![]() The Amiga was at one stage the world’s best-selling home PC, and thanks to genlockable graphics, it found a niche for itself as a low-cost TV graphics/titling platform (anyone still remember Max Headroom?). And, the Amiga did all this with only 512KB of RAM, a 7.14MHz CPU speed and a single floppy drive, all thanks to an ingenious hardware design featuring specialised co-processors like Agnus (address generator), Denise (display adapter) and Paula (ports and audio). On top of that, the Amiga was the first mass-market PC to offer pre-emptive multitasking with a 32-bit processor (the MC68000 CPU was 32 bits internally, with 16-bit data and 24-bit address busses) coupled to a WIMP GUI. The Amiga sounded off with 4-channel digital true stereo audio and even had voice synthesis built in. ![]() It could display 4096 colours simultaneously at a time when PCs and Macs were relegated to monochrome or 16-colour EGA. With the emphasis on games and killer graphics, the Amiga 1000 stunned the world in 1985.
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