Today's Highlights
  - Greetings and salutations everyone! I hate to lead with this but we have lost another GREAT in the Amiga community. Dr. Tim King one of the main developers behind AmgaDos passed away at the end of July. Like most in the early days of the Amiga, they were truly brilliant and Tim was no exception. We owe them our gratitude for what they did and will honor them by keeping the Amiga and her spirit alive for the next generation of Amigans. Fair winds and following seas Tim!

  - WOW I think I speak for a lot of us when I say I still can't believe the lawsuit is over. So what do I do with the "Amiga Legal News Update" section now? LOL. Over the last week there has been a lot of talk about what's next? Release a new computer? Open source the OS? Port the OS to X64/Arm? Join forces with Commodore? At this point I'm quite sure nobody, not even Amiga has and real idea where this is truly heading but the first time since the death of Commodore might have a shot at a real future again!

   On the plus side the MAIN thing that has been bothering me for that past 20+ years has been solved and honestly I can't believe it's taken me this long to see the solution. The path for the classic OS versions is a real CLUSTER. 1.x --> 2.x --> 3.0 --> 3.1 --> 3.5 --> 3.9 --> 3.2 --> 3.3 -->??? Where do you go? 4.x is taken. 3.9.1 doesn't give you a lot of room for future version...

   Well silly me... I read that a way to clean this up after OS3.3 is to just jump to OS 3.10. 10! TEN is the answer. 20+ years and the answer is 10. Life is again good!! LOL

   - Quick v2.0 site update #5: The site is really coming along. So many new features have been added. It's AWESOME!! Now the data entry and re-validation is going a bit slower than I would have hoped at this point but it IS coming along! 5000+ links is a lot of links!! Let me leave you with this... I will NEVER be able to thank my main web programmer enough and will be FOREVER in his debt.

• As cool as the next bit of news is, this is even cooler. We have StarCraft for OS 3. AmiSC 68K is an alpha port of the worlds best RTS game. Still a work in progress but it's playable! I REALLY hope they finish it!
• At last weeks Kickstarter UK, Amiga Corp announced they have completed their own RTG system. Interesting but what happens with Picasso96? I would hate to see Jens Schönfeld and icomp leave the community.
• New event: Evoke 2026 is being held in Cologne, Germany 21-23 August. Lots to do as see at this event.
• New event: Billed as the world's largest video game trade show, the Reto Area at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne Germany held this 26-30 August will have several Amiga related companies in attendance. Sounds like a fun weekend!
• New event: The "Belgian Amiga Club" is holding another BAC Meeting on 12 September in Antwerp, Belgium.
• New online magazine: From their web page. "Pitstop Retro is an independent digital retro gaming magazine dedicated to the people who still create, play, and love games for classic computers and consoles. Our main focus is the active modern retro scene for platforms Commodore 64 and Amiga that continue to inspire developers today." Looks good and I wish them the best!
• New issue: Amiga Germany Fan’zine #19 has been published

• Hmmmm. I'm sure I'll find SOMETHING to write about...

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• Random Links...

• OpenTTD for AmigaOS 68k (AGA): A native port of OpenTTD 1.0.5 to classic AmigaOS 3.x on 68k, with its own video driver written against Intuition and graphics.library. No SDL, and no RTG card required — it runs on plain AGA.
  
• Farewell to Dr Tim King, one of the key minds behind AmigaDOS: Dr Tim King, one of the engineers closely associated with the creation of AmigaDOS, died at the end of July 2026. His name may not be as widely known as the Amiga brand itself, but his work sits right at the heart of the machine’s operating system. King’s main contribution came through TRIPOS, an operating system developed in academia and later adapted into the foundation of AmigaDOS. That software became responsible for many of the everyday jobs an Amiga had to handle, including files, directories, devices, scripts and command-line operations. In practical terms, AmigaDOS was the part of the system users met whenever they worked beyond the graphical desktop.
  
• Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away: Dr. Tim King passed away at the end of July, his family confirmed upon request. King played a key role in the development of AmigaDOS and thus in an important chapter of the Amiga's software history.
  
