The Amiga 1000 is the Ur-Amiga, which was brought in the summer 1985 by Commodore in the USA on the market - first still without the blue Commodore Schriftzug.Die in Germany for the press and select visitors became in Frankfurt/Main to 21. May 1986 in the old person opera held, and the inspired public huldigte the Nonplusultra at that time. The moderator was in the rest of franc Elstner, which took over a kind moderator sponsorship. As presentation of the graphic abilities of the Amiga 1000 it gave among other things an animation to a dancer to 4096 colors and the famous Amiga ball, whose impact at the contour in Stereo from the loudspeakers erhallte. In Germany he was presented on the CeBIT 1986 officially and came shortly thereafter into the shops - characteristics were the blue Commodore signature on the left front.

The basic equipment of the Amiga 1000 consisted of the actual computer, a 14-Zoll-Farbmonitor (A1081), the keyboard, which could be pushed for a 2-Tasten-Maus space-saving under the computer (key board garage), and.

It possessed 256 KB Kickstartspeicher and 256 KB main memory, which could be extended with a module on 512 KB, which can be inserted under the front screen, and an internal 3.5 " - floppy disk drive with a capacity of 880 KB. The CCU MC68000 von Motorola was clocked with 7.14 MHz (NTSC version) and/or 7.09 MHz (PAL version). Particularly the diagram achievement and sound abilities of the Amiga 1000 could convince owing to the special Custom chips of the chip designer Jay Miner at the time at that time.

At interfaces the Amiga had 1000 everything that at the time at that time modern and UP ton DATE was: Parallel haven, serial RS-232-Schnittstelle, connection for additional floppy disk drives, keyboard haven, audio (Stereo), TV-exit, RGB similar to, RGB digital, Clock in, Clock Out, 2 of mouse and/or Joystick haven, the 188-poligen bus haven (DMA (direct memory access)) and the front haven. The parallel haven was and is not not conformal for the parallel haven of the PC, so that a direct connection of PC printers at the Amiga can lead 1000 to the damage. With the Amiga 1000 were (contrary to the successors) in addition the sex (pin/socket) of the parallel and serial interface exactly in reverse as with PCs. Further can to RGB connection a LOCK attach, with which one the computer with a TV-source synchronize and so the picture with the video picture overlay can, over with e.g. To make video insertions. Even in Hollywood the Amiga was in such a way used at its best time for video rework actively. In addition it controlled multitasking and a Autoconfig for supplementary tickets, which could be attached over the extension plumb bob on the right side, one thus not, as today partly still usual, about IRQ and address assignment to worry had. Thus supplementary tickets, which one could attach to the extension plumb bob, did not need a driver installation, since they along-brought their driver on the map as ROM, thus not by the user manually, but from the operating system were automatically merged.

The first Amiga available in Germany 1000 (NTSC version) had internally a Piggipack, thus an additional printed circuit board, which was attached huckepack to the motherboard of the computer and which contained Kickstart RAM, by it recognizes one also the of models (PAL version) had this Piggipack no more, and Kickstart RAM was on the motherboard blocked. Since the first Amiga delivered in Germany 1000 on NTSC were operated internally, therefore also two different clock frequencies result, unfortunately supplied the NTSC model at TV-Out also only a NTSC SignalDie Amiga 1000 to NTSC version had a system clock of 28.6 MHz, the CCU clock amounted to 7.14 MHz. The PAL version had however a system clock of 28.36 MHz and the CCU with 7.09 MHz was clocked here, which corresponded also to the following models.

The connection diagram of the Amiga 1000 fit in readable size still loosely on an individual DIN-A3-Blatt.

The Amiga 1000 possessed 256 KB as only computers of the Amiga family a large additional RESET-firm RAM-AREA, into which the Kickstart was loaded. This circumstance it owes to the fact that at the time of the production of the A1000 still no finished and above all error free Kickstartversion was available for order, and therefore the Kickstart not yet in a ROM. Therefore the first devices had the Kickstartversion 0.9 to be attached, whereby after introduction on the market the version 1.1 was attached to the devices briefly. Therefore this part of the operating system had to be loaded to each Ersteinschalten from a Bootstrap disk, and remained also to a RESET in the computer (in the so-called WOM=Write Once MEMORY). In addition, this circumstance had advantages, e.g. existed a Kickstart version, which was gepatcht with an anti-virus program and boat viruses recognize in such a way could.

The 32-Bit-Betriebssystem AmigaOS was characterised by preemptive multitasking and the window-oriented graphic user surface "“intuition"”. Further the operating system possessed additionally a CLI COMMAND LINE interface.

As characteristic the signatures of the most important persons taken part in the development were engraved - including the casting of a dog paw on the inside of the frame cover of the Amiga 1000 (of the dog of the developer Jay Miner).

As answer to the increasing market shares by MS-DOS Commodore developed the PC extension Sidecar (A1060) with own 8088-Prozessor and XT-card locations in Braunschweig for the Amiga 1000. This concept to give i.e. to the Amiga a PC with runner was always consistently pulled through, so that even the Amiga could take up 4000 still so-called bridge maps. Whether this concept was for the satisfaction of all Commodore coworkers and developers, reads itself in the Amiga 2000 connection diagram, which contained the part of the PC-Slot-extension, as follows: "“I WAIT into this place where the sun more never shines."”

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