Path: rcfnews.cs.umass.edu!barrett From: bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Bo Najdrovsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.reviews Subject: REVIEW: Liquidation of Commodore International Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc Date: 6 Mar 1995 20:47:15 GMT Organization: The Amiga Online Review Column - ed. Daniel Barrett Lines: 141 Sender: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu (comp.sys.amiga.reviews moderator) Distribution: world Message-ID: <3jfsck$fvg@kernighan.cs.umass.edu> Reply-To: bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu (Bo Najdrovsky) NNTP-Posting-Host: astro.cs.umass.edu Keywords: liquidation, fumigation, lawyers, humor, commercial Originator: barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu PRODUCT NAME Liquidation of Commodore International, Ltd. BRIEF DESCRIPTION A product that everyone feared would eventually come, and it finally came upon us mercilessly. AUTHOR/COMPANY INFORMATION Name: Bahamian Courts, with some help from various legal eagles LIST PRICE Anywhere from $19 million to about $100 million (US), depending on whom you ask. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS HARDWARE Strong nerves. SOFTWARE Lots of patience. COPY PROTECTION This product is protected from successfully operating by a couple of fools named Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould. I would rate this copy protection as unacceptable. MACHINE USED FOR TESTING This product has been in extensive testing on over 4 million Amigas worldwide. Many users were so exhausted from testing that they just decided to sell their machine and migrate to a different platform. INSTALLATION I never installed this on my system, honest. It just somehow made its way there. I suppose you could describe its installation as simple as, say, a computer virus. REVIEW Well, what can I say. For at least a year before it actually happened, I anticipated this product's hitting the Amiga market. During this time, I almost began regarding it as another one of those vaporware products that we Amiga users have become so accustomed to. When the liquidation finally hit the market, I must say that I was quite disappointed. The whole thing was full of bugs, and hardly ran at all. In fact, now, about 9 revisions and updates later, it still doesn't seem to deliver what was originally promised, which of course was the possibility of a capable company manufacturing and marketing the Amiga line of personal computers. Though the developers of this product still seem relatively enthusiastic about its possibilities, I am beginning to seriously doubt the liquidation's viability in the current Amiga market. In fact, I would go as far as suggesting that the market might have been better off without such a product being available in the first place. DOCUMENTATION Documentation is extremely poor. If it weren't for a few good supplements, such as Amiga Report, there wouldn't be any documentation at all. (Kudos to the editors.) LIKES I can't say that I like anything about this product. DISLIKES AND SUGGESTIONS I dislike the lengthy, seemingly endless proceedings that never seem to end, and that every time there seems to be the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel, it just turns out to be an oncoming locomotive. COMPARISON TO OTHER SIMILAR PRODUCTS Not much to compare this thing to; but if you're interested, go to your local library and look up "Pan American Airlines." They were also a once-great company that didn't quite make it. BUGS Full of bugs. Simply doesn't work. VENDOR SUPPORT None. WARRANTY None - expressed nor implied. CONCLUSIONS I would not recommend this liquidation to anyone. It doesn't perform as promised, doesn't even work, and it costs too much. It also causes many of your fellow Amiga owners leave you for little-endian pastures. Stay away! COPYRIGHT NOTICE This review is Copyright 1995 Bo Najdrovsky. It is freeware. Do what you want with it but if you republish it in your newsletter, just let me now. My address is bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu. Thanks. Bo Najdrovsky // AmigaOS 3.1/Mac Sys7.1/BSD 4.4 - Courtesy of my A3000 bn@gnu.ai.mit.edu \X/ => join the EGS list: listproc@okcforum.osrhe.edu <= bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu "Who are you, who's so wise in the ways of science?" --- Daniel Barrett, Moderator, comp.sys.amiga.reviews Send reviews to: amiga-reviews-submissions@math.uh.edu Request information: amiga-reviews-requests@math.uh.edu Moderator mail: amiga-reviews@math.uh.edu Anonymous ftp site: math.uh.edu, in /pub/Amiga/comp.sys.amiga.reviews