This is a list of models and clones of

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore International, 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-b ...

computers.

Development

The first Amiga computer was the "Lorraine" by

Amiga Corporation Amiga Corporation was a United States computer company formed in the early 1980s as Hi-Toro. It is most famous for having developed the Amiga computer, code named Lorraine. History 1982 In the early 1980s Jay Miner, along with other Atari sta ...

in 1984, developed using the Sage IV system. It consisted of a stack of

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ed circuit boards.

Commodore International Commodore International Corporation was a home computer and electronics manufacturer with its head office in The Bahamas and its executive office in the United States founded in 1976 by Jack Tramiel and Irving Gould. It was the successor compan ...

purchased the company and the prototype and released the first model,

Amiga 1000 The 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 grap ...

in 1985.

Production timeline

Commodore Amiga models

Original Chipset (OCS)

Enhanced Chipset (ECS)

Advanced Graphics Architecture Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) is the third-generation Amiga graphic chipset, first used in the Amiga 4000 in 1992. Before release AGA was codenamed Pandora by Commodore International. AGA was originally called AA for Advanced Archi ...
(AGA)

PowerPC-based AmigaOS models (post Commodore)

These models are not hardware compatible with the 68k Amigas.

Video chipsets

Unproduced chipsets

These chipsets were planned but never fabricated.

Other AmigaOS compatible computers

Some computers were released by other companies which were AmigaOS compatible. * DraCo: Released by MacroSystem in 1994. This was a high end machine which ran

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 ...

3.1, but did not include the Amiga chipset, instead using a graphics card. A second version was known as the Draco Vision. A newer model, th
Draco Casablanca
was released in 1997. The machines featured a

68040 The Motorola 68040 ("''sixty-eight-oh-forty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 series, released in 1990. It is the successor to the 68030 and is followed by the 68060, skipping the 68050. In keeping with general Motorola ...

68060 The Motorola 68060 ("''sixty-eight-oh-sixty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola released in April 1994. It is the successor to the Motorola 68040 and is the highest performing member of the 68000 series. The 68060 is the last developm ...

CPU.
The Access
Released by Index Information in 1998. This was an Amiga compatible similar to the A1200, but on a motherboard which could fit into a standard 5 1/4"

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. It featured either a

68020 The Motorola 68020 is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1984. A lower-cost version was also made available, known as the 68EC020. In keeping with naming practices common to Motorola designs, the 68020 is usually referred to as t ...

68030 The Motorola 68030 ("''sixty-eight-oh-thirty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 family. It was released in 1987. The 68030 was the successor to the Motorola 68020, and was followed by the Motorola 68040. In keeping with ge ...

CPU, with a redesigned AGA chipset, and ran

3.1. *

Minimig Minimig (a portmanteau of ''Mini Amiga'') is an open source re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Minimig started around January 2005 as a proof of concept by Dutch electrical engineer Dennis van Wee ...

is a hardware compatible

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re-implementation of an Amiga 500 using a field-programmable gate array (

FPGA A field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is a type of configurable integrated circuit that can be repeatedly programmed after manufacturing. FPGAs are a subset of logic devices referred to as programmable logic devices (PLDs). They consist of a ...

). * Vampire V4 Standalone, released by Apollo Team in 2019, provides ECS/AGA chipset re-implementation, plus "68080" CPU and "Super AGA" graphics, also using a field-programmable gate array (

). * The Pegasos II and

Sam440ep Sam440, also known by Sam or its codename Samantha, is a line of modular motherboards produced by the Italian company ACube Systems Srl. The Sam440ep version is a motherboard based on the PowerPC 440EP system-on-a-chip processor which includes a d ...

can run

AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4 (abbreviated as OS4 or AOS4) is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code developed by Commodore International, Commodore, and partially on version 3.9 develop ...

Unreleased models

Prototypes:
A3500
Prototype of the Amiga 3000T, it was housed in a Commodore PC60-III tower case. Due to management turmoil, some viable Amiga models under development were cancelled prior to release: * A3000+: Prototyped in 1991, it used the AGA chipset and had an AT&T DSP3210 chip, high-fidelity audio, telephone line interface, and 2.5 Mbit/s

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network port. * A1000+: Intermediate in price and features between the A1200 and A3000+, it would have been a detached keyboard system with expansion slots (two Zorro slots, video slot, CPU slot).

