Barney's Amiga Page

When the Amiga 1000 came out in 1985, it was way ahead of the PC in ability and features. It had true multitasking, (known as pre-emptive multi-tasking. It could format a floppy, while you continued to work on the computer). The computer could display 4096 colors at one time from a palette of 16.8 million. It had 4 channel stereo sound, and could talk to you in a computerized voice!! It had a graphical user interface and did all this with only 256k of ram!!

Amiga evalved and improved over time, but Commodor did a poor job in marketing the computer. Commodore went into bankruptcy in 1995, that took just over a year to resalve. Amiga was bought by a German company called Escom. They planed to update the machine, but did not do much with it before they themselves went into bankruptcy. More time passes, court battles take place, Amiga users wait, untill the remnets of the former company were bought by Gateway. Under the Gateway banner Amiga did not go anywhere at first, then work begin on the next generation Amiga. We got an update to the O/S, and progress reports on the development of the next version. Then Gateway shut down the project and sold the Amiga company to some of the employees, but kept the patents for themshelves. So now we have new Amiga's in development, a Amiga Software Development Kit on the market, and High Hopes. So thats where we are today!

I have a Amiga 3000 Tower with the following:

• Warp Engine 68040/40
• 30Mb memory
• Specturm Graphics Card
• CyberGraphx 4.2
• A2065 eathernet card hooked to a cable modem
• Miami Delux (Registered)
• Amiga O/S 3.5 (Boing Bag 2)
• Toshiba 12X CD Drive
• 1.2 gig Harddrive
• External Zip and 540m Hard Drive