So, it was not meant to be… Most that compete, fail. That’s the rule of most games. Jack Tramiel named his company “Commodore” (a navy rank) as he throught the computer business was a war. Today we commemorate the failures, because they weren’t often not bad, just unsuccessful. From the ilfated Amiga 600 to the Texas Instruments TI 99/4A. DJ Daemon remembers the days of infighting between hordes of different computers that were by and large incompatible with each other.
Tracklist
- show intro Amiga Flashback
- Epic fail: or all those times it simply didn’t work out. Talking about all the home computers that were total failures. Intermission · 0:22
- Reborn 60s Andromeda of Kfmf and Noice
- SX-64, Atari Falcon, Amiga 600, Commodore 16, Texas Instruments TI 99/4A, IBM PS/2. Intermission · 0:55
- Nicollete Falcon
- Atari Falcon – interesting but all out of time. Intermission · 1:57
- We are flying Ko0x
- Commodore 16 – stripped bare and with nothing to show for it. Intermission · 1:33
- Wintersoul Pekhis
- Commodore SX-64 – not where the smart money was. Intermission · 2:10
- It’s Time K. Jose
- Amiga 600 – Not even David Pleasance wanted to hold its hand. Intermission · 2:22
- Laidback 4 Dr. Awesome
- Timing is the key to success and failure. It kinda helps if you understand the market, the customers