THE HARDWARE
BETWEEN 1985 AND 1994, COMMODORE LAUNCHED AN ABUNDANCE OF AMIGA MODELS FEATURING CONSTANTLY EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY. THESE INNOVATIVE MACHINES – PARTICULARLY THE ICONIC AMIGA 500 – REACHED MILLIONS OF HOUSEHOLDS AROUND THE WORLD, HAVING A SEISMIC IMPACT ON THE HOME-COMPUTING LANDSCAPE
» Designed in 1984, this famous Boing Ball demo was created by RJ Mical and Dale Luck.
» Inside an Amiga 500+ with its Enhanced Chipset, which improved the Original Chipset.
» A peek inside the CD32, Amiga’s 32-bit games console.
In a back room at the 1984 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, an early prototype of an Amiga was unveiled for the first time – and jaws duly dropped. It was “the most amazing graphics and sound machine that will ever have been offered to the consumer market”, swooned Creative Computing journalist John Anderson a few months after the event. “Just what kind of technical foundation does Amiga have?” his glowing news report continued. “Well the VLSI chipset was designed by Jay Miner, the man who designed the super chipset of the original Atari machines.”