* Amiga version of Ultimate Domain ( called Genesia ) by Microïds

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.

The game makes great use of many Amiga features such as scales of colors done with raster lines, halfbrite graphics mode for the between-level pictures, three layers of parallax scrolling using dual-playfield mode, in-game palette swapping and continuous flashing of the background palette to simulate additional colors.

The former Amiga logo, as used by Commodore-Amiga Inc

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

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

Most Amiga models can be upgraded either by direct CPU replacement or through expansion boards.

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

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.

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.

Expansion boards were made by Richmond Sound Design that allow their show control and sound design software to communicate with their custom hardware frames either by ribbon cable or fiber optic cable for long distances, allowing the Amiga to control up to eight million digitally controlled external audio, lighting, automation, relay and voltage control channels spread around a large theme park, for example.

Their beats, created by producer Seda on Amiga 500 with Protracker, have a familiar heavy sound and are similar to U. S. old-school hip hop.

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.

This was reflected in sales numbers for the two platforms until the release of the Amiga 500 in 1987 which led the Amiga sales to exceed the ST by about 1. 5 to 1, despite reaching the market later.

In the early 1990s, CBM continued selling Amigas with 7 – 14 MHz 68000-family CPUs ( even though Amiga 3000 with 25 MHz 68030 was in the market by that time ), when PCs with 33 MHz 486s, high-color graphics cards and SoundBlaster ( or compatible ) sound cards offered comparable, and eventually higher, performance, albeit at higher prices.

Ownership of the Amiga line passed through a few companies, from Escom of Germany in 1995, and then to U. S. PC clone maker Gateway in 1997, before an exclusive lifetime license was made to Amiga, Inc., a Washington company founded by former Gateway employees Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss in 2000.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

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.

ECS was followed by the third generation AGA chipset with the launch of the Amiga 4000 in 1992.

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

Heretic II was later ported to Linux by Loki Software and to the Amiga by Hyperion Entertainment.

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

Factor 5 started out developing games under partnership with Rainbow Arts for the Amiga computer, where they had their earliest moderate success with Katakis, a R-Type clone of impressive technical performance that even granted them the official conversion rights of the Irem game to those platforms, acquired by Rainbow Arts.

Factor 5 handled the Amiga and Atari ST versions of the game, and together with the original Commodore 64 version and several others, Turrican was a major hit across Europe in 1990.

After they finished work on Turrican II for the Amiga and Atari ST in 1991, Factor 5 built their own development kits and software environments for the SNES and Mega Drive / Genesis codenamed Pegasus SNES and Pegasus Mega Drive.

In 1993, Factor 5 produced their last Amiga effort, an Amiga conversion of Mega Turrican handled with programming support from fellow company Neon Studios.

A later Amiga conversion was produced by Factor 5.

Mega Turrican was an original Factor 5 game initially designed for the Mega Drive / Genesis, and later followed by an Amiga port under the title of Turrican 3: Payment Day.

The game by Factor 5 was released in 1991 for the Commodore Amiga.