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#### Commodore Amiga

Known Issues:
Sound is not currently supported.
The driver is now working fairly well, though some games may need more memory than currently
emulated.

History and Trivia:
The conceptor of the Amiga 1000 was Jay Miner, who created the Atari 800 many years before.
He wanted to make the most powerful computer ever, then he joined a little California
company called Amiga. He used the principle of the three coprocessors (again) to help the
main processor. At the beginning, the Amiga had only 64 kilobytes of RAM!, Atari wanted to
buy the Amiga but finally, Commodore succeeded to buy it (then there was a lawsuit, which
Commodore won). It was meant to be a competitor to the Atari 520 ST. The operating system
was done by Metacomco, a British company who specialized in the 68000 processor (they also
made languages for the Sinclair QL). It is a fully multitasking system which looks like
UNIX with a graphical user interface. It was the very first personal computer with great
graphics and sound capabilities with a GUI environment. The Amiga BASIC was written by
Microsoft (like most other versions of BASIC). The Amiga 1000 began to lose popularity one
year later with the creation of its two main successors: the Amiga 500 and the Amiga 2000.
There were two versions of the Amiga 1000. The first one, just called "Amiga", was sold
only in USA, had a NTSC display, and didn't have the video modes EHB and HAM, later
versions would have this built in. The second one, called "Amiga 1000" (to avoid confusion
with its successor, the Amiga 2000) had a PAL display, the enhanced video modes
(HAM & EHB) and was built in Germany.

created on Wed May 15 07:18:19 2002