• AmiSC 68K: An Amiga 68k port of the best space RTS strategy game. The engine runs natively on AmigaOS 3.x — no PC emulation, no interpreter. Integer arithmetic only: the binary contains not one FPU instruction, because plenty of 68k machines have no FPU. It loads your own copy of the original game's data files and plays a skirmish against computer opponents on a native AGA or RTG screen. This is a total alpha. It is playable — you can start a match, build a base and win it — and it has plenty of rough edges. The full list is further down and it is honest. Read it before you install.
  
• Amistaller is the new installer for big packages for AmigaOS 4: Today I finally released a new application I was working for some time now, called Amistaller. It is an installer that can be used with packages that have multiple archives included, like the SDK Addon I maintain.
  
• Programming the Amiga and Atari ST in C: Hello World with VBCC: If you have followed along with the AMOS BASIC series or my STOS tutorials, you already know how to put characters on an Amiga or Atari ST screen. This post shows you how to do the same thing in C, using the vbcc cross-compiler, so we can build up a portable codebase for the larger goal: a retro roguelike that runs on multiple platforms.
  
• FriendSh3ep: Amiga OS3 Mastodon Client. Mastodon is a free, open, decentralised alternative to the usual walled-garden social networks: no ads, no biased algorithm, no single company owning your data, moderation decided per server. FriendSh3ep is a native Amiga client for it, with full Unicode/emoji rendering and real image/audio previews.
  
• MagicMenu 3: Enhanced Intuition menus - pop-up, sticky, transparent - for AmigaOS 2.04 and newer. MagicMenu 3 is a new and improved version of the utility that has been replacing Intuition's menus since 1993. Every setting that decides how a menu looks can now be different for pull-down and pop-up menus.
  
• Amiga A1200/A500 Keyboard Membrane Replacement PCB: For use with A500: Compatible with original Mitsumi A619A. NOT Compatible with: Original Samsung 312502-12. For use with A1200. Compatible with original Mitsumi 56C774A
  
• R.I.P. Commodore 1954-1994 {ARCHIVED 19 Oct 1996}: A look at an innovative computer industry pioneer, whose achievements have been largely forgotten. Obituaries customarily focus on the deceased's accomplishments, not the unpleasant details of the demise. That's especially true when the demise hints strongly of self-neglect tantamount to suicide, and nobody can find a note that offers some final explanation. There will be no such note from Commodore, and it would take a book to explain why this once-great computer company lies cold on its deathbed. But Commodore deserves a eulogy, because its role as an industry pioneer has been largely forgotten or ignored by revisionist historians who claim that everything started with Apple or IBM. Commodore's passing also recalls an era when conformity to standards wasn't the yardstick by which all innovation was measured
  
• Full-sized A1200 Amiga remake spotted on display: A1200 will come with a port of The Settlers 2 that took 30 years, and a working keyboard. Retro Games Ltd says it will ‘lift the curtain completely’ on specs etc, in October. After so many playable tribute mini computers and mini consoles released over recent years, it looks like it’s the turn of the legendary Commodore Amiga A1200 home computer - with a full sized working keyboard built-in. And soon. Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind hardware like The A500 Mini (which had a non-functioning keyboard), The C64 Mini, The Spectrum, and others, is showcasing The A1200 at Gamescom 2025 over the next few days. Full details are promised in October.
  
• Amiga 1000 Spec Sheet: If you haven't found the right computer yet, then you've never met Amiga(TM). No other personal computer, even the ones that cost a lot more, can catch Amiga feature for feature. It's light years ahead of the rest and that keeps you ahead of the competition. There's never been a computer with this much power at this low price. Amiga's 256K RAM is just a start. Amiga allows you to expand up to 512K internally and 8 megabytes externally. The power goes deeper. In addition to the powerful microprocessor that's the heart of the Amiga, we've added three amazing custom chips that handle graphics, sound and routine operations. These custom chips free the central processor from normal "computer housekeeping" and allow direct memory access and multi-tasking.
  
• Desktop background colors, by operating system: Every solid desktop background color shipped by classic operating systems and desktop environments.
  
• macsurf: The modern web, on a 25-year-old Mac. A modern web browser for Classic Mac OS 9 PowerPC. Real CSS3, ES5 JavaScript, native HTTPS. Built with CodeWarrior on the Carbon API.
  
