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	Amiga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Amiga 600 was originally supposed to be the Amiga 300, a very low-cost "introductory" model, but in an attempt to cut costs plans from CBM management changed at the last minute, and it was instead marketed as the successor to the 500 and the 500+.
		An Amiga 500 computer system, with 1084S RGB monitor and A1010 floppy disk drive.
		The first Amiga computer, simply called the Amiga, was released in 1985 by Commodore, who marketed it both as their intended successor to the Commodore 64 and as their competitor against the Atari ST range.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amiga (3295 words)

	Amiga Models
		Amiga 1000 didn't lived that long because the Amiga 2000 was released 1 year later and in the middle of 1987 the Amiga 500 was released.
		Amiga 600 was a compact version of Amiga 500, and it didn't have an numeric keypad, but it had a PCMCIA expansion slot, a built-in TV-Modulator, and it was possible to get it with built-in harddrive.
		Amiga 1000 had a tough time because it was to small to be used in serious business and to expensive for private use.
	home.worldonline.dk /twreck/amiga.html (665 words)

	Commodore Amiga 500
		The Commodore Amiga 500 was the main competitor of the Atari 520 STf.
		The Amiga 500 was followed with the Amiga 500+.
		The Amiga 500+ has the same characteristics as the Amiga 500.
	home.hetnet.nl /~peter.verhaar/commodore_amiga500.html (120 words)

	UAE - The UAE Amiga Emulator
		The UAE Amiga Emulator is brought to you by Bernd Schmidt.
		Amiga Music Preservation (AMP), a non profit association, is running the biggest and most comprehensive database ever about amiga music and amiga musicians.
		Officially licensed Amiga ROM and OS files are available both for download and on CD-ROM as part of Cloanto's Amiga Forever package, which includes Kickstart files up to v3.1 (the latest version).
	freiburg.linux.de /~uae (2101 words)

	Amiga software, hardware, games and accessories
		Joysticks for Amiga 500, Amiga 1000, Amiga 1200, Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 are the same as Commodore 64 joysticks.
		A corded keyboard for an Amiga 500 which allows you to set the keyboard on your lap or away from the main body of the computer.
		Internal keyboard is removed and replaced with the included Amiga 500 replacement top which neatly covers the top of the computer and facilitates the cable running to the external keyboard.
	www.oldsoftware.com /Amiga.html (2650 words)

	The OPI Amiga Page
		Replaced the 500 with a new Amiga 1200.
		Amiga is a stable and flexible platform that does miracles in a fraction of the resources used by any other platform.
		Amiga 1000, 1 meg insider board and kickstart disks for 1.0 to 1.3.
	phoenixinn.iwarp.com /amiga.html (2504 words)

	WarTrans - Warlock's Amiga Transfer Program
		First connect the PC to the Amiga 500 with a 25pin to 25pin or 9pin to 25pin serial cable.
		Then just start the Amiga 500 program you just wrote, and select the file on your PC which you want to send and click "Transfer" on the PC applet.
		WarTrans is a small program which will assist you in getting files from a PC to an Amiga 500 (newer Amigas has support for reading PC formated 720k diskettes).
	amiga.nvg.org /warlock/wartrans (489 words)

	Amiga 500 Owners Manual
		Above are two versions of the Amiga 500 user's manual shipped with the computer.
	www.myoldcomputers.com /museum/man/a500user.htm (14 words)

	Commodore Amiga 1000 computer
		Introduced in July 1985, the Amiga 1000 was created in part by Jay Miner, who previously designed the Atari 400 and Atari 800.
		The Amiga 1000 was a quantum leap above any other system out at the time, as it included a 32bit pre-emptive multi-tasking GUI (Graphic User Interface), 4 channel stereo sound, 880k 3-1/2 inch floppy disks, and video modes which provided up to 4096 colors at once.
		The Amiga was originally designed to be a killer game machine, but it was so great that it grew into a real computer.
	oldcomputers.net /amiga1000.html (652 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The Amiga 1000 was to lose popularity one year later with the creation of its two main successors: the Amiga 500 and the Amiga 2000.
		Amiga Corp. then offered the technology to Commodore, Inc., who were quite pleased to purchase it, seeing that their own 16-bit computer was so far from reaching the shelf.
		The inventor of the Amiga 1000 was Jay Miner, who created the Atari 800 many years before.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=28 (528 words)

