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Commodore's 1985 follow-on to the [[Commodore 64]], the [[wikipedia:Amiga|Amiga]] was one of the first true "multimedia PCs", and featured several technologies that were years ahead of their time (including the 16/32-bit central processor). [[Executive Meddling]] and [[Misaimed Marketing]] kept the system from selling well in the USA, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|but elsewhere, the Amiga was far more popular]] and has a cult following to this day. (And when we say "cult", we mean it-Amigans are far more faithful to their platform than [[Macintosh]] fans, which is saying something after all it's been through.) At the time, its primary competition was the [[Atari ST]].
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Commodore eventually failed in 1994, and the Amiga, supported by fans, moved from company to company until settling down in 2000. AmigaOS was ported to the PowerPC and was sold on new hardware called the AmigaOne for a time in the early 2000s. AmigaOne is now planning to sell a new computer, the [[wikipedia:AmigaOne X1000|AmigaOne X1000]]
The revived [https://web.archive.org/web/20110807072548/http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx Commodore USA] is also planning to release modernized versions of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130121014045/http://www.commodoreusa.net//CUSA_Amiga.aspx Amiga 1000, 2000, and 3000] (with Intel CPUs, so they can run [[Microsoft Windows]] as well as Commodore's own OS).
== The Amiga Family ==
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