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Owing to the inexpensive cost of the Amiga 500 in then price-sensitive Europe, sales of the Amiga family of computers were strongest there, constituting 85 percent of Commodore's total sales in the fourth quarter of 1990. The Amiga 500 was widely perceived as a gaming machine and the Amiga 2000 a computer for artists and hobbyists. [38]
[1]: 58 The resulting game was another tremendous hit for the company and is now regarded as one of the greatest video game/film tie-ins. [12] The game was used as the basis of the Amiga 500 "Batman Pack", [1]: 58 which became one of the most successful hardware/software bundles of all time.
Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) [1] is an action video game developed and published by Ocean Software based on the 1989 film of the same name. It was released on 11 September 1989 [ 2 ] for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum with Amiga , Amstrad CPC , Atari ST , MS-DOS and MSX versions following soon after.
used the Amiga 1000 chipset 512 KB Chip RAM, 512 KB Fast RAM on CPU slot card Amiga 500: 1987–1991 68000 512 KB 1.2 – 1.3 3.1 / 3.2 First "low-end" Amiga; later A500s shipped with 1 MB memory Amiga 2000: 1987–1992 68000 1 MB: 1.2 – 2.04 3.9 / 3.2 revised expandable model with Amiga 500 chipset
This is a list of games for the Amiga line of personal computers organised alphabetically by name. See Lists of video games for related lists. This list has been split into multiple pages. It contains 2,235 games. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it. List of Amiga games A to H. List of Amiga games I to O. List of Amiga games P to Z
Great Valley Products is a former third-party Amiga hardware supplier. The company was known for CPU accelerators and SCSI host adapters for the Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 computer series. The company liquidated itself in July 1995. A new company known as GVP-M picked up the rights to the Amiga products.
The Amiga's native display is a planar display which is simple and efficient to manipulate for routines like scrolling or 2D composition. However, chunky displays are faster and more efficient for 3D graphics manipulation .
Instead of discontinuing the Amiga 500 and 500+, Commodore envisioned it taking the place of the Commodore 64 in the low-cost segment. To make that possible Commodore set out to design the Amiga 600, a system intended to be much cheaper than the Amiga 500. The Amiga 500 itself would be replaced by Amiga 1200, also under development.