Emulation
Amiga Continued:
Amiga 4000 Launch date: 1992
In 1992 Commodore launched the most advanced Amiga yet. The A4000 used the AGA chipset to allow it to show 256,000 colours on screen from a palette of 16.8 million, as well as the new Workbench 3 that introduced the concept of among other things, datatypes.
Several variants were available, all fitted with 6MB RAM, 1.76mb High-Density disk drive and a hard drive as standard.
Amiga 1200 Launch date: December 1992
In October 1992 the A1200 was launched. This took the A500 approach to computing with the "distinct" Commodore case, but including the AGA chipset present in the A4000, 2mb ram, and the PCMCIA slot from the A600.
At the price of £399 it sold like hot cakes and is seen as one of the best Amigas to date. It appears to have been rushed to launch for the Christmas period with manuals claiming to give you the opportunity to upgrade from 1mb to 2mb chip ram with FPU. It is however, a darn fine machine that can be easily upgraded for most of your needs.
Amiga 4000T Launch date: 1996
The A4000T was due for release during 1994 a few months after Commodore went into liquidation the events in April of that year resulted in around 200 units being manufactured. It was resurrected in 1995 by Amiga Technologies as the high-end Amiga system but manufacture was delayed until early 1996 when it became obvious that Escom was in serious trouble.
The A4000T is basically an A4000 in a full tower case with IDE & SCSI-2 Fast controllers integrated as well as 2 video slots and shipped with a 25MHz 68040 processor. At the time production was limited and the A4000T were manufactured for a North American market at the West Chester plant whilst the European market was serviced from the Commodore assembly line in Bensheim, Germany.
Amiga CD32 Launch date: September 1993 Discontinued: February 1994
Commodore's second attempt at the console market was later revealed to be a last ditch attempt at making a profit. Launched in Europe during 1993 it quickly grabbed a large portion of the prototypical CD market, even beating PC CD-ROM.
However, it never really grew beyond its Amiga heritage hosting a series of dire A500 ports. By the time developers realised the potential of CD Commodore entered liquidation, eroding the machines' remaining commercial support.
In 1994 a third party developer launched the SX-1 and SX32, allowing owners
to turn their rejected console into a fully fledged Amiga.