• Commodore AMIGA 1000: The inventor 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 small Californian 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! The original "Amiga" called the Lorraine was meant to be a game machine with some computer capabilities.
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone! I think by now most people have heard the news. The lawsuit is FINALLY over! This is the first new update on Amiga.com in past 5 years. WOW!! As with all big legal cases not everyone is happy with the outcome. For what it's worth I'm concerned about future development of 3.x. but I'm sure there's other things to worry about too...

  Regardless, all the best to everyone involved, the Amiga community and damn the torpedoes... Full steam ahead. We have A LOT of time to make up! 

The New Amiga Corp Logo

   - Quick v2.0 site update #3. HOLY CRAP! Things a really moving right along. The plan is to finish development of all the major features by the end of August, then the spend the rest of the time knocking out the rest of the remaining minor features. While all this is going on I have 'enlisted' (BEGGED & BRIBED) several family members and a few of my closest friends to help me add 4000+ links to the main database. Hopefully by 19 Oct not only will the launch of V2.0 be INCREDIBLE it will be quite comprehensive!

• New issue: Passione Amiga #32 has been published

• STOP the Presses!! The lawsuit is OVER!! So where do we go from here?? Who knows but it looks like things might finally be going our way!

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• The Lawsuit is Over!!!

• Amiga August 2026 Update. New agreements establish a clear framework for Commodore and Amiga technology, supporting AmigaOS development, preservation, and new projects by Amiga and its licensees: Amiga Corporation today announced two agreements concluded within a few weeks of one another. Amiga and Commodore International Corporation have entered into a licensing agreement recognizing their respective rights. Separately, a settlement with Hyperion Entertainment BV resolves a contractual dispute and replaces its 2009 agreement with Amiga. The agreements complement other rights and arrangements, some of which Amiga can now bring into active use.
  
• Amiga and Hyperion announce out-of-court settlement (Update): In a detailed press release, Amiga Corporation announces that it has signed two landmark agreements in recent weeks: one with Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson's Commodore International Corporation (CIC), and another out-of-court settlement with Hyperion, which replaces Hyperion's original contract from 2009.
  
• Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation reach settlement – all ongoing legal disputes ended: Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation have, after several months of intense negotiations, reached a new settlement agreement that puts an end to the ongoing legal disputes between the parties. Timothy De Groote, Director of Hyperion Entertainment BV, says in a comment to the agreement: “We have had the clear goal from the very beginning of our ownership: to bring an end to the ongoing lawsuits that have, for far too long, drained energy and resources from the advancement of AmigaOS. We now look forward to completing the development of AmigaOS 3.3 and AmigaOS 4.2, so that the focus can return to the users and the operating system we all love. Let the fun begin!
  
• Out-of-court settlement between Amiga and Hyperion is publicly available: This morning, Amiga Corporation and Hyperion announced that they had signed an out-of-court settlement. The reason for this announcement was apparently that the signed agreement was made public today as part of a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in the United States. We reviewed the contract (PDF), which replaces Hyperion’s old agreement with Amiga Inc. from 2009, and attempted to briefly summarize the key points. It should be noted that we have limited ourselves to the main topics: the actual contract goes into considerably more detail and contains various additional provisions, most of them concerning Hyperion.
  
• 3 Aug 2026 Settlement between Amiga and Hyperion: {Direct link to the settlement PDF}
  
• Lawsuit: settlement agreement between Amiga and Hyperion published: {Details on the 2009 Settlement between Amiga and Hyperion
  
• Hyperion and Amiga reach settlement over AmigaOS rights and development: Hyperion Entertainment and Amiga Corporation have settled their ongoing legal disputes, bringing a long period of uncertainty to an end. The deal does more than stop the court battles. It also sets out who can develop and sell different versions of AmigaOS, what happens to the 68K branch after 2027, and how Hyperion can continue working on AmigaOS 4.x. That gives both companies a clearer path forward.
  
• Amiga and Hyperion agreement: full breakdown of AmigaOS rights: This is a deep dive into the official agreement between Amiga Corporation and Hyperion Entertainment. It explains who owns the different parts of AmigaOS, what Hyperion can continue developing and selling, how the Amiga trademarks may be used, and what happens if either company breaks the deal.
  
• Hyperion, Amiga, Inc. Reach Settlement, All Legal Issues Resolved: It’s really been an Amiga week, hasn’t it? As such, it seems only fitting to close this week off with some seriously epic news from the Amiga community. As most of you will know, Hyperion and Amiga, Inc. have been embroiled in a tough legal battle over the distribution and development rights of the AmigaOS, and all its associated trademarks. The epic news is that this situation is now completely and utterly resolved.
  
