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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Events => Topic started by: redrumloa on April 29, 2004, 06:45:58 PM
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"WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) _ Commodore International Ltd., a pioneer in the personal computer industry, said late Friday it is going out of business."
10 years ago today (http://www.google.com/groups?q=%22Commodore+International+Ltd%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&scoring=d&as_drrb=b&as_mind=29&as_minm=4&as_miny=1994&as_maxd=30&as_maxm=4&as_maxy=1994&selm=Cp25tx.3q6%40dorsai.org&rnum=10) Commodore went bankrupt.
Boy how time flies.
Source Amigaworld.net forum (http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4354&forum=16)
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1994 is a year I'd rather forget about. The C= death was just a minor piece of a bad puzzle that year was. Probably the worst year of my life.
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Now that I'm thinking about it, not probably, more like WAS the worst year of my life. I hope to never have another 1994.
Up yours 1994 :pissed:
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Yeah it sure was turd news back then :cry:
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Was it really that bad? I mean would you really be in the position you are now (as a successful ebay seller-666 :lol: ) if it had not have happened ?
Sometimes we don't like the things that ultimately work out in our favour. :ranting: :bigcry: :admonish: :kitty: :banana:
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Oh my god. I suddenly feel old. Was it really so long ago.
Where has my life gone.
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RIP commodore! ..
there was alot of great news in the pipe which could have made mac die and so on...
but most of all there was alot of bad things in the pipe and the death wasnt one of them, imagine if they hadnt done and we would have had to live with their "more and more" commercialism computer styles etc? , afterall thats what killed them!..
pros:
they established an proper foundation which made most of us stay trough thick and thin.
they showed us that there was other things than just PC or MAC and most of all that its allowed to be a PC HATER :-)
They managed to establish a healthy market when there infact wasnt one..
cons:
They managed to kill the market they once made due to killing developers ambitions with "re releases" of old and dated hardware , they also managed to make lame statements which we have had to live with ever since , stuff like "3d aint possible" and so on..
They fought with sega more than anyone else at the time , that made sega use M$ for their os and later on made several consoles (saturn,Dreamcast and Xbox) together with them + releases of their games onto the pc scene (daytona etc).
They kicked alot of their major fighters (i will mention one name only... :-) ( 3DO )for making AMIGA what it once stood for..
(that said the comunity turned that over the time again luckily)
They never updated their SDK's and was poorly aimed at cross developers (why there was alot of bad ports :-( ) .
ALL that said , i think honestly 2003 was a worser year than 1994 ..
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It is still like it happened yesterday. Time really flies... But past years have been very cool. Golden 80s is never coming back but we had a chance to have small taste of it :-)
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Golden 80:s is here for a short commercial revival, enjoy while it lasts, it probably was
and will be my favourite decennium :)
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Was it really that bad? I mean would you really be in the position you are now (as a successful ebay seller-666 ) if it had not have happened ?
Actually take away colorful coments to forums and be strictly serious, 1994 was an aweful year. I'm not taking about computers, actually I was completely out of computers at that time (about 93-95). The whole C= thing along with other events were just icing on the cake.
But no sense in getting all dark and gloomy here, I was just thinking out loud. Or I should saw typing out loud.
Back on subject. Who here like to kick Gould in the groin? :-)
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Yeah, I wonder what Gould and Medhi are up to these days?
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Gould :destroy:
and Medhi:destroy: went back to the future to see any changes in the fabric of space and time.
To commodore :angel: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/year.asp?st=1&y=1977
One could only remember/reflect the past and how good the feeling was. RIP C= :angel:
Good day to all Amigans! :-)
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Which means next week is the 10th year anniversay from the first time I saw an Amiga, a 1500.
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Oh my god. I suddenly feel old. Was it really so long ago.
wake up Neo ;-)...
it will be 10 years then, when I first bought strictly Amiga magazine - polish 'Amiga Magaizne' ;-), earlier I was just buying magazines about games, which mixed Ami,pc,c64,Atari and consoles...Eh, I still remember it, as it was yesterday. My life changed so much, but Amiga, is still with me, even here, in Students hostel ;-)
eh, life ;-), KEEP UP dear Amigians!
