The Amiga 1200, or A1200, was Commodore International's third-generation Amiga computer, aimed at the home market. It was released in October 1992, at a base price of £399 in the United Kingdom and $599 in the United States. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1920x606, 118 KB) Amiga 1200 with mouse and two external floppy drives Amiga 1200 with mouse and two external floppy drives File links The following pages link to this file: A1200 Image:Amiga 1200 with mouse, drives. ... Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore International, a West Chester, Pennsylvania based electronics company who was a major player in the 1980s home computer field. ... In computing, Amiga is a range of home/personal computers primarily using the Motorola 68000 processor family, whose development started in 1982, initially as a game machine. ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Like its predecessor, the A500, it featured an all-in-one design incorporating the CPU, keyboard, and disk drives in one physical unit. It shipped with 2 MB of memory, Commodore's third-generation chipset, AGA; and AmigaOS 3.0. It utilized a Motorola MC68EC020 CISC CPU (a 68020 with 24bit addressing) running at 14.18 MHz PAL / 14.32 MHz NTSC. For expansion, the A1200 featured a memory/CPU slot and a PCMCIA slot. The A500, also known as the Amiga 500, was the first low-end Commodore Amiga 16-bit multimedia home/personal computer model. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Disk Drive is the afternoon show on CBC Radio Two. ... Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) was the name used for the improved graphic chipset of the third generation Amiga Computers at the beginning of the 1990s. ... AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. ... Motorola (NYSE: MOT) (TYO: 6686) is a global communications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ... The 68EC020 is a microprocessor from Motorola. ... A Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) is an instruction set architecture (ISA) in which each instruction can indicate several low-level operations, such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store, all in a single instruction. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... The PCMCIA is the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, an industry trade association that creates standards for notebook computer peripheral devices. ...

Because the unit's memory was shared between the CPU and the sound and video chips, expanding memory beyond 2 MB greatly increased the A1200's speed. Various third-party accelerators featuring 68020, 68030, 68040, 68060 and later PowerPC processors quickly became available to increase the computer's speed further. Motorola 68020 The Motorola 68020 is a microprocessor from Motorola. ... Motorola 68030 Processor from a Macintosh IIsi The Motorola 68030 is a 32-bit microprocessor in Motorolas 68000 family. ... The Motorola 68040 is a microprocessor from Motorola. ... The Motorola 68060 is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, and is the successor to the Motorola 68040. ... PowerPC is a RISC microprocessor architecture created by the 1991 Apple-IBM-Motorola alliance, known as AIM. Originally intended for workstations, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high-performance processors as well. ...

Unlike the A500 and A600, which were only incremental upgrades over the original A1000 released in 1985, the A1200 was a significant upgrade, featuring more than four times the processing power and greatly enhanced graphics capabilities. However, the A1200 proved not to be as popular as the A500. Although its graphics capabilities stood up well in comparison to the Intel 80386 and 486-based IBM PC compatibles it competed against, many PC clones had more processing power and a lower price, in addition to a larger software library. The Amiga's custom chips were simply more expensive to produce than the commodity chips utilized in PCs, which drove up the A1200's price. In addition, fewer retailers carried the A1200 than earlier Commodore computers, especially in the United States. Although Commodore never released any official sales figures, it is estimated that Commodore shipped fewer than 1 million A1200s worldwide before going bankrupt in April 1994. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... An Intel 80386 Microprocessor The Intel 80386 is a microprocessor which was used as the central processing unit (CPU) of many personal computers from 1986 until 1994 and later. ... An Intel i486 Microprocessor The Intel i486 (also called 486 or 80486) is a range of Intel CISC microprocessors which is part of the Intel x86 family of processors. ... One of the first PCs from IBM - the IBM PC model 5150. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

The A1200 was re-launched in 1995 after the Amiga assets were sold to Escom, but the new units were priced at 1992 levels and experienced compatibility problems. As of 2003, the A1200 is still being sold by Amiga, Inc., the fourth company to own the rights to the machine. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...