ZoneWelcome to my Amiga Zone, a cult computer that was seriously underrated, unpowered and overpriced. We have Commodore to thank for this, a company which is now no more, which is hardly surprising because quite frankly, they were crap.
The Amiga was one of the first machines to have multi-tasking, something that Windows 95 claims to have now, and a Graphical User Interface. It had the wow factor when it was first released. Commodore in their infinite wisdom decided that they would do nothing to the machine, they wouldn't improve it because they thought that the Amiga would always be the best home computer and sell well. They were too short sighted to see the technical advances the games consoles were making. The Super Nintendo and the Megadrive were perhaps the nail in the coffin for the Amiga games market.
Even this didn't get them into action. PCs were catching up fast, they now had sound, amazing graphics capabilities and people were buying them in droves. "We don't need to worry, we'll just release a new Amiga with no improvement in it's design and chop of the numeric keypad, it's bound to sell millions!" . You're probably thinking that this company hasn't got a brain cell between them, and you'd be quite right.
The tragic thing is that it really is an excellent computer. It was involved in producing the special effects in Babylon 5, Star Trek, Seaquest and lots of other series' and films. It has a lot of potential so it's extremely frustrating to see the Amiga bounced around different companies.
Originally, when Commodore went bust, it took over a year for someone to buy the architecture. That company was Escom. Unfortunately, they were about as useful as Commodore and did practically nothing. Their staff in Escom stores didn't even know what an Amiga was! Escom went bust too, not surprising because they did sod all and everyone I know who has Escom PCs have had problems with it. So now after several months of legal wrangling, VisCorp have decided to bite the bullet and buy out Amiga Technologies, the company formed by Escom. There has been no new news from Viscorp and the only thing they can say is "Just hold on there". We have been guys, for the last 3 years almost! Pull your finger out and do something useful!.
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