Tulip to Bring Back Commodore

[mikeymike]

I'd guess that there's about 5000 active Amiga users around now, excluding emulator only (ie. people that don't own Amigas as well).

[Kees]

oh .. i'd say that you can add a 0 ...

[z5]

On a sidenote, we used Tulip pc's at work for a little while, just long enough to find out that they were complete crap.

We changed to Dell.

[mikeymike]

@ Kees

What makes you think that?

[Waccoon]

6 Million?  What, are they all from underdeveloped African coutries?

[pteppic]

what again?  Thats what they did with the Commodore WebIT which was a complete flop

[Darth_X]

The article was published on a Dutch news site nu.nl. Here is a direct link to the article. Beware, it's Dutch  

Any english translators?

[lempkee]

5000 active amiga users?  hell no...
its more, for sure..

but if they have an pc also etc, then they might not use their amiga as widely..

but then again i think 5000 is far off ..
elbox sold hw to more than that so

anyway its growing again so...

but a nice site where we all could reg would have been nice.. (1 for peg , 1 for a1 and 1 for classic and 1 for emu people..)

[The_Editor]

Do you think it might have something to do with tulip winning THIS ?

[kubyx]

Tulip was SUPPOSED to revive the Commodore 64 back around 3 or 4 years ago. The news was big in the Commodore scene when it was first announced... like I said, around 3 or 4 years ago.

So I dunno if the NU site is pulling our leg, or is reading into things wrong, and giving out completely old and outdated information.

If it's true, then WOO HOO! Just as long as it comes out in the USA! :-D

[Plaz]

I'd guess that there's about 5000 active Amiga users around now,

Sure, there is about 5000 through out the US, Canada  and South America. Added to the other users around the world, that must bring the total to about....... 5600  :-D  

Plaz (who owns 8 that still function in the USA)

[Hooligan_DCS]

I'd estimate between 15-20k. Thats owners, not necessarily people using Amigas as the primary computer. But surely a lot more than 5000, thats for sure.

[Kees]

http://www.commodore.nl ....

Looks like a 2003 site ... and not a 1998 one ...

[Kees]

If Tulip is really going to do this ... they need to be ready for thousands of mails from the Amiga community ... some1 should warn them ;-)

[mepmepmep]

5000 worldwide is just ridiculous... I would say 5000 maybe in  Sweden where I'm from. And I would say that Europeans has alwarys been very fond of the Amiga computer, although it's an american product. Why's that.... What has brought the Amiga to our hearts?? Well I would say that all Swedes, Danes, Finnes and Norweigean people know what I'm talking about.. but what's so special about this product... Sorry, I forgot to mention the Germans, the French and the Italians-- How come this strangely big impact in Europe??

[kubyx]

@Kees:

Who said 1998? Commodore.nl has been around since 1996 with the same message since around 2000. :-)

Need proof? Here is the whois information:

   Domain name:
      commodore.nl (first domain)

   Status: active

   Registrant:
      Tulip Computers International B.V.
      Burgemeester Burgerslaan 40
      5245 NH  ROSMALEN
      Netherlands

   Domicile:
      N/A

   Committed to ADR: no

   Administrative contact:
      W. Nijholt
      +31 73 6405124
      postmaster@commodore.nl

   Registrar:
      KPN Telecom B.V. Operator Vaste Net
      Regulusweg 1
      2516 AC  'S-GRAVENHAGE
      Netherlands

   Technical contact:
      W. Nijholt
      +31 73 6405124
      wnijholt@tulipcomputers.com

   Domain nameservers:
      dns1.tulip.com       194.151.54.10
      dns2.tulip.com       194.151.54.20

   Date first registered: 16-04-1996
   Record last updated: 20-06-2000
   Record maintained by: NL Domain Registry