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Amiga (other)
Amiga is the name of a series of personal computers. Amiga is the Portuguese language, Portuguese, Spanish language, Spanish, Occitan language, Occitan and Catalan language, Catalan word for "friend" in the feminine, or "female friend". The word may also refer to: Businesses and products * Amiga Corporation, the company that originally developed the Amiga personal computer ** AmigaOS, the operating system of the Amiga personal computer ** Commodore-Amiga, Inc., a subsidiary of Commodore International (both now defunct) that developed and marketed the Amiga personal computer ** Amiga Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of Escom (computer company), Escom (both now defunct) that was set up following their purchase of Commodore International in 1996 ** Amiga, Inc. (South Dakota), the original 1997 Gateway subsidiary named Amiga, Inc. (incorporated in the US state of South Dakota) ** Amiga, Inc., the company incorporated in the US state of Delaware ** Amiga 1000, the first Amiga computer, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga
Amiga is a family of personal computers introduced by Commodore in 1985. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16- or 32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems. This includes the Atari ST—released earlier the same year—as well as the Macintosh and Acorn Archimedes. Based on the Motorola 68000 microprocessor, the Amiga differs from its contemporaries through the inclusion of custom hardware to accelerate graphics and sound, including sprite (computer graphics), sprites and a blitter, and a pre-emptive multitasking operating system called AmigaOS. The Amiga 1000 was released in July 1985, but production problems kept it from becoming widely available until early 1986. The best-selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 along with the more expandable Amiga 2000. The Amiga 3000 was introduced in 1990, followed by the Amiga 500 Plus, and Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga, Inc
Amiga, Inc. is a company that used to hold some trademarks and other assets associated with the Amiga personal computer (originally developed by Amiga Corporation). Early years In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari, Inc. staffers, set up another chip-set project under a new company in Santa Clara, called Hi-Toro (later renamed to Amiga Corporation), where they could have some creative freedom. Atari, Inc. went into contract with Amiga for licensed use of the chipset in a new high end game console and then later for use in a computer system. $500,000 was advanced to Amiga to continue development of the chipset. Amiga negotiated with Commodore International two weeks prior to the contract deadline of 30 June 1984. In August 1984, Atari Corporation, under Jack Tramiel, sued Amiga for breach of contract. The case was settled in 1987 in a closed settlement. (See "Amiga Corporation".) In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Esc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amigo (other)
Amigo(s) (Portuguese and Spanish for ''male friend'') may refer to: People * Carlos Amigo Vallejo (born 1934), Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop emeritus of Seville Places Facilities * Amigos School, a bilingual primary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. * Los Amigos Biological Station, a research station in Peru * Los Amigos High School, Fountain Valley, California, U.S. Other places * Amigo, West Virginia, U.S., an unincorporated community * Los Amigos River, a river in Peru Businesses and products * Amigo (restaurant), a Hong Kong restaurant * Amigo Comics, a Spanish comic book publisher * Amigo Energy, an American retail electricity provider * Amigo Holdings, a British lender * Amigo Spiele, a German board and card game publisher * Amigo Supermarkets, a chain of supermarkets in Puerto Rico * Amigos Creations, an Indian film production company * Amigos Library Services, an American company * Isuzu Amigo, a compact SUV * IGO amigo, a version of the navigation softwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga (album)
''Amiga'' ( en, Female friend or en, Girl friend) is the third solo studio album by Chilean Latin alternative singer Álex Anwandter. It was released through Nacional Records on April 8, 2016. The album peaked at number eighteen on the United States ''Billboard'' Latin Pop Albums chart; his first entry on a national music chart. It won the Pulsar Award for Album of the Year. Background The lead single "Siempre Es Viernes En Mi Corazón" was released on January 27, 2016. Judy Cantor-Navas of ''Billboard'' called Anwandter's songs as being a combination of "a feeling of almost giddy abandon with sobering social themes." She called the song as being a "dual spirit" to his 2011 single " Cómo Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo", which became a gay anthem for young LGBT people who faced discrimination in his home country of Chile. In a ''Billboard'' interview, Anwandter explained that the track drew inspiration from alienation: "the product of non-stop work and living in what is sometimes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga (butterfly)
''Amiga'' is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae erected by Shinichi Nakahara, Keith R. Willmott and Marianne Espeland in 2019. ''Amiga arnaca'', formerly of the genus '' Chloreuptychia'', is the only species in the genus ''Amiga''. In 2019, Nakahara et al. described this new genus after molecular phylogenetic research showed it was not closely related to the other species of ''Chloreuptychia''. ''Amiga arnaca'' is found from southern Mexico through most of Central and South America to southern Brazil, and is common in rain and cloud forests. The larvae feed on grasses, including ''Eleusine'', ''Ichnanthus'', '' Lasiacis'', ''Oplismenus'', and ''Paspalum ''Paspalum'' is a genus of plants in the grass family. The group is widespread across much of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas. Commonly known as paspalum, bahiagrasses, crowngrasses or dallis grasses, many of the species are tall pere ...''. Subspecies * ''Amiga arnaca adela'' Nakahara & Espeland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coral Amiga
