Explore Amiga through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Amiga meaning
A female friend.
Using Amiga
- The main meaning on this page is: A female friend.
- In the example corpus, amiga often appears in combinations such as: the amiga, amiga was, amiga and.
Context around Amiga
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Amiga
- In this selection, "amiga" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, commodore, open, closed, 1000, corp and computers stand out and add context to how "amiga" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include atari on amiga s behalf and after the amiga 1000 excluding. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "amiga" sits close to words such as affirmation, ailment and alerting, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with amiga
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He was known as the 'Padre' (father) of the Amiga among Amiga users. (13 words)
It is also called "Amiga style", due to its origin and widespread use on the Commodore Amiga Computers. (18 words)
It was discontinued and replaced by the Amiga 600 in summer 1992, making it the shortest lived Amiga model. (19 words)
The critically acclaimed game Another World was originally released for ST and Amiga in 1991 with the Polygonal engine developed on the ST and the rotoscoped animations created on the Amiga (the two games are very similar on both systems). (40 words)
In addition to the Control and Alt modifier keys, the Amiga has 2 'Amiga' keys, rendered as 'Open Amiga' and 'Closed Amiga' similar to the Open/Closed Apple logo keys on Apple II keyboards. (34 words)
So instead of Amiga delivering the chipset, Commodore delivered a check of $500,000 to Atari on Amiga's behalf, in effect returning the funds invested into Amiga for completion of the Lorraine chipset. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
In addition to the Control and Alt modifier keys, the Amiga has 2 'Amiga' keys, rendered as 'Open Amiga' and 'Closed Amiga' similar to the Open/Closed Apple logo keys on Apple II keyboards.
Instead of Amiga Corp. delivering Lorraine to Atari, Commodore delivered a check of $500,000 to Atari on Amiga's behalf, in effect returning the funds Atari invested into Amiga for the chipset.
So instead of Amiga delivering the chipset, Commodore delivered a check of $500,000 to Atari on Amiga's behalf, in effect returning the funds invested into Amiga for completion of the Lorraine chipset.
Amiga Corp. had sought more monetary support from investors in spring 1984 (among them Tramel Technology, which wished to replace nearly everyone at Amiga).
Commodore Amiga The floppy drive of the Commodore Amiga personal computer could be made to produce noises of various pitches by making the drive heads move back and forth.
Emulation main Like many popular but discontinued platforms, the Amiga has been emulated so that software developed for the Amiga can be run on other computer platforms without the original hardware.
He was known as the 'Padre' (father) of the Amiga among Amiga users.
In 2006, PC World rated the Amiga 1000 as the seventh greatest PC of all time, stating "Years ahead of its time, the Amiga was the world's first multimedia, multitasking personal computer".
In models after the Amiga 1000 (excluding the very first revision of the Amiga 500), the brightness of the power LED is used to indicate the status of the filter.
It is also called "Amiga style", due to its origin and widespread use on the Commodore Amiga Computers.
It was discontinued and replaced by the Amiga 600 in summer 1992, making it the shortest lived Amiga model.
It was during this time in late July/early August that Leonard Tramiel discovered the original Amiga contract, which required Amiga Corporation to deliver the Lorraine chipset to Atari on June 30, 1984.
Keyboard and mouse Amiga mouse The keyboard on Amiga computers is similar to that found on a mid 80s IBM PC: Ten function keys, a numeric keypad, and four separate directional arrow keys.
Other popular English-language forums also exist, particularly amiga.org since 1994 and amigaworld.net and English Amiga Board.
Ports for the Amiga, Atari ST and Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) followed, with the Amiga and Atari ST ports in 1989 and the NES port in 1990.
The Amiga extensions are recognized by Amiga program MasterISO, and should also be recognized by MakeCD and Frying Pan, but the support by latter two programs is uncredited.
The brightness of the Amiga's power LED is used to indicate the status of the Amiga's low-pass filter.
The critically acclaimed game Another World was originally released for ST and Amiga in 1991 with the Polygonal engine developed on the ST and the rotoscoped animations created on the Amiga (the two games are very similar on both systems).
The first Amiga model, the Amiga 1000, was launched in 1985 and became popular for its impressive graphics, video and audio capabilities.
The mode family called AVT (for Amiga Video Transceiver) was originally designed by Ben Blish (N4EJI, then AA7AS) for a custom modem attached to an Amiga computer, which was eventually marketed by AEA corporation.
Common combinations with amiga
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the amiga 70×
- amiga was 10×
- amiga and 10×
- commodore amiga 9×
- amiga computer 8×
- of amiga 7×
- an amiga 6×
- for amiga 6×
- amiga in 5×
- and amiga 5×