Amiga 1200 - Vintage Hardware
Commodore's 32-bit Amigas: The Amiga 1200
Date Range: 1992 - 1996
Release Price:
The Amiga 1200 shipped around one million units before Commodore went bankrupt in 1994. It was then resurrected by Escom after purchasing Commodore, before it too went bankrupt in 1996.
A4000 Product Specs:
- 32 bit 68020 cpu
- 7.09/7.16Mhz
- 1280 x 512 video
- 80 x 32 text
- 16 million colours
- 8-bit stereo
- 2MB RAM
- 3.5 880KB floppy
- Pre-emptive Multitasking
Commodore-Amiga 1200
In 1992, Commodore-Amiga released the Amiga 1200 for 399 pounds in the United Kingdom and $599 in the United States. It was a popular model and is still sought after by many Amiga users to this day.
The Amiga 1200 featured the same all-in-one design as the Amiga 500, but with a much smaller footprint and included room for an internal hard drive and sported the new 2.04 operating system.
While the Amiga 1200 sold well, it did not sell as well as the game consoles of the day. In order for Commodore to compete against these machines, Commodore released the generation 5 CD-based game console called the Amiga CD32 in June 1993. And while the Amiga CD32 is considered to be a fifth generation console, the truth is that is was more of a bridge between the fourth and fifth generations.
Both the Amiga 1200 and the CD32 sold well, however, these were the last machines ever made by Commodore as it filed for bankruptcy liquidation in April 1994.
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