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zeg
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Nov. 26, 85 Among the conspicuously absent was Commodore International, which hosted a 2-hour press conference, not a hospitality suite, to parade the Amiga. Atari rented out most of its booth space to 30 software developers and charged them $1,000 for a 40X40 inch
Sep. 24, 85 Commodore has started volume shipments of Amiga computers to more than 400 retail outlets throughout the U.S. And look for that $40 million ad campaign to hit the airwaves. Sources say Commodore will make a big splash on "60 Minutes" and "Hill Street Blues".
May. 31, 85 North American business group, Thomas Rattigan (formerly of Pepsico), in an interview with David Sanger of the "New York Times" say Commodore will come out with a UNIX-based micro in direct competition to AT&T's UNIX PC next year and it will be marketed i

Ensoniq is one American manufacturer that understands the value of building custom chips.
Founded in the early '80s by some engineers from Commodore
[Bruce Crockett, Al Charpentier, and Bob Yannes], Ensoniq's first product
(a software drum machine) was aimed at the home computer market.
Bob Yannes, on of Ensoniq's cofounders, was responsible for designing
the Commodore 64's three-voice synth chip. In 1982 he designed a portion
of a PC that was similar to the sound synthesizer that ended up in the Amiga.
It was this chip the 'Q chip'. And Paula was born.

31.12.1985
Electronic Arts has just begun shipments of its first five products for the Amiga:
Deluxe Paint, Archon, Financial Cookbook, Seven Cities of Gold, and
Julius Erving & Larry Bird, Go, One-On- One.

From COMDEX in 1986

Hacker Activision
Borrowed Time Activision / Infocom
Mindshadow Activision / Infocom
The Coveted Mirror Polarware/Penguin Software
Frank and Ernest's Adventure Polarware/Penguin Software
Oo-Topos Polarware/Penguin Software
Jewels Of Darkness Rainbird
Monkey Business The Other Valley Software
Delta Patrol The Other Valley Software
Ultima II Sierra on-line
Spellbreaker Infocom

Apl 1986 Crimson Crown Polarware
Apl 1986 Transylvania Polarware
1986 Mindwalker Synapse - Commodore Amiga
May 1986 Seven Cities Of Gold
May 1986 On-On-One
Jun 1986 Mean 18 Accolade (first from acco for amiga)
Jul 1986 Brataccas Psygnosis
Sep 1986 A Mind Forever Voyaging Infocom/Activision
Sep 1986 Rogue
Sep 1986 Temple Of Apshai Epyx

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Post by Hardrider »

Ahhhh. Brataccas.... one of the most difficult to copy at that time !!! With Deep Space later on

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