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@7 ESCOMMODORE
@1
Yes, yes, yes, FRIGGIN' YES! Commodore has finally been bought by PC
experts ESCOM after 12(ish) months and has been renamed Amiga Technologies.
The date of this buy out was the 20th of April 1995 (A date to remember) for a
wickedly low $10 million US dollars. David Pleasance and Colin Proudfoot are
sadly out of this rat race, but it seems an old favourite is not out for the
count, the C64 is being remade and shipped over for the Chinese market who have
also been given the rights to produce a new low end Amiga. (Excellent! Just
what we need to attract new younger peeps to our excellent machine.) The A1200,
A4000 and CD32 will probably be in the shops by the time this mag is released.
@3[Although, it will be a re-designed CD32 to compete with the Saturn and
Playstation. zYLAX!]@1
The prices of the above machines has not yet been set, but I have been led
to believe that it is going to be cheaper that ever before seen for such a high
spec machine, especially as the new A1200 will have a 68030 proccesor and the
A4000 will have a 68060 proccesor in it. They will be running AmigaDOS 3.1 and
using the rather good AGA chip sets, due to the AAA being shelved permanently
(I heard from one lame brain that it was the best chip set ever (yeah, right)).
The new A4000T began production in September this year and most have been
pre-sold into retail (allegedly).
The future looks rather rosey, as new Amigas will be boxed with Scala MM300
and the new rework of the A1200,A4000 and CD32s (new cases and added CD-ROM for
one thing). There is interest in a RISC system, plus a six million pound
advertising campaign and the promise of Amigas in Escom shops (the old Rumbalow
shops to me and you) in Britian are just around the corner. As for games and
software I have only heard of the inclusion of Scala MM300, but who knows, with
new and better games like Colonization and Super Skidmarks 2, plus utilities
like Real 3D v3 and DPaint V to name, but a few excellent new products that
have come to pass since the end of Commodore. We could have an Amiga boxed
with just about anything, although I hope Directory Opus 5 is included as
standard.
On a sad note, one company to really feel the strain of the Commodore demise
is THE ONE magazine who sadly ceased production with their August issue. They
hopefully are going to set up business again if or when the Amiga market picks
up.
@4 G B I I
O L I N 9T5