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Life & fun · August 8, 2014

Commodore Amiga

The world's first multimedia, multitasking personal computer

Commodore Amiga launched on August 8, 2014 with 9 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. When introduced, it was one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-bit or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM , and mouse-based GUIs. These include the Atari ST —the Amiga's primary competitor— Macintosh , Apple IIGS , and Archimedes . The Amiga differs from its contemporaries through custom hardware to accelerate graphics and sound, including sprites , a blitter , and four channels of sample-based audio. It runs a pre-emptive multitasking [ 2 ] operating system called AmigaOS , with a desktop environment called Workbench . The Amiga…from en.wikipedia.org

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