Commodore Amiga
System Specifications
| CPU: | Motorola 68000 |
| Memory: | 512K – 1MB (A500) |
| Operating System: | AmigaDOS |
| Input/Output: | Built-in keyboard and floppy disk drive; composite video output (monochrome only); color RGB monitor output; stereo sound output; bus expansion connector |
| Resolution: | Various, up to 4096 colors |
| Operating System: | WorkBench |
| Popular Utilities: | Deluxe Paint & Anim, CLIMate, Powerpacker, ProWrite, Pen Pal, Video Toaster, Sound Tracker. |
Brief History
The first Amiga was the Amiga 1000, released in 1990. It was a desktop case with 1Mb of RAM and a floppy disk drive. It was followed a few years later by a streamlined version – the Amiga 500. The 500 came standard with 512k but could be expanded to 1Mb. It was priced significantly cheaper and sold like hot-cakes.
As its popularity grew, it became home to a growing legion of pirates, primarily based in Europe, with world-wide cracking networks. This period also saw the birth of the demo scene, what started off as programming prowess squeezed into a disk’s boot-block became a fully fledged media form.
The Amiga was one of the greatest gaming platforms ever. Sure, the GUI and the multi-tasking were nice but the machine was primarily used for games.
Favourites are always subjective but there were some truly memorable moments when 16 bit gaming came into being:
| Title | Year | Genre | Developer |
| Alien Breed | 1992 | Shooter | Team 17 |
| Another World | 1991 | Adventure | Delphine Software |
| Barbarian | 1988 | Beat-em Up | Palace Software |
| Battle Squadron | 1990 | Shooter | Innerprise |
| Blood Money | 1989 | Shooter | DMA Design |
| Cadaver | 1990 | Adventure | Bitmap Brothers |
| Cannon Fodder | 1993 | Strategy | Sensible Software |
| Carrier Command | 1988 | Strategy | |
| Defender of the Crown | 1986 | Strategy | Cinemaware |
| Exile | 1991 | Adventure | |
| FA/18 Interceptor | 1987 | Simulator | |
| Faery Tale Adventure | 1988 | Role-Playing Game | |
| Flashback | 1993 | Adventure | Delphine Software |
| Flood | 1990 | Platform | Bullfrog |
| Gods | 1991 | Platform | Bitmap Brothers |
| Grand Prix | 1992 | Driving | Geoff Crammond |
| Great Giana Sisters | 1987 | Platform | |
| International Karate + | 1988 | Beat-em Up | Archer Maclean |
| It Came From The Desert | 1989 | Strategy | Cinemaware |
| Lemmings | 1991 | Puzzle | DMA Design |
| Lotus Turbo Challenge | 1990 | Driving | Magnetic Fields |
| Marble Madness | 1986 | Puzzle | Atari |
| Megalomania | 1992 | Strategy | Sensible Software |
| North & South | 1989 | Strategy | Infogrames |
| Obliterator | 1988 | Platform | Psygnosis |
| Paradroid 90 | 1990 | Shooter | Andrew Braybrooke |
| Pinball Dreams | 1992 | Pinball | 21st Century |
| Populous | 1988 | Strategy | Bullfrog |
| Powermonger | 1990 | Strategy | Bullfrog |
| Project X | 1992 | Shooter | Team 17 |
| Rainbow Islands | 1990 | Platform | Graftgold |
| Rick Dangerous | 1989 | Platform | |
| Silkworm | 1988 | Shooter | Sales Curve |
| Skidmarks | 1989 | Driving | Acid Software |
| Speedball | 1988 | Sport | Bitmap Brothers |
| Speedball 2 | 1992 | Sport | Bitmap Brothers |
| Street Rod | 1989 | Driving | California Dreams |
| Stunt Car Racer | 1989 | Driving | Geoff Crammond |
| Supercars 2 | 1991 | Driving | Magnetic Fields |
| Turrican | 1990 | Platform | Factor 5 |
| Virus | 1988 | Shooter | David Braben |
| Wings | 1991 | Simulator | Cinemaware |
| Wizball | 1987 | Shooter | Sensible Software |
| Xenon 2 | 1989 | Shooter | Bitmap Brothers |