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  Amiga
       
           A range of home computers first released by
          Commodore Business Machines in early 1985 (though they did
          not design the original - see below).  Amigas were popular for
          games, video processing, and multimedia.  One notable
          feature is a hardware blitter for speeding up graphics
          operations on whole areas of the screen.
       
          The Amiga was originally called the Lorraine, and was
          developed by a company named "Amiga" or "Amiga, Inc.", funded
          by some doctors to produce a killer game machine.  After the
          US game machine market collapsed, the Amiga company sold some
          joysticks but no Lorraines or any other computer.  They
          eventually floundered and looked for a buyer.
       
          Commodore at that time bought the (mostly complete) Amiga
          machine, infused some money, and pushed it through the final
          stages of development in a hurry.  Commodore released it
          sometime[?] in 1985.
       
          Most components within the machine were known by nicknames.
          The coprocessor commonly called the "Copper" is in fact the
          "{Video Timing Coprocessor" and is split between two chips:
          the instruction fetch and execute units are in the "Agnus"
          chip, and the pixel timing circuits are in the "Denise" chip
          (A for address, D for data).
       
          "Agnus" and "Denise" were responsible for effects timed to the
          real-time position of the video scan, such as midscreen
          palette changes, sprite multiplying, and resolution
          changes.  Different versions (in order) were: "Agnus" (could
          only address 512K of video RAM), "Fat Agnus" (in a PLCC
          package, could access 1MB of video RAM), "Super Agnus"
          (slightly upgraded "Fat Agnus").  "Agnus" and "Fat Agnus" came
          in PAL and NTSC versions, "Super Agnus" came in one
          version, jumper selectable for PAL or NTSC.  "Agnus" was
          replaced by "Alice" in the A4000 and A1200, which allowed for
          more DMA channels and higher bus bandwidth.
       
          "Denise" outputs binary video data (3*4 bits) to the "Vidiot".
          The "Vidiot" is a hybrid that combines and amplifies the
          12-bit video data from "Denise" into RGB to the monitor.
       
          Other chips were "Amber" (a "flicker fixer", used in the A3000
          and Commodore display enhancer for the A2000), "Gary" ({I/O,
          addressing, G for glue logic), "Buster" (the bus
          controller, which replaced "Gary" in the A2000), "Buster II"
          (for handling the Zorro II/III cards in the A3000, which meant
          that "Gary" was back again), "Ramsey" (The RAM controller),
          "DMAC" (The DMA controller chip for the WD33C93 SCSI adaptor
          used in the A3000 and on the A2091/A2092 SCSI adaptor card for
          the A2000; and to control the CD-ROM in the CDTV), and
          "Paula" ({Peripheral, Audio, UART, interrupt Lines, and
          bus Arbiter).
       
          There were several Amiga chipsets: the "Old Chipset" (OCS),
          the "Enhanced Chipset" (ECS), and AGA.  OCS included "Paula",
          "Gary", "Denise", and "Agnus".
       
          ECS had the same "Paula", "Gary", "Agnus" (could address 2MB
          of Chip RAM), "Super Denise" (upgraded to support "Agnus" so
          that a few new screen modes were available).  With the
          introduction of the Amiga A600 "Gary" was replaced with
          "Gayle" (though the chipset was still called ECS).  "Gayle"
          provided a number of improvments but the main one was support
          for the A600's PCMCIA port.
       
          The AGA chipset had "Agnus" with twice the speed and a 24-bit
          palette, maximum displayable: 8 bits (256 colours), although
          the famous "{HAM" (Hold And Modify) trick allows pictures of
          256,000 colours to be displayed.  AGA's "Paula" and "Gayle"
          were unchanged but AGA "Denise" supported AGA "Agnus"'s new
          screen modes.  Unfortunately, even AGA "Paula" did not support
          High Density floppy disk drives.  (The Amiga 4000, though,
          did support high density drives.)  In order to use a high
          density disk drive Amiga HD floppy drives spin at half the
          rotational speed thus halving the data rate to "Paula".
       
          Commodore Business Machines went bankrupt on 1994-04-29,
          the German company Escom AG bought the rights to the Amiga
          on 1995-04-21 and the Commodore Amiga became the Escom
          Amiga.  In April 1996 Escom were reported to be making the
          Amiga range again but they too fell on hard times and
          Gateway 2000 (now called Gateway) bought the Amiga brand
          on 1997-05-15.
       
          Gateway licensed the Amiga operating system to a German
          hardware company called Phase 5 on 1998-03-09.  The
          following day, Phase 5 announced the introduction of a
          four-processor PowerPC based Amiga clone called the
          "{pre\box".  Since then, it has been announced that the
          new operating system will be a version of QNX.
       
