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17 unusual facts about Amiga


2nd Wind

Always a believer in cutting-edge technology, Todd used the video for the album's only single, "Change Myself," as a showcase for the NewTek Video Toaster, a desktop video card for the Commodore Amiga computer.

Amigacore

Amigacore is a term given to a particular type of techno music, named so because it was produced on Commodore Amiga computers (16/32 and 32-bit computers, popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s).

Area 88

Ports were released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Super Nintendo and ZX Spectrum.

Boom Jinx

In 1989, Øistein J. Eide started making music with SoundTracker developed for the Commodore Amiga computer.

Do It

The original track, titled "Acidjazzed Evening", is a chiptune-style 4-channel Amiga module composed by Finnish demoscener Janne Suni.

Elvira: The Arcade Game

CU Amiga awarded the game 82% and praised the graphics, describing the game as "brilliant arcade fun," but lacking any longevity.

Evesham Technology

They also sold a range of software and peripherals for Amiga and Atari ST computers.

Fly Fighter

Fly Fighter is a platform/shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Digital Magic in 1989 for Amiga computers. The game was also re-released as Scorpion, with another title screen and another order of levels.

I Created Disco

All recording and producing for the album took place on an Amiga computer with audio tracker OctaMED

International Rugby Challenge

International Rugby Challenge (also known simply as International Rugby) is a rugby game on Mega Drive (Genesis) and the Commodore Amiga.

It made computer game history in the Amiga community when it received a review score of 2% in the UK magazine Amiga Power.

Jerry Dandrige

An arcade-style computer game was released in 1988 for Amiga computers.

Keef the Thief

The Commodore Amiga and Apple IIGS versions of the game were reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #157 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

Lawrence H. Brown

Over the years he has founded two Amiga Users groups; TAG (Tulsa Amiga Group) and TOGA (The Other Group of Amigoids).

Lords of the Rising Sun

Lords of the Rising Sun is a 1989 video game by Cinemaware, game design and art by Doug Barnett, released for the Amiga among other systems.

Markus Kaarlonen

Kaarlonen catapulted to considerable underground fame with his Amiga MOD music in the early 1990s.

Vibrasphere

Rickard was previously a member of early Goa group Subcouds and at around the same time Robert had started musical production on an Amiga.


A570

Amiga A570, an external CD-ROM drive for the Amiga 500 computer

Alfred Chicken

Karl Fitzhugh, the Product Manager of the Amiga version of the Alfred Chicken video game, ran as the Alfred Chicken Party candidate in the 1993 by-election in the Christchurch, Dorset constituency.

Amiga 500

Digital hardcore group EC8OR recorded their premier title album using only an Amiga 500 and a microphone.

The Amiga 500 - also known as the A500 (or its code name "Rock Lobster") - was the first “low-end” Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer.

Amiga E

Amiga E, or very often simply E, is a programming language created by Wouter van Oortmerssen on the Amiga.

AmigaBASIC

GFA BASIC, originally developed for the Atari ST, was ported to the Amiga platform by its author, Frank Ostrowski.

AMOS BASIC, developed by François Lionet, was a commercial language which provided extensive support for the Amiga's graphics hardware and was designed primarily for games programming.

Arcade Volleyball

It differs from the Amiga version by using 4-color CGA graphics and PC speaker sound, and represents scores less than 10 as a single digit.

Ariolasoft

The company released approximately ten games for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amiga systems, and numerous titles for the Atari 8-bit.

Artdink

By far Artdink's biggest international success was the award-winning A-Train (known in Japan as A Ressha de Ikou, or "Take the A-Train") strategy game released for the PC and Amiga, which was published by SimCity creators Maxis.

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Batman; The Caped Crusader is an action adventure game developed by Special FX Software (Jonathan Smith, Zach Townsend, Charles Davies, and Keith Tinman) and published by Ocean Software for the 8-bit home computers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 and by Data East for other platforms such as the Apple II, Commodore Amiga and PC in 1988.

Bombuzal

The game was released by Spotlight Software and distributed by Cinemaware in the compilation BrainBlaster with Xenon 2 for the Amiga.

Boppin'

Boppin' is a puzzle game developed by Accursed Toys (Jennifer Diane Reitz and Stephen Lepisto), originally published for the Amiga by KarmaSoft.

Constantin Sotiropoulos

Constantin Sotiropoulos is most famous for being the co-creator (with François Lionet) of AMOS BASIC, a popular beginners programming language for the Commodore Amiga home computer, and STOS BASIC on the Atari ST.

Death Bringer

Death Bringer, known in Europe as Galdregon's Domain, is a role-playing video game published for the Amiga by Cinemaware.

Electrical connector

A few examples are monitors (MGA, CGA, EGA), the Commodore 64, MSX, Apple II, Amiga, and Atari joysticks and mice, and game consoles such as Atari and Sega.

Frederick Fish

Fred Fish (1952 – 2007), American computer programmer known for GNU Debugger and free Fish disks for Amiga

G-LOC: Air Battle

Because the R-360 cabinet made the game more impressive the home computer versions (Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and Amiga) were named G-LOC R360.

Gametraders

Gametraders accepts trade-ins of any game, regardless of what console it was designed for, and is the only retail chain in Australia that sells games from any gaming console, including the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, Game Boy and many other consoles that are now unsupported by most stores.

Gravity Force

In 1995, the games magazine, Amiga Power, declared Gravity Force 2 the second best Amiga game of all time (behind Sensible Soccer) which resulted in great exposure for a freeware/shareware title.

History of the Amiga

The Amiga did see widespread use in the television and video production industry during the late 1980s and early 1990s, including on popular shows like Clarissa Explains It All and Unsolved Mysteries.

History of the AmigaOS 4 dispute

After Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994, its name and IP rights, including Amiga, were sold to Escom.

Linger in Shadows

The resulting menu item allows the viewer to watch an "oldskool demo" with a starfield, two DYCP scrollers (using the Amiga character set) and various other early demo effects such as blitter objects and metaballs (intentionally made to look low resolution), with chiptune music accompanying it.

Mercs

Home computer ports of Mercs were also released for the Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum in 1991 by U.S. Gold.

Microdeal

The company was quick to recognise the music capabilities of the Atari ST and Amiga and went in production of Music Samplers such as "MasterSound" and "Amas" the latter of which was featured on a Paula Abdul music video which won MTV's Music Video of the year award.

Module file

The CPU has to do very little work to play these modules on an Amiga.

Open-source bounty

While the bounty produced little results it inspired many bounty systems in the Amiga community including Timberwolf, Power2people, AROS Bounties, Amigabounty.net and many more.

Perihelion: The Prophecy

Perihelion: The Prophecy is an RPG developed by Morbid Visions and published by Psygnosis in 1993 for Amiga computer.

Perry Kivolowitz

In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga.

Stavros Fasoulas

For the Amiga Fasoulas made a game called Galactic, slightly resembling Bubble Bobble.

Toronto PET User's Group

TPUG supports nearly all Commodore computers, including the PET, SuperPET, CBM, B128/256/1024, VIC-20, C64, C128, Plus/4, C16, C65 and Amiga, and including the COMAL, CP/M and GEOS environments.

Walnut Creek CDROM

In the early years, some of the most popular products were Simtel shareware for MS-DOS, CICA Shareware for Microsoft Windows (now the Sunny A archives), and the Aminet archives for the Amiga.

WarpUP

This is because objects are not mandatorily created in ELF; instead the Amiga compliant hunk format can be used as well.