Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

[Savan]

The worst part is 20 years later, Stupid mistakes/decisions in the Amiga market are still being made.

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Savan wrote:
The worst part is 20 years later, Stupid mistakes/decisions in the Amiga market are still being made.

The Amiga has always attracted stupidity... ;-)

[Vincent]

Gotta laugh at that Vic 20 advert :-D

InTheSand wrote:
but on Red Dwarf series five, in the "Terrorform" episode, I'm 99% sure there's an Amiga keyboard in use.

DVD checked and yes, it is indeed an Amiga keyboard.

I'll see if I can get a grab of it and post it in the pics section.

--edit--

In the meantime, it looks like this one

[AF-Domains.net]

In Red Dwarf Series V they used Amiga's in the episodes, Holoship and Terrorform.

They were Amiga 2000 keyboards.

[PMC]

To draw another parallel with British Leyland, that company too was investing in many brands all competing against each other for sales, R&D funding and development (just like Commodore did with it's PC and Amiga ranges) and suffered from the same lack of long term planning, crippling corporate politics.  

Wonder if Medhi Ali went to the "British Leyland School of Management"?

[boing]

Sigh.

This story isn't entirely accurate.

It's true that CBM was approached by the props guys.  This is when the A2000 was just coming out and was severly back-ordered.  As it turns out, the guy they ended up dealing with as a liason happened to have a strong dislike for Star Trek (maybe he was one of those Star Wars people).  Paramount was willing to pay for the 2000.  But there was a long waiting list and this asshat was unwilling to bump Paramount to the head of the line.





I have no idea why the A1000 wasn't offered to them. Maybe they wanted an HD and felt that it would be ugly with something hanging on the side.  Maybe the Paramount folks didn't even know about the A1000 still being available.

If any one you have an account at http://imdb.com you can feel free to update it with this information.

Incidentally I saw this film (either on opening night or the first matiness the next day) with a group of people I knew from area bulletin boards.  When the Mac came up on the screen we all booed and hissed.  The entire theatre turned around looking at us in utter confusion. There were like 10 of us booing, Minimum.  Their befuddlement was amusing.

Damn fine movie.

[InTheSand]

Hi,

I have uploaded a pic showing the Amiga keyboard in Red Dwarf here, in the photo section.

As for Leyland: yes, BL's ineptitude has many parallels with Commodore... However, at least Commodore had a decent product to start with!

Anyone fancy a drive in the Commodore Allegro?

Or how about an Austin Amiga that crashes every five seconds?!

 - Ali

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InTheSand wrote:
Hi,

I have uploaded a pic showing the Amiga keyboard in Red Dwarf here, in the photo section.

Hey Ali, how many times have I watched that scene and never ever realised I was looking at an Amiga? :-o

It's an A2000 keyboard right? with the long arm on the return key...

[InTheSand]

Heh! It was only last week that I noticed whilst part way through a Red Dwarf DVD marathon!

Saw the "Del" and "Help" keys on their own and in darker brown, and thought "hang on a minute"!!!

Thought it was an A3000 keyboard to start with, but it's missing the plastic stripes along the top, so it does appear to be an A2000 one.

 - Ali