          On 1998-06-25, a company called Access Innovations Ltd
          announced http://www.micktinker.co.uk/aaplus.html)" rel="nofollow">plans (http://www.micktinker.co.uk/aaplus.html) to
          build a new Amiga chip set, the AA+, based partly on the AGA
          chips but with new fully 32-bit functional core and 16-bit AGA
          hardware register emulation for backward compatibility.
          The new core promised improved memory access and video display
          DMA.
       
          By the end of 2000, Amiga development was under the control of
          a [new?] company called Amiga, Inc..  As well as continuing
          development of AmigaOS (version 3.9 released in December
          2000), their "Digital Environment" is a virtual machine for
          multiple platforms conforming to the ZICO specification.
          As of 2000, it ran on MIPS, ARM, PPC, and x86
          processors.
       
          http://www.amiga.com/)" rel="nofollow">Home (http://www.amiga.com/).
       
          http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html)" rel="nofollow">Amiga Web Directory (http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html).
       
          http://www.amicrawler.com/)" rel="nofollow">amiCrawler (http://www.amicrawler.com/).
       
          Newsgroups: news:comp.binaries.amiga,
          news:comp.sources.amiga, news:comp.sys.amiga,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.announce,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.applications,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.audio, news:comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.emulations, news:comp.sys.amiga.games,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.graphics,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.hardware,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.introduction,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.marketplace, news:comp.sys.amiga.misc,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.multimedia,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.programmer,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.reviews, news:comp.sys.amiga.tech,
          news:comp.sys.amiga.telecomm, news:comp.Unix.amiga.
       
          See aminet, Amoeba, bomb, exec, gronk, guru
          meditation, Intuition, sidecar, slap on the side,
          Vulcan nerve pinch.
       
          (2003-07-05)
       
       

  Amiga n A series of personal computer models originally sold by
     Commodore, based on 680x0 processors, custom support chips and an
     operating system that combined some of the best features of Macintosh
     and Unix with compatibility with neither.
  
     The Amiga was released just as the personal computing world
     standardized on IBM-PC clones. This prevented it from gaining serious
     market share, despite the fact that the first Amigas had a substantial
     technological lead on the IBM XTs of the time. Instead, it acquired a
     small but zealous population of enthusiastic hackers who dreamt of one
     day unseating the clones (see Amiga Persecution Complex). The traits
     of this culture are both spoofed and illuminated in The BLAZE Humor
     Viewer (http://www.blazemonger.com/BM/). The strength of the Amiga
     platform seeded a small industry of companies building software and
     hardware for the platform, especially in graphics and video applications
     (see video toaster).
  
     Due to spectacular mismanagement, Commodore did hardly any R&D,
     allowing the competition to close Amiga's technological lead. After
     Commodore went bankrupt in 1994 the technology passed through several
     hands, none of whom did much with it. However, the Amiga is still being
     produced in Europe under license and has a substantial number of fans,
     which will probably extend the platform's life considerably.
  
  

  amiga
     Πορτογαλικά n.
     φίλη

  amiga
     Catalan n.
     (female equivalent of ca amic)
     Cebuano n.
     1 a female friend
     2 (lb ceb obsolete) an address to a female friend
     n.
     (lb en Latin American) A female friend.
     Portuguese n.
     (female equivalent of pt amigo)
     Portuguese vb.
     (pt-verb form of: amigar)

  amiga
     n.
     (lb en Latin American) A female friend.

  amiga
     Galician a.
     (feminine singular of gl amigo)
     Galician n.
     (female equivalent of gl amigo)
     n.
     (lb en Latin American) A female friend.
     Spanish n.
     (female equivalent of es amigo), friend
     Spanish vb.
     (es-verb form of: amigar)

  amiga
     Galician a.
     (feminine singular of gl amigo)
     Galician n.
     (female equivalent of gl amigo)
     n.
     (lb en Latin American) A female friend.
     Spanish n.
     (female equivalent of es amigo), friend
     Spanish vb.
     (es-verb form of: amigar)

  amiga
     Spanska n.
     (kvinnlig) vän; tjejkompis, väninna

  Amiga /ɐmˈiːɡə/ 
  Amiga
           Note: "16bit počítač"

  amiga /amˈiɡa/
  endearing

  amiga /amˈiɡa/
  endearing

  amiga /amˈiɡa/
  endearing

  amiga /ˌæmˈiɡæ/
  Freundin

  amiga /ˌæmˈiɡæ/
  friend

  amiga /amˈiɣa/ 
  Freundin 

  amiga /amˈiɣa/ 
  1. Freundin 
  2. Geliebte 

  amiga /amˈiɣa/
  friend

  
/əˈmiɡə/