The first model was released in 1985 as simply " The Amiga from Commodore ", later to be retroactively dubbed the Amiga 1000.

Amiga 1000

On Amiga 1000 ( and first Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 model ), the power LED had no relation to the filter's status, a wire needed to be manually soldered between pins on the sound chip to disable the filter.

In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).

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.

** Amiga 1000

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 original chipset appeared in Amiga models built between 1985 and 1990: the Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000, Amiga CDTV, and Amiga 500.

Early versions of the Amiga 1000 sold in the United States did not have the Extra-HalfBrite mode.

In models after the Amiga 1000, the brightness of the power LED is used to indicate the status of the filter.

Even the Commodore Amiga 1000 had a PC compatible add-on module, the Amiga Sidecar | Sidecar.

While he worked at Atari, Mitchy even had her own ID-badge, and Mitchy's paw print is visible on the inside of the Amiga 1000 top cover, alongside the signatures of the engineers who worked on it.

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

* Andy Warhol makes a digital painting of Debbie Harry at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985

** Commodore Amiga, a family of personal computers introduced to the market in 1985 after Commodore International purchased the original developers, Amiga Corporation

Commodore later released the Amiga range of computers in 1985.

By way of contrast, when introduced in 1985, the Amiga had compared favorably against 286-based systems with EGA graphics and rudimentary sound capabilities that frequently cost 2 – 3 times as much.

* Hex ( video game ), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST

The original Amiga ( 1985 )

From the Amiga's introduction in late 1985, through to the early 1990s, Amiga games were developed in parallel with the Atari ST as both machines utilized the Motorola 68000 CPU.

A major proportion of games developed from 1985 to 1988 were written specifically for ST, then converted to the Amiga.

MetaComCo acquired the rights to the 68000 version and continued development until TRIPOS was chosen by Commodore Amiga in March 1985 to form part of an operating system for their new computer.

In July 1985, the Amiga was introduced, incorporating TRIPOS in the AmigaDOS module of AmigaOS.

* Ukiah resident Carl Sassenrath introduced multitasking to personal computers in 1985 with the creation of the Amiga Computer operating system.

It is based on Electronic Arts ' Interchange File Format, introduced in 1985 on the Amiga 1000, the only difference being that multi-byte integers are in little-endian format, native to the 80x86 processor series used in IBM PCs, rather than the big-endian format native to the 68k processor series used in Amiga and Apple Macintosh computers, where IFF files were heavily used.

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.

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.

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.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

The Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors was used in all Amiga models from Commodore.

Commodore's design choice to remain with the 68000 architecture ensured that code was backward-compatible across the Amiga line.

The NewTek Video Toaster was made possible by the genlock ability of the Amiga.

The Amiga was one of the first home computers for which inexpensive sound sampling and video digitization accessories were available.

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.

This was a powerful video effects board which turned the Amiga into an affordable video processing computer which found its way into many professional video environments.

The language was mildly successful within the Amiga community.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written.

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.

By this time, however, many CBM users had shifted their attention to the 16 / 32-bit Amiga, and the 1581 was mostly sold to remaining GEOS users.

During development in 1983, Amiga had exhausted venture capital and was desperate for more financing.

The Atari Museum has acquired the Atari-Amiga contract and Atari engineering logs revealing that the Atari Amiga was originally designated as the 1850XLD.

At around the same time that Tramiel was in negotiations with Atari, Amiga entered into discussions with Commodore.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.