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Amiga: Machines
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It has been 16 years since the Amiga was released. It has gone through many changes, from its humble beginnings as the A1000, to the machines of today. The number of users fluctuates all the time, but the spirit lives on. Whether you are a current Amiga user or a user from the past, you know the feeling of using a superior machine.
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The Amiga computer was a machine ahead of its time. When it was released in 1985, its color screen (4096 colors in HAM mode!), four-channel sampled stereo sound, preemptive multitasking GUI, and custom chips to accelerate both sound and graphics made the year-old Macintosh seem antiquated and the PC positively Paleolithic. Steve Jobs was reported to be extremely worried about the Amiga, but fortunately for him and Apple, Commodore had absolutely no idea what they were doing.
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Unfortunately, although the Amiga was successful in Europe, especially Germany, it was a total flop in the all-important US market, with less than a million sold. Mass-market Amigas were considerably cheaper than PCs or Macs - this boosted sales in the more price-conscious European markets, but led to Commodore being viewed in the United States as a producer of cheap and nasty 'game machines' - this image was not helped by the fact that most retail outlets were toy stores, and by Commodore's marketing campaigns which were woefully mismatched with the status-conscious American public. There was ... the bane of rampant software piracy.
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The Amiga 4000 was the last in a line of Amiga machines that gained incredible popularity during the rise of the "PC" architecture. There are still a large number of Amiga users still keeping these machines alive today.
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OpenBSD/amiga runs on the Amiga machines manufactured by Commodore. It requires a Motorola 68020 or better processor, with an external Motorola 68851 PMMU in case of a 68020. This leaves out models 500, 600 and 1000 which can not receive accelerator boards.
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