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Twenty 22 years ago Computer Connection opened its
door's inside of Tracy Music. We started selling music
software for
Amiga
computers through the music store a year prior. As the
Amiga
picked up steam we decided to sell all Amiga products
through
our new business Computer Connection. New lines included
NewTek products such as DigiPaint and DigiView. This all
lead to
the introduction of Newtek’s revolutionary original
Video Toaster which changed the video world for good.
Well as they say the rest is history as we continue to
sell and support all the current NewTek products over
twenty years later.
Believe it or not we still love, use
and sell Amiga stuff so we have provided you with this
Amiga site.
Amiga Computers
"The multitasking
is deliciously smooth and transparent--tasks are never stalled and
seldom even slowed by another task."
"the Amiga proves
that the "treadmill" of planned obsolescence is not a necessary
accompaniment to technological progress. My fifteen-year old Amiga
at home is still a viable machine. The Amigas I use daily are seven
and ten years old, respectively, having been upgraded with
relatively inexpensive processor chips, graphics, software and
memory."
The Late
Dr. Raymond L Zarling
Amiga
From
Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
The
Amiga was a family of
personal computers
originally developed by
Amiga Corporation.
Development on the Amiga began in 1982 with
Jay Miner
as the principal hardware designer.
Commodore International
bought Amiga
Corporation and introduced the machine to the market in
1985. The name Amiga was chosen by the developers
specifically from the
Spanish
word for a female friend,
and because it occurred before
Apple
and
Atari
alphabetically.
Based on the
Motorola 68k series of
microprocessors,
the machine sports a
custom chipset with
then advanced graphics and sound capabilities, and a
pre-emptive multitasking
operating system
(now known as
AmigaOS).
While the M68k is a
32-bit
processor, the version originally used in the Amiga, the
68000, has a
16-bit
external
data bus so it must
transfer 32 bits of data in two consecutive steps, a
technique called
multiplexing — all this
is transparent to the software, which was 32-bit from
the beginning. The original machine was generally
referred to in the
press as a 16-bit
computer; Later
models featured fully 32-bit designs. The Amiga provided
a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers such as the
Commodore 64,
and the platform quickly grew in popularity among
computer enthusiasts, especially in
Europe.
It went on to sell approximately 6 million units.
It also found a
prominent role in the
desktop video,
video production,
and
show control
business, largely due to the
Video Toaster
video editing system, and was a less expensive
alternative to the
Apple Macintosh and
IBM-PC. The Amiga's
native ability to play back several channels of digital
samples made it a popular platform for early
"Tracker"
music software, and the machine's relatively powerful
processor and ability to access several megabytes of
memory led to the development of several 3D rendering
packages, including
LightWave 3D
and
Blender.
The Amiga was most commercially successful as a
home computer,
with a wide range of games and creative software,
although early Commodore advertisements attempted to
cast the computer as an all-purpose business machine.
Since the demise of
Commodore, various groups have marketed successors to
the original Amiga line.
Eyetech
sold Amiga hardware under the
AmigaOne
brand from 2002 to 2005. A-Cube currently sell the
Sam440 PPC board
designed to run the latest AmigaOS 4.1 (as of 2009).
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