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The Amiga 500, also known as the A500, was the first popular version of the Amiga home computer, "redefining the home computer market and making so-called luxury features such as multitasking and colour a standard long before Microsoft or Apple sold these to the masses."
The majority of CD32 game software were ports of existing Amiga 1200 or Amiga 500 titles, and many did not take advantage of CD capabilities like CD music or full-motion video. [2] While it had sold middingly in European markets, the console was withdrawn from sale after only a short time as Commodore filed for bankruptcy in April 1994.
First desktop Amiga with internal expansion slots 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
Also introduced for the Amiga were two products, A-Max (both internal and external models) and the Emplant expansion card. Both allowed the Amiga to emulate an Apple Macintosh and run the classic Mac OS. It required an Apple Macintosh ROM image, or actual ROMs in the case of A-Max, which needed to be obtained from a real Macintosh.
Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-bit or 16/32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems.
The Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Includes and Autodocs, published by Addison Wesley (1991), ISBN 0-201-56773-3; The Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries, published by Addison Wesley, (1991), ISBN 0-201-56774-1; The Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Devices (3rd ed.), published by Addison Wesley (1991), ISBN 0-201-56775-X
The Kickstart ROM is not a custom chip but a mask-programmed ROM chip for most versions. It contains the largest part of the operating system . Kickstart 1.x ROMs have a capacity of 256 KiB , Kickstart 2.x and 3.x contain 512 KiB. 32-bit Amigas use a pair of 16-bit chips to provide full-width access.
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