Miscellaneous - Amiga: Amiga History

<b>Miscellaneous</b> - Amiga: Amiga History

Something from the biography

        Amiga computers
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   I'm sure many people who do not have a computer "Amiga",
many heard about it, but few have sufficient and reliable 
information about this wonderful car. Therefore, here, for all 
who are interested in This topic will be

consistent with the familiarity
family "Amiga".

   In this issue of our magazine
We begin with a brief digression
in the history of the emergence of firms
"Commodore - Amiga" and directly of the family computer "Amiga".

   Much of the information derived from company magazines,
which are attached to the computer when buying abroad.

   So ...


   It all began in 1982,
when the world experienced a boom in computer games. First 
there were very popular arcade game machines. Game "Space 
Invaders", "Asteroids", "Pac-Man" and they

Similar caused wild excitement
fans.

   Very quickly after that
opened a new niche - home
video game consoles. First, to simply black - white games like 
"Tennis" (with a bit a square ball and squeak).

but fast enough it came
to a few colors, and interchangeable
cartridges. These boxes were very popular
in the U.S., Britain also gave
preference for home computers.

   The first home computer,
conquer the world, was Sinclair
ZX80, whose descendants even now
captivate people, especially in our
country. Also in 1982
U.S. firm "Commodore"
released a gaming computer
"C-64, which also has not lost
yet its popularity in many
countries.

   Every day, technology
computer development improved. And then three Americans - Jay 
Miner, Dave Moorse and RJMikal decided to create the best

home computer, which is when - or knew the world. They were 
obsessed with computer developments, they have had experience 
in this field, the talent, as well as seven

millions of dollars. First, their
company called "Hi-Toro",
but this name was soon changed
on "Amiga" (in Spanish - "girlfriend").

   At work, they decided to rely on the most advanced and best 
design. In those days, the best candidate for the role The CPU 
is chip, "68000" firm "Motorola".

Based on it, they started
to create the fastest, colorful and musical machine
world.

   To do this, there was a time
but it was a necessity
keep everything in secret. Therefore,
to cover the basic work,
simultaneously being developed for the design of a new 
joystick, which led to interesting consequences.


   Malfunctions can happen
from any computer. But the creators of the "Amiga" decided that 
since their machine must be the best in the world, even if it 
does not crash should be disgraced. Therefore,

instead of the standard message
Type "System Error", "Amiga" in
failure betrayed flickering
frame with an error number, number
tasks to be executed that
this error occurred, and the words "guru meditation".

   Developed by the joystick was
designed as a surfboard, and control they needed, getting up at 
him and swinging. And in those moments when that - it does not 
work, and future car sboila, the whole team sat on his legs 
crossed and relaxed. The extent of his

relaxation tested on a special program - the less
waves on the screen, the better
relaxation, the deeper "meditation guru."

   Three tables piled high with printed circuit boards, 
soldered between a tangled wires, gradually turned into 
something a titled "Zorro". But it is not

was a gaming device, so
as there was a keyboard, disk drive, printer connector, etc., it
has been a real computer.

   But to be very serious
problem - it was necessary to collect all
in a normal shell, prepare for production and to establish
sales. Do the creators of this did not
enough money and they had to seek investors. In June 1984, they 
decided to present his creation of a closed exhibition

"CES" in the hope of attracting attention. A private firm is 
interested and has allocated one million dollars on the project.

But in the end everything is fully
bought the company "Commodore".

   To complete the development was organized by an independent 
company "Commodore - Amiga", and experts from the company 
"Electronic Arts" has kindly helped with the creation of a 
standard format of video. 

   So, exactly one year (June
1985), at the same exhibition "CES"
in Chicago, has introduced a new machine. It was called
"Amiga-1000, and although it had only
256Kb of RAM and the price of 2.300 dollars
was immeasurably better than anything that existed at the time.
Specifically to demonstrate the amazing music capabilities of 
the machine on presentation was invited the star of punk rock

Debby Harry of the group "Blondie".

   Soon there were new models
family "Amiga", and they began
slowly conquer the world. The main market are European 
countries, and especially England. Machine type "Spectrum",

"Amstrad", "C-64" started quickly
go out of fashion, and "Atari ST",
which was the only viable alternative is simply not
compete with "Amiga".
And now, the 1990 model year
"Amiga-500" became the most popular and selling home
computer in England.

   Up until 1987 each
"Amiga-500 contained a built-in
message from its creators, who appeared at a certain keys are 
pressed, and had in mind all ostalmye firms producing 
computers. This was the inscription "We created the Amiga,

they fucked it up! "What's on -
Russian can be translated as: "We
created the "Amiga", and they are her
** about Ali! ".

   Games on "Amiga" in 32 colors
simply staggering quality, and
looked better than similar
at IBM (even after the VGA
has 256 colors). Well, live
8-bit stereo sound much
superior (and many believe
that he now surpasses the vast majority of even 16
bit cards), all then existing Tweeters. All this
was possible thanks to the original chips that have been 
created to support the powerful graphics, smooth animation and 
sprites playing excellent musical accompaniment. By

these chips and the results are achieved when the clock Great
CPU frequency of 7 megahertz (two of Spectrum). The success of 
the machine is also provided by compact design, ease of

circulation and expansion, extreme flexibility, multitasking
(10 years ago!) Operating
system located in ROM, and
a host of other wonderful
features.


   Here, this is a brief history
computer "Amiga". Next
once the story goes on existing models, "Amiga", their features 
and differences. 


   Have a nice day!

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