	Tried and True - A Computer Professional's Collection, Amiga 500
		This Amiga 500 came out at a time when the Intel platform was text-based, and Apple's lowest priced Macintosh was more than double.
		Tried and True - A Computer Professional's Collection, Amiga 500
		The Amiga series was Commodore's successor to the Commodore 64/128 platform, and unfortunately the final product line from the Pennsylvania company.
	home.comcast.net /~mrtst1.rmu/amiga.html (219 words)

	Commodore Nostalgia
		In 1989 I got myself an Amiga 500, and the story is the same, started out by playing games and then got involved in the scene, it was the same group Draco, and now we got some more members too.
		The Amiga 500 had a Motorola MC68000 CPU clocked at 7 MHz, and 512 kb of RAM as standard.
		The first version was called Amiga 1000 and was launched in 1985, but that one didn't become very popular, it was the 500 that made people go "Amiga crazy".
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Field/3259/comm.html (1300 words)

	Hints for Amiga owners
		The Amiga 500 can supply power to devices plugged into the 86-pin expansion port through the port on the left side of the computer.
		Amiga OS can use * (asterisk) as a wildcard, but that feature is not turned on in standard configurations.
		The Amiga has one programmable line which is not available on the clone port.
	www.nyx.net /~rdavis/AmigaHints.html (3045 words)

	Commodore Amiga 500
		The Amiga 500 was introduced in January of 1987 along with the Amiga 2000.
		The Kickstart is the Amiga's operating system which had previously been disk based for the A1000, and had to be loaded into a specially protected 256k part of
		The two computers were designed to replace the somewhat successful Amiga 1000 introduced in mid 1985.
	www.myoldcomputers.com /museum/comp/amiga500.htm (417 words)

	Amiga Gallery
		Amiga Phone Cards were issued in 1995 by Softwood Corporation to commemorate the rebirth of the Amiga by Escom.
		Amiga sticker used on the front of the A1000 and various other hardware.It came with its own protective plastic case.
		The first Amiga had an unusual keyboard that was designed to fit into a garage slot underneath the machine.
	www.amigau.com /aig/rareitem.html (4634 words)

	Amiga Integrated Circuits, Custom Chipsets
		This is the v2.05 Kickstart ROM for the Amiga 500, 600 or 2000.
		This is the chip needed to upgrade to v2.04 of Kickstart for the Amiga 500 or 2000.
		These chips are replaceable in most Amigas (500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500 and 3000).
	www.webworldinc.com /transdata/ami19.htm (403 words)

	A600
		The A600, also known as the Amiga 600, was the final of the original A500-esque line.
		Launched in late 1991, it was essentially a repackaged A500, intended by manufacturer Commodore International to revitalise sales of the A500 line before the more sophisticated A1200 became available.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/a6/a600.html (523 words)

	Salon 21st The church of Amiga
		Browsing through the software racks and glancing at the aging Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 machines running demos at the AmiWest conference earlier this month in Sacramento, I felt as if I'd entered a parallel universe where software development stopped in the early '90s.
		And now, for the first time since Amiga's original parent company, Commodore, went under in 1994, there's hope their platform might rise again with its new owner, Gateway.
		If you're not already part of the Amiga flock, entering the cramped exhibition hall at an Amiga convention can be profoundly disorienting.
	archive.salon.com /21st/feature/1998/07/23feature.html (551 words)

	Amiga Web Directory
		Amiga Search at The Register - This UK tabloid will print just about anything whether it has been confirmed or not, so be aware.
		"The Amiga Web Directory", the Amiga Web Directory logo, "Agnes" and the Agnes character are service marks of the Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group, Inc. CUCUG assumes no responsibility for the content associated with the links shown and does not necessarily endorse any of these information providers or their products.
		Amiga History Guide - Surprisingly comprehensive Amiga history site.
	www.cucug.org /amiga.html (749 words)

	Commodore Amiga 500
		Amigas are capable of surfing the net, and since they can read other systems' disks, it's not that hard to get them set up for it.
		Amiga music packages used digitized instruments for their sound.
		The Amiga OS let you do a sort of symbolic link that would allow you to run software designed for floppies off the hard drive.
	www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org /amiga500 (937 words)

