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Commodore Amiga
Amiga CD32
home video game console developed by Commodore
CDTV
The CDTV (from Commodore Dynamic Total Vision, later treated as a backronym for Compact Disc Television) is a home multimedia entertainment and video game console – convertible into a full-fledged personal computer by the addition of optional peripherals – developed by Commodore International and launched in April 1991.
LHA
data compression file format
Guru Meditation
error notice displayed by the Commodore Amiga computer
Interchange File Format
container file format introduced by Electronic Arts and Commodore
Action Replay
Brand of video game cheating devices
Hold-And-Modify
300px|thumb|right|Fragment of full-color image (left) vs Amiga HAM (right)
TRIPOS
TRIPOS (Trivial Portable Operating System) is a computer operating system. Development started in 1976 at the Computer Laboratory of Cambridge University and it was headed by Dr. Martin Richards. The first version appeared in January 1978 and it originally ran on a PDP-11. Later it was ported to the Computer Automation LSI4 and the Data General Nova. Work on a Motorola 68000 version started in 1981 at the University of Bath. MetaComCo acquired the rights to the 68000 version and continued development until TRIPOS was chosen by Commodore in March 1985 to form part of an operating system for the
LZX
LZX is an LZ77 family compression algorithm, a slightly improved version of DEFLATE. It is also the name of a file archiver with the same name. Both were invented by Jonathan Forbes and Tomi Poutanen in the 1990s.
Minimig
thumb|right|300px|Minimig 120 x 120 mm PCB (Nano-ITX size)
Zorro II
Amiga 2000 expansion bus
Aminet
Aminet is the world's largest archive of Amiga-related software and files. Aminet was originally hosted by several universities' FTP sites, and is now available on CD-ROM and on the web. According to Aminet, as of 3 September 2022, it has 83930 packages online.
Kickstart
Amiga firmware
Amiga Halfbrite mode
planar display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer
Color cycling
digital animation technique
Sam440ep
Sam440, also known by Sam or its codename Samantha, is a line of modular motherboards produced by the Italian company ACube Systems Srl. The Sam440ep version is a motherboard based on the PowerPC 440EP system-on-a-chip processor which includes a double-precision FPU. It is made by AMCC. Their primary targets are the industrial and embedded markets, running operating systems such as Linux and AmigaOS 4.
MOS Technology CIA
integrated circuit made by MOS Technology
Video Toaster
analog video hardware and software editing suite
Amiga Fast File System
File system used on Amiga computers
Flicker fixer
video de-interlacer
MOS Technology Agnus
custom chip
Planar
method of representing pixel colors with several bitplanes of RAM
Autoconfig
Autoconfig is an auto-configuration protocol of Amiga computers which is intended to automatically assign resources to expansion devices without the need for jumper settings. It is analogous to PCI configuration through ACPI.
Amiga Chip RAM
commonly used term for the integrated RAM used in Commodore's line of Amiga computers
Zorro III
Amiga 3000 expansion bus
SLAY Radio
an internet radio station dedicated to playing remixes and tunes based on music from the Commodore 64 computer as well as the Amiga