Unreleased models (after Commodore)

A number of new Amiga models were announced after the end of the Commodore model era. However, very few of them were ever produced beyond simple prototypes (if they even got that far). Some of these were announced by companies who later owned, or sought to own, the Amiga rights. Others were unofficial machines which would run

, whilst others still were intended to run an

operating system An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common daemon (computing), services for computer programs. Time-sharing operating systems scheduler (computing), schedule tasks for ...

compatible with Amiga software. Some models that were never produced include: * The Amiga Walker: Announced early 1996 by Amiga Technologies, this was supposed to be a new, compact Amiga computer. Its case design, quite unlike those of past Amiga models, comprised a metallic grey shell about the size of a

games console A video game console is an electronic device that Input/output, outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can typically be played with a game controller. These may be home video game console, home consoles, which are generally ...

, with a distinctive curved rear. Jokes were made comparing the shape to that of a

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. There were two more-or-less working prototypes of the Walker and it was never released into the mass market. * Th
A\box
an

These were

PowerPC PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple Inc., App ...

-based machines announced by the German company

Phase5 Phase5 Digital Products is a defunct German computer hardware manufacturer that developed third-party hardware primarily for the Amiga platform. Their most popular products included CPU upgrade boards, SCSI controllers and graphics cards. Notab ...

. The A\box, announced in 1996, was to feature a new custom graphics chipset named

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,Code name: A\BOX – A leap forward towards realising a vision
and a new Amiga-compatible operating system. This was replaced in 1998 by the announcement of the pre\box, which was to feature four PowerPC processors, and was to run

3.1. Finally, in 1999 the AMIRAGE K2 was announced, based on the

QNX QNX ( or ) is a commercial Unix-like real-time operating system, aimed primarily at the embedded systems market. The product was originally developed in the early 1980s by Canadian company Quantum Software Systems, founded March 30, 1980, and l ...

operating system. * Th
Amiga 40x0L
models: QuikPak announced a range of machines while they were planning to purchase rights to the Amiga during late 1996 and early 1997. These were models with a

processor, and included portable "luggable" versions. Some models were planned to be fitted with

NewTek NewTek, Inc., is a San Antonio, Texasbased hardware and software company that produced live and post-production video tools and visual imaging software for personal computers. The company was founded in 1985 in Topeka, Kansas, United States, by ...

Video Toaster Flyer The NewTek Video Toaster is a combination of hardware and software for the editing and production of NTSC standard-definition video. The plug-in expansion card initially worked with the Amiga 2000 computer and provides a number of BNC connectors ...

. QuikPak were a manufacturer for the

Amiga 4000T The Amiga 4000T, also known as A4000T, is a tower version of Commodore's A4000 personal computer. Using the AGA chipset, it was originally released in small quantities in 1994 with a 25 MHz Motorola 68040 CPU, and re-released in greater nu ...

. * The A5000 an
A6000
These were new models announced by Power Computing in 1997. They originally featured a

for the A5000, and a

for the A6000. * Th
BoXeR
Designed by Mick Tinker at Access Innovations, and announced in 1997, the BoXeR was to be a new motherboard based on a

Motorola 68040 The Motorola 68040 ("''sixty-eight-oh-forty''") is a 32-bit microprocessor in the Motorola 68000 series, released in 1990. It is the successor to the 68030 and is followed by the 68060, skipping the 68050. In keeping with general Motorola ...

processor. Amongst other improvements over the Commodore motherboards of the time, it incorporated the aging AGA chipset into one chip. It never got far beyond the advanced prototyping stage. Tinker was also responsible for the Access, which was basically an Amiga 1200 that was re-jigged to fit into a full length 5.25" drive bay. * The Amiga Multimedia Convergence Computer: Announced by Gateway in 1999. This was to feature a new operating system known as the Amiga Operating Environment (Amiga OE) based on QNX, which had been chosen in preference to Linux, BeOS, Epoc32, and VxWorks. However, alongside QNX Software Systems own announcement of the QNX Developer Network for Amigans, Amiga Inc.'s issued its own announcement indicating that the company would instead be choosing Linux as the kernel for the Amiga OE.

References

External links

Amiga Models

Marketed Commodore Amiga models (table)
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