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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.
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.
-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 and
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.
+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 (at one point, Linux was touted as the new AmigaOS)
became reality.
-With the new [PowerPC]-powered AmigaONE, things seem to be actually moving in the Amiga market now. It currently runs [Linux
] but should soon run
AmigaOS 4.
+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.
-Read more at [EmuGaming|http://amiga.emugaming.com/ahistory.html] and [UnitedElectronics| http://www.unitechelectronics.com/hist.htm]. Also check out the [Amiga Wiki| http://yourdreamnet
.co.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl].
+Read more at [EmuGaming|http://amiga.emugaming.com/ahistory.html] and [UnitedElectronics| http://www.unitechelectronics.com/hist.htm]. Also check out the [Amiga Wiki| http://www.amigacentre
.co.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl].
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