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

The Amiga 1000 ( 1985 ) was the first model released

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 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.

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.

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.

After one year Atari would have the right to add a keyboard and market the complete Amiga computer.

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.

With the Z-machine, Infocom was able to release most of their games for most popular home computers of the day simultaneously — the Apple II family, Atari 800, IBM PC compatibles, Amstrad CPC / PCW ( one disc worked on both machines ), Commodore 64, Commodore Plus / 4, Commodore 128, Kaypro CP / M, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Mac, Atari ST, the Commodore Amiga and the Radio Shack TRS-80.

Because of its minimal overhead and low cost, the shareware model is often the only one practical for distributing non-free software for abandoned or orphaned platforms such as the Atari ST and Amiga.

At one time, versions for Tandy, Amiga and Atari computers were offered, as well as a UNIX command-line compiler.

* Bombuzal ( C64 / Amiga / Atari ST, 1988 ; PC, 1989 ; SNES, 1990 )-Minter designed one level

To utilize full hardware performance, Amiga demos were optimized and written entirely for one purpose in assembly ( avoiding generic and portable code ).

The PCMCIA implementation on the A600 is almost identical to the one featured on the later Amiga 1200.

Originally developed for Commodore Amiga, Lemmings was one of the most popular video games of its time, and several gaming magazines gave it some of their highest review scores at the time.

His sole complaint was about the game's linearity compared to Monkey Island 2 ; but he finished by saying, " It's a minor point, anyway, and it shouldn't put you off buying what is one of the best Amiga adventures ever.

IBrowse was an MUI-based web browser for the Amiga range of computers, and was a rewritten follow-on to Amiga Mosaic, one of the first web browsers for the Amiga Computer.

Another is that the Atari ST's main competitor, the Amiga, was famous for its blitter, and so Atari introduced one as well.

The Amiga stored framebuffers in separate ' bitplanes ' ( e. g. a series of 5 1bit images combining to produce a 32colour display ), which made masking very convenient, as masks needed only one bitplane.

Whereas the original Amiga trackers only provided four tracks, the hardware limit, modern trackers can mix a virtually unlimited number of channels into one sound stream through software mixing.

That this offer was declined was one of the many management decisions that led to the popular belief that Amiga would have been a real success story but for the Commodore management.

Bundled with the Amiga 3000UX, Commodore's Unix was one of the first ports of SVR4 to the 68k architecture.

Like the first game in the series, this one was also ported to the Amiga systems.

CU Amiga gave the game a score of 95 %, calling it " one of the greatest adventures ever.

The Amiga multitasking kernel was also one of the first to implement a microkernel OS methodology based on a real-time message passing ( inter-process communication ) core known as Exec ( for executive ) with dynamically loaded libraries and devices as optional modules around the core.

He also implemented the Logo programming language for the Commodore Amiga, managed the software OS development for CDTV, one of the first CD-ROM TV set-top boxes, and wrote the OS for Viscorp Ed, one of the first Internet TV set-top boxes.

Reviewers of the home computer versions differed widely in their appraisal of the game, with one Amiga magazine awarding 92 % due to the unprecedented audio-visual quality, while another magazine giving the same version a score of only 32 % on account of the " wooden " gameplay.