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---
title: Commodore AMIGA 4000
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- U.S.A.
years:
- '1992'
cpus:
- Motorola MC68EC030
params:
name: AMIGA 4000
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga4000_toaster_2.jpg
company: /companies/commodore
company_name: Commodore
specs:
- label: NAME
value: AMIGA 4000
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Commodore
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: U.S.A.
- label: YEAR
value: '1992'
- label: KEYBOARD
value: detachable full-stroke keyboard with 10 function keys and cursor keys and separate numeric keypad
- label: CPU
value: Motorola MC68EC030 (Eco version of the 68030) or MC68040
- label: SPEED
value: 25 mHz
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: Alice (Blitter and Memory Manager), Lisa (Video chip)
- label: RAM
value: 2Mb CHIP RAM + 2Mb or 4Mb Fast RAM (up to 16 Mb, and theorically to 4 Gb)
- label: ROM
value: 512 Kb
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 60 x 32 / 80 x 32
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: from 320 x 200 to 800 x 600 or 1280 x 400 and more with overscan
- label: COLORS
value: |-
16.8 millions colors\
2 to 256,000 user-definable colours displayable on screen
- label: SOUND
value: Four channel stereo sound, 8 bits D/A converters
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: 15 1/4'' deep x 15'' wide x 5'' high / 20 pounds
- label: I/O PORTS
value: Centronics, RS232c, internal and external disk-drive ports, internal AT IDE port, keyboard, audio stereo output, mouse/joysticks (2), RGB,optional SCSI adapter, Four 16/32-bit Zorro III expansion slots, Three PC AT slots, Video slot
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: 3.5-inch high density disk drive (880 KB/1.76 MB formatted) and 120Mb hard-drive
- label: OS
value: AMIGA WorKBench 3.x, AmigaDOS 3.0
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in PSU
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- emulators
- links
- videos
forum_thread: 51
photos:
- title: AMIGA 4000/040
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga_4000_2.jpg
- title: AMIGA 4000T
subtitle: ''
text: The TOWER model.
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga-4000t_1.jpg
- title: 'AMIGA 4000T #2'
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga4000t_2.jpg
- title: AMIGA 4000/040 UC
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga-4000_3.jpg
- title: AMIGA 4000/040 LABEL
subtitle: ''
text: Note the "intel outside" sticker !
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga-4000_4.jpg
- title: REAR
subtitle: ''
text: This is the rear of an Amiga 4000 equiped with a video-toaster.
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga4000_toaster_1.jpg
- title: 'REAR #2'
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/commodore_amiga4000_rear_2.jpg
adverts:
- title: AMIGAWORLD PREVIEW
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to Jun Suzuki [web site](http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tarucus/museum/cool/cool.htm)
image: /media/museum/pubs/commodore_amiga4000_pub_1.jpg
hardware:
- title: MIDI GOLD 500
subtitle: by Golden Hawk Technology
text: |-
This is a MIDI interface for the Amiga 500, 2000, or 3000...
It features :\
\- one MIDI In\
\- two MIDI Out\
\- one switchable Out/Thru\
\- one MIDI/Serial Switch\
\- one Out/Thru Switch
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga_golden-hawk-midi-interface.jpg
- title: AMIGA 1300
subtitle: Genlock
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1000_1300-genlock.jpg
- title: MEMORY EXPANSION BOARD
subtitle: ''
text: 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 MB expansion card here fitted with 2 MB.
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_memboard_1.jpg
- title: VIDEO BOARD
subtitle: ''
text: This board featured 2 MB of RAM and allowed the Amiga to be connected to a standard VGA monitor. All the video modes could be displayed, including the interlace one.
