From its launch in 1987, marketed as a games machine, the Amiga A500 was an amazing success for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International" class="extiw" title="en:Commodore International">Commodore International</a>, reviving the ailing sales of its hardware.
<p>It was equipped with a 7.14MHz <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola" class="extiw" title="en:Motorola">Motorola</a> 68000 processor.<br>
At the time, it was the only domestically-priced machine capable of displaying up to 4,096 colours on a display simultaneously, and was also capable of managing a 8-bit 4-track audio output at up to 28.8 kHz.
</p><p>Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in England in the early 1990s and released to the public domain.
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The game being played in this picture is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turrican" class="extiw" title="en:Turrican">Turrican</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_5" class="extiw" title="en:Factor 5">Factor 5</a>.
early 1990s