Quite a few posts on social media recently reminded me that on July 23 the Commodore Amiga turned 40 years old – specifically the first incarnation, the Amiga 1000. It was the beginning of one of the most powerful computer systems of the late 80s and early 90s that ran circles around the competition for almost a decade. With its trio of custom chips called Agnus, Denise and Paula it was able to run a colourful operating system with a graphical user interface that allowed a multitasking, multiwindow desktop in 1985 that almost no other computers had. Excellent graphics and sound made it a true multipuropse computer that became a powerful gaming platform, multimedia system and even business machine at the same time.