The official name for the A1000 was the Commodore Amiga. The second one had a PAL display, the enhanced video modes (EHB) and was built in Germany. The first one sold only in the USA, had a NTSC display and no EHB video mode. There were two versions of the Amiga 1000. The Amiga 1000 was to lose popularity one year later with the creation of its two main successors: the Amiga 500 and the Amiga 2000. The Amiga BASIC was written by Microsoft (like most other versions of BASIC), but the first models were shipped with a non-Microsoft BASIC called ABasiC. It was the very first personal computer with great graphics and sound capabilities with a GUI environment. It is a fully multitasking system which looks like UNIX with a graphical user interface. The operating system (AmigaDOS) was done by MetaComCo, a British company who specialized in the 68000 processor (they also made languages for the Sinclair QL). then offered the technology to Commodore, Inc., who were quite pleased to purchase it, seeing that their own 16-bit computer was so far from reaching the shelf.Īfter the loss of a major legal battle for control of the Amiga chip set design, Atari launched the ST series (Sixteen-Thirty-two) as a competitor for the upcoming Amiga. Atari passed in favor of their own project.

gave Atari the choice to purchase the technology. Naturally, when the design was finished, Amiga Corp. to do the R&D on the Amiga computer line. He used the principle of the three coprocessors (again) to help the main processor.Īt the beginning, the Amiga had only 64 kilobytes of RAM! The original 'Amiga' called the Lorraine was meant to be a game machine with some computer capabilities.Ītari initially invested the money in the Amiga Corp. He wanted to make the most powerful computer ever, then he joined a small Californian company called Amiga. The inventor of the Amiga 1000 was Jay Miner, who created the Atari 800 many years before.

Amiga formatted 880k floppy disks