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Computer Connection
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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