As we all probably know, Petro sold bunch of Amiga1200s to india around 2000, from which some ended up back here.

We also know that at some point Amiga inc. at least claimed of having 50 amployees in India and i also faintly recall that India had been seen as a region where they were hoping to gain ground with Amigas.

Also that Petro actually sold a bunch of Amigas to India, would suggest to me, that there was already a channel open for Amigas there for him to be able to do that.


All in all, it seems like there ended plenty of Amigas to India, but question is, what ever happened there? Does anyone know?

For as far as i know, we dont have a single Indian in our forums for example, unlike we have even one from Japan, which I dont even recall ever being mentioned alongside with Amiga.


Does anyone know the Amiga history in India at all? Or is there even one?

@Bugala

You and I have discussed the Amiga Inc. side (Ruksun) in many older threads, but for the Petro side...dunno.

Perhaps research what topics are covered in Petro's autobiography, which would be "one" side of the story.

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@Bugala

Your talking bout 2 completly different things here.

The employees in India was most likely just another round if McBill BS.

Petro selling Amigas there probraly happened in a much smaller scale than you might think. There sure was a market to sell them to TV stations to get them the effects used in western TV during the late 80s early 90s on a small budget, but there was no market to sell them to households as home computers (those who could afford something like that would have bought a lowend Win98 PC at that time).

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I seem to remember an Indian retailer with 030 accelerators and maybe genlocks on sale back a number of years ago in the 00's. Not sure if it was Rajan Electronics, which I think are now defunct.

@number6

Yeah, I know we have talked about the 50 employers part, but that wasnt my point, it was more of a proof that there have been talks about India, plus, as pointed out by someone else too, wether there were eployees or not, they were probably unrelated to any activities in Amiga India market, and if they did exist, simply hired coders.

My interest was simply if anyone knows if there ever existed any real Amiga market there, or was it perhaps limited just to some video companies, and even if it was limited to just some video companies, did they ever have a magazine, user group or something there, or anything.

That all in all. Did there ever happen anything in India that we might have missed that would however be interesting to us.

Sometimes even a plan can be interesting even when it havent happened. Like for example it is interesting to hear what other buyers plans for Commodore assests were, although they didnt happen.

So similarly, perhaps for example that company who bought those computers from Petro had some plan that maybe failed, but it would still be interesting to hear the story, including what they think failed it.

Or perhaps someone even knows the whole story of A1200s sold by Petro. Unfortunately Petros book seems to be in Germany, so i wont be able to read if there is any light to this.

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Or perhaps someone even knows the whole story of A1200s sold by Petro. Unfortunately Petros book seems to be in Germany, so i wont be able to read if there is any light to this.

Yep. An english translation was planned, but I haven't heard any more about that.

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@Topic

Or actually, to word it differently.

Have there ever been any Amigascene in India?

@Bugala


Since many/most ppl in india speak English and the internet is available there as it is here and google is present there, too I rather doubt there was/is an actual scene as virtually no Indian ever popped up here. They would have found these community sites (google.co.in gives amiga.org as one of the very first results if you type in Amiga).

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Kronos wrote: @Bugala Your talking bout 2 completly different things here. The employees in India was most likely just another round if McBill BS. Petro selling Amigas there probraly happened in a much smaller scale than you might think. There sure was a market to sell them to TV stations to get them the effects used in western TV during the late 80s early 90s on a small budget, but there was no market to sell them to households as home computers (those who could afford something like that would have bought a lowend Win98 PC at that time).

Can someone help me find the threads on the Amiga lawsuit for both websites, please. It is almost impossible for me to search for them.

Thank you.

Chuck

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Can someone help me find the threads on the Amiga lawsuit for both websites, please. It is almost impossible for me to search for them.

There are a lot of threads and of course multiple lawsuits involving Amiga Inc.

You can get a very good list from the original filing (2007) through resolution by doing the following:

(1)http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/search.php
(2)Enter Amiga Inc. Hyperion VOF - for keywords
(3)Check box for "Search for ALL of the terms"
(4)Click "search"

Also from the "news" search (normal search won't pull these up).
Location: http://amigaworld.net/search.php
And using the same search parameters as shown above with "and" and "news" checkmarked

Official statement on litigation with Amiga Inc.

Please ask if there's a particular item you're looking for and can not locate.

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@Bugala

[QUOTE]You and I have discussed the Amiga Inc. side (Ruksun) in many older threads, but for the Petro side...dunno.[/QUOTE]

Petro spoke about this in Finland earlier this year:

http://www.keepvid.com/?url=www.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2L9wNzFxEh8

@number6 @Bugala
Don't quote me on this but if I'm not mistaken Petro said (in the video above) that an English translation of its book is still planned, he just needs to sell the German edition first to finance it / breaking even, or something like that.

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number6 wrote: @Chuckt Quote: Can someone help me find the threads on the Amiga lawsuit for both websites, please. It is almost impossible for me to search for them. There are a lot of threads and of course multiple lawsuits involving Amiga Inc. You can get a very good list from the original filing (2007) through resolution by doing the following: (1)http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/search.php (2)Enter Amiga Inc. Hyperion VOF - for keywords (3)Check box for "Search for ALL of the terms" (4)Click "search" Also from the "news" search (normal search won't pull these up). Location: http://amigaworld.net/search.php And using the same search parameters as shown above with "and" and "news" checkmarked Official statement on litigation with Amiga Inc. Please ask if there's a particular item you're looking for and can not locate. #6

Thanks but the only thing which comes up is:


Forum Re: Best free c complifer for classic amiga?

@Chuckt

http://www.amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/search.php

(2)Enter Amiga Inc. Hyperion VOF - for keywords
(3)Check box for "Search for ALL of the terms"
(4)Click "search"

I get a ton.

Perhaps you don't have the gadget set for "search all forums"?

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@number6

I couldn't find what I was looking for.

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I couldn't find what I was looking for.

Like I said:

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Please ask if there's a particular item you're looking for and can not locate.

If you don't give me some idea of what you are looking for, I really can't help you.

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@number6

Iirc I remember getting an enquiry for an indian fella on th irc channel around the ruksun days on how to obtain some 2.x roms for a maddog macree cabnet or similar.I sent him to amigakit.

We have members and have had enquiring members from japan and china. Natives and expats.

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@Barana

Looking stuff for maddog macree cabinet doesnt necessarily make him Amiga user. He might just be arcade cabinet hobbyist.

What a blasted thing someone was selling that cabinet here and i missed it since i thought no one would be interested in it since it was broken, so i only did my bid and left it unnoticed and only later, after the bidding time had ended, noticed someone else had bid higher and was even only interested in the inside of the cabinet, so the actual cabinet was even trashed as far as i know. Such a shame..

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@Bugala

amigans in india sure no problem.. all pepole in india ther just sitting around to buy an amiga xone 5000 for cristmas in india to about 1500 british punds.. becuse amiga selling to the masses inted of the classes...evry indian child an teenager has allready saved up to buy a mobo for the price of an house or an allmost new car...


lets hope the amiga xone 1000 replacement board will be cheaper no when ther can get ther hands on cheaper cpu that just dosent gettint disconected with in the producktion is finish...

sarcastic mode off....
i wish you a merry cristmas and a happy new year...
lets hope aeon comes to ther senses and investagate the marked and then sell so cheap as posible so more pepole will buy a board...and then the sales get turned up that way and the productions coast gets trimed down...

@Barana

I seem to remeber at least one Japanese dealer advertising in UK mags I got when I first started using an Amiga in the early nineties so there was even some.

A quick search found this page which has some info about the small Japanese Amiga market.