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More important, don't forget this date: 20th june.
The year is the same, 1994. On that day, Jay Miner left these shores.... :-(
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yeah, and Jay Miner - and everything he did - is a he!! of alot more important than Commodore and any other company that we've had to put up with.
The FIRST Amiga Hero: Jay Miner
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The FIRST Amiga Hero: Jay Miner
and only?
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Hi
Stop living in the past, start living today ;-)
Even if Commodore died 10 years ago, my Amiga is still living and better equiped than ever. It is even more intensive used than ever.
Can't wait until AmigaOs 4.0 is on the market, I will buy an AmigaOne as soon as I can get the money.
Noster
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Hoya!
Erk, TEN years! Time does fly, indeed.
Thank you Commodore for all the GOOD things you did.
F*ck you Commodore for all the BAD things you did.
Thank you Jay Miner for having thought this fantastic piece of computer engineering.
Thank you to Dave Haynie for all your work.
Also thank you to YOU the Amiga Community for being a bunch of godamn mavericks, sometimes annoying, sometimes funny, but ALWAYS funky! :afro:
Also than you to Wayne for setting up this site. :pint:
Amiga? "Fluctuat Nec Mergitur" ;-)
Be funky
M A D
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Nah, Commodore is not "dead"... There are too many die hards around the planet!
These ten years feel like ten months...
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I still have my Developers Application Package in the original envelope from Commodore Westchester postmarked during the last week of April 1994. It's in storage, however I seem to remember that it was sent out almost the exact day they went bankrupt. Probably one of the last things they mailed out :-). Needless to say I never did fill it out and submit it.
Jeff
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Hoya!
Wow! It is a collector's thing now! ;-)
Just like the "I am Amiga Club" t-shirts in a couple years...
/sarcasm mode OFF
Br funky
M A D
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Funny coincidence about this fact. I got my AmigaForever 6.0 today and sat and watched the Commodore Deathbed Vigil (again). Every time I watch that I feel lousy (honest, I get a stomach ache). To think what Commodore could have done if the people in charge knew what they were doing. :pissed:
I gotta go take some antacid... :-o
Pete
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Hoya!
I guess I must buy this video one of these days.
It is a classic but I have never seen it!
/me is ashamed
Be funky
M A D
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Gosh! 10 years have passed already!
I was only 8 years old back then but I still
remember reading about the whole thing in
Pixel (a Greek Amiga magazine). It had an
image of a funeral of all the Amigas in the
front cover. That was quite a sad time. :-(
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Wow! What did you just reminded of! I was travelling to Xanthi from Crete for my holidays, and as I was strolling through Thessaloniki's streets, the dreaded Pixel's cover with the amigas and the graves came to my attention. That was quite a shock!
Can't believe it was so many years ago, I was 15 back then, but it seems like yesterday! I still have that Pixel issue hidden somewhere in my parents' house in Crete. Pixel (arguably the greatest greek computing mag ever) died a slow death (it's hard to survive when you constantly trash the ever-popular PC's), some years later, as did all the great amiga-loving mags I used to read.
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I still have that issue as well. I just think that
the front cover has been torn off and is lost somewhere in the chaos of my Amiga magazines! :-)
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BTW, I'll move to the UK for studies in 4-5 months!
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Wow, what a bad week 10 years ago was. Ayrton Senna, Roland Ratzenberger killed in Formula 1, Commodore go, Rwanda crisis...
Actually, in that context, Commodore going bust ain't that bad... :-(
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KMOS have my faith.
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Rwanda crisis
crisis? massacre you mean!
1994 :destroy:
couldn't we just skip that year? Twas even a bad year for me personally.
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Hey AmiGr, which city/university and which course are you planning to follow?
I myself am not gonna be here next year, since I'm following a one year masters coure.
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I'm going against the current here but 1994 was good for me actually. I came out for the first time (and consequently lost my virginity :-D ), got my first Amiga, and learned how to play the keyboard that year!
-Jamie