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| | Amiga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Amiga is a family of home/personal computers originally developed by Amiga Corporation as an advanced game console. | | | For its time, the Amiga was quite an advanced computer for the home market. | | | The first model, called the Amiga 1000, was released in 1985 as a successor to the Commodore 64 and a rival to the Atari ST. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga
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| | Amiga games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Commodore Amiga was an important platform for computer games in the late 1980s and early 1990s. | | | From the Amiga's introduction in late 1985, through to the early 1990s, Amiga games were developed in parallel with the Atari ST as both machines utilized the Motorola 68000 CPU. | | | The Amiga gaming scene was responsible for the rapid growth of small gaming companies including Electronic Arts who were contracted by Commodore International to produce the Amiga's standard file format IFF in 1985. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_games
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| | Amiga Computer Encyclopedia Enterprise Resource Directory Complete Guide to Internet |
| | The Amiga was originally called the Lorraine, and was developed by a company named "Amiga" or "Amiga, Inc.", funded by some doctors to produce a killer game machine. | | | By the end of 2000, Amiga development was under the control of a [new?] company called {Amiga, Inc.}. | | | With the introduction of the {Amiga A600} "Gary" was replaced with "Gayle" (though the chipset was still called ECS). |
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http://www.jaysir.com/computer-encyclopedia/a/amiga-computer-terms.htm
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| | History of the AMIGA |
| | The computer was named 'Amiga', which is Spanish for girlfriend. | | | In 1992, it was released to the public as the Amiga 4000. | | | The new Amiga OS3.5 was released at the end of 1999. |
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http://www.heartbone.com/comphist/AmigaHistory.htm
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| | Amiga Web Directory |
| | The Amiga Web Directory was a free service of the Champaign-Urbana Computer Users Group. | | | Vulcan Software Limited - Publisher/developer for the Amiga in The UK. | | | Pernat Hard and Software - Amiga shop in Germany near Stuttgart offering new and used Amiga hardware and software. |
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http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html
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| | OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum |
| | The Amiga 1000 was to lose popularity one year later with the creation of its two main successors: the Amiga 500 and the Amiga 2000. | | | The original "Amiga" called the Lorraine was meant to be a game machine with some computer capabilities. | | | Amiga Corp. then offered the technology to Commodore, Inc., who were quite pleased to purchase it, seeing that their own 16-bit computer was so far from reaching the shelf. |
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=28
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| | Define Amiga - a Whatis.com definition |
| | Since Amiga was designed as a special-purpose system, AmigaOS, which is written in C and assembler language, is especially compact. | | | Amiga is a personal computer designed especially for high-resolution, fast response graphics and multimedia applications, especially games. | | | The Amiga supports Plug and Play and can be adapted with software to emulate Windows and Mac OS. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211557,00.html
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| | UAE - The UAE Amiga Emulator |
| | The UAE Amiga Emulator is brought to you by Bernd Schmidt. | | | Cloanto Software has licensed the Amiga operating system for distribution together with Amiga emulations. | | | Officially licensed Amiga ROM and OS files are available both for download and on CD-ROM as part of Cloanto's Amiga Forever package, which includes Kickstart files up to v3.1 (the latest version). |
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http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae
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| | Commodore Amiga 1000 computer |
| | The Amiga was originally designed to be a killer game machine, but it was so great that it grew into a real computer. | | | Introduced in July 1985, the Amiga 1000 was created in part by Jay Miner, who previously designed the Atari 400 and Atari 800. | | | The Amiga 1000 was a quantum leap above any other system out at the time, as it included a 32bit pre-emptive multi-tasking GUI (Graphic User Interface), 4 channel stereo sound, 880k 3-1/2 inch floppy disks, and video modes which provided up to 4096 colors at once. |
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http://oldcomputers.net/amiga1000.html
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| | Dear Amiga Inc., Could I Make a Few Suggestions? - OSNews.com |