• Amiga And Commodore, Back Together (Sort Of): The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees such as our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] have shone a bit of light on the goings-on behind the scenes. The company’s final demise in the collapse of the German company Escom scattered its parts to the four winds, but now we find a potential return to clarity.
  
• COMMODORE & AMIGA: Has Everything Just Changed? What the 4th August legal updates could mean...: {Thread @ reddit.com discussing the lawsuit settlement}
  
• Hyperion Entertainment BV and Amiga Corporation reach settlement – all ongoing legal disputes ended: {Thread @ reddit.com discussing the lawsuit settlement}
  
• Hyperion settled today: {Ongoing Thread @ amigaworld.net about the settlement}
  
• Seems like the Amiga legal mess is getting “solved”: {Thread @ forums.atariage.com discussing the settlement}
  
• Amiga Corporation & Hyperion Entertainment Settlement: {Thread @ English Amiga Board discussing the settlement}
  

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone! Rabbits -- Rabbits - Rabbits! Another quick update but I need to point out a few highlights this week. 

    - While I'm embarrassed to say I'm STILL a few issues behind with my reading, BUSY SUMMER, Compute!'s Gazette celebrates their 1 year anniversary! We would like to wish Edwin Nagle and the rest of his crew ALL THE BEST for bringing back a CLASSIC magazine for the NEXT generation of retro computer lovers to enjoy and share with their kids!

    - Commodore too is celebrating it's 1 year anniversary. On Friday they sent out a nice email touting their success over that past year and spoke about the future. During that time they've survived the initial onslaught on the entire Commodore community, not to mention the REST of the internet, sold over 27K+ Commodore 64 Ultimates, created and sold almost 10K Callback 8020 flip phones. They also teased a new product, which is thought to be a new TAC-2 joystick. Interesting!

    So what will the next year bring? While Peri specifically stated "And no, it's not an Amiga (read why)" let's stay positive. I wish them ALL THE BEST and LONG REIGN Commodore!!!

   - Quick v2.0 site update. I've started down the LONG road of re-validation 1500+ DB links, adding 4000+ NEW links, moving over 401 weekly postings and updating past calendar events. My BIGGEST task is coming up with NEW categories to sort some of the new links into. I'm currently have 75 but that's from 20+ years ago. The community has changed a bit since then. On the plus side I've finished updating the Crowdfunding, Publications, Shops and Vendors, Top 10+12, Shops & Vendors, Service and Repair. I'm getting excited!

• Looking for some free software? The hop on over to the Amiga Freeware Archive. Currently they have over 18K+ downloads, covering 14 PD libraries, scene groups, disk magazines and user group compilations totaling 10+MB of downloads. Their stated goal is to 'have software not found on Aminet but to make what they have easy to explore'. NICE!!
• New issue: REV'n'GE #183 has been published
• New issue: Amiga Addict #44 has been published
• New issue: ZZAP! AMIGA Micro Action #28 has been published

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 56
  •  “Not in this lifetime”

• Random Links...

