Editing Amiga 1000 (section)

== Reception and impact ==
In its product preview, ''[[Byte (magazine)|Byte]]'' magazine was impressed by the computer's multitasking capabilities and the quality of its graphics and sound systems. It also praised its text-to-speech library for voice output, and predicted that the Amiga would be successful enough to influence the personal computer industry.<ref name=Byte/>{{Rp|100}}

The Amiga 1000 was released to positive reviews. ''[[Compute!]]'' lauded it as an inexpensive, truly general-purpose computer that might break preconceptions dividing the microcomputer marketplace. In this case, it was capable of outperforming most business, as well as arcade game machines and delivering sampled sound, making it suitable for offices, gamers, and digital artists.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/1985-09-compute-magazine/page/n17|title=The Amiga: An In-Depth Review|last=Halfhill|first=Tom R.|magazine=[[Compute!]]|date=September 1985|access-date=December 16, 2022|issue=64|pages=16–28}}</ref> ''[[Computer Gaming World]]'' praised the machine's versatility without any obvious hardware shortcomings and stressed that it was ideal for game designers demanding fewer system constraints.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/Computer_Gaming_World_Issue_5.4/page/n23|title=Amiga: The Dream Machine|last=Freeman|first=Jon|magazine=[[Computer Gaming World]]|date=September–October 1985|access-date=December 16, 2022|volume=5|issue=4|pages=24–25, 34}}</ref> ''[[Creative Computing (magazine)|Creative Computing]]'' magazine had only minor criticisms for what they otherwise called a "dream machine." These criticisms were directed toward its case quality, the disk drives slowing during certain operations, and not finding an <code>[[AUTOEXEC]]</code> command in AmigaDOS, though the marketing vice president of Commodore, Clive Smith, assured the magazine that later production units would address most of its complaints.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1985-09/page/n33|title=Amiga – The Message is the Medium|last=Anderson|first=John J.|author-link=John J. Anderson|magazine=[[Creative Computing (magazine)|Creative Computing]]|date=September 1985|access-date=December 16, 2022|volume=11|issue=9|pages=32–34, 38–41}}</ref> Months after the Amiga 1000 was released, ''[[InfoWorld]]'' offered a mixed review. It praised Intuition and the customizability of Workbench, but took issue with the operating system's bugs such as memory overflow and screen flickering of single lines as a result of their being interleaved when displayed in high resolution mode. It also criticized the sparseness of the software library preventing the publication from fully realizing the computer's potential.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cC8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41|title=Commodore's Amiga Potent, but Troubled|last=Lima|first=Tony|magazine=[[InfoWorld]]|date=December 16, 1985|access-date=December 16, 2022|volume=7|issue=50|pages=41–42}}</ref>

In 1994, as Commodore filed for bankruptcy, ''Byte'' magazine called the Amiga 1000 "the first [[multimedia computer]]... so far ahead of its time that almost nobody—including Commodore's marketing department—could fully articulate what it was all about".<ref>{{cite web|last=Halfhill |first=Tom |url=http://byte.com/art/9408/sec14/art1.htm |title=R.I.P. Commodore 1954-1994 |publisher=Byte |date=August 1994 |access-date=2015-01-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961019193808/http://byte.com/art/9408/sec14/art1.htm |archive-date=October 19, 1996 }}</ref> In 2006, ''[[PC World]]'' rated the Amiga 1000 as the 7th greatest PC of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,8-c,systems/article.html |title=The 25 Greatest PCs of All Time &#124; TechHive |publisher=Pcworld.com |access-date=2015-01-22 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060828031746/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id%2C126692-page%2C8-c%2Csystems/article.html |archive-date=August 28, 2006 }}</ref> In 2007, it was rated by the same magazine as the 37th best tech product of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Null |first=Christopher |url=http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,9-c,technology/article.html |title=The 50 Best Tech Products of All Time |magazine=PCWorld |access-date=2013-07-24 |archive-date=July 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726191749/http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130207-page,9-c,technology/article.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Also that year, [[International Data Group|IDG Sweden]] ranked it the 10th best computer of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://techworld.idg.se/2.2524/1.88896/basta-datorerna-genom-tiderna-plats-4-12|title=Bästa datorerna genom tiderna: plats 4-12|language=sv|trans-title=The best computers of all time: places 4-12|last=Nordlin|first=Bo|work=[[IDG]]|date=September 15, 2007|access-date=December 16, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221216081143/https://techworld.idg.se/2.2524/1.88896/basta-datorerna-genom-tiderna-plats-4-12|archive-date=December 16, 2022|url-status=live}}</ref>