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| 1 | AndersGreen | 1 | The story of the legendary [Amiga] began with two former [Atari] employees founding the company Hi-Toro in 1982. To avoid confusing them to a Japaneese lawnmower manufacturer they soon renamed to [Amiga], which means “female friend” in Spanish. |
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| 3 | After much trouble getting money for the project, including shady moves by [Atari], [Commodore] finally came through, founding the Commodore-Amiga Ltd subsidary in 1984. The Amiga 1000 was released only 11 months later but never took off due to its high price — it cost twice as much as an [Atari] ST. With the release of the Amiga 2000 and Amiga 500 in 1987 sales took off. Many chose the Amiga 500 when moving from 8-bit computers to 16-bit despite it being pricier than the [Atari] ST, and more and more games took advantage of the [Amiga]'s superior design. | ||
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| 7 | AlexWhittaker | 5 | A lot of successes such as the [Amiga] 3000 followed, until failures like the CDTV, the last nail in the coffin of 16-bit home computers, finally led to an end in 1994. The name [Amiga] has lived on thanks to its dedicated fans, but although it has resurfaced multiple times, few of the anouncements about new [Amiga]-related products became reality. One of these false starts had [Linux] being touted as the new AmigaOS. |
| 1 | AndersGreen | 6 | |
| 7 | AlexWhittaker | 7 | With the new [PowerPC]-powered AmigaONE boards, things seem to be actually moving in the Amiga market now. It currently runs DebianLinux and a pre-release version of AmigaOS 4. |
| 1 | AndersGreen | 8 | |
| 8 | AristotlePagaltzis | 9 | See also: |
| 10 | * [Amiga Wiki| http://www.amigawiki.com] | ||
| 11 | * [The history of the Amiga | http://amiga.emugaming.com/ahistory.html] | ||
| 12 | * [Background on Amiga history | http://www.unitechelectronics.com/hist.htm] | ||
| 2 | JohnMcPherson | 13 | |
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| 15 | Part of CategoryOldComputers |
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