Please, kill the amiga ball

[vic20owner]

One thing about the Amiga I wish WOULD die is that stupid checkered ball.  Come on guys, this is the lamest logo ever.  

Sure it was cool in the early 90s when 3d was the new thing, but today it's almost embarrassing to see an Amiga logo with that stupid ball in it.. seems you can't find a single Amiga backdrop or logo without that ridiculous ball.

I'm am thankful that the AROS guys had enough sense to come up with something new.  While I think an animal for a logo is sort of dated also (playing on the Linux penguin) it's better than a plain old checker boarded ball.

I feel sick everytime I look at it.  It's like looking back at photos of myself in the 80s in a fluorescent shirt with fat boy laces on my checkered vans.

I can't believe one little bouncing ball demo became the entire marketing directive for the whole product line.  How sad!  This is the sort of marketing that let C= sink in the first place and we are carrying on the tradition!

[keropi]

the ball rox, u cannot deny facts.

[Chain]

vote for v, ball is just sick ball

[Matt_H]

I can't believe one little bouncing ball demo became the entire marketing directive for the whole product line. How sad! This is the sort of marketing that let C= sink in the first place and we are carrying on the tradition!

On the contrary, Commodore wanted nothing to do with the Boing Ball. The Checkmark and the color swatches were their marketing icons. It was the post-Escom Amiga Technologies / Amiga International that used the Boing Ball, a pattern that has persisted through to today.

[Oli_hd]

Watch the gateway video and say the ball aint cool.

That said Im more of a fan of the Amiga logo with the diamond over the i.

[HellCoder]

A logo shouldn't change. A new logo, no matter how cool, will never reach the same 'stuff' the old logo brings with it.

[dbrads]

I have just downloaded the Amiga/Boing ball animated mouse pointers for windoze, brill....

Long live the Boing Ball!

Keep the Faith.

[Brian]

The volume of boingball's in the Amiga community would indicate you're in the minority... so is also the remark that you don't feel well about the 80's cause I'm sure many, Many, MANY Amigans absolutley strive to feel just a few of the lovley nostalgic Amiga vibes of the mid 80's and early 90's.


:banana: BOING FOR PRESIDENT :banana:

[itix]

I could not agree more. The checkmark is more lively and you can paint
it in many styles. When you paint a ball from different angles it
always looks the same ;-)

I can't say as I agree with you, considering people still love the Chicken Lips Commodore logo, but there's a poll on the front page, just for you...  

Wayne

[Ancalimon]

a ball represents a gay in Turkish languages.  :crazy:

I"d rather see the old checkmark back.

FaLLeNOnE wrote:
a ball represents a gay in Turkish languages.  :crazy:

How gay....  

Wayne

[vic20owner]

Ok, but to me, a TWO COLOR animated ball doesn't do a machine with a 16.8M color palette any justice.  It could have been done on a C64.  As a quick demo, without OS, showing that the hardware works, it's fine... but as a logo it sucks!

[James]

So far on the poll, people seem to prefer the plain old AMIGA that was engraved on our beloved A500.

James wrote:
So far on the poll, people seem to prefer the plain old AMIGA that was engraved on our beloved A500.

As do I, but it's far less easy to defend on a trademark level.

Wayne