• Amiga Freeware Archive: {Currently 18K+ downloads, covering 14 PD libraries, scene groups, disk magazines and user group compilations totaling over 10+MB of downloads} Thousands of classic Amiga titles, free to download and explore. Search or browse games, applications, demos, graphics, music and tools from the golden age of 32-bit home computing. What type of software can be found here? All kinds! Games, music, pictures, applications, tools and utilities, and random things that defy classification! And of course the demoscene — audiovisual showcases created to push the hardware to its absolute limits and show off their creators' skills.
• What happened to AmigaDE? Inside Amiga’s failed portable platform: The oddest Amiga ever launched was not a computer. It did not come in a case. {...} AmigaDE was something else. It was a software layer, a runtime, a business plan and a brand exercise rolled into one. Later pushed as Amiga Anywhere, it tried to take the Amiga name away from the idea of a specific computer and attach it to portable applications running across different devices. That made it one of the most revealing products in the long post-Commodore Amiga story. It showed a company trying to move the brand into the device era, but also showed how hard it is to make an old computer name mean something new when the machine itself has disappeared. The hook was brutal because it was true: the brand survived by leaving the machine behind.
• The Return of World Construction Set: Reviving an Amiga Classic that is coming back because of the brilliant Amiga community. The Return of World Construction Set 2.031 is out and here you have all the juicy details regarding this amazing landscape generator!
• Building an AmigaOS Development Environment in 2026: Apropos of nothing, I decided to set up an Amiga development environment. Since figuring things out wasn't straightforward, I wrote down instructions for Linux about how to compile the first program and run it in an emulator. Enjoy!
• Amiga's Phantasmagoria: It was many years ago that Amiga Flame exclusively reported that Phantasmagoria was coming to the Amiga. There was great deal of excitement judging by my filled mailbox, but after a few years, all talk of Phantasmagoria died out. It had seemed that Phantasmagoria had fallen by the way side. However, Alive Mediasoft has announced this week that Phantasmagoria, a very scary adventure game is to hit the Amiga {...} The Pulse has exclusively interviewed Roberta Williams, the creator of this interactive horror, with this issue expected in February. Also on Alive Mediasoft's CD catalogue 1.6 there is a world exclusive trailer of the game, and they are currently working on a demo.
• ‘Proper next-gen Amiga’ launched by Apollo Computing — promises full FPGA-powered backwards compatibility with its new 68080 chip: Thirty-one years after Commodore went bankrupt, ceasing development of next-generation Amiga computers, a German Amiga accelerator company steps up. Apollo Computing stepped forward to reveal its “Proper next-gen Amiga” to the masses earlier this week. The German firm has unveiled the Apollo A6000, a comprehensive modern Amiga system featuring advanced technologies, including a “cutting-edge V4 AC68080” FPGA, which makes it the “most powerful Amiga 68k compatible ever created.”
• Full-sized A1200 Amiga remake spotted on display — A1200 will come with a port of The Settlers 2 that took 30 years, and a working keyboard: Retro Games Ltd says it will ‘lift the curtain completely’ on specs etc, in October. After so many playable tribute mini computers and mini consoles released over recent years, it looks like it’s the turn of the legendary Commodore Amiga A1200 home computer - with a full sized working keyboard built-in. And soon. Retro Games Ltd (RGL), the company behind hardware like The A500 Mini (which had a non-functioning keyboard), The C64 Mini, The Spectrum, and others, is showcasing The A1200 at Gamescom 2025 over the next few days. Full details are promised in October.
• ilbmview: A small, dependency-light viewer for classic Commodore-Amiga IFF ILBM (Interleaved Bitmap) images, rendered in a native Wayland window. Built for a tiling setup (Hyprland): the image auto-scales to the window while preserving aspect ratio, and closing the window quits the program. It fully honours the CAMG viewport mode so images display with the correct geometry and palette, including HAM, Extra-Half-Brite, hi-res and interlace.
• OpenTTD for AmigaOS 68k (AGA): A native port of OpenTTD 1.0.5 to classic AmigaOS 3.x on 68k, with its own video driver written against Intuition and graphics.library. No SDL, and no RTG card required — it runs on plain AGA.
• Commodore 900: the UNIX workstation Commodore almost released: For most people, Commodore means the C64, the Amiga, affordable home computing, excellent custom chips and the kind of power supply you still eye suspiciously before plugging in. But in the mid 1980s Commodore also had a very different machine on the bench: the Commodore 900, also known as the C900 or Z-Machine. It was not a games computer, not a colourful home machine, and not a direct follow-up to the C64. It was a business workstation built around the Zilog Z8001 processor and designed to run Coherent, a UNIX-like operating system. In another timeline, Commodore might have entered the workstation market before the Amiga became its next great identity. In our timeline, the Commodore 900 became one of the most fascinating almost-products in computer history.
• USB4AMI - USB Gamepad/Mouse to DB9 adapter: USB4AMI is a small adapter that lets you use modern USB controllers and mice with classic computers including the Commodore Amiga, Commodore 64, and Atari computers. It plugs directly into your computer's joystick/mouse port and translates input from any compatible USB device into the signals your retro computer understands.
• Godot2Amiga: Godot2Amiga converts Godot projects into native Commodore Amiga applications. Unlike emulators or compatibility layers, the generated program is ordinary C code built against the ACE runtime and compiled with the Bartman Amiga GCC toolchain. Current target platform: Commodore Amiga 500, Kickstart 1.3 & OCS chipset
• Amiga 1000 – just a casual repair: In this rather short post, I’ll show you how I’ve dealt with an iconic Amiga 1000 computer. It was a rather simple job, as the Amiga was in very good shape to start with. The whole job was about cleaning, retrobrighting, fixing minor issues, and that’s it. There is no need to make this particular computer filled with upgrades. Instead, I’ve used an external device, but more on this later.
• AmiAuth: A native two-factor authentication (2FA) code generator for classic AmigaOS. AmiAuth implements TOTP (RFC 6238) and HOTP (RFC 4226): it stores multiple accounts, generates 6- or 8-digit codes with a live countdown, and — critically for the platform — solves the accurate-time problem that TOTP depends on. Small, self-contained, and designed to run on anything from a stock 68000 A500 up to an accelerated or emulated machine.
• Demise: Commodore Computers – From Innovation to Oblivion: Flashback, early 1970s and you’re sitting in a school classroom or maybe a hobbyist’s basement. There’s a rectangular box on the table—a computer—but it’s nothing like the sleek, polished devices we know today. This is Commodore. The brand that was once poised to rule the world of personal computing. It’s difficult to imagine now, but there was a time when Commodore was synonymous with innovation and affordable technology for the masses. In fact, they were positioned to become the global leader in the personal computer revolution.

