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Help page 1 - The Amiga. History. The Amiga is an affordable home computer which will grow with your needs. The slogan "The computer for the creative mind" was a popular and accurate sales pitch used to advertise the computer in the late eighties and early nineties. Created by a small company called "Amiga" it was first released in 1985 in the form of the A1000. This was a desktop configuration with a separate keyboard and a 68000 CPU. Later when Commodore took over Amiga to form "Commodore-Amiga" the mass market A500 was released and placed in front of many TVs worldwide. Seen as THE Amiga, the A500 gained the computer the tag "games machine" since it was the games platform of choice in it's heyday. The A2000, A500+ A3000 and A600 followed the A500 as well as the CDTV platform which appeared to be neither computer nor home entertainment system. It was perhaps because of this lack of identity that the CDTV failed to take off in any great numbers. By the time 1992 arrived Commodore had released the all new 32 bit AGA chip-set and the computers it came in, namely the A4000 and the A1200. While most still thought of the A1200 as a games machine due to it's undoubtedly all-in-one "Amiga" wedge shape, it shipped with an 020 CPU and 2 megabytes of RAM. It was (and still is) capable of most serious office tasks as well as graphics work. Meanwhile (to prove this point) it's bigger brother the A4000 was busily pumping out the graphics for the Babylon 5 science fiction TV show. Later on the cut down AGA based CD32 console came to the market to take on the Mega CD. In 1994 Commodore, after investing heavily in the new AAA chip-set, ran out of money and so ceased to be. Interest in Amiga technology was high and several companies tried to buy what was left of the Commodore empire. It was Escom who eventually took over the company and set about selling A1200 and A4000 machines until they too ran into financial trouble. Again the Amiga was without a parent company and again interested parties picked over the remains of the Amiga's administrative body. The outcome of this was the PC "box shifting" giant Gateway acquiring the Amiga interests and setting up a daughter company - Amiga Inc. Recently Amiga Inc have moved away from Gateway and are stating their plans for the computer. They plan to leave the hardware side of things to the many 3rd party manufactures who have kept the Amiga alive with infusions of new technology such as Power PC cards. Amiga Inc (now simply called "Amiga") intend to produce the OS for the machine for the moment, with a new Amiga just appearing on the horizon. Pictures. Soon there will be a selection of pictures available showing the different Amiga models that have made up the Amiga range over the years. Return to the top of the page. Copyright the talker Amiga Forever administration, 1999. For other copyright details see here.