Scala - 25 Years - looking back

[Borut]

Here is an interesting read about the beginning of the Scala company I found recently.

... "Then we cut some features and made the MM100. Sold over five million of those for the Amiga. Pretty astounding when you realize they only made about ten million Amigas. It was bundled with every Amiga in the last few years...

I remember the early years better than the later ones because it was just so much more fun. The ultimate underdogs, but we always had the most amazing software. We did tricks that Apple only could do after OSX. Ten years ahead of Jobs the guru"…

http://scala.com/scala-turns-25-looking-back-at-floppy-discs-and-acid-wash-jeans-on-the-chicken-farm/

[Kesa]

They made 10 million Amigas? I thought they sold about 3-5 A500's with non of the other models coming even close to this.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Only "semi-official" numbers I know of:

http://www.amigahistory.co.uk/sales.html

[Matt_H]

In the mid-90s, Amiga Format reported that the 6 million mark had been passed a few years earlier.

[prowler]

Where I work, they use Scala as a presentation/notification system on some rather large displays. It runs on Windows now days.

[magnetic]

I can tell you guys there are STILL Amiga based SCALA systems deployed and in use in the united states.

Also the PC SCALA sucks compared to an aga amiga scala setup. (The scrolling is horrible)

[ajlwalker]

They made 10 million Amigas? I thought they sold about 3-5 A500's with non of the other models coming even close to this.

I seem to recall that was the figure used during the sale of Commodore assets by the liquidators.

[cecilia]

They made 10 million Amigas? I thought they sold about 3-5 A500's with non of the other models coming even close to this.

as soon as Newtek came out with their Toaster Amiga's sold like hotcakes..and yes, it was in the millions in the US

[toRus]

I knew more than 100 people having an Amiga (or 2) in my country back in the day and I would lie if I'd say I am a sociable guy or that my country is big ;-)

Out of any estimate I would take the larger one and wouldn't feel bad about it.

[Borut]

as soon as Newtek came out with their Toaster Amiga's sold like hotcakes..and yes, it was in the millions in the US

So You don´t think that most Amigas were sold because of the games? Remember, the best selling model was the A500 - unexpanded (not counting the expansions of 512 kb and additional diskdrives)

[cecilia]

So You don´t think that most Amigas were sold because of the games? Remember, the best selling model was the A500 - unexpanded (not counting the expansions of 512 kb and additional diskdrives)

I don't know anything about games. I certainly noticed there were lots of games available I just had a different interest in my Amiga.

And I do know there was a sudden and huge increase in Amiga's because now they could be used for video editing / animation.

[AmigaPixel]

I really had fun with SCALA MM 400 it was the closest I could get to a Video Toaster since I could not afford one at the time. Not that I could do any live switching. I didn't get to use it to it's fullest potential. Before that I used the script based Director program. I think it may have worked with my DCTV too.