Yes Virginia there actually used to be print adverts for the Amiga in the US!

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Dude.  Orange, black, blue and white.  The GUI looked like it was in CGA at the time.  One could comment that the Apple GUI of that era - being as it was in B/W (heck it may have even been 1 bit, unsure) - was equally ugly but you can at least say that the "choice" of colors on the Mac had a certain minimalistic functional elegance.  The default GUI colors on the A500 were eye-searingly bad.  Showing it in the ads would've made people laugh, not contemplate purchase.

Of course you could make the argument that it could be tweaked (and it could; I used mine in a pre 2.04 "greyscale"), but if C= had done that how many people who may have bought based on advertising would've gotten the machine home and, upon seeing the horror of 1.3's color choice, assumed it was "broken"?

Guess what, Amiga Los Gatos actually did a study, as I recall, that produced those colors on the default workbench!  Something about clarity.  Yep, ugly!  I always moved the orange to red to at least perk it up a bit!

Bob

[beller]

I never heard of Razzle (must be a European mag), but Playboy is defiantly not what a parent would read. Could you see "Heff's tips for the new dad?" or "The bunnies change diapers?" articles? LOL

No, Playboy caters (or did at that time) to the upperclass male audience (hense the nudie pics), and Commodore should have had an ad to reflect that. Even the (in)famous "2001" Amiga ad would have been more appropriate for the Playboy reader.

And male dads don't like to look at those pics?  Heck, how do you think most of them became dads!!  hehe

Seriously, Playboy was the perfect place to put an advertisement.  Lots of dudes, over 18 and upwardly mobile.  How do you think all those DigiView pinups were created?

Regarding the need to show the difference between the 8-bit and Amiga, back then nobody really understood this, or cared much at the time.  You bought the Amiga for a computing future that wasn't very clear.  Commodore didn't want to market the gaming features because they wanted it to be a serious business machine.  Never happened and CBM flopped around trying to find a market until NewTek gave them video...

Bob

[beller]

Thanks, Jim S.  That jives with what I remembered!


Bob