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Commodore was the worst thing that happend to the Amiga
« on: April 07, 2005, 04:35:36 AM »
Personally I wish they could've stayed Independent What do you guys think?

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Re: Commodore was the worst thing that happend to the Amiga
« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2005, 09:49:19 AM »
Hey guys

The way I mean 'Worst' is

1. Quality control problems

A. I’ve heard many times about people going through 3 to 4 Machines before getting one that worked.
B. The 1084 Monitor shipped with defective transformers known to be defective by Commdore

2. Questionable decisions about which machines to produce

A. A500+ What the heck was the idea here? Useless release of an already old design
B. A600 Same as above an old ECS design with surface mounted chips.. Bad idea
C. 4000 released instead of the much better 3000+ Scandoubler on 3000 but removed on 4000 Why?

3. Commodore undercutting dealers

4. No advertising for the Amiga… What responsible company tries to sell their product only by word of mouth?



Indeed Commodore saved the Amiga from likely vanishing early but only to turn around and kill it later

Gary
Amiga 2000/10Meg Ram/A2320 card/50MegHD
Amiga 600/512k Ram/250 meg HD
3 Amiga 500\'s/1gig ram