The Death of Commodore, 10 year anniversary today.

[redrumloa]

"WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) _ Commodore International Ltd., a pioneer in the personal computer industry, said late Friday it is going out of business."

10 years ago today Commodore went bankrupt.

Boy how time flies.

Source Amigaworld.net forum

[redrumloa]

1994 is a year I'd rather forget about. The C= death was just a minor piece of a bad puzzle that year was. Probably the worst year of my life.

-Edit-
Now that I'm thinking about it, not probably, more like WAS the worst year of my life. I hope to never have another 1994.

Up yours 1994 :pissed:

[Gav]

Yeah it sure was turd news back then :cry:

[GadgetMaster]

Was it really that bad? I mean would you really be in the position you are now (as a successful ebay seller-666 :lol: ) if it had not have  happened ?

Sometimes we don't like the things that ultimately work out in our favour. :ranting:  :bigcry:  :admonish:  :kitty:  :banana:

[Magic-Merl]

Oh my god.  I suddenly feel old.  Was it really so long ago.

Where has my life gone.

[lempkee]

RIP commodore! ..

there was alot of great news in the pipe which could have made mac die and so on...

but most of all there was alot of bad things in the pipe and the death wasnt one of them, imagine if they hadnt done and we would have had to live with their "more and more" commercialism computer styles etc? , afterall thats what killed them!..

pros:

they established an proper foundation which made most of us stay trough thick and thin.

they showed us that there was other things than just PC or MAC and most of all that its allowed to be a PC HATER :-)

They managed to establish a healthy market when there infact wasnt one..

cons:

They managed to kill the market they once made due to killing developers ambitions with "re releases" of old and dated hardware , they also managed to make lame statements which we have had to live with ever since , stuff like "3d aint possible" and so on..

They fought with sega more than anyone else at the time , that made sega use M$ for their os and later on made several consoles (saturn,Dreamcast and Xbox) together with them + releases of their games onto the pc scene (daytona etc).

They kicked alot of their major fighters (i will mention one name only... :-) ( 3DO )for making AMIGA what it once stood for..
(that said the comunity turned that over the time again luckily)

They never updated their SDK's and was poorly aimed at cross developers (why there was alot of bad ports :-( ) .


ALL that said , i think honestly 2003 was a worser year than 1994 ..

[itix]

It is still like it happened yesterday. Time really flies... But past years have been very cool. Golden 80s is never coming back but we had a chance to have small taste of it :-)

[blubbe]

Golden 80:s is here for a short commercial revival, enjoy while it lasts, it probably was
and will be my favourite decennium

[redrumloa]

Was it really that bad? I mean would you really be in the position you are now (as a successful ebay seller-666  ) if it had not have happened ?

Actually take away colorful coments to forums and be strictly serious, 1994 was an aweful year. I'm not taking about computers, actually I was completely out of computers at that time (about 93-95). The whole C= thing along with other events were just icing on the cake.

But no sense in getting all dark and gloomy here, I was just thinking out loud. Or I should saw typing out loud.

Back on subject. Who here like to kick Gould in the groin? :-)

[Matt_H]

Yeah, I wonder what Gould and Medhi are up to these days?

[gizz72]

Gould :destroy:
and Medhi:destroy: went back to the future to see any changes in the fabric of space and time.

To commodore :angel: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/year.asp?st=1&y=1977

One could only remember/reflect the past and how good the feeling was. RIP C= :angel:

Good day to all Amigans!  :-)

[downix]

Which means next week is the 10th year anniversay from the first time I saw an Amiga, a 1500.

[baderman]

Oh my god. I suddenly feel old. Was it really so long ago.

wake up Neo ;-)...

it will be 10 years then, when I first bought strictly Amiga magazine - polish 'Amiga Magaizne' ;-), earlier I was just buying magazines about games, which mixed Ami,pc,c64,Atari and consoles...Eh, I still remember it, as it was yesterday. My life changed so much, but Amiga, is still with me, even here, in Students hostel ;-)

eh, life ;-), KEEP UP dear Amigians!

[SKAN]

More important, don't forget this date: 20th june.
The year is the same, 1994. On that day, Jay Miner left these shores....  :-(

[cecilia]

yeah, and Jay Miner - and everything he did - is a he!! of alot more important than Commodore and any other company that we've had to put up with.
The FIRST Amiga Hero: Jay Miner
 :pint: