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Sounds from one of this company’s devices make up the Janne Suni (“YAWN-ay SOO-nee”) track “Acidjazzed Evening”, which rose to prominence when Timbaland was revealed to have plagiarized it for the Nelly Furtado song “Do It”. The Swedish band Machinae Supremacy combines metal music with sounds from one of this company’s devices. Tracker music (-5[1])originated from the MOD file format first used by this company’s products. An audio chip named “Paula” joined chips named “Agnus” and “Denise” in a line of products from this company that include the (*) A1000, A2000, and the best-selling (-5[1])A500. A popular chiptune genre is named for the SID audio chip used in one of this company’s computers, introduced in 1982 and considered the most popular home computer of all time. For 10 points, (-5[1])name this company that made the Amiga family of computers, as well as their namesake C64. (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Commodore International [accept Amiga Corporation before “Amiga”]
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