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 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.

Versions were also released for the IBM PC and compatibles, and the Apple IIGS.

The system was slow by today's standards, but at the time the additional cost and complexity of networking on PC machines was such that it was common that Macs were the only networked personal computers in an office.

A few years later, in 1981, IBM introduced the first DOS based IBM PC, and due to the overwhelming popularity of PCs and their clones, DOS soon became the operating system on which the majority of BBS programs were run.

By the mid-1990s, however, companies were beginning to ask what the return was on the investment they had made in this loosely controlled PC software buying spree.

Backplanes have grown in complexity from the simple Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) ( used in the original IBM PC ) or S-100 style where all the connectors were connected to a common bus.

They were also published in PC Plus magazine for a short time, and several books of the stories have also been released.

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

PC style subdirectories were rejected as being too difficult to work with in terms of Block Allocation Maps, then still much in vogue, and which for some time had been the traditional way of inquiring into block availability.

Phoenix Technologies would shortly follow their lead, but soon " clone BIOSes " were available from many other companies who reverse engineered IBM's design, then sold their version to the PC clone manufacturers.

By the mid-1990s, Compaq's price war had enabled it to overtake IBM and Apple, while other IBM PC Compatible manufacturers such as Packard Bell and AST were driven from the market.

At the time of their 2002 merger, Compaq and HP were the second and third largest PC manufacturers, so their combination made them number one.

In-game music was removed, many items were renamed to avoid drug and sex references, and several levels were altered to include areas from the Plutonium Pak ( such as a Duke Burger outlet being present in the second level where there wasn't one in the original PC version ).

Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry.

* Dark Seed and its sequel, Dark Seed II, both adventure games for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, Macintosh and the PC, were published by Cyberdreams.

As the 1980s began, hard disk drives were a rare and very expensive additional feature on personal computers ( PCs ); however by the late ' 80s, their cost had been reduced to the point where they were standard on all but the cheapest PC.

Most hard disk drives in the early 1980s were sold to PC end users as an external, add-on subsystem.

Businesses were moving en masse to the IBM PC platform by that time, so portability was no longer a significant differentiator.

The 1990s, though, were a turbulent time for graphics development, as the computer industry was collapsing, with long-time computer makers such as Tandy / Radio Shack, Atari, and Commodore / Amiga disappearing, and the PC and Macintosh markets were fighting for dominance.

While the SSDD drives initially were the only floppy drives available for the model 5150 PC, IBM later switched to DSDD drives, and the majority of 5150 PCs sold eventually shipped with one or two DSDD drives.

The first 80486-based PCs were announced in late 1989, but some advised that people wait until 1990 to purchase an 80486 PC because there were early reports of bugs and software incompatibilities.

Ataxia is also the name of a disease in the Elder Scrolls console and PC games.

It was also a less expensive alternative to the Apple Macintosh and IBM PC as a general-purpose business or home computer.

A similar solution was the 850 kbit / s DaynaTalk, a separate box which plugged in between the computer and a normal LocalTalk / PhoneNet box, and also offered as a PC expansion card that ran up to 1. 7 Mbit / s.

In IBM PC compatible computers, the Basic Input / Output System ( BIOS ), also known as the system BIOS or ROM BIOS (), is a de facto standard defining a firmware interface.

This led to the release of Bubble Bobble also featuring Rainbow Islands for Saturn, PlayStation and PC ( MS-DOS ) in 1996.

It was considerably faster than an IBM PC and was, like the Compaq Portable, also capable of running IBM software.

It also received the Award for Technical Excellence from PC Magazine, and the Best Action Adventure Game award by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences.

Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown ( titled simply Duke Nukem in Europe ), the PlayStation version, contains all three original episodes, plus a new one, Plug ' n ' Pray, which includes six extra levels and a secret level, the latter which was also included in the PC version.

The version also features remixed music, some rearranged from the PC version and some original, in streaming XA-Audio made by Mark Knight.

The Alien Beast monster seen in the Plutonium Pak also appears a few times in the standard levels where it wasn't in the original PC version at all.

Several third-party vendors also produced Alpha systems, including PC form factor motherboards.

) IBM RT / PC also used the 16-bit bus.

IRMA also allowed file transfers between the PC and the mainframe.

The modern PC keyboard also includes a control processor and indicator lights to provide feedback to the user about what state the keyboard is in.

The original IBM PC CGA display adapter was the same, and the monochrome MDA, the predecessor of the CGA, as well as the later EGA and VGA, also featured gutterboxing ; this is also called underscanned video.

Glycerophospholipids may be subdivided into distinct classes, based on the nature of the polar headgroup at the sn-3 position of the glycerol backbone in eukaryotes and eubacteria, or the sn-1 position in the case of archaebacteria .< center > PhosphatidylethanolamineExamples of glycerophospholipids found in biological membranes are phosphatidylcholine ( also known as PC, GPCho or lecithin ), phosphatidylethanolamine ( PE or GPEtn ) and phosphatidylserine ( PS or GPSer ).

The series also inspired the PC game " Left Behind: Eternal Forces " and its sequels, " Left Behind: Tribulation Forces " and " Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist ".

There were also unofficial ports to Intel 386 PC compatibles ( in 32-bit protected mode ), National Semiconductor NS32532, ARM and INMOS transputer processors.

Occasionally video interface hardware was also integrated into the motherboard ; for example, on the Apple II and rarely on IBM-compatible computers such as the IBM PC Jr. Additional peripherals such as disk controllers and serial ports were provided as expansion cards.

These include Puzzle Bobble, Janshin Densetsu ( a Mahjong game also released for the PC Engine ), Power Spike II, Neo Drift Out and Futsal-5-on-5 Mini Soccer.

Variants of Pascal have also frequently been used for everything from research projects to PC games and embedded systems.