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Re: differences between uk/us/european amiga scenes
« on: August 19, 2007, 02:07:36 PM »
Kinda depends on what your definition of 'scene' is, but I can confirm around '95 things were pretty much over for the Amiga in the Netherlands. It happens to be the same year I finally retired my trusty old A500 and bought my very first PC. A 75MHz ESCOM (oh the irony) and the -what I lovingly refer to as my- computing dark ages began.

Yes, Amiga Format stayed faithful to the Amiga until 2000 (March IIRC)! CU Amiga said goodbye in October 1998.

The thing with the US was, that the Amiga was never so much embraced like Commodore's earlier machine, the C64. Europeans (and yes, I'm counting the UK as a European country ;-) ) loved the Amiga. In the US Commodore had a 'games machine' reputation, which is probably what drove buyers to more expensive (and technically inferior) alternatives.