| | Amiga, Inc needs to remember that the existing Amiga OS is what has kept the user base for this long, not the promise of a new future OS. | | | He is a Mac and Amiga fan, and would like to see Amiga become more of a factor in the computer industry. | | | Although the Amiga OS still has advantages, it is getting harder for Amiga users to justify staying with the Amiga. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=903
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| | The Zen of Amiga |
| | An Amiga wasn't my first computer, but it was the first one I had and used that showed me what computers could do. | | | Where the Amiga could once truly claim to be king amongst home computers - in analog video and 3D rendering - is now dominated by the likes of Maya, and by digital video, a new generation of amateur directors inspired by iMovie (or Final Cut for the more adventurous). | | | Amiga's "Search" search's for text or files, while Unix's "grep" doesn't mean anything to a new user. |
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http://www.monkeyhouse.eclipse.co.uk/amiga/zen.htm
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| | :: Computers :: Systems :: Amiga |
| | The Amiga system was introduced in 1985 by Commodore Bussiness Machines. | | | It is an attempt to give the Amiga programmer and user an overview of useful books for his/her favorite computer. | | | Made On Amiga - Searchable directory of individually reviewed and categorised web-sites made on Amiga computers. |
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http://www.localadsearch.com/Computers/Systems/Amiga
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| | NetBSD/amiga |
| | NetBSD/amiga is the port of NetBSD to the Amiga line of personal computers by Commodore and Amiga International, and to the DraCo by MacroSystem GmbH. | | | Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880kB/1760kB) and IBM (720kB/1440 kB) block encoding. | | | ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas. |
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http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/amiga
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| | Amiga Forever - Online Edition |
| | After installation, the Amiga ROM and OS files, including the preinstalled Amiga applications, can be used by other operating systems as well (e.g. | | | The Online Edition of Amiga Forever is our answer to PC users and Amiga enthusiasts who are looking for a quick and easy way to download "Amiga Kickstart ROM" files and run an officially-licensed Amiga emulation. | | | If you are a past Amiga owner we are sure that you will love seeing again an Amiga booting, the Workbench look and feel (choose between 1.3 and 3.X environments), original demos like the bouncing Boing ball, dozens of award-winning software packages and other add-ons. |
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http://www.amigaforever.com/online
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| | A Closer Look at the New Amiga Systems - OSNews.com |
| | The wait for an entirely new Amiga computer is almost over. | | | The original Amiga computer (mpg video link), since its release in 1985, was extremely innovating and revolutionary in many different regards. | | | This advanced chipset made the Amiga the first home computer to be able to show photorealistic pictures with up to 4096 colors simultaniously back in 1985. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=1356
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| | Total Amiga Magazine |
| | Total Amiga is an A4 printed Amiga magazine published by the enthusiastic Amiga users at South Essex Amiga Link. | | | Total Amiga is a non-profit publication and all the contributors and everyone who works on it gives their time for free as a service to the Amiga community. | | | Total Amiga is produced entirely on the Amiga using PageStream 4 and a variety of other software. |
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http://www.totalamiga.org
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| | The Amiga computer was a machine ahead of its time. | | | However, the lack of a new Amiga computer hurt the platform greatly. | | | Bundled with this hardware was Lightwave, a 3D modeling and rendering program that was used to make the pilot and first season of Babylon 5 (in the remaining seasons, they continued to use Lightwave, but this time on Alpha and Intel computers). |
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http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/amiga.ars
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| | Commodore Amiga 500 |
| | The best source for Amiga software is at Aminet. | | | Amigas are capable of surfing the net, and since they can read other systems' disks, it's not that hard to get them set up for it. | | | The Amiga OS let you do a sort of symbolic link that would allow you to run software designed for floppies off the hard drive. |
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http://obsoletecomputermuseum.org/amiga500
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| | VaporWare - AmIRC Product Information |
| | For IRCing on the Amiga, AmIRC should be your number one choice. | | | If you use it, please register the software and help support Amiga software development. | | | AmIRC was the first VaporWare application to be shown to the Amiga world. |
