository on the web.

The third-party AmigaDOS Resource Project ( ARP, formerly the AmigaDOS Replacement Project ), a project begun by Amiga developer Charlie Heath, replaced many of the BCPL utilities with smaller, more sophisticated equivalents written in C and assembler, and provided a wrapper library,.

* In the Amiga, the only absolute address in the system is hex $ 0000 0004 ( memory location 4 ), which contains the start location called SysBase, a pointer to exec. library, the so-called kernel of Amiga.

For example: command invokes the standard Amiga Graphics. library from which to call functions.

The ARexx command set is simple, but in addition to the commands there are the functions of its Amiga reference library ( rexxsyslib. library ).

Image: Hudsonhawkscr1. png | A rhinoceros in the library ( Amiga version )

The analog output is connected to a low-pass filter, which filters out high-frequency aliases when the Amiga is using a lower sampling rate ( see Nyquist limit ).

The quality of the Amiga's sound output, and the fact that the hardware is ubiquitous and easily addressed by software, were standout features of Amiga hardware unavailable on PC platforms for years.

Its purpose is to initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk or hard disk drive.

It is also possible to ignore the 68k CPU and run Linux on the PPC ( project Linux APUS ), but a PowerPC native AmigaOS promised by Amiga Technologies GmbH was not available when the PowerUP boards first appeared.

AMOS BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language implemented on the Amiga computer.

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

This " interpretation " is what Tramiel used to counter-sue, and sought damages and an injunction to bar Amiga ( and effectively Commodore ) from producing any resembling technology.

The Enhanced Chip Set ( ECS ) is the second generation of the Amiga computer's chipset, offering minor improvements over the original chipset ( OCS ) design.

It is possible to upgrade some OCS machines, such as the Amiga 500, to obtain partial or full ECS functionality by replacing OCS chips with ECS versions.

Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal is a 1987 video game for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and the Amiga based on the comic strip.

Guru Meditation is an error notice displayed by early versions of the Commodore Amiga computer when they crashed.

And the 68EC020 which uses a 24 instead of a 32-bit address bus is used in the Amiga 1200, and the Amiga CD32.

These functions allow the Amiga to move GUI windows around the screen rapidly as each is represented in graphical memory space as a rectangular block of memory which may be shifted to any required screen memory location at will.

Vertical resolution, without overscan, is 200 pixels for an 60 Hz NTSC Amiga or 256 for a 50 Hz PAL Amiga.

There is also an 1 bit output on this connector that indicates whether the Amiga is outputting background colour or not, permitting easy overlaying of Amiga video onto external video.

It is rarely used on the Amiga due to both frequency and volume being controllable in better ways, but could be used to achieve different kinds of tremolo and vibrato, and even rudimentary FM synthesis effects.