brostenen wrote:

The 1000 was geared towards all markets that would find it usefull, and when Commodore saw that they had to split into bussiness and home markets. Then they created and released both the 500 and 2000. The 1000 was then sold as an entry model.

This isn't my recolection... the A1000 was always out of my league due to price. I got my first Amiga (A500+ Cartoon classics) in '93 and paid about 350 of my Britanic pounds at the time. I don't think there was a PC on the market then less than a 1000 of my hard earned Britanic pounds... so I never got one... until '97. (Yep I had an Amiga until '97, by which time the scene was fairly dead with only one magazine being published and a few 'ard core fans keeping it alive... I was too jelious of decent 3D on PC's to keep my Amiga. 🤣)

brostenen wrote:

I know the Amiga was used for a number of special effect's. I am just not aware on what exactly that was. Vaugely remember something about startrek and something about an alien lifeform in the deep sea.

If its the Abyss you are thinking about, this was ILM who used SGI in the 90's. Lightwave was originally written for the Amiga, and this was used for Babylon5. There was something called an "Amiga Toaster" which was the speciality hardware for this iirc.

To my understanding, and after hours of reading and watching video about the Amiga. Then it is to my knowledge not the Amiga1000 that are the better one, out of the 500 and 1000. The very first 500's did use the exact same chipset as the 1000. Yet it was a cost reduced machine, compared to what the 2000 was on paper. The 1000's higher, actually way higher, pricetag than the 500. Is because the low numbers that it sold and the way it was manufactured. Nothing to do with what it was capeable of doing. Ironically, the 500 turned out to be a sort of premium version of the 1000, at a price of 2/3 of the 1000. The reason for the 500 was develloped, was that Atari sold more ST's than Commodore sold Amiga's for the home market, and Commodore saw that they did not have a home product at the right price. So... They develloped both the 2000 and the 500. Why the name scheme? Only commodore knew. Like the 600 was originally named 300, because it was supposed to be cheaper than the 500. And the sales department thought that they could rename it to 600 and then sell at a higher price. Yeah.... Typically Commodore sales and advertisement department. (And Mehdi Ali)