Amiga 1000 Software Timeline

[scuzzb494]

Hi

I am trying to compile a list of software released primarily for the Amiga 1000. So far I have taken products from say Amiga World up to the release of the A500. I know there is a crossover with the 2000 but it is difficult to determine what products were in development for the 1000 at the time of the release of the other machines.

I am struggling at the moment to identify what was available at release of the A1000 and can't find the definitive list of items shipped with the A1000 both in the USA and Europe.

So if anyone has a list, doesn't matter how crude then it would really help. I kinda need software name, developer etc plus date and revision number where applicable. Even if you can point me to a site with the info would be useful.

All help appreciated

scuzz

[trekiej]

Good luck. I hope it works out.

[scuzzb494]

Good luck. I hope it works out.

Thanks. Its a challenge I have set myself for April. My little mountain of software and games is steadily building. The aim is to catalogue it all by date and then ADF the lot and put the collection onto CD for record purposes along with scans of various publications of the day.

[Pentad]

I have some ideas for you:

1. I know Commodore put out a list of software titles available for the Amiga 1000 at launch or shortly after. Some friends and I went to the local computer store that sold the Amiga to see the new Amiga 1000. I remember seeing a list of titles on a promotional sheet from Commodore. The Bombjack site might have this as he has a ton of cool scanned in promotion material from Commodore (everyone really). I don't remember if the Amiga 100 was released or they got the Amiga 1000 demo in and were taking orders. I know I couldn't drive yet and being blown away by the demos.

2. I also think Info (or .info) magazine had a tradition of listing/reviewing all products for the 64/128 and I think they added the Amiga 1000 too. It was a pretty thorough list and they ran it every so many issues. That should be on the Bombjack site too.

3. Commodore had their own magazine and I think they did an announcement of the Amiga. I would check that issue too. Guess where you could find that?  :-)

4. Also, Bombjack has a great collection of catalogs from all the major software development houses by year (Spring 1985/Fall 1985 etc) so you could download them and see the listing by developers.  Activision, EA, Epyx, Broderbund and many more should be on there.

5. Finally, Wikipedia has a list of Amiga games here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amiga_games_(A–H)#A

They also list platforms for applications which should tell you if the Amiga was on the list and the year.

Just a few ideas.

Good Luck!!
-P

[trekiej]

Wow, sounds great.

[scuzzb494]

Just to say that I have now completed my work building the Amiga 1000 archive. Quite a challenge in the end and finished with me building a 3' high stack of floppies and half a dozen zip disks plus the various workbench and support disks including the 1060 disks. I have now put away all the various disk boxes for software and games but have kept out a good batch of various disks so I can use with the Amiga 1000.

I have catalogued the software and games by year and in respect of software the various disciplines such as desktop, video, paint packages and the like. I have basically used three key years and that is 85,86 and 87 with a sprinkling of 88 when software has been updated.

I have collated seven CDs which I have called the Amiga 1000 Era and include all the games and software in ADF format, the video of the Amiga History in MP4 format, full sets of Amiga World magazine in PDF format together with various articles, photographs and interviews with Jay Miner for example.

And so that goes into the library. And onward... I have already set up the A500 with 590 to progress onto a similar collection for the 500 which will be a lot larger. I kinda miss the 1000 for two reasons, now I have set up the 500. First is that the 1000 was very quiet compared to the 500 with the 590 and I did like front loading disks on the 1000. The 1000 is a lot more robust in terms of disk swap and being able to handle anything I threw at it. Whilst the 500 is a lot more temperamental when using a lot of copy disks that carry more over in memory and survives the soft-boot. I rarely had to hard the 1000 in truth and after the kick she basically would take anything I threw at her.

One other point of note and that is the 1000 became a one disk machine.... in other words if the game or software came on one disk it probably was designed for the 1000. With only the 512K its funny how many times I got the notification that I need to buy more memory.... very polite I would add. I have grown to like the 1000. Happy days.

[blakespot]

I purchased the first Amiga sold in Virginia -- Oct. 1985. The dealer had one game on hand - EA's Software Golden Oldies, and I bought it. I ordered a few games early, and the first one to arrive was Hacker (or was it Hacker II?) by Activision. The second was Midshadow from Interplay. Then came Wishbringer from Infocom. That was pretty close to super early release sequence.

I had seen a demo of Sublogic Jet at the dealer's, but never got it for the A1000. Oddly, I sold the Amiga in March or so of 1986 and went back to ... the Apple II line...



bp

[klx300r]

@ scuzzb494

well done:hammer: I'd love to buy a copy of those 7CD's to browse through (though God willing only spare time will be when i retire)

....

I had seen a demo of Sublogic Jet at the dealer's, but never got it for  the A1000. Oddly, I sold the Amiga in March or so of 1986 and went back  to ... the Apple II line...

that's a joke right :eek::crazy:

[trekiej]

@ scuzzb494

well done:hammer: I'd love to buy a copy of those 7CD's to browse through (though God willing only spare time will be when i retire)



that's a joke right :eek::crazy:

+1

[Pentad]

I purchased the first Amiga sold in Virginia

When you received your Amiga 1000 did your Kickstart disk have a hand written version on it? We had a few Commodore dealers where I live and their Amiga 1000 demo units came with Kickstart disks that had hand written version numbers on them. When one of my friends bought the first Amiga 1000 to be sold here it too came with a hand written version (.09) on it on his Kickstart disk.

I wish I would have paid more attention at the time because I'm curious about it now. I know Andy Warhol had beta .6 and I think the demo machines had beta .07 or beta .09. We used to play around with them after school and AmigaOS was pretty buggy back then.

I didn't know if you remembered what your Kickstart disk was/if labeled?

It is hard to imagine going back to the Apple II line after the graphics of the Amiga. Even in '85.  :-)

-P

[trekiej]

How long did the A1000 reign?

[Pentad]

How long did the A1000 reign?

The Amiga 1000 was discontinued in 1987 after the Amiga 500 and 2000 were released.