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- 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
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- 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.
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