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http://www.vapor.com/products?prod=amirc
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| | Amiga Forever Home Page - Amiga Emulation, OS, Connectivity, History and Support |
| | The Amiga computer, launched by Commodore in 1985, combined superior multimedia technology with ease of use, inspiring millions of the most creative and enthusiastic computer users ever. | | | Among others, this makes it possible to run thousands of Amiga games and demos which are available for free download from software publishers and Amiga preservation sites alike. | | | Amiga Forever is the award-winning suite of "Classic" Amiga emulation, operating system, connectivity, history and support solutions since 1997. |
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http://www.amigaforever.com
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| | Wired News: Back? The Amiga Never Left |
| | Until the wholly new Amiga OS and hardware architecture is completed, the company plans to provide developers (and maybe consumers) with a "bridge" system by this fall that will be based on conventional Intel processors including the Pentium. | | | The Amiga Web Directory is one site rich with evidence of a platform far from its deathbed: Companies offering hard-to-find Amiga books, CDs made by Amiga-using composers, German vendors of Amiga CD-ROM software, Amiga-oriented Internet service providers, software and hardware dealers in the Netherlands, Belgium, Perth, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Finland, and Moscow. | | | The Amiga's platform is a model of efficiency. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,12386,00.html
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| | Amiga Inform - Latest Ported Version |
| | This Amiga port of Inform was prepared by Richard H. Poser II. | | | Shell interface should operate on any version of Amiga. | | | Includes improved error and Amiga memory handling routines. |
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http://www.missingpiece.com/inform/amiga.html
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| | The Amiga Operating System |
| | In 2001, Amiga, Inc. licensed the development of AmigaOS 4.0 to AmigaOne Partners, collectively Hyperion VOF and Eyetech Group Ltd. Now scheduled for commercial release in early 2005, AmigaOS 4.0 moves the Amiga Operating System to the modern Power PC chips enabling the easy use of off-the-shelf components from third party vendors. | | | Please note, the development of future versions of the Amiga Operating System is not available for third party development or distribution. | | | The "Classic Amiga Operating System" known as AmigaOS originally targeted the desktop computing market. |
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http://www.amiga.com/amigaos
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| | AMI Sector One - News |
| | My attempts to persuade the software firms to make their Amiga software available for free were not very successful. | | | AMI Sector One's only goal is to provide the Amiga emulator fan with the stuff he or she needs legally. | | | Also together we see more chances to convince even more software companies to allow us to distribute their Amiga software in a free and legal way. |
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http://amiga.emucamp.com
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| | Sacramento Amiga Computer Club Home Page |
| | Merlancia Industries is an authorized Amiga Technologies distributor and an Amiga development firm. | | | We also attend all possible Amiga Computer Shows, as well as many general computer shows. | | | We specialize in CD ROM software (but also have some floppy based software) for the only truly Personal Computer, the Amiga. |
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http://www.sacc.org/links.html
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| | Amiga Power User - David Ferguson |
| | Amiga OS 4.0 development CDs are headed for developers for the new Amiga-One G3/G4 computer systems. | | | Amiga and Amiga logos are tradmarks of and copyrighted by Amiga, Inc. | | | Amiga Inc. has announced the release of the new Amiga OS 3.9 for its classic line of computers. |
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http://sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu/~badwf/homepage.html
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| | Amigaworld.net - Amiga Community Portal |
| | LhA is a powerful archiver for the Amiga computer. | | | It is also compatible with LhArcA, LZ and LhArc for the Amiga. | | | AMIGA and its logos are registered trademarks of Amiga Inc. |
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http://amigaworld.net
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| | Chronology of Amiga Computers |
| | The first issue of Amazing Computing for users of the Commodore Amiga is published. | | | Commodore unveils the new Amiga 1000 in New York. | | | Commodore previews the Amiga computer at the SIGGRAPH conference in San Francisco. |
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http://www.islandnet.com/~kpolsson/amigahis
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| | LinxNet Amiga - Fast access to the BEST of Amiga. |
