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Re: The Amiga Brand (and Logo)
« on: October 01, 2003, 07:24:45 PM »
While the "suspension bridge" design does appear on the outer slip cover of many packs, it is the serifed italic[/i] Capitals logo that has been consistent!

This is the original commodore logo from their 8bit era! On the A2000 front panel (and keyboard), the "C=" and "Commodore" is WHITE and the leading letter now a CAPITAL. "AMIGA 2000[/i]" is rendered below Commodore in the serifed italic[/i] Capitals.

The Workbench disks (version 1.2) also have this font:






The LAST hardware model, the CD32[/i], also sports this font:




OS 3.1[/i] was distributed and manufactured by Village Tronic GmbH after Commodore International filed for liquidation in 1994:

This was the first version of the OS to be specifically coded taking 24bit Graghics Cards into account. After Escom bought Amiga, the logo and font was changed!

Interestingly, before Commodore the Amiga logo and font was rendered in a continuous neon-type futuristic design:



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