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The 68000 Wars, Part 5: The Age of Multimedia

The Digital Antiquarian (US) 13/10/2017

They had with them nothing less than the machine that would soon be released as the next-generation Amiga: the Amiga 3000. From the moment they powered it up to display the familiar Workbench startup icon re-imagined as a three-dimensional ray-traced rendering, the crowd was in awe.

The new model sported a 68020 processor running at more than twice the clock speed of the old 68000, with a set of custom chips redesigned to match its throughput; graphics in 2 million colors instead of 4096, shown at non-interlaced — read, non-flickering — resolutions of 640 X 400 and beyond; an AmigaOS 2.0 Workbench that looked far more professional than the garish version 1.3 that was shipping with current Amigas.

The crowd was just getting warmed up when the team said they had to run. They did, after all, have a plane to catch.

"Only Amiga Makes it Possible"

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