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How much did an Amiga cost?
Amiga
| The 1987 Amiga 500 was the best-selling model. | |
|---|---|
| Introductory price | Amiga 1000: US$1,295 (equivalent to $3,120 in 2020) Monitor: US$300 (equivalent to $720 in 2020) |
| Discontinued | 1996 (Amiga 1200 & 4000T) |
| Operating system | AmigaOS on Kickstart |
| CPU | Motorola 680×0 @ ≈7 MHz & higher |
How many Amiga 500s were sold?
Breakdown of world-wide statistics according to country
| Amiga CD32 | 25,000 |
|---|---|
| Amiga CDTV | 25,800 |
| Amiga 500 | 1,081,000 |
| Amiga 500+ | 79,500 |
| Amiga 600 | 193,000 |
Does Amiga mean in Spanish?
friend
Amiga is the Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan and Catalan word for “friend” in the feminine, or “female friend”.
Is the Amiga 500 the same as the Amiga 1000?
The earliest Amiga 500 models use nearly the same Original Amiga chipset as the Amiga 1000. So graphics can be displayed in multiple resolutions and color depths, even on the same screen.
What kind of chipset did the Amiga Use?
Over its lifetime, the Amiga featured a number of chipsets, which gave the systems their unique capabilities. The OCS chipset arrived in the Amiga 1000 and cost-reduced Amiga 500, but the more capable AGA chipset was used in the Amiga 1200 and 4000 (there were some other iterations in between as well).
Are there any expansion slots for the Amiga 2000?
Despite the lack of Amiga 2000-compatible internal expansion slots, there are many ports and expansion options. There are two DE9M Atari joystick ports for joysticks or mice, stereo audio ( RCA connectors 1 V p-p ).
Are there any other versions of the Amiga?
A handful of other companies have released new Amiga-branded systems over the years, since the original purveyors of the Amiga failed. But these systems have been PowerPC-based (not Motorola 68K-based like the originals) and they ran different versions of AmigaOS.