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It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 25-May-2015 6:05:00
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| Yes, you read right! Brian Bagnall's cancelled book, "Commodore: The Amiga Years," is uncancelled and is back for pre-order at Amazon.com. Go to
http://www.amazon.com/Commodore-Amiga-Years-Brian-Bagnall/dp/0994031009/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1432530897&sr=8-1&keywords=commodore+the+amiga+years
The book is the second in the series, the first being "Commodore: A Company on the Edge." The first book covered Commodore Business Machines from 1973 to 1984. The second book should cover CBM from 1984 to 1994. The first book was an expansion of first half of the original, single book, "On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore."
If the second book expands on what was related in the last half of "On the Edge," then not only is the story of the Amiga told but also the stories of CBM's other computers in those later years -- the Commodore 128, the Commodore LCD, the Commodore 900, the Commodore 65, the Commodore 64GS, and the Commodore 64C.
Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm July 18-19 Commodore Vegas Expo v11 - http://www.portcommodore.com/commvex Last edited by RobertB on 25-May-2015 at 06:31 AM.
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 25-May-2015 9:42:49
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 25-May-2015 10:23:45
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I hope I can buy the book from a decent company in the future. Amazon can get ****** as far as I'm concerned. |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 25-May-2015 10:55:26
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Thanks, order placed _________________ AmigaOS 4.1 FEu2 on Sam440ep-flex 800MHz 1GB RAM C128, A500+, A1200, A1200/40, AmigaForever 2008+09+16, 5 x86/x64 boxes Still waiting (or dreaming) for the Amiga revolution... m4rko.com/AMIGA |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 3-Jun-2015 8:48:26
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 4-Jun-2015 6:39:59
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Bagnall's Twitter page says a Kickstarter for this begins on 15th June. It would be much better to hold out for that and you might get extra goodies! Last edited by BigD on 04-Jun-2015 at 06:40 AM.
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 4-Jun-2015 16:53:06
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| WOW! Finally.. great news! A must have for every amigan!
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 4-Jun-2015 17:25:36
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Just added to my Amazon wish list. Have the other books so will get this to go with them. _________________ A1200 ACA1232 128MB Indivison MkIICr Elbox empty Power Tower RPi3 Emulating C64 ZX Atari PS BBC Wii with Amiga emulation Vampire v4 SA |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 14-Jun-2015 21:13:06
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We're coming up to the moment of truth for Bagnall and his unpublished odyssey of a book; Commodore: The Amiga Years! It should be live on Kickstarter tomorrow! _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 15-Jun-2015 15:54:40
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The Kickstarter is up and half funded already. _________________ Test sig (new) |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 15-Jun-2015 21:40:01
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| I've just backed the project. It's up to 83% funded now.
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 29-Oct-2015 20:24:13
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Shucks, it now looks like this is delayed until after Christmas Lets hope it's ready in time for my birthday in February.
On the positive side the reason for the delay is the increase in the number of interviews and material he has collected! It should be a better product in the end. _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 1-Nov-2015 16:44:29
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I am looking forward to that and my signed 1st Edition copy of the Original book _________________ Test sig (new) |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 1-Nov-2015 19:08:02
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Wow! Who is signing the first edition? _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 14-Nov-2017 10:05:55
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Forget pre-ordering, Brian's book is available in the UK NOW! It's only £21.36 from the Book Depository which is £2.62 less than the Kickstarter backers paid (although the exchange rate was probably better 2 years ago ) Yes the backers get a bookmark and the ebook version of the the next installment completing the story up until 1994 (this book seems to finish in 1987 ), but other than that you've all done the right thing BY NOT BACKING THIS BOOK! Yes it's his first Kickstarter but the UK backers have been victims of Royal Mail bureaucracy and Brian NOT being Mr Logistics in this matter
We'll be lucky to get the book by Christmas but you clever NON-BACKERS can buy it today! Just promise to tell me what's like as I've literally been waiting over two years to find out and now I find out I've paid for the privilege of waiting a bit longer!!!!!
So here's the Amazon UK LINK _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 14-Nov-2017 10:09:30
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| @Thread Oh yeah, I forget I also get an Agnus Chip Poster and some replica C= business cards to sweeten the deal so all is forgiven? _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 14-Nov-2017 12:03:20
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The same happened with Wings. The early buyers / those who preordered are the last ones to get the product. Is that a new trend ? _________________ Rock lobster bit me. My Workbench has always preferences. X1000 + AmigaOS4.1 FE "Anyone can build a fast CPU. The trick is to build a fast system." -Seymour Cray |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 14-Nov-2017 12:12:46
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I think it boils down to greed and the temptation to prioritise keeping global suppliers happy rather than the Kickstarter backers that made the product possible! It is easier to keep the backers happy with a digital product by giving the backers access to beta builds of the game as per Tower 57. I'm surprised that this did not occur for Wings. A book is a large physical item that demands research on the logistics of shipping early on in the project, I'm surprised that research was lacking _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 14-Nov-2017 19:43:53
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I think it's in the same category as 'unminimized' and 'unmaximized'. This makes perfect sense to the UI designers among us.
The book: I read the original, and it was good. I skipped the second, not caring all that much about pre-Amiga Commodore, but I might get this one. I still have a bookmark in the MIT book, whatever that was called. I have it around here somewhere; I should try to find it and finish reading it.
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Re: It's back... Pre-orders for Commodore: The Amiga Years! Posted on 14-Nov-2017 20:25:18
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Glad you managed to get it reasonably cheaper. It was being sold at Amiga32 for about 35 euro where I managed to pick up a copy.
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