Amiga (disambiguation)
Amiga (the Portuguese and Spanish word for "friend" in the feminine, i.e. "female friend") may refer to:
Businesses and products
- AmigaOS, the operating system of the Amiga personal computer
- Amiga Corporation, the company (now defunct) that originally developed the Amiga personal computer
- Commodore-Amiga, Inc., a subsidiary of Commodore International (both now defunct) that developed and marketed models of the Amiga personal computer
- Amiga Technologies GmbH, a subsidiary of Escom (both now defunct) that was set up following their purchase of Commodore International in 1996
- Amiga, Inc. (South Dakota), the original 1997 Gateway subsidiary named Amiga, Inc. (incorporated in the US state of South Dakota)
- Amiga, Inc., the company that currently holds the trademark to Amiga (incorporated in the US state of Delaware)
- Amiga 1000, the first Amiga computer, originally known simply as the Amiga
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Amiga (record label)
Amiga is a popular music record label in Germany. Once an organ of the East German state-owned music publisher VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, Amiga became a label of the Bertelsmann Music Group in 1994.
In 1947, German actor and singer Ernst Busch got permission from the Soviet Military Administration in Germany to create a music publishing house, which was named Lied der Zeit GmbH ("Song of the Times"). This publishing company included the label Amiga. In the 1950s, Lied der Zeit became VEB Deutsche Schallplatten ("German Records"), a state-owned company with a monopoly on record production. VEB Deutsche Schallplatten had a number of labels, each with a different purview; Amiga releases included folk, jazz, pop, rock, Schlager music, chanson, and children's music.
After the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic, most of the former East German public state enterprises were dismantled or sold to private investors. The Amiga label and catalog were acquired by Bertelsmann Music Group in 1994, which in turn was dissolved into Sony Music Entertainment in 2008.
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