Explora Commodore, Barcelona Retro Meeting


canseco

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Hello everybody,

Today i had the pleasure to meet people from the Commodore and MSX community for the first time.

Better late than never, ;)

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The schedule was tiny, but packed with good talks and game tournaments.

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Asilo Retro podcast

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DIY MP32C64 with Kopsec

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Myself, beating Tapper compo score, until 17:00PM...

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DJ 303 in da house, ;)

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Old models

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C64 TT Swin Sid

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Hall

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Workshop

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International Karate Plus, 3 players at the same time, ;)

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Commodore PET 2001, C64 and Commodore silver Radio!!

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Some recent spanish software releases.

More pictures coming soon, ;)
 
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Here we go!!

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Manuals

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Magazines

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C64 DTV?

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Amiga Pron

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Some boxes

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Problem?

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WTF is this?

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RetroScroll Stand

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Pixelsmansion Stand

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Trying to fix my C64, bad PLA, bad ;)

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Flyers and MP32C64 prize, ;)
 
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Too bad to see "Amiga" and "Commodore" associated - since they had about nothing to do with each other in the first place, and Amiga was a way better system designed by non-Commodore people than Commodore could have ever created. And let's not talk about the piss poor marketing of the AMiga by Commodore, which basically killed the brand...
 
This video is not mine, but it's good enough to show everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP5V_WbEKvk
 
 
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Well it was either Amiga and Commodore or Amiga and Atari.  I honestly couldn't say these days which of those would have worked out for the best.
Hard to say. Maybe there would have been another option if they had managed to advertise their product a little earlier when it was really revolutionary. Commodore sucked at marketing AND R&D, letting the whole Amiga line get old before moving to the next generation, and even then the AGA chip was already late to the game, and it was supposed to be AAA instead of AGA if they had followed the internal R&D team recommendations instead.... 
 
AIUI Atari made the loan before the Amiga was anywhere near on sale; commodore paid enough to bring the Amiga to market and to pay off the loan to Atari (which, if it hadn't been paid off within a month, would have given Amiga to Atari).  Once they'd taken that loan, it was either Atari, Commodore or an other with large pockets - nothing was being sold yet, so sales don't count.

Of course what happened after commodore bought Amiga out is a matter for the history books.  Bringin out the C128 alongside the Amiga didn't help, and further down the line it perhaps should have held up against the DOS PC a bit better.  But aside from its MIDI interface, the Atari ST was a pretty pedestrian machine in comparison, and who knows Atari wouldn't have similarly despecced the Amiga to get it under the right price point.
 
IMO opinion Amiga was at least partly doomed because people didn't realize the real potential of the (quite nicely designed) OS early enough, needlessly crippling backwards compatibility of later models.
 
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