Commodore Amiga 1000
Commodore Business Machines
Computer
1985
The original Amiga, launched July 1985. Features the OCS (Original Chip Set) custom chips — Agnus, Denise, Paula — providing multitasking, hardware sprites, and 4-channel PCM audio. Unique writable control store (WCS): Kickstart was loaded from floppy into RAM on startup.
Specifications
- Manufacturer
- Commodore Business Machines
- Type
- Computer
- Year
- 1985
- CPU
- Motorola MC68000
- Clock speed
- 7.14 MHz (NTSC) / 7.09 MHz (PAL)
- RAM
- 256 KB Chip RAM + 256 KB Slow RAM (512 KB total, expandable)
- ROM
- 8 KB bootstrap (Kickstart loaded from floppy into WCS RAM)
- Video chip
- OCS: Denise 8362 + Agnus 8361/8367 — 320×200 to 640×400 (interlaced), 32 colours (4096 in HAM mode)
- Sound chip
- Paula 8364 — 4 channel 8-bit PCM stereo, up to 28 kHz sample rate
- OS / BASIC
- AmigaOS 1.0–1.3 (Kickstart + Workbench)
- Ports
- 2× DE-9, Parallel, Serial, RGB, 2× RCA Audio, RF, 2× Floppy, Side expansion
- Supported
- Commodore Amiga
Files
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Credits
- Added to site
- 03 Jul 2026