Amiga scene not popular in Asia?

[obscurepanic]

How come there wasn't a huge Amiga-related scene in Asia? I speak Korean and I find it very disturbing to see the lack of Amiga stuffs in Korean.

[Matt_H]

Probably because Commodore never really got their act together for Asian language support. Based on DevCon notes, they were working or planning on Japanese at the time of the bankrupcy. Obviously they never finished.

[Forcie]

There is a small community of Amiga users in Japan. The electronic musician Susumu Hirasawa has been using Amiga and Bars & Pipes for many years.

Here is a community site:
http://cfc.amiga.co.jp/

In Japan, the Sharp X68000 scene is kinda like an equivalent to the western Amiga scene.

[OSS542]

There was definitely a user's group in Kyoto until recently.  Almost all of the members moved away over time because of the economy.  The founder was very into overclocking, and had one of the first classic Amigas (non-PPC) to exceed 50 MHz.  He modified his A4000T to get to about 70MHz back in the mid 90's as I recall.  This was no small feat as Amiga support in Japan was almost non-existent, and he had to engineer most of it himself.

If memory serves, there may have been a Amiga user group in Osaka as well back in late 1980s.  I have not heard anything about it in years though.

There was one in Tokyo which was active until about 2005 or so, and had quite some interest in the AmigaOne.  This latter group was fairly active internally, but did not communicate with the Amiga community outside Japan as far as I know.  I believe it has since gone inactive, though I think the website may still be online.

[obscurepanic]

I've discovered that there are handful of MiniMig users in South Korea. That's about it. You know South Korea. 99.9% of this country's OS is Microsoft Windows.

[Karlos]

Probably because Commodore never really got their act together for Asian language support. Based on DevCon notes, they were working or planning on Japanese at the time of the bankrupcy. Obviously they never finished.

A shame really, considering that they weren't averse to alternative systems there. The X68000 platform was pretty successful IIRC.

[dannyp1]

I heard somewhere that the VIC-20 is still huge in Asia.  Maybe in a couple of years they will move on to the C-64 and then the Amiga.  They just need some time.

[Borut]

Back in the time I heard of a clone "WonderTV" which should be manufactured for the Asian market. Don´t know if it ever saw the light - anybody knows?

[MaximvsPayne]

i would like to see more asian users here! amiga-nerds worldwide! :afro:

[MaximvsPayne]

and im wondering if there are more female amiga-users like cammy. maybe we should make a poll - how many female amiga-users are here!

[utri007]

There were Rec WonderTV and lotus pacific a5000?

I really would like to see picture of a5000, any one? It was a500 with cdrom and network if I remember correctly

WonderTV was developed by DCE

[Borut]

There were Rec WonderTV and lotus pacific a5000?

I really would like to see picture of a5000, any one? It was a500 with cdrom and network if I remember correctly

WonderTV was developed by DCE

I have seen some pictures back in time in some print magazines but for me this is no guaranty they realy produced some - DCE? Are U sure?