Amiga



"Only Amiga makes it possible."

The Amiga is a family of 16-bit personal computers produced by Commodore. Introduced in 1985, its unique arcade-like chipset gave it high-end graphical, audio, and multitasking capabilities far ahead of other systems at the time. It was only a modest success in America, where IBM-compatibles ruled, but it became huge in Europe, especially UK and Germany. They were used especially for gaming, demoscene activities, and graphic and video editing.

However, Commodore was plagued by some of the most criminally incompetent management in the history of technology. The competition quickly caught up, while the Amiga stagnated and was very poorly marketed. Sales collapsed in the early 90s, and soon the company closed its doors.

And even so, out of sheer obsessed devotion of its old users, AmigaOS lives on! It is currently maintained by Hyperion, while A-Eon still makes compatible PowerPC-based machines. There is also AROS, a full-featured open-source clone compatible with plain x86 PCs.