Amiga in General

Although Commodore went bust a long time ago, they used to be one of the top brand name manufacturers in home computers. I remember when I was about fourteen I used to dream of having one of these machines. At the time they cost about £500 and had a reputation for being the best home computer on the market. Though it seems laughable now, the Commodore Amiga came with 512Kb internal RAM which was upgradable to 1MB. There were also a handful of useful utilities available for the Amiga, such as a cartridge called an Action Replay which slotted into the side of the machine. The Action Replay had the ability to slow games right down making it easy to get past ...  Read the complete review

More of a reminisce than a review! This thing I loved. A great games machine and how I used to look forward to the next edition of any of the Amiga magazines. Back in the day computer magazines really did carry useful coverdisks. A great array of games and sometimes, just sometimes a really useful utility such as a word processor or decent music making package, with no limitations. My Amiga days were also the days before the internet got a hold on us so I actually used the machine (nowdays 99% of my computer usage is being online). I am not technical in anyway, but I understand from others that the Amiga was light years ahead ...  Read the complete review

The Amiga was one of the best games machines ever. Although it was a computer, most people I know used it almost exclusively for playing games. And it was great for games. I rate it above almost any other games platform, past or present. But why? It was more ubiquitous in my neck of the woods than any other computer / games console at the time. After a few years, and a few Christmases, most of my mates seemed to have one. This was one of the great things about the Amiga, and sadly, it would seem, part of its downfall. Unlike the Megadrive or the SNES, which both used cartridges, the Amiga used all-too-easily copied disks. New games could cost well over ...  Read the complete review

Well, I was a fairly late arrival on the old Miggy scene having watched on in jealousy from the outside. It’s hard to believe that the Amiga was launched around the same time as the Apple Macintosh (1985), in the form of the A1000. Whilst immediately showing what a good computer it was, it never really took off as it was too expensive for the home market, and the professional market was going the way of the PC and Mac. In 1987, Atari released their ST computers in two forms: 512 and 1024. To counter this, Commodore released the Amiga 500 which was targeted towards the home market – it was all built into one case along with a bundled TV modulator in ...  Read the complete review

You may read this and think pah this is just someone who is tiring to keep their dead medium alive, but all I can say about the Amiga is that I love it still. I currently own an Amiga 500, 500+, CD32 and a 1200. My 500 and 500+ are the basic machines but I have a 52MB quantum hard drive for one of them. I know you might think wow a whole 52MB of space, but the thing is that I never filled it up. The fun starts with my 1200 I have a blizzard board with a 68030 processor, this processor is an improved processor for the Amiga it makes it run at a slightly higher rate then the original machine which I think runs at 14MHz, I think its around 50MHz. You ...  Read the complete review