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The following history of the Amiga documents the development and commercial history of the Amiga, a home computer product line manufactured from the middle 1980s up to today. == Amiga Corporation == The Amiga's Original Chip Set was designed by a small company called Amiga Corporation during the end of the first home video game boom. Wary of industrial espionage, the developers codenamed the chipset "Lorraine" during development. Development of the Lorraine project was done using a Sage IV (m68k/8 MHz/1MB) machine, nicknamed "Agony".〔 090427 floodgap.com〕 Amiga Corp. funded the development of the Lorraine by manufacturing game controllers, and later an initial bridge loan from Atari Inc. while seeking further investors. The chipset was to be used in a video game machine, but following the video game crash of 1983, the Lorraine was repurposed to be a multi-tasking multi-media personal computer. The company demonstrated a prototype at the January 1984 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago with an attempt to get investors on board. Reporters saw it perform the Boing Ball demo with stereo sound.〔 The Sage acted as the CPU, and ''BYTE'' described "big steel boxes" substituting for the chipset that did not yet exist. The magazine reported in April 1984 that Amiga Corporation "is developing a 68000-based home computer with a custom graphics processor. With 128K bytes of RAM and a floppy-disk drive, the computer will reportedly sell for less than $1000 late this year." Follow up presentations were made, at the following CES in June 1984, to Sony, Hewlett-Packard, Philips, Apple, Silicon Graphics and others.〔 Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, who had just introduced the Macintosh in January, was shown the original prototype for the first Amiga and stated that there was too much hardware -even though the newly redesigned board consisted of just three silicon chips which had yet to be shrunk down.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Steve Jobs was reported to be extremely worried about the Amiga, but fortunately for him and Apple, Commodore had absolutely no idea what they were doing )〕 Investors became increasingly wary of new computer companies in an industry that the IBM PC dominated, Employees mortgaged their homes to keep the company running.〔 In July 1984, Atari was bought by the recently fired CEO and founder of Commodore, Jack Tramiel, who was taking a substantial number of Commodore's employees with him. He offered $500,000 which must be paid back in one month or Atari would own all of the Amiga technology. It was agreed on of desperation.〔 And then in a "surprising" development, in August 1984, the Amiga group found an interested Commodore. Amiga was purchased by Commodore for $27 million -including paying off the Atari loan.〔 And Atari went on to develop the ST which launched in June 1985. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of the Amiga」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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