Don´t you almost wish Commodore was back???

[silkworm]

Im>bE wrote:

Commodore made the most perfect machine ever,
and so.. they could not make anything better.

Commodore made nothing apart from mistakes, the original A1000 concept was made around 1981 (same year i was born incidently  by a handful of people who had no affiliations with any company (apart from one of the blokes used to work at Atari i think). All they needed was funding, and as far as i remember no-one else was interested apart from Commodore, all they did was to invest and promote the Amiga, and of course reap the rewards then f*ck it up. Spose it was better than making calculators (from CBM's point of view).

Sometimes I wonder what wouldve happened if Commodore UK bought Commodore instead of Gateway, i always thought David Pleasence had the right idea.  Or if IBM hadnt said no all those years ago, imagine that, the "IBM Amiga"

eek

[GadgetMaster]

Commodore is back!

Just not the way you would expect. :-D

See HERE

[Dan]

GadgetMaster wrote:
Commodore is back!

Just not the way you would expect. :-D

See HERE

That is not good!!
They threaten people who uses the Commodore name for a website or an emulator and at the same time encourages piracy

Tulip estimates that there are still 6 million Commodore users, who can choose from a range of 6,000 games which were developed for the system.

:-?
That is the same standard as one expects out of Genesi and Amiga DE Inc

[DonnyEMU]

Please, take it from someone who had developer status with CATS, who worked for a dealer, etc.

"Which Commodore are you talking about?" seriously not CBM (USA), Commodore UK, or Commodore Germany.. You are talking about the parent division who was siphoning profits from the Amiga to stay afloat. The clones never made them money and they knew it. That's why they were working on Hombre etc..

Commodore-Amiga, Inc. (yet another commodore company) was the bread winner and US Amiga sales saved the company on more than one occaision and we never sold "clones" in our C= 8bit and Amiga only store. The "clones" made quick bucks for Commodore cause it took them no technology investment to make them.

Genesi is not killing the Amiga.. If anything they are providing their own platform with good support and a product that should be of great happiness to the community. They have something that's not "Vapor" like OS4.  

If it was the case it's already "dead" Genesi has a great looking product that's well supported that is amiga compatible to a certain extent and is a cool platform onto itself. We need to stop calling it an Amiga. It isn't marketed as one. It just looks like the old OS that Amiga Inc. never developed themselves. It was Commodore who did that, so give credit while it was due.

I was in Seattle/Snowqualmi, WA area in July and the "Amiga" offices didn't even look open to me, because I wanted to visit them. Yeah and I was there for a Microsoft conference.  I feel like alice going thru the looking glass everytime I hear about "Amiga Inc.".. Maybe they will drink the right potion and grow bigger...