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Amiga 1000 (PAL)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Configurations
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Categories
  12. History
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Game infos

Description Amiga 1000 (PAL)
Name a1000
Manufacturer Commodore
Year 1985
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players Non-arcade
Added to MAME .118
Romset size 0 B
Romset file files
Romset zip 0 B
Genre Computer

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 3

Driver infos

Driver status preliminary
Driver emulation preliminary
Driver color good
Driver sound good
Driver graphic imperfect
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no
keyboard no
mouse 0 255 100 5 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 724 567 49.890391 28375160 910 186 910 625 58 625

Configuration

name tag mask
Game Port 0 Device
Name Joystick
Value 16
Default no
Name Mouse
Value 0
Default yes

input
 16
Game Port 1 Device
Name Joystick
Value 32
Default yes
Name Mouse
Value 0
Default no

input
 32

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 252128-01.u4t 260 28209ff2 20c03b6b8e7254231f4b3014dc2c4d9274d469d2 dpalen 0 good no
arcade 252128-02.u6p 260 b928efd2 430794a544d9160e1b786e97e0dec5f25502a00a dpalcas 0 good no
arcade 252128-03.u4s 260 87747964 00d72ec707c582363525fde56176973c7327b1d7 daugen 0 good no
arcade 252128-04.u6n 260 f903adb4 4c8fb696fd1aaf9bb8c9efddeac24bb36f119c5f daugcas 0 good no
arcade 252179-01.u5n 4096 42553bc4 8855a97f7a44e3f62d1c88d938fee1f4c606af5b bootrom 0 good no
arcade 252180-01.u5p 4096 8e5b9a37 d10f1564b99f5ffe108fa042362e877f569de2c3 bootrom 1 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8364 Paula amiga audio 3546895
Floppy sound fdc:0:35dd:floppysound audio 44100
M6502 kbd:a500_us:ic1 cpu 1500000
M68000 maincpu cpu 7093790
MOS8520 cia_1 cpu 709379
Speaker fdc:0:35dd:flopsndout audio

Categories

History


Computer published 34 years ago:

Amiga 1000 (c) 1985 Commodore, Limited.

- TRIVIA -

The Commodore Amiga 1000 was the first in the Amiga line of personal computers released by Commodore International. Before the release of the Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 models in 1987, the A1000 was simply called Amiga.

Introduced on July 23, 1985 at the Lincoln Center in New York City, machines began shipping in September with a base configuration of 256 kB of RAM at the retail price of US$1,295. A 13-inch (330 mm) analog RGB monitor was available for around US$300, bringing the price of a complete Amiga system to 1,595 USD.

In the US, the A1000 was marketed as The Amiga from Commodore, though the Commodore logo was omitted from the case. Additionally, the Amiga 1000 was sold exclusively in computer stores rather than the various non computer-dedicated department and toy stores through which the VIC20 and Commodore 64 were retailed. These measures were an effort to avoid Commodore's toy-store computer image created during the Tramiel era.



The conceptor of the Amiga 1000 was Jay Miner, who created the Atari 800 many years before. He wanted to make the most powerful computer ever, then he joined a little California company called Amiga. He used the principle of the three coprocessors (again) to help the main processor. At the beginning, the Amiga had only 64 kilobytes of RAM!, Atari wanted to buy the Amiga but finally, Commodore succeeded to buy it (then there was a lawsuit, which Commodore won). It was meant to be a competitor to the Atari 520 ST.

The operating system was done by Metacomco, a British company who specialized in the 68000 processor (they also made languages for the Sinclair QL). It is a fully multitasking system which looks like UNIX with a graphical user interface. It was the very first personal computer with great graphics and sound capabilities with a GUI environment. Along with the operating system, the machine came bundled with a version of AmigaBASIC developed by Microsoft and a speech synthesis library developed by Softvoice, Inc.

The Amiga 1000 began to lose popularity one year later with the creation of its two main successors: the Amiga 500 and the Amiga 2000.

- STAFF -

Conceptor: Jay Miner

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