| | Amiga Showcase A Place to Display Your Computer Generated Graphics. | | | Amiga Energy Produced on Amiga Systems by Amiga Fans. | | | Northwest Amiga Journal Publication by the Northwest Amiga Group. |
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http://www.linxnet.com/amiga.html
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| | I-Amiga Mailing List |
| | Keep any discussion relevant to the Amiga or topics of general interest to Amiga users please. | | | There have been several instances of a topic that has no relevance to the Amiga blowing up between 3 or 4 people that is of no possible interest to the majority. | | | This page is to present an international mailing list where almost 300 people are already subscribed and discussing all its aspects, from hardware to software, from the past to the future. |
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http://www.i-amiga.org.uk
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| | Amiga Source |
| | I am not trying to post pirated or illegal software but software that you cannot purchase anymore from Amiga, Inc. I am a long time fan of the Amiga and as an owner of two Amiga 1000s and one Amiga 2000, it was very hard to find drivers and system software for my computers. | | | An Amiga port (OS 4) of MagicEngine may be possible too, we are thinking to that at the moment. | | | Now I am not faulting Amiga, Inc. for not supporting these machines because they are very old however I also think Amiga, Inc. should allow drivers and original system disks (Kickstart/Workbench 1.0 to Kickstart/Workbench 1.2) to be freely copied since they are really no use to Amiga, Inc. anymore. |
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http://cciinter.net/users/amigasource/ml/41.htm
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| | Wired News: Amiga Back From the Dead Again |
| | Over the years, the Amiga name and technology was passed from Commodore, which went bust, to Escom, which also went out of business, to Gateway, which late last year sold it to a cadre of Amiga fans headed up by former Gateway marketing executives Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss. | | | On April 1, at Amiga 2000, a developer's show in St. Louis, Amiga's new owners will unveil a new developers' machine, according to company officials, who acquired the platform rights from Gateway last year. | | | For the umpteenth time in its nearly two-decade long history, the beloved Amiga computer will once again be resurrected. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,34922,00.html
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| | Salon 21st The church of Amiga |
| | Browsing through the software racks and glancing at the aging Amiga 500 and Amiga 1000 machines running demos at the AmiWest conference earlier this month in Sacramento, I felt as if I'd entered a parallel universe where software development stopped in the early '90s. | | | If you're not already part of the Amiga flock, entering the cramped exhibition hall at an Amiga convention can be profoundly disorienting. | | | But Amiga users never receive reassurances like these. |
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http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/07/23feature.html
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| | NewsReaders.com: Amiga newsreaders |
| | Tin: the Amiga version was ported/compiled by Oliver B. Warzecha. | | | New York II: online/offline newsreader by Finale Development, Inc. (for the amiga). | | | AWeb: a Amiga browser with integrated mail and news readers by Amitrix. |
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http://www.newsreaders.com/amiga/clients.html
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| | AmigaZone Home Page |
| | Twenty years ago The Amiga computer was introduced with much fanfare at Lincoln Center. | | | We offer the best support possible for your Amiga computer needs. | | | The AmigaZone, operating since 1985, is an online resource, community and oasis for Amiga ® computer owners, users and lovers, world-wide. |
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http://www.amigazone.com
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| | Amiga Report Magazine |
| | Amiga enthusiasts the world over have come to depend on this independant, non-profit publication for the latest Amiga news, product reviews and information. | | | Amiga Report Magazine has become the de facto standard for online Amiga journalism. | | | Please note that CUCUG no longer hosts Amiga Report. |
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http://www.cucug.org/ar/ar.html
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| | The Amiga Monitor |
| | The Amiga Monitor, one of the most successful and prestigious online magazines published during the history of the Amiga personal computer platform to date, is currently not being published. | | | In the meantime, archives of all the issues should still be available on Aminet in the "docs/mags" directory (all names beginning with "am"), and as of this writing, The Amiga Monitor is available in online-readable format on the Amiga Web Directory on their Amiga Monitor page. | | | Although it may be over forever, we're proud of our two-year run, and intend to continue to exist as part of the legacy buried and etched indelibly in the archives of Amiga's history. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MikeWebb/amhome.html