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_videoboard_1.jpg
- title: A570 CD-ROM
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to David Griffith for this picture
image: /media/museum/hardware/amiga_cdrom_a570_1.jpg
- title: HARD DISK CARD
subtitle: ''
text: |-
40 MB SCSI card from SUPRA CORP.
Additional SCSI devices could be connected in chain trough the back connector
image: /media/museum/hardware/commodore_amiga1500_hdboard_1.jpg
emulators:
- title: Amiga Forever
url: http://www.amigaforever.com/
platform: Windows
text: Complete but commercial Amiga emulator
- title: AMIthlon & AmigaXL
url: http://amigaosxl.haage-partner.de/index-e.html
platform: Windows
text: Powerful commercial emulators
- title: WinFellow
url: HTTP://FELLOW.SOURCEFORGE.NET
platform: Windows
text: Probably better at some games than UAE, but not as versatile.
- title: WinUAE
url: http://www.winuae.net/
platform: Windows
text: The best Amiga emulator ? :-)
- title: Max UAE
url: http://maxuae.de/
platform: Apple
text: UAE for Mac OS X
- title: AmigaSYS
url: http://amigasys.fw.hu/
platform: Unix / Linux
text: AmigaSYS is a pre-installed full Amiga OS for WinUAE
- title: Pocket UAE
url: http://pocketinsanity.sourceforge.net/
platform: Other platform
text: Amiga Emulator for Pocket PC
- title: Experimental UAE
url: http://www.rcdrummond.net/uae/
platform: Multiplatform
text: Standard UAE enhanced with features from WinUAE.
- title: MESS
url: http://www.mess.org
platform: Multiplatform
text: MESS now emulates the Commodore Amiga
- title: UAE
url: http://www.freiburg.linux.de/~uae/
platform: Multiplatform
text: '(Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator) for BeOS, Mac OS, Linux, NextStep, MSDOS, OS/2 and Win95/NT : Homepage.'
links:
- title: Amiga animations
url: http://www.randelshofer.ch/animations/
text: A collection of Amiga Animations. This is the only site where you can see them online!
- title: Amiga Interactive Guide
url: http://amiga.emugaming.com/
text: Excellent site ! A lot of very interesting infos there.
- title: Amiga Island
url: http://www.virtualpast.de/
text: Excellent site with ROMs to download!
- title: Amiga Web Directory
url: http://www.cucug.org/amiga.html
text: ''
- title: AMIGART.COM
url: http://www.amigart.com
text: Nice site with Amiga news
- title: Back to the Roots
url: HTTP://WWW.BACK2ROOTS.ORG/
text: Amiga culture, guides, huge collection of legally downloadable software, and much more.
- title: Lex Site - Amiga Hardware Database
url: http://amiga.multigraph.com/
text: The website title says it all!
- title: NetBSD-Amiga
url: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/amiga/index.html
text: ''
- title: Old Computer Mags
url: http://www.old-computer-mags.com/
text: Scans of old computer and videogames magazine
- title: Recorded Amiga Games
url: http://www.recordedamigagames.org
text: Speedrun, longplay and misc videos of Amiga games and more.
- title: RetroPack
url: http://www.retropack.co.uk/
text: Website dedicated to selling original Amigas, CD32s and Amiga/CD32 Games.
- title: The Amiga Monitor
url: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/MikeWebb/amhome.html
text: ''
- title: The Big Book of Amiga Hardware
url: http://www.amiga-hardware.com/
text: Pics & info (pinouts, jumpers etc.) for just about every piece of Amiga related hardware there is
- title: The English Amiga Board
url: http://eab.abime.net/
text: Community site for Amiga fans
- title: World-Wide Amiga - Online!!
