Happy Birthday 40th Amiga

[Amiga Forever]

Amiga was Born in 1985 and it called AMIGA 1000. It was ahead of time when can do Multi tasking(PC Struggle to do that in 1985!) , 7MHZ CPU, 512KB Ram, 4,096 colours palette, 4 channels sound.

Amiga had some cracking games such as

Monkey Island Series(Monkey island 1 and Monkey island 2)
Lotus Series
R Type Series
Formula one Grand Prix( First 3D Racer!)
Pinball Series (such as Pinball Dream, Fantasies, Slimtilt, Illusions)
Turrican Series
Lemmings Series
Alien Breed Series
Cannon Fodder series
Dizzy Series
Supercar Series
Elite Series
Speedball Series
Shadow of the Beast Series
Senisble Soccer Series
Flashback
Another World
MoonStone
Ruff n Tumble
Battle Squadron
Banshee
Apidya
Hybris
Maniac Mansion
Rainbow Island
IK+
Stunt Car Racer
Fighting Sprits (It look like Neo Geo game!)
Speedball 2
Outrun


there was quite lots of flight sim like Gunship 2000, Nighthawk F-117A Stealth Fighter, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Fighter Bomber and so on.

too many games to lists on here​

When you had your first Amiga, what was your feeling and experience of using it?

 

[miggymad]

Coming from the C64 camp back in the day, then watching the Shadow of the beast rolling demo in the window of my local computer store got me well and truly hooked.

Never looked back, never wavered in my love for C= even to this day.

Happy 40th Amiga ... Truly a survivor!

 

[YouKnowWho]

Bought this a few days back. Brazilian coke. Let me see if the delivery man brings it today. I guess I have to open it if it comes today.

 

[Amiga Forever]

Shadow of the beast rolling demo? Same as me when I went to my fav Computer Shop called MIRCOFUN (Yellow Shop with Black logo!). I saw Atari ST and Amiga with Shadow of the beast.

There is only ONE Winner and Answers is U should all know the Answers

 

[Bladejack]

 

[m0c]

I take pride in having been one of the first A1000 owners in the Netherlands. NTSC of course, complete with A1080 monitor. Everything was imported from the US in September 1985 by American friends at the former US military air base in Soesterberg. Even Commodore Netherlands didn't have an A1000 at the time.

All 110V, ceramic OCS chipset, Denise without EHB support. After 40 years it is still pristine and in its original condition. Not a single hole drilled, 512KB RAM, no accelerator or any other bells & whistles, kickstart loading from floppy. Pretty much the crown of my collection.

Another moment of fame has been the release in early 1986 of the very first Amiga cracktro ever. Hence my Amibay avatar. A few trivia:

• Fully written in assembler (no C-compiler available yet)
• Kickstart 1.1 required
• Obviously written for NTSC. The 8367 PAL Agnus didn't exist yet. On the yet to be released PAL systems (and obviously also in the Youtube video) the tiny boingball was bouncing at 5/6th of the intended speed.
• Digitized audio was quite unique in the early Amiga days, not to mention the required sampling hardware. We used a C64 with homebrew A/D converter and the sampled audio data was transferred to the A1000 via RS-232.

 

[Ferretman]

WHOOP!

 

[YouKnowWho]

@m0c, Beautiful! Do another photo with the keyboard in the garage.

On this Amiga 40th birthday, may I raise a belated toast to the 68040 based Amiga? It seems everyone lately is all about the 68060 (My 1200s included) for obvious reasons, but think back to the early 90s and how much you were dreaming about the 68040 in your Amiga. All those magazine reviews of 68040 accelerators. Amiga World advertisements at the back with tempting offers making us dream about the 68040. It's 2025 and I'm dreaming and hoping about the TF2040 that apparently isn't coming.

It was a beautiful time, and you could really feel those CPU upgrades in your Amiga back then. Remember that feeling when you first went from a 68000 to 68030? Everything was so suddenly fast! But in SysInfo, you always looked at that 68040 bar, didn't you?

BONUS - I wonder if there is someone out there somehow running a 68040 inside their Amiga 1000. If so, show us!

 

[StrongARM]

8 MHz MC68000 clocked at 7.14 MHz..... impressive all the time!!!


Soooo sad that managers ruined almost anything..................

 

[YouKnowWho]

Soooo sad that managers ruined almost anything..................

Look at the bright side: They made the Amiga timeless! Amiga will NEVER get old!

Look at that 1000 above. How does it make you feel? Also, is there a better looking 40 year old computer out there?

Amiga will always be that innovative, revolutionary computer, and since the product roadmap was abruptly stopped each of us get to imagine our own roadmap that always remains immaginary. Some had stronger roadmap imaginations, like those PowerPC folks who actually delivered product and OS to users. Personally while I totally get the logic, PowerPC Amiga is not my cup of tea.

Now that we're here in 2025, where has tech actually taken us on the roadmap? Big Tech pushing marketing and ads, subscriptions, notifications constantly nagging us (you haven't touched this app for 15 minutes!), GUI redesigns for the sake of redesign not actual improvement, now piles of AI slop, phishing, password hacks, data theft, surveillance capitalism, our politicians passing laws to legalize illegal warrantless surveillance with Biden signing Section 702 of FISA and this being barely reported, by the way, did you notice how the 16 billion biggest-credentials-data-hack of Apple/Google/etc. has been way under reported considering the importance?

This is the future?

Thank you very much, but I'll enjoy the time-locked innocent Amiga, always having my interest in mind, wanting to help, always eager to make it fun.

Amiga, my nominee for the sweetest computer ever made.

 

[StrongARM]

Right on, I block apps, I prefer to use programs, tools and utils.