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Can you tell the most relevant fact in Amiga history?
Posted on 11-Sep-2014 7:17:43
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Hello,

would like to know the most relevant story year by year in the Amiga history since its introduction.

IE: 198x Amiga introduced the Amiga 1000



till 2014


thank you

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Re: Can you tell the most relevant fact in Amiga history?
Posted on 11-Sep-2014 8:12:20
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@AmigaBlitter

Ars Technica has a nice series of articles on it, such the ones you can find at this link here.

In the past an awesome source was Amiga History, but link seems broken nowadays.

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Re: Can you tell the most relevant fact in Amiga history?
Posted on 11-Sep-2014 12:24:45
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For me the 'most relevant' facts are:

1986 First amiga product purchased by me... A1000 (512mb), 1081, external floppy
1989 Upgraded to B2000
1990 Installed 120mb scsi harddrive
1991? Installed X5000 card
1994 Upgraded to A4000/warp engine(040/25)
1996 Installed Picasso-IV and multisync monitor
2004 Upgraded to A1-XE
2006 XE died, Bought a MicroA1
2008 MicroA1 partially deceased, bought Sam Flex.
2011 Upgraded to X1000

Maybe 'relevant' was the wrong word choice

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Re: Can you tell the most relevant fact in Amiga history?
Posted on 11-Sep-2014 14:57:10
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I can´t load great http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/ - one of the best Amiga history pages.

You can also read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Amiga

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Posted on 11-Sep-2014 16:22:41
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I can't give an accurate history, but I will join in the fun and tell you my favorite Amiga moment. 1990 - connecting to the college library from my dorm room via dial up modem and reserving books. And the amazement of my friends who had PC's and couldn't do the same thing.

And games in STEREO! Seriously, blew everyone away, and I had a line of people waiting to play Battle Squadron and Killing Game Show. Those were the days.

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Posted on 12-Sep-2014 6:06:19
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@thread

Thank you all

Based on the Ars T. article Amiga was introduced 1n 1985 (although was showed at ces 1984)

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Posted on 12-Sep-2014 14:31:10
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Quote:
Amiga was introduced 1n 1985


July 23 1985 at Lincoln Center in New York.

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Re: Can you tell the most relevant fact in Amiga history?
Posted on 12-Sep-2014 20:39:18
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Hi all,
I've just transferred amigahistory.co.uk to a new host, so it won't be available for a day or so. In the meantime, you can access the site by visiting http://www.amigahistory.plus.com/ or www.amigau.com/aig/.

If you're looking for notable events, the following may be relevant:


1982 - Hi Toro formed and development of Amiga begins.
1984 - Amiga bought by Commodore
1985 - Commodore Amiga 1000 launched
1987 - A500 and A2000 launched
1990 - A3000 launched
1991 - A500+, CDTV and A3000T launched
1992 - A600, A1200 and CD32 launched
1993 - Amiga CD32 games console goes on sale
1994 - Commodore closes on April 29th
1995 - Escom buys Amiga and forms Amiga Technologies subsiduary. Releases A4000T a few months later
1997 - Gateway buys Amiga. Forms Amiga International and announces a x86-based machine that runs the QNX/Linux platform. Nothing released.
2000 - Amino, a small start-up company buys Amiga International
2004 - Hyperion release AmigaOS4 for PowerPC systems


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glad to hear of the new host for amigahistory.co.uk, but most of all, welcome to AWN!



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Posted on 12-Sep-2014 21:42:59
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@gareth_k

Thanks!


and of course...

Welcome!

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@gareth_k

Hummm... I know a Gareth from site:

m4d forum.it

But I believe it is just a coincidence. Am I right?

Welcome!

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This is an interesting fact, in the Amiga history.

http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=38836&forum=25#731248

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There's a french canadian article somewhere but I lost the url is someone know where?
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Posted on 13-Sep-2014 8:17:53
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@gareth_k

Excellent, thanks!!!

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Posted on 13-Sep-2014 9:07:05
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try my Amiga history page at http://www.pcguru.plus.com/history/history.html


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THE most relevant event in Amiga history would have been the release of the Video Toaster. This created a niche that would have placed Amiga on par with Windows/Mac. But Commodore bungled things by failing to keep the Amiga's graphics capabilities well ahead of the competition...

My two cents...

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Posted on 13-Sep-2014 14:39:01
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@EDanaII

Sadly, you're right. I do agree.

@pjhutch

Page bookmarked!
I like the retro style.

Last edited by g0blin on 13-Sep-2014 at 02:40 PM.

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@gareth_k

Thank you for the info

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