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5 unusual facts about Amiga 500


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.

DJ Delicious

Directly after his return from London he began to sketch out his own melodies on an Amiga 500.

EC8OR

The music was in the same vein of Atari Teenage Riot's style of early Breakcore and hardcore techno with a punk edge, which led to EC8OR been overlooked by fans of digital hardcore recordings, but EC8OR employed more low-res ideas as the first album was entirely composed on Amiga 500 and with a microphone.

Jean Sebastien Gerard

Jean-Sébastien Gerard also composed soundtracks on Amiga 500, and afterwards on PC platforms.



see also

A570

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