url: http://www.amiga.org/
text: ''
- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
text: Reviews of Amiga software, hardware
videos:
- title: Commodore Amiga commercial - EXIT
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8721405286052618769&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 41 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 500 commercial
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5737538578208665725&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 29 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 1000 commercial
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5356507595228759374&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 32 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 600 italian commercial
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-768109352967297990&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 19 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga packs commercial
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdaMq8JLyHA
text: 'Length: 21 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga TV Ad - Celebrities
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEFoj6sbDjU
text: 'Length: 29 s'
- title: Commodore Amiga 500 promotional video
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=9038863557655975739&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 15 min 06 s'
- title: 'Computer Chronicles: Amiga & Atari (1985)'
url: http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8978343825632445107&hl=fr
text: 'Length: 29 min 18 s'
related:
- /museum/commodore-amiga-1000
- /museum/commodore-amiga-1200
- /museum/commodore-amiga-1500
- /museum/commodore-amiga-2000
- /museum/commodore-amiga-2500
- /museum/commodore-amiga-3000
- /museum/commodore-amiga-500
- /museum/commodore-amiga-500-plus
- /museum/commodore-amiga-600
- /museum/commodore-amiga-600hd
- /museum/commodore-cdtv
oc_id: 32
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230327210005/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=32
date: '2023-03-27'
---
In 1992 Commodore launched the most advanced Amiga yet. The A4000 used the AGA chipset to allow it to show 256,000 colours on screen from a palette of 16.8 million, as well as the new Workbench 3 that introduced the concept of among other things, datatypes. The Amiga 4000 is one of the most powerful Amigas ever made.
As a replacement for the A3000 & A3000T, the A4000 was a combination of the A2000 (big box), A3000 (vertical slots (integrated hard drive controller) and A1200 (AGA chips). As standard it allows memory expansion for up to 18Mb RAM on the motherboard. It shipped with either a 25 MHz 68030/68882 or 25 MHz 68040 CPU. The A4000 was never intended for release, but was a prototype for a system known as the A3000 Plus which was a considerably better machine. The machine was eventually cancelled and the A4000 drafted for release due to the low cost of development.
Like the [Amiga 3000](/museum/commodore-amiga-3000/), the 4000 has 2 MB of chip RAM (reserved for its coprocessors) and 4 MB of fast RAM (used directly by the 68040).
The Amiga 4000 mainboard was planned to use the AAA chip (the video custom chip designed to replace the AGA chip), the AAA chip was theoretically designed to use 8 MB FastRAM (see the "Chip RAM : ON=2MB, OFF=8MB" jumper on the motherboard), unfortunately, Commodore didn't use this chip, so this jumper is absolutely useless.
There's an internal 120 MB IDE hard disk and 4 expansion slots: three ISA slots (for PC compatible cards) and one dedicated 32 bit video slot used for graphics cards.
The Amiga 4000 works under WorKBench 3.0, a very powerful and flexible multitasking system which looks like UNIX, it can read & write directly to DOS 1.44 Mb floppy disks.
The Amiga 4000 was mainly used for video production but was in direct competition with the PC compatibles when most of its major products (ImageIn, Real 3D, & Lightwave, to name a few) were adapted for Windows.
There were in fact two models of Amiga 4000 :\
\- the **A4000-040** released in September 92 with a Motorola 68040 Processor, 6 Mb RAM, internal 3.5" 1.76 Mb Floppy Drive and 120 Mb IDE Hard Drive,\
\- and the **A4000-030** released March 93, with Motorola 25MHz 68030EC processor, 4Mb RAM (2Mb Chip, 2Mb Fast), 3.5" FDD, 120Mb hard disk, etc.
There was even a more powerful successor called **Amiga 4000T** ("T" stands for Tower). The A4000T is basically an A4000 in a full tower case with IDE & SCSI-2 Fast controllers integrated as well as 2 video slots and shipped with a 25MHz 68040 processor.
A lot of expansion hardware has been developed for the 4000/1200 : Video cards (2000 x 1500 in 24 bit), 3D cards, Wide SCSI controllers and PowerPC 604e/233 MHz accelerator cards.
The Amiga scene is still very active and great software is still being developed.
Source : [Amiga Interactive Guide](http://amiga.emugaming.com/).
**Todd Deery** reports:\
There was at least one other version of the Amiga 4000 available (at least in Canada) -- the Amiga 4000LC. This version contained the 25Mhz LC version of the 68040, which lacked a math coprocessor.
from **Chris Coulson**:\
Here in the UK, the 4000-030 (not sure if this is true for the -040 as well) was also available with an 80MB HD in place of the 120MB drive.
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