Today's Highlights
   - Greetings and salutations everyone!  I'm going to keep this week's update short and sweet. 41 years ago this week Commodore released the Amiga 1000 in a black tie affair at Lincoln Center in New York City and world of computers experienced yet another seismic shift. We all know things haven't turn out as well as we would have liked but she's still around with a community supporting her. For that I tip my hat to all my fellow Amiga users and lovers!

Happy 41st Amiga 1000!
(pic from https://shaneplays.com/happy-30th-birthday-amiga/)

   - Another quick v2.0 site update. HOLY CRAP!!! Things are progressing so quickly and so much has been done that I've had to take a step back rethink the basic flow of the website. What does that mean for you? Soon you'll have a site worthy of your time and, hopefully, something truly befitting the Amiga. More to follow!

   - Saved round... If my math is correct this is my 400th daily entry on the site! YAE ME! ;-)

• If you any have questions about the soon to be released THEA1200 hopefully this video from Retro Games Limited will answer them.

• Idioms for "Never Going to Happen" Pt. 55
  •  “Like herding cats”

• The Amiga 1000

• 41 Years Ago: The Day the Amiga 1000 Changed Computing Forever (1985 Launch): 41 years ago today — July 23, 1985 — Commodore launched the Amiga 1000 at Lincoln Center 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.
• Commodore Unveiled The First Amiga Computer 40 Years Ago Today: 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.
• Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time: On July 23, 1985, Commodore introduced 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.
• Amiga 1000: Ten years ahead of its time: {Thread @ Hacker news discussing the Amiga 1000}
• Before Commodore stepped in: The three dentists who financed Amiga’s future: 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.
• A history of the Amiga, part 3: The first prototype : 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.
• Amiga 1000 Introduction: {Direct link to Commodore Manual in PDF form}
• The AMIGA Personal Computer: {Byte Magazine article about the Amiga 1000. Vol 10, No 8. Published Aug 1985}
• Looks Great, Manny, But Will It Sell?: {New York Magazine article from 5 Aug 1985 out the introduction of the Amiga}
• The AMIGA: An In-Depth Review: {Compute! Magazine article from Aug 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Issue 64. Vol 7, No 9.}
• Amiga: The Dream Machine: {Computer Gaming World Magazine article from Oct 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Vol 5, No 4.}
• Amiga The Message is in the Medium: {Creative Computing Magazine article published Oct 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Vol 11, No 9.}
• Commodore's Amiga Potent, but Troubled: {InfoWorld Magazine article published 16 Dec 1985 about the new Amiga 1000. Vol 7, No 50.}
• The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time {ARCHIVED 17 Jun 2008}: The IBM PC is 25. And here are the top PCs ever, from machines you owned and loved to systems you've never heard of. #7. Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)
• The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time {ARCHIVED 04 Jun 2007}: From breakthrough hardware to time-honored software, we salute those amazing products that changed technology--and our lives--forever. #37. Commodore Amiga 1000 (1985)