Amiga 1000 Software Timeline

[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

[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

[Pentad]

How long did the A1000 reign?

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