AmigaOS Amiga Inc. Was founded in 1982.

The Amiga was developed first as game console, the Amiga designed from his mental father Jay Miner represent a complete computer. The hardware basis was developed and marketed self. Amiga was introduced for the first time on January 4th, 1984. Was bought up by Commodore completely in September 1985 and presented the Amiga 1000 ready for sale. He was excellently designed for multimedia tasks like music and video handling with 4,096 colours, stereo Sound, video chip, synthetic text to voice conversion, 16 colours were (EGA) standard in the PC area at that time.

In the famous BOING! Technology Demo one red whitely checked Ball encouraged in 3D to sound samples in a virtual space. This Demo became famous and the ball got bound closely to Amiga as a trademark since this. Commodore decided to license the already existing operating system TRIPOS (TRIvial Portable Operating System) of MetaComCo in 1984 and to create a new user interface by developer.

The video screen resolution in the first Amiga computers with the OCS (original chip set) could be configured from 320x256 to 736 x566 pixel in the PAL mode and 320x200 to 736 x482 pixel (Overscan) in the NTSC mode. The video screen resolution was individually adaptable to the monitor with the Overscan method up to the limit. In principle, the represented colour palette was defined out of 4096 colours. The video screen with LowRes or HiRes was represented with 16 colours, 32 colours, in the EHB mode with 32 genuine colours and 32 colours with lesser brightness. In the HAM6 mode the screen display was supported by 4096 colours.

How can the answer be improved? Workbench 3.0 was released in 1992 and version 3.1 between 1993 (for the CD32) and 1994 (for other Amiga models). Version 3.1 is the last AmigaOS released by Commodore. More Amigaos 3.0 images.

The OCS was taken off by the ECS (Enhanced chip set) in later Amiga models since 1988. This extended the possible resolutions from 1280x256 to 1440x566 pixel in the PAL mode and 1280x200 to 1440x482 pixel (Overscan) with SuperHires in the NTSC mode but only with up to 64 genuine colours. The successor of the ECS was the AGA chip set which was used in Amiga models as of 1992. The applied colour palette was defined out of 16.7 mio. All resolutions could be represented now with 256 colours, in the HAM8 even with 262,144 colours. Furthermore the EHB mode was supported (colour number doubled by brightness difference).

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Nocd. Because of failed management and from bad sales figures Amiga Inc. Were acquired by ESCOM in 1995, after long negotiations with numerous competitors and the bankruptcy manager for approximately 12 million dollar. One year later ESCOM came to obviously by miscalculation and to fast Expandition into bankruptcy. ComTech still acquired ESCOM in the same year. 1997 were sold the Amiga section including the rights to Gateway 2000. In the year 2000 Gateway sold again the rights from Amiga in large parts to the enterprise Amino, which thereupon was named as Amiga Inc. The Amiga OS needs only small hardware requirements and runs on Amiga hardware with a Motorola 68K CCU.

Since 1997 exists extensions with PowerPC 603e and 604e-CPUs. Amiga OS is controlled by preemptive multitasking, in the 512-kByte Rome chip (Kickstart) resides the entire OS core. As GUI Workbench is used. The Amigas of the series of 1985 to 1991 could represent 4096 different color, of it however only a fraction (8 to 16) simultaneously. Unity Asset - Ft Terrain. Since 1991 (AGA Chipsatz) there is simultaneous 16 million colors, of it 4096 at the same time.

Optionally for a long time the Amiga can be upgraded with a graphic card, since 1998 also with 3D-accelerator. The internal file system is FFS. PEGASOS / MorphOS the computer system PEGASOS was developedand sold by the company Bplan (before Phase5) in the Bundle with the Amiga compatible operating system MorphOS. Amiga OS 4 does not run on Pegasos and MorphOS doesn't run on the AmigaOne.