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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Retail News / Sales => Topic started by: Chathurawind on June 17, 2004, 09:13:27 AM
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Commodore International BV, owned by Tulip Computers, will be holding a press conference June 17th.
Click here (http://archief.e-mark.nl/9923/) for more information.
Go here for the Web Feed:
http://www.commodoreworld.com/press/
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Submitted by Red. Sorry.
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smell of new business ;-)
. . . better late than never.
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Watching it now, they're talking about the C64, coming back in some sort of emulator, etc.
Suppose I'm waiting for that Commodore Amiga announcement ;-)
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Commodore coming back.. heh, retro :-)
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They make some mp3 players and such, and they gave them names like (e)Vic, Pet, etc. Lame IMHO.
Their web site is now open, but there is not a signle sign of commodore feeling there...
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Don't forget they are true successors to the Commodore brand :-D Can I hear Commodore Anywhere? :lol:
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Do you think they will re-launch the brand or just fade away, because it looks like there are no new products to market.
Does anyone know any different.
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The brand name alone is not going to sell their stuff.
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Commodore sounds a much better brand name than Tulip computers :lol:
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Hoya!
Hum... Maybe something WAY cool is in progress...
/dream mode ON
Commodore buying Hyperion and launching the AONE/OS4 bundle for my birthday...
/dream mode OFF
Hope they lost Mehdi Ali's phone number... :-D
Be funky
M A D
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This reeks of lameness all around. They're selling music (????) on the commodoreworld.com website?
And their new 'product' is a plug in your tv thingamgajig like the Atari joystick thing with a bunch of Epyx games. I wonder if the original authors get paid any royalties.....
And what's with the lame italics C= logo. Bah, I hope Tulip goes bust sooner than later.
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BWAHAHAHAHAAH :lol:
They're offering C64 games for download. As long as you get a 5EUR/month subscribtion. :-D
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This reeks of lameness all around.
Agreed. Tulip never was one of my favorite companies (after harrasing Jerri Elsworth, and all)... And, now, browsing that site has greatly lowered my opinion of their offerings, as well.
A C64 branded joystick with Epyx games that are available free on Back2Roots? But just because they are available free there for personal download... Doesn't necessarily mean that they're totally free to do with what they like. I wonder if Tulip secured the proper rights from Hasbro (who IIRC owns the rights to the old Epyx games). If they did get squared away with whoever is the owner, that would improve my opinion of the product... If not, it should be fun to watch Hasbro bludgeon Tulip to death. :lol:
[EDIT]: I think Infogrames actually purchased the rights to these games from Hasbro a year or two ago... Anyhow, it'll still be interesting to see if Tulip was on the up-and-up, or not...
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I thought c64 games were free? I forget but I downloaded about 2000 or so off some ftp site..I forget the name. I agree though..joystick thing is lame.
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I thought c64 games were free?
A lot of them are free for personal use, but all rights are still reserved.
Personal use is quite a different thing from being included in a compilation that is to be sold for profit........
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Buy famous brand name, offer lame products with no future, try to live off brand name.
Hmm...sounds familiar.
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Harassing Ms. El(l)sworth? Was it that she named her baby Commodore 1 at first or something?
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Yeah all the stuff they have is pure junk. It looks like they think the name alone will sell it. Its a shame that our parrent company name has been used like this.
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Harassing Ms. El(l)sworth? Was it that she named her baby Commodore 1 at first or something?
(Is there 2 L's in her name? If so, I apologize.)
Anyhow, yes, Tulip forced the name change. There was a short-lived news post somewhere about the threats of legal woes. Anyhow, originally, I think they were out to kill the entire project. :pissed:
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That website, and everything on it is s***!!!
:-o
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If this is true, it's a good start. At least they didn't focus on one particular item. Ya know those "Atari" joysticks and "Namco" game joysticks you can simply plug into your TV or VCR are out there and in America they're selling around $30.00. It wouldn't be a bad start to put a few thosand of those across the nation to see if they sell well. Toy stores and as well as Best Buy & Circuit City would be ideal.
Food for thought.
:-)