[[File:Amiga A1000.jpg|thumb|right|Amiga 1000]]
[[File:Amiga500 system.jpg|thumb|right|Amiga 500]]
[[File:Amiga 600.jpg|thumb|right|Amiga 600]]
[[File:Amiga 1200.jpg|thumb|right|Amiga 1200]]
[[File:Amiga A1000.jpg|thumb|right|Amiga 1000]]
[[File:Amiga 2000.gif|thumb|right|Amiga 2000]]
[[File:Amiga-3000T-compleet.jpg|thumb|right|Amiga 3000T-040]]
Superficially similar to the [[Atari ST]], using the same [[Motorola 68000]] processor and similar memory and screen modes, but it had a lot of co-processor and sweet architecture tricks making it a powerful computer, with excellent sound hardware for its time. Many early releases were lazy conversions from the ST that did not fully exploit the above (rather like what the Amstrad suffered with Spectrum ports) but later releases largely did exploit the system.
The Amiga had a revolutionary custom-built sound chip that didn't sound like any other computer of its era. It What it sounds like is a Fairlight CMI synth - in other words, virtually anything you want. Waveforms are held in RAM and read out at various speeds.
The A500 was perhaps the most well known emblematic model. Famous Amiga originals released for the CPC include [[Lemmings]], [[Defender of the Crown]], [[Sim City]], [[Shadow of the Beast]] and [[Pinball Dreams]].
*A4000 (1992): A replacement for the A3000, has the AGA chipset and either a 68030 or 68040 processor. In 1994 came the A4000T, an A4000 in a tower case.
*CD32 (1993): Video game console marketed as the first 32-bit games console. It is essentially a keyboard-less A1200 home computer without the I/O ports, but with the addition of a CD-ROM drive and an improved version of the AGA chipset. It is the final hardware to be developed by Commodore.
Commodore shut down the Amiga division on April 26, 1994, and filed for bankruptcy three days later. Commodore's assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who created the subsidiary company Amiga Technologies. They re-released the A1200 and A4000T, and introduced a new 68060 version of the A4000T. But Escom went bankrupt in 1996.
Gateway, an American PC manufacturer, eventually acquired the Amiga brand and technology in 1997. Gateway was then working on a brand new Amiga platform. However this did not materialize and in 2000, Gateway sold the Amiga brand without having released any products.
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