Coral Amiga is an English actress and screenwriter born in London. She is best known for her portrayal of Vorena the Elder, in the television series ''Rome''. After attending The American School in London, she went on to receive a bachelor's degree at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. The miniseries ''Southcliffe'', in which she played the role of Mattie, was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2014. In 2020 Amiga wrote and starred in a short horror thriller, ''MJ'', directed by Jamie Delaney which was screened at the Fantasia International Film Festival, the London Short Film Festival, and the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Also in 2020 Amiga and Nicole Hartley wrote, and starred in, a short film called ''Bored'' that was directed by Georgia Oakley. It was a TV pilot that was selected for the 2020 SXSW Festival, until the festival was cancelled, but did continue to receive positive reviews from critics including going on to win the Best Series at the London Short Seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga (record Label)
Amiga is a popular music record label in Germany. Once an organ of the East German state-owned music publisher VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, Amiga became a label of the Bertelsmann Music Group in 1994. In 1947, actor and singer Ernst Busch got permission from the Soviet Military Administration in Germany to create a music publishing house, which was named Lied der Zeit GmbH ("Song of the Times"). This publishing company included the label Amiga. In the 1950s, Lied der Zeit became VEB Deutsche Schallplatten ("German Records"), a state-owned company with a monopoly on record production. VEB Deutsche Schallplatten had a number of labels, each with a different purview; Amiga releases included folk, jazz, pop, rock, Schlager music, chanson, and children's music. After the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic, most of the former East German public state enterprises were dismantled or sold to private investors. The Amiga label and catalog were acquired by Bertelsmann Music Gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amiga 1000
The Commodore Amiga 1000, also known as the A1000, is the first personal computer released by Commodore International in the Amiga line. It combines the 16/32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU which was powerful by 1985 standards with one of the most advanced graphics and sound systems in its class. It runs a preemptive multitasking operating system that fits into of read-only memory and was shipped with 256 KB of RAM. The primary memory can be expanded internally with a manufacturer-supplied 256 KB module for a total of 512 KB of RAM. Using the external slot the primary memory can be expanded up to Design The A1000 has a number of characteristics that distinguish it from later Amiga models: It is the only model to feature the short-lived Amiga check-mark logo on its case, the majority of the case is elevated slightly to give a storage area for the keyboard when not in use (a "keyboard garage"), and the inside of the case is engraved with the signatures of the Amiga de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escom (computer Company)
Escom AG (stylized in uppercase; previously Schmitt Computer Systems) was a German computer company, best known in Germany, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States as the successful purchaser of Commodore International and the Amiga trademarks in 1995. Escom was founded by Manfred Schmitt of Darmstadt, Germany as the computer division of his music company in 1986. It became a separate company in 1991. In 1993, it became a publicly traded company, and it grew rapidly, controlling 11.2% of the market of German PCs by 1994. During 1992 and 1993, a British operation was set up with a distribution and assembly base in Irvine, North Ayrshire and a small number of retail stores. These followed the model established in Germany, with small town centre shops which would customise PCs to order, rather than the out of town superstores and mail order businesses which dominated the market in the United Kingdom. In February 1995, Escom's retail presence on the high streets of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commodore International
Commodore International (other names include Commodore International Limited) was an American home computer and electronics manufacturer founded by Jack Tramiel. Commodore International (CI), along with its subsidiary Commodore Business Machines (CBM), was a significant participant in the development of the home personal computer industry in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The company developed and marketed the world's best-selling computer, the Commodore 64 (1982), and released its Amiga computer line in July 1985. With quarterly sales ending 1983 of $ (equivalent to $ in ), Commodore was one of the world's largest personal computer manufacturers. History Founding and early years Commodore co-founders Jack Tramiel and Manfred Kapp met in the early 1950s while both employed by the Ace Typewriter Repair Company in New York City. In 1954, they formed a partnership to sell used and reconditioned typewriters and used their profits to purchase the Singer Typewriter Company. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AmigaOS
AmigaOS is a family of proprietary native operating systems of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. It was developed first by Commodore International and introduced with the launch of the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. Early versions of AmigaOS required the Motorola 68000 series of 16-bit and 32-bit microprocessors. Later versions were developed by Haage & Partner (AmigaOS 3.5 and 3.9) and then Hyperion Entertainment (AmigaOS 4.0-4.1). A PowerPC microprocessor is required for the most recent release, AmigaOS 4. AmigaOS is a single-user operating system based on a preemptive multitasking kernel, called Exec. It includes an abstraction of the Amiga's hardware, a disk operating system called '' AmigaDOS'', a windowing system API called ''Intuition'', and a desktop environment and file manager called ''Workbench''. The Amiga intellectual property is fragmented between Amiga Inc., Cloanto, and Hyperion Entertainment. The copyrights for works created up to 1993 are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