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| | Amiga Software |
| | It's not that the world of the Amiga has been lacking anything newsworthy, just that it has been good to take a rest from all the confusion and flaming that seems to hang around in the Amiga community. | | | Gateway were owners of the Amiga and we were in the aftermath of the whole | | | It's been a while since I last attended a World of Amiga show. |
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http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/amiga
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| | AROS: Amiga® Research Operating System |
| | With AFA, the host Amiga OS is degraded to do things that MS-DOS was doing for Windows 3.11-WinMe. | | | After some time of testing, a new snapshot of the Amiga Research Operating System has been released, based on Feb. 7 nightly build. | | | First of all, AROS has finally got a new, faster and smarter file system: Michal Schulz has ported SFS to the Amiga Research Operating System, so opening and saving lots of files won't take ages anymore, but just few seconds. |
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http://www.aros.org
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| | Amiga Guide |
| | The aim of this site is to provide help to those emulating the Amiga on the PC. | | | This looks like it could be the future of Amiga emulation! | | | A forum section - this is something that is lacking in the current batch of Amiga sites. |
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http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~colina/Amiga.htm
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| | Amiga Nutta - Index Page |
| | The Future of Amiga Nutta & More importantly, the Amiga..... | | | Well, the future of the Amiga is in doubt more then it has been for a long time now, that you all know. | | | Simon the Sourcerer 2 Coming to the Amiga at Last... |
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http://www.nutts.demon.co.uk
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| | Amiga History Guide |
| | [ Amiga History.co.uk ] [ Amiga University ] | | | This site examines a kaleidoscope of topics, ranging from Amiga Inc's early foray into joysticks, to the latest offerings in cross-platform Amiga solutions. | | | Amiga is a registered Trademark of Amiga Inc. |
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http://www.amigahistory.co.uk
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| | OpenBSD/amiga |
| | If you are interested in reviving the amiga port, make it work and contact Niklas Hallqvist. | | | OpenBSD/amiga runs on the Amiga machines manufactured by Commodore. | | | ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various amigas |
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http://www.openbsd.org/amiga.html
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| | Amiga University - Home Page |
| | Images not created by Amiga University are copyright their respective creators and only used for directional links |
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| | Amiga Source |
| | Made on Amiga was created in 1997 with one signle aim - to promote the Amiga on the internet as a viable alternative to the IBM/Intel/Windows compatible PC through promotion of websites created on the machine. | | | I live in Sioux City, Iowa USA, I have an Amiga 2000 (060) and an Amiga 1200 (060) computer and belong to SMAUG (Siouxland Metro Amiga Users Group). | | | De AmigaScene is het Nederlandstalige computerblad voor de Amiga computer. |
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http://cciinter.net/users/amigasource/ml/21.htm
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| | Amiga.org - News |
| | On the Amiga Future Homepage you can read now the old issue 11-14 from the german mag, too. | | | Magazines : Amiga Future Issue 59 (March/April 2006) out | | | Magazines : The Italian Amiga Magazine archives are On-line! |
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http://www.amiga.org/modules/news
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| | Amiga - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Amiga |
| | Despite a failure to sell to the general business market, the latest versions of the Amiga were widely used in the film and video industries, where the Amiga's specialized graphics capabilities were used to create a variety of visual effects. | | | Microcomputer produced by US company Commodore in 1985 to succeed the Commodore C64 home computer. | | | The original Amiga was based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and achieved significant success in the domestic market. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Amiga
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| | AMIGAGAMES.COM - News |
| | Unfortunately during the process (progress) the Golden Amiga Games Encyclopaedia was not completely accessible for several hours, but now it's alright! | | | A few months later than intended a new pack of colourful GameIcons is now available for the Amiga Gamers Community. | | | With this near winter update more bits and bytes have been intoxicated just before they hibernate. |
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http://www.amigagames.com
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