As we all know the Amiga made its debut 40 years ago on July 23, 1985 at the Lincoln Center in New York city. It's even more impressive now as it was at that time and caused a sensation and a passion that has never been extinguished.

Here's to 40 years of greatness and the hope for 40 more even better years!!!


Valiant

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@Valiant



To 40 more years when I'll be rocking my Amiga like Dick Van Dyke did into his 80s!

Last edited by BigD on 23-Jul-2025 at 08:52 AM.

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@Valiant

That would be like me messing around with the first airplane capable of sustained, maneuverable flight, the Wright Flyer III from 1905 in 1985! Sounds like a Back to the Future plot!

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@Valiant

From Bambi-Amiga LINK

Quote:

The first Amiga bundle was a limited machine by contemporary standards. For $1295.00 US dollar the buyer would receive a 256/512k Commodore Amiga machine, Kickstart & Workbench 1.1 disks, and related manuals. In 1986 many retailers began to offer third party applications and games with the machine.

I guess Workbench came with Amiga (Microsoft) Basic and the speech synthesizer? It was a start though!

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@Valiant

Happy Birthday Amiga!

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To celebrate A1000 and Amiga 40th Birthday, Print out your own mini box of the A1000. https://amigang.com/software/AmigaA1000box.pdf (470kb) more boxs and pic here https://amigang.com/amiga-boxs/ Remember, only Amiga makes it Possible!

Last edited by amigang on 24-Jul-2025 at 11:15 AM.

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@Valiant and all other Amiga users

Happy Amiga Birthday


It was sometimes a bumpy ride together, but always worth it. :D

@all Amiga users and appreciators,

Happy 40th Amiga !!

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Live Long and keep Amigaing!

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@Valiant

Happy 40th birthday Amiga, to the next 40!

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The Illusion of Choice | Am*ga

Only Amiga makes it possible 40 years and counting.

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Thank you to all Amiga hardware engineers, software devs, 3rd party providers of amazing hardware and software and the huge amount of users who made Amiga so special and such a huge part of my life. I am proud to have kept with Amiga computers and remained involved in the community until now and beyond.

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Happy Birthday Amiga, in all its shapes and sizes.

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@thread

I was born in 1970, so the launch of the Amiga 1000 was my 'Moon Landing'.

Though back then I found out about it in the August edition of some Yugo computer rag, like 'Moj Mikro' (My Micro) or 'Svet Kompjutera' (Computer World). And I suppose most of us lived with such time delays on news in those days.

Happy birthday, girl.

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@amigang
The Amiga mini-box is excellent!

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group - http:www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network - http://www.portcommodore.com/sccan

Happy 40th Birthday, Amiga!

You will never get old ...

@amigang

Thanks! That was fun though they get need to have the back of the box flipped so that it's the right way round to match the front! No worries.

Last edited by BigD on 25-Jul-2025 at 10:09 AM.

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@BigD

Yep, when I printed it out, I realised the mistake, so updated. Glad you guys enjoyed it

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@amigang

Thanks but it should have flaps for gluing and some extra saturation like this:

A1000BoxNetWithFlaps.pdf

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@BigD @amigang

If you guys did one of these for each Amiga boxes, that would be amazing to have all printed out and stacked together in mini form!

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Live Long and keep Amigaing!

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@Amiboy

The ultimate tower of power!
"Too be this good will take SEGA ages!"

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John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios