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Title: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: runequester on February 04, 2011, 04:29:39 PM
A bit of a pointless thread for the weekend guys :)

What commodore or amiga logo do you like best of the various ones over the years?

The Commodore "chicken" ?
Boing ball?
THe checkmark?
The slanted Amiga word?

Something else?

I am partial to the rainbow checkmark. I've thought of getting a couple tshirts made with that on the front, and "only amiga makes it possible" on the back, to wear on casual days at work :)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Ral-Clan on February 04, 2011, 04:38:25 PM
This one:

(http://s2.postimage.org/1rnvrmvhg/Amiga_Boinged_3.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1rnvrmvhg/)

Which was actually used in advertisements, brochures and Amiga promotional material in the late 1980s.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Franko on February 04, 2011, 04:42:08 PM
Mine's is the original VIC 20 one, mainly because this is where it all started for me almost 30 years ago... :)

(http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/frankosamiga/Commodore%20Scotland%20Pics/Vic20Logo01.png)

(Sorry bout the quality but the box is nearly 30 years old... :))
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: commodorejohn on February 04, 2011, 04:46:06 PM
Pretty much all of the initial list except the boing-ball. Don't get me wrong, the actual boing-ball demo is kinda neat and must have been amazing at the time, but I just never liked it as a logo at all.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: dammy on February 04, 2011, 04:46:21 PM
Check mark.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: kd7ota on February 04, 2011, 04:50:45 PM
I guess the :chicken: logo ;)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: tone007 on February 04, 2011, 04:50:57 PM
Chickenhead.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: smerf on February 04, 2011, 04:54:39 PM
Hi,

Before Amiga computers, the chicken head,

Amiga computers -->  The check mark

smerf
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: kedawa on February 05, 2011, 03:49:49 AM
Check mark for me.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Matt_H on February 05, 2011, 04:26:00 AM
I always liked Amiga Technologies' logo, particularly the angled red dot above the i in Amiga.

The italicized AMIGA found on the A500 and A1200 is a close second :)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: x56h34 on February 05, 2011, 04:41:51 AM
Checkmark
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: haywirepc on February 05, 2011, 05:44:29 AM
Franko,
 
I had a vic 20 briefly in my youth but I threw it in the trash when I got a c64. Useless piece of shit if you asked me then (or now)
 
except for text games, I never did anything with it.
 
Maybe CUSA is going to make a new vic-20. It will be a 486 running damn small linux and will be a bit more useful than the original vic-20.
They will spend 10 million of their 30 million dollar advertising budget on it so it will sell 4 units instead of their previous record of 1 computer sold.
 
 
:laughing:
 
My favorite amiga logo is the angular plain one that ral clan just posted... No check marks, no boing balls, just the word is enough when its written so artistically.
 
Steven
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Buzzfuzz on February 05, 2011, 06:10:08 AM
Quote from: runequester;612447
A bit of a pointless thread for the weekend guys :)
 
The slanted Amiga word?
 
Something else?
 
I am partial to the rainbow checkmark. I've thought of getting a couple tshirts made with that on the front, and "only amiga makes it possible" on the back, to wear on casual days at work :)

Yep, the The slanted Amiga word like on the A1200 combined with the checkmark :)
All the others are fake copies :roflmao:
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: J-Golden on February 05, 2011, 07:12:32 AM
Wow, I guess I'm in the minority 'cause I like the Boing Ball...:(
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Manu on February 05, 2011, 07:27:21 AM
But of course the checkmark !
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: bakoulis on February 05, 2011, 10:17:15 AM
The rainbow checkmark as present on Amiga 1000 face
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Franko on February 05, 2011, 11:05:41 AM
Quote from: haywirepc;612604
Franko,
 
I had a vic 20 briefly in my youth but I threw it in the trash when I got a c64. Useless piece of shit if you asked me then (or now)
 
except for text games, I never did anything with it.
 
Maybe CUSA is going to make a new vic-20. It will be a 486 running damn small linux and will be a bit more useful than the original vic-20.
They will spend 10 million of their 30 million dollar advertising budget on it so it will sell 4 units instead of their previous record of 1 computer sold.
 
 
:laughing:
 
My favorite amiga logo is the angular plain one that ral clan just posted... No check marks, no boing balls, just the word is enough when its written so artistically.
 
Steven


Looking back at it though when the VIC20 first came out in 81/82, it really was the start of true home computing. For a brief period all we had back then was the calculator like Z80/81 and when the VIC20 appeared with it's 8 colours & real full size keyboard it blew the socks off everyone... :)

It was a great wee machine, the first one I learned to write in "Machine Language" as it was called in them days. Too be honest I never did much on it either other than playing a few games (mainly text adventures) but it was the start of bigger things to come... :)

Just finished during the night restoring two of them to there former glory and have just received in the post 2 16K RAM packs I bought from evilBay for them... :)

I'd rather use these anyday than something CUSA has to sell... :)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: eroom on February 05, 2011, 11:20:02 AM
Without a doubt the Checkmark.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Kesa on February 05, 2011, 11:27:39 AM
I like this one a lot. All you have to do is change the Colonel to Jay Miner and you can't fail. You seriously can't say you can't see the resemblance :)

(http://obesitynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/kfc_logo_file_www_ComVort.png)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Kesa on February 05, 2011, 11:29:31 AM
How does the Commodore logo look like a chicken? :confused:
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: AmigaEd on February 05, 2011, 01:37:36 PM
The Checkmark
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: kolla on February 05, 2011, 01:38:42 PM
Checkmark, definitely.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: JimS on February 05, 2011, 02:15:48 PM
I go for the slanted Amiga text from the a1000 era, with the boing ball second... in fact both together is even better. ;-)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Ral-Clan on February 05, 2011, 02:19:43 PM
Quote from: haywirepc;612604
Franko,
I had a vic 20 briefly in my youth but I threw it in the trash when I got a c64. Useless piece of shit if you asked me then (or now)
 
except for text games, I never did anything with it.
Steven

Wow!  You really have to head on over to Denial to get some of this delusional thinking cleansed.

http://www.sleepingelephant.com/denial/

The VIC-20 is an amazing machine and people are doing incredible things with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8

http://www.mega-cart.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTnRGmdhvI

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4140&start=12
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: foleyjo on February 05, 2011, 02:25:11 PM
I would have to say the Chickenhead

Kesa : The C is the head and the = is the beak
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Digiman on February 05, 2011, 02:33:44 PM
Quote from: smerf;612463
Hi,

Before Amiga computers, the chicken head,

Amiga computers -->  The check mark

smerf


+1
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: klx300r on February 05, 2011, 03:24:12 PM
i like the checkmark and the boing ball best..a combo of both like the A.org logo is cool:afro:
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Tempest on February 05, 2011, 03:46:33 PM
The checkmark...
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: jagoche on February 05, 2011, 04:09:53 PM
Checkmark!
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: KThunder on February 05, 2011, 04:29:17 PM
checkmark all the way baby!
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Darrin on February 05, 2011, 04:29:46 PM
Quote from: Franko;612642
Looking back at it though when the VIC20 first came out in 81/82, it really was the start of true home computing. For a brief period all we had back then was the calculator like Z80/81 and when the VIC20 appeared with it's 8 colours & real full size keyboard it blew the socks off everyone... :)

It was a great wee machine, the first one I learned to write in "Machine Language" as it was called in them days. Too be honest I never did much on it either other than playing a few games (mainly text adventures) but it was the start of bigger things to come... :)

Just finished during the night restoring two of them to there former glory and have just received in the post 2 16K RAM packs I bought from evilBay for them... :)

I'd rather use these anyday than something CUSA has to sell... :)


In my part of the country you either had a VIC-20 or a ZX81.  The choice was a no-brainer for me:  real keyboard, good sound, colour!  I also had the "Super Expander" cartridge for mine which gave it an extra 3KB of RAM, extra BASIC commands and "Hi Res graphics modes" (less said about them the better).

If nothing else, it taught you to make your code as small as possible and to reduce your text output to the screen to the bare minimum.

OUT OF MEMORY ERROR...  oh, not again!


edit:  Checkmark!
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: TheGoose on February 05, 2011, 05:12:31 PM
Another check for the check mark.

Diamond was a good one.

Hate the BB.  :destroy:
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: runequester on February 05, 2011, 06:09:25 PM
Looks like overwhelmingly the checkmark, with a few votes for the "Amiga" as it appeared on the 500 and 1200.

Time to check out one of those custom  tshirt places online me thinks :)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: JimS on February 05, 2011, 08:09:39 PM
Quote from: Kesa;612649
I like this one a lot. All you have to do is change the Colonel to Jay Miner and you can't fail. You seriously can't say you can't see the resemblance :)

(http://obesitynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/kfc_logo_file_www_ComVort.png)


I'd say there was a bit of a resemblance ;-)

(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/981/jayminerkfclogo300.th.jpg)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Arkhan on February 05, 2011, 08:20:36 PM
The rainbow check mark is the best.  It's like the Apple , but better since its not related to Apple ;)


the C= logo looks stupid to me, and always has.  Its like a queer looking postage stamp.

and the boingyball is neat, but it doesn't really do much for me.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Terse on February 05, 2011, 08:35:49 PM
The original polygonal boing ball, not the awful smooth one like in the amiga.org logo.

Hate the checkmark.  It allegedly replaced the ball because marketing said that they needed a rainbow mark to make consumers associate Amiga with color.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: pwermonger on February 05, 2011, 09:03:29 PM
Checmark
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: persia on February 05, 2011, 09:15:19 PM
Checkmark definitely
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: RepoOne on February 08, 2011, 05:10:28 AM
I like the boing ball, but I'm partial to the checkmark.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: coldfish on February 08, 2011, 07:38:29 AM
Coming form the C64 to Amiga.

The C= logo meant more to me, the Amiga logo(s) I hardly noticed.
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: Colani1200 on February 08, 2011, 08:31:13 AM
The checkmark.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3529/3729825678_c8ff562809.jpg)
Title: Re: What commodore / amiga logo do you like best?
Post by: yssing on February 08, 2011, 09:22:35 AM
Chechkmark and then the amiga Technologies logo With the tilted red square.