The Amigas were a personal computer series introduced in 1985 by Commodore. The first Amiga model, the Amiga 1000 was launched as a high-end home computer and became popular for its impressive graphics, video and audio capabilities and was far ahead of the PC compatible machines of the time.

The Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors were used in all Amiga models.. Each Amiga also had custom chips to handle the graphics and sound independently of the main CPU.

The Amiga Operating System consisted of Kickstart firmware and Workbench. Kickstart was designed to initialize the Amiga hardware and core components of AmigaOS and then attempt to boot from a bootable volume, such as a floppy disk or hard disk drive.

Workbench was the main graphical user interface (GUI), similar to Microsoft Windows or the Apple Operating System. Workbench was however fully multi-tasking.