I have two main units, two keyboards, two mise, Commodore 1084s
monitor, Microvitec Series 12 Multisync monitor, The Burst Enectronics
Model VMF-2 Video Mixer/Fader and Great Valley Product G-lock.
type computer
country USA
year 1993
os Workbench 3.0
cpu 32-bit Motorola MC68EC030, MC68882
speed 25 MHz
ram 4 MB
rom 512 kB
hd 120MB
disk 880kB
cd yes (option)
graphic 320 x 256 (32) + many
colors 4096
sound 4 voice 8 bit pcm
ports 2* joysticks, serial, centronics, stereo, RGB, disk, SCSI, keyboard,
Amiga 200 CPU -bus and 4* Amiga Zorro II/III bus Commodore Amiga 4000 030
The Commodore Amiga 4000/30 — The Final Desktop Amiga
Released in October 1992 alongside the A1200, the Commodore Amiga 4000 was the high-end desktop Amiga featuring the new Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) chipset and a choice of 68030 or 68040 processors. The A4000/30 — with its 25 MHz 68030 processor — offered the complete AGA graphics experience in a full desktop chassis with four Zorro III and two video expansion slots, making it the most expandable and capable Amiga mass-produced by Commodore. It represented the Amiga platform at its most mature, arriving just as Commodore’s financial difficulties were reaching their terminal phase.
AGA in a Professional Context
The AGA chipset in the A4000 context was particularly powerful when combined with the machine’s faster processor and expanded memory. The new display modes — including 256-colour and HAM8 (262,144 simultaneous colours) — enabled photo-realistic image display that was genuinely impressive by 1992 standards. Video production applications, ray-tracing software, and the NewTek Video Toaster 4000 (which replaced the A2000 Video Toaster) took full advantage of the A4000’s capabilities, maintaining the Amiga’s status as the affordable professional video production platform.
The Zorro III Advantage
The A4000’s Zorro III slots provided 32-bit expansion bandwidth that the A2000’s Zorro II could not match, enabling faster SCSI controllers, high-speed networking, and graphics accelerators. Professional A4000 configurations with additional RAM, accelerator cards, and hard drive arrays were genuinely competitive with much more expensive Unix workstations for video editing and 3D rendering applications.
The End of an Era
The A4000/030 was among the last Amigas produced before Commodore’s bankruptcy in April 1994. It represents the Amiga platform at its commercial peak — technically excellent, professionally capable, and beloved by its users — caught in the tragic circumstances of a company that could not translate technical excellence into commercial survival. Surviving A4000 units are today treasured by enthusiasts who continue to develop new software and hardware expansions for the platform.