Commodore going to start making high end PC's

Thought Commodore were well dead and buried. Haven't heard the name in context of selling new stuff for years.

After the Amiga was sold to Escom, and then went on to other venders, I lost track of what happened... Escom made a right mess of things really. They released Amiga 1200's to a market that was warming to higher powered multi-media computers, no wonder it went under really.

Amiga OS was great, but you can't rest on a pretty easy to use, yet powerful JIT O/S when computers were moving into FMV content, and 3D graphics and CD quality music...

Still, best of luck to them. If I want retro gaming, I'll just get an emulator. :D Or watch youtube videos of retro games.
 
Escom clearly bought Commodore for the name, it was then who split the Amiga operations from the commodore name and eventually sold it to 'Gateway Computers'. Two gateway employees then took over the license (Amiga OS) to create 'Amiga Inc', which i believe is were it still lies to this day.

If the Amiga brand had not been sold on then it would have died at the same time as Commodore, however I'm still surprised by the size of the Amiga community. A very dedicated fan base thats for sure, although i still feel its was the best home computer of the 80's/90's, had the run on PC's for a while. :p
 
Do you think they'll build in a "Reset" switch this time? ;)

also they might integrate the "Turbo Loader" in the ROM?
 
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A Quad core Spectrum , "Horace goes Skiing " with full 16xAA..............

And rubber keys ! :D

Retro-Tech.

Mark
 
Actually if you look, amiga has a web address, and a place where folks hang out, so yes surprised folks are still into the Amiga. I honestly thought that brand was pretty much only for retro nowadays.

Still, was an awesome machine for its time. Shame Commodore marketed badly, and went under. I remember the hash that was the CD32. I don't think Commodore really knew what they were, the CDTV was way ahead of its time, being the first CD based computer, but folks didn't really know what is was if all truth told.

Plus the CDTV was very expensive, needing many add ons, the PC grew, and when the MPC level PC's were around, you needed a base 486, with a 16bit sound card, 2 x CDROM drive and you could play the 7th guest. Excellent for its time, way ahead of the Amiga 1200. Sadly, it took a degree in computers to get your autoexec and config files up to mount and use the CD, and you needed to know DMA and IRQ settings backwards to get a soundcard working.

Still the PC has now matured into a very stable, and powerful games platform, I doubt the Amiga would ever make a dent into such a large userbase. The Amiga O/S was excellent, based I believe on AT&T *nix systems, but improved to use DEV types etc... The file system was easy, and a file on a folder was the file on the filesystem. Something that took MS years to get right, and only until we got Win95 did PC owners get an O/S that could really provide what Amiga provided for years before this.

Ah, memories of my old Amiga 1200.... How I loved that machine, but time moves on, sadly the Amiga didn't.
 
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Did no-one tell you, those keys were made out of human flesh! ;)
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I often wondered why they felt just right..................Muhahaha :eek:

( Especially with the Chianti and Fava beans mod. )

Mark Lecter
 
TALON1973 said:
actually it was chain"" ;)

and sometimes would be chain"gamename"

load"" also for a few
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oh I know, have my acorn electron here :) i just didnt see a need for the quotes .
but yep your right sometimes it wouldnt work so u would have to put the name of the game inbetween the quotes to get the dam game to load lol

awwww memories!
 
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