@AmigaBlitter

The story at the link references an interview, but doesn't link to it. Where do I find the interview? The conversation based on it is rather interesting.

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@simplex

You mean this one: link.

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Rock lobster bit me. My Workbench has always preferences. X1000 + AmigaOS4.1 FE
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@Tomppeli

Precisely. Thank you!

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About the combination of C= and Amiga and the relationship I can only address it from the point of a view of a kid who lived where I lived and from a logical sort of way of viewing a certain flow of events, much like the affect of pirating.

I can say without a doubt that where I live if it would not have been for commodore the chances of a stunning consumer development like the Amiga hitting in the mid and late 80s were close to non-existent. My dad who bought us a c64 and c128 also found out about Amiga and immediately moved to that.

Is it a cause and affect relationship? I wouldn't say that either. C= were the infrastructure, this cement base on which the A1000 could come out on.

Now, if I step for a minute outside my provincial pov, it seems back then, even through all the tough talk of Jack Tramiel about business is war, C= weren't in the kind of position you can find today's giants in. The market was actually a market. You had a feeling that stuff was possible and in this I don't mean moving to the phone market and getting a big piece of that but rather in the home computing playground. That is why when I come back to where I live, C= even if considered the juggernaught of those days didn't appear to be this rock solid company which would become known as home computing in itself. It's like Dave Haynie said about the pc being "just there and working and will be there the following year". That is part of what sucks because that also meant it left a window open for something like the amiga. To me C= were like a straight line meeting this circular, strange and question mark-like shape. It further complicates the analysis because it moves us away from the blaming game while there is lots of blaming to do.

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