ddniUK wrote:
But,weren't we all Amiga fan boys back in the day? I wager that fandom didn't stop most of us gathering up a few dodgy floppies along the way...
If you are trying to say that piracy killed the Amiga, you are quite wrong, I'd say. Commodore never sold software, at least not as a software company but as a side-product, its main business was hardware, so piracy would have been even "good" for them: since soft was "easy to obtain", more people would have bought the hardware needed to run it. This has happened to many other platforms: PC, Playstation, even Mac (it was told about Mac that they even gave some sort of "carte blanch" to University students to "pass software around", in the believing that they would then buy a Mac to use it).
Of course, I'm NOT defending piracy, but those concepts shouldn't be mixed. And we all know the cause of the Commodore demise: awful management, including nearly no investment in Amiga promotion and advertising, or announcing a new model while they still had a large stock of the old one (A600 vs A1200).
Saluditos,
Ferrán.