	Ethernet options on the Amiga
		It has been suggested that with hardware modifications of the Amigas parallel port, it would be possible to write a driver, but no one has yet attempted such a thing (AFAIK).
		Parallel port ethernet: The hardware controlling the parallel port on the Amiga is not capable of driving these ethernet devices in the way they need to be driven.
		Also, the Amiga handles interrupts differently than "IBM"'s do, so most PC cards are incompatible with the Amiga.
	www.cs.rose-hulman.edu /~gunnbr/enetAmiga.html (553 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The Amiga 500+ had the same characteristics as the Amiga 500 except it had 1MB of Chip RAM and used the AmigaOS 2.04, this version of Amiga OS needed 512 KB of ROM.
		The Amiga 500 was followed by the Amiga 500+.
		The Amiga A500+ was the shortest lived Amiga, lasting only 6 months before being replaced by the A600.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=65 (351 words)

	Amiga 1000 (Ftrain.com)
		Extensive selections of my father's work, all written on an Amiga 500 with 1 meg RAM and 2 floppy drives, are available free, online, from Jim and Stacy Esch's Orange Street Press.
		Now they are releasing a new, resurrected Amiga, and the community around the machine is jittering with tension and excitement.
		I've learned since that the Amiga was prescient in its design: graphically powerful, with built-in application libraries, real multitasking, disk-based ROM, all encapsulated within a multi-resolution, many-windowed interface.
	www.ftrain.com /archive_ftraintwo_14.html (1410 words)

	Hola Mi Amiga!
		The 500 was relatively compact (but only in the sense that the Commodore 128 is), had enough power to impress your neighbors, and was soon accompanied by hard drive and other "side-car" upgrades, eventually including the Amiga 570 CD-ROM drive in 1992.
		It signified my giving in to the Amiga line, a fairly bold step for me. It figures that step would be taken with the low end A500, which was still a lot of fun for the 5-6 months I kept it out and around.
		Commodore tried to make another stab at the home market with the $700.00 Amiga 500, and partially succeeded.
	www.zimmers.net /cbmpics/ca500.html (269 words)

	Commodore Amiga 500
		The Amiga 500 was the second Amiga machine produced, after the Amiga 1000.
		The 500 was an all-in-one design that needed only an external display to be useful.
		Commodore Amiga 4000, tons of software, manuals and peripherals.
	www.vintage-computer.com /amiga500.shtml (357 words)

	Amiga Products [ICD]
		Trifecta 500 is absolutely the quickest hard drive controller available for the Amiga 500, bar none.
		If you've expanded your Amiga 500 with an AdRAM 540, but four megabytes of additional RAM are just not enough, then an AdRAM 560D could be in your future.
		The attractive side-car case matches the Amiga 500 perfectly.
	www.icd.com /amiga (1044 words)

	Donovan Marshall's Computer Collection: Commodore Amiga 500
		This Amiga currently has a RAM upgrade installed giving it 1 Mbyte of RAM.
		This Amiga came in its box, how ever, without any documentation.
		Unfortunatly the disk drive on this machine is not working, so I'm looking for someone who could fix it or maybe help me fix it myself.
	homepages.ihug.co.nz /~ssdm/computer_collection/commodore/amiga_500.html (51 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Emulators: Amiga
		XFellow Amiga Emulator - An abandoned linux port of the Fellow Amiga emulator.
		Amiga Grotto - Includes news, emulators and software, as well as some MODs and wallpapers.
		Amiga zone - Small ROM Image collection with covers, screenshots, and reviews.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Emulators/Amiga (352 words)

	Commodore Amiga 500
		This is the machine that kicked the entire Amiga world into focus and brought more people to the Amiga than has been done since.
		The basic system still used the 68000 processor, 512k ram, and OCS chipset but had got rid of the ZORRO slots in favour of a DMA slot at the side of the machine.
		The operating system had been upgraded to version 1.3, which included the Amiga Command Line Interface (Shell) allowing the user more functionality.
	amiga.emugaming.com /a500.html (186 words)

	The Superhero Hype! Boards - "Batman" on the C64/Amiga 500
		- - "Batman" on the C64/Amiga 500 (http://superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=163539)
		i actually still play both the amiga version and c 64 version with the use of an emulator.
		I remember thinking it was awesome when I played it, age 8 or 9.
	www.superherohype.com /forums/printthread.php?t=163539 (145 words)

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