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In July 1985, 40 years ago, the Commodore Amiga was officially introduced to the world. This groundbreaking computer caught a lot of people by surprise and it has an equally amazing development story. |
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41 years ago today — July 23, 1985 — Commodore launched the Amiga 1000 at LincolnCenter in New York City and completely changed personal computing. Restored and presented in 1080p HD. In front of a star-studded audience, Andy Warhol live-painted Debbie Harry (Blondie) on stage using the Amiga, proving this machine was something special. This wasn’t just another computer — it was the birth of multimedia computing. True preemptive multitasking. Up to 4096 colors & advanced custom graphics chips. 4-channel stereo sampled sound. Years ahead of Apple, IBM, and Atari. The Amiga 1000 brought professional-level graphics, sound, and creativity into people’s homes for the first time. |
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The third installment of our series on the history of the Amiga begins with... Prototyping the hardware. Modern chips are designed using high-powered workstations that run very expensive chip simulation software. However, the fledgling Amiga company could not afford such luxuries. It would instead build, by hand, giant replicas of the silicon circuitry on honeycomb-like plastic sheets known as breadboards. |
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On July 23, 1985, Commodore introdu (The Silicon Underground)ced its Amiga 1000 computer. And let’s just say the world wasn’t ready for it yet. Dave Haynie, a Commodore engineer who worked on the later models, has said there was no such thing as a 1980s computer. There were 1970s computers and 1990s computers, and it was the Amiga that dragged the rest of the industry into the 1990s. |
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Aug 03, 2026
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{Thread @ Hacker news discussing the Amiga 1000} |
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This is a collection of legends, folklore, and [mis]remembered stories about the Amiga, its creators, and its history. |
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Author:
AR Staff
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1999-10-09 |
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Aug 09, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} It hasn't been easy keeping a cheery disposition since April 29, 1994. Now, the liquidation chapter of Commodore's existance is all but closed. Barring an amazing development in the Bahamas Supreme Court, which has all but promised to echo the decision of the US court, Escom AG will become the owner of the assets of Commodore International. |
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{{ARCHIVED}} {Creative Computing Magazine article published Oct 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Vol 11, No 9.} |
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Aug 09, 2026
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The WHOLE reason AmigaSource exists! Thanks for shutting down your site 20 years ago! The Amiga Web Directory was a free service of the Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group. The site was actively operated from May 16, 1994 to January 1, 2000. Thanks to all our members, friends and supporters throughout the years. Contact CUCUG by accessing our comment page. {Currently links to Amiga news from 1995-99. Again REALLY CRAPPY they didn't hand their VAST WEALTH of knowledge to someone else in the community but on the flip side... If it wasn't for them AmigaSource.com would not exist!} |
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In the grand mythology of personal computing, revolutions are supposed to begin in garages, venture capital boardrooms, or research labs filled with whiteboards and cold pizza. They are not, as a rule, supposed to begin in dental offices in Florida. And yet, the early story of what became Amiga Corporation starts precisely there, with three dentists who decided that funding an experimental hardware startup was a perfectly reasonable thing to do after a long day of cleaning teeth. The phrase “the three dentists” has endured because it sounds like the setup to a joke. |
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Byte Magazine
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2012-09-22 |
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Aug 03, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} Byte Magazine article about the Amiga 1000. Vol 10, No 8. Published Aug 1985} |
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Aug 03, 2026
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Today marks a very special occasion for Commodore Amiga fans — the 40th anniversary of Commodore's initial unveiling of the first-ever Amiga computer (otherwise known as the Commodore 1000). It was on Tuesday, July 23rd 1985 that Commodore first unveiled the eagerly-anticipated computer at the Lincoln Center in New York, in what was described in the press at the time as a lavish "coming out" party, with its plan being to position the $1295 Motorola 68000-based computer as a potential rival to Apple's Macintosh computer, which had released one year earlier. |
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Aug 09, 2026
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Demoscene the Amiga years reflects the making of the best demos as well as the history of the most emblematic and best known groups of the demoscene. Discover numerous pictures of demos through more than 450 pages as well as contributions of "sceners". This book is the first volume covering the years 1984 to 1993 with about 90 demos amongst the most famous and popular ones. |
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Aug 15, 2026
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First released on an unsuspecting public on July 23, 1985, the Amiga 1000 brought the fondly remembered Commodore Amiga line of computers to the masses, and in many cases their first experience with a multitasking graphical user interface (GUI), vibrant colors and rich sound in a personal computer. Already known for the PET, VIC-20 and Commodore 64 line of personal computers, the Amiga took things to an extremely next level for both Commodore and personal computers in general. |
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The Amiga is a family of personal computers. They were designed and sold by the Amiga Corporation and later by Commodore Computing International. These computers were popular from 1985 to 1994. |
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Author:
Tom R. Halfhill
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2011-08-24 |
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Aug 03, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} {Compute! Magazine article from Aug 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Issue 64. Vol 7, No 9.} |
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For most Amiga users, the story of the machine is a story of chips, demos, strange brilliance and loyalty that long ago passed the point of medical explanation. {..} But one of the most important figures in the later Amiga story did not come from the familiar world of engineers, coders or user-group legends. Dr. Pentti Kouri came from finance, and that made him a very unusual character in a very unusual computing saga. |
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What links the following? #1: a best-selling home computer, #2: one of the most beloved non-console gaming machines of the 80s and 90s, and #3: the first personal computer to sell over 1 million units. A lot of people over 30 will probably name a Commodore machine as the first computer they ever used, be it a Commodore PET in the late seventies, a VIC-20 or Commodore 64 from the 1980s, or even one of the Amiga line in the early nineties. Some will have played their first game on one or wrote their first program in BASIC, perhaps leading them to a life-long career in the tech industry-I'm one of many who owe a debt of gratitude to the company. |
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An Unauthorised History of the Amiga was last updated 16th May 1999 - This page will not be updated in the future - It is a legacy page. |
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