The Amiga did not originate under Commodore, and the original business plan was very much a game machine. By the time Commodore snapped it up right under the

The Amiga did not originate under Commodore, and the original business plan was very much a game machine. By the time Commodore snapped it up right under the noses of Atari, that was still the goal. While Commodore changed that goal, the artefacts of that origin is all over the system, from a built in dual "play fields" graphics mode, to the OS support for sprite multiplexing.