RIP Atari, a legend passes
21 January 2013, 09:51 PM
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RIP Atari, a legend passes
Atari has filed for Bankcruptcy
http://news.sky.com/story/1040846/ga...for-bankruptcy
A Sad day
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I grew up with Some of Nolan Bushnell's finest stuff,
Tempest
Missile Command
Asteroids
Mart
http://news.sky.com/story/1040846/ga...for-bankruptcy
A Sad day
,I grew up with Some of Nolan Bushnell's finest stuff,
Tempest
Missile Command
Asteroids
Mart
21 January 2013, 10:09 PM
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ahh, the devil is in the detail. The companies int eh us have filed for bankrupcy protection due to the parent comapny in france goign **** up. Game developer arm have been keeping the whole company afloat for years apparently
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21 January 2013, 10:13 PM
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I still have two Lynx in a drawer somewhere, one still works afaik! Great bits of kit. Also had an st 520 and a jaguar.
Played AvP on the jag at an old school gaming night in Aldershot last year and it still looked great for a 20 year old console.
Shame to see the old gaming giant in such a state although I'm amazed it took this long, considering.
22 January 2013, 05:09 AM
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Atari disappeared a long time ago (in 1984) and then it resurrected under Jack Tramiel with the Atari 520ST.
I loved my 2600 when I was a child and then I learnt how to program properly on an Atari 400 (Basic, 6502 Assembler) and then had most of their machines (800, 130XE, 520ST).
And then it really lost out to the Commodore (Amiga) and they both lost out to consoles and the PC.
I loved my 2600 when I was a child and then I learnt how to program properly on an Atari 400 (Basic, 6502 Assembler) and then had most of their machines (800, 130XE, 520ST).
And then it really lost out to the Commodore (Amiga) and they both lost out to consoles and the PC.
22 January 2013, 10:26 AM
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First games console I ever owned (jointly with my brother 
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Possibly the best Christmas day ever coming down to find that under the tree. Spent the rest of the day playing Space Invaders and Combat
):Possibly the best Christmas day ever coming down to find that under the tree. Spent the rest of the day playing Space Invaders and Combat
22 January 2013, 10:32 AM
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I was late to the party with an Amiga 500 (ooooh the excitement of getting a 0.5MB upgrade not long afterwards!!) - are Commodore still around?
Never had anything against the ST and I LOVED the console above - my cousin had it. Something special about them compared to the latest PS3/whatever.
Never had anything against the ST and I LOVED the console above - my cousin had it. Something special about them compared to the latest PS3/whatever.
22 January 2013, 12:24 PM
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22 January 2013, 01:29 PM
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Had all sorts of legal issues too with dodgy bank accounts in the Bahamas and pollution issues from their factories.
Puchased by Escom, who quickly slapped the brand name on a run of the mill 486DX PC, of whom also went bump.
The operating system is still being developed by some die hard enthusiats
22 January 2013, 02:52 PM
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They haven't gone, the US subsiduaries have filed for bankruptcy protection as they want to split from the loss making french holding company..... aim of carrying on making console/ handheld/mobile games
22 January 2013, 05:56 PM
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Nope went bump shortly after the CD32.
Had all sorts of legal issues too with dodgy bank accounts in the Bahamas and pollution issues from their factories.
Puchased by Escom, who quickly slapped the brand name on a run of the mill 486DX PC, of whom also went bump.
The operating system is still being developed by some die hard enthusiats
Had all sorts of legal issues too with dodgy bank accounts in the Bahamas and pollution issues from their factories.
Puchased by Escom, who quickly slapped the brand name on a run of the mill 486DX PC, of whom also went bump.
The operating system is still being developed by some die hard enthusiats
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx
Copy n edit from wiki;
Escom went bankrupt in 1997. The Amiga brand was then sold to another company Gateway 2000, they sold the Amiga brand without having released any products. The current owner of the Amiga name sell hardware using the Amiga or AmigaOne brand to computer vendors Commodore USA, Eyetech Group, Ltd. and A-Eon Technology CVBA. Unofficial AmigaOne clones were developed by Italian hardware company, Acube.
22 January 2013, 06:33 PM
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Thats not really Commodore, like Amiga, its the reminants of its trading name.
Think of it as modern Triumph which is a company who bought the trade mark rights and is pretty much nothing to do with the old Triumph origins, bar its name.
Having said that: I'd quite like to buy a new C64...even if its just a generic ITX form factor PC stuck inside a replica C64 case (I also fancy a new Triumph Bonneville )
Think of it as modern Triumph which is a company who bought the trade mark rights and is pretty much nothing to do with the old Triumph origins, bar its name.
Having said that: I'd quite like to buy a new C64...even if its just a generic ITX form factor PC stuck inside a replica C64 case
(I also fancy a new Triumph Bonneville )
22 January 2013, 07:13 PM
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Thats not really Commodore, like Amiga, its the reminants of its trading name.
Think of it as modern Triumph which is a company who bought the trade mark rights and is pretty much nothing to do with the old Triumph origins, bar its name.
Having said that: I'd quite like to buy a new C64...even if its just a generic ITX form factor PC stuck inside a replica C64 case (I also fancy a new Triumph Bonneville )
Think of it as modern Triumph which is a company who bought the trade mark rights and is pretty much nothing to do with the old Triumph origins, bar its name.
Having said that: I'd quite like to buy a new C64...even if its just a generic ITX form factor PC stuck inside a replica C64 case
(I also fancy a new Triumph Bonneville )
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