"The Amiga was decades ahead of its time—look no further than preemptive multitasking," says Perry Kivolowitz, a professor of computer science at Carthage College.

His conclusion is that what really killed the Amiga was that the CPU price reductions which defined the x86 world at that time never came to 68k or PowerPC lines, and that along with the ...

The Amiga computer was a legend in its time. Back when the Macintosh had only a monochrome 9-inch screen, and the PC managed just four colors and monotone beeps, the Amiga boasted a 32-bit ...

Amiga: 25 Years Later Let's hear it for the greatest cult computer of them all, which debuted a quarter-century ago today.

The Amiga turns 30—“Nobody had ever designed a personal computer this way” Our epic, eight-part series on the history of the Amiga.

Sure, you remember the Amiga. It was in with those home computers of the ’80s, like the Commodore and the Atari, battling for market dominance until they all were swept away by the PC. Except… ...

For the first time in many moons, there`s excitement brewing in the personal computer field. Commodore`s much anticipated Amiga has been unveiled and it really is a beauty. Reasonably priced (at ...

Nearly three decades after its initial introduction, the Amiga personal computer has been given a makeover with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies.

Hoffman's song for DiskFight starts slow and builds to match the rising intensity of the game. The tune in question, called Disk Menace, is an Amiga-generated drum and bass song that does get quite ...

Amiga survived for a time as a subsidiary of German computer seller Escom, another parent company that faltered financially. Gateway bought Amiga in 1997.

Market Andy Warhol’s Computer Portrait of Debbie Harry Goes on Sale for a Cool $26 Million The sale includes a Warhol-signed diskette containing 10 images the Pop artist created on an Amiga ...

In the mid 1980s, there was a rash of 16-bit computers entering the market. One of them stood head and shoulders above the rest: Commodore’s Amiga 1000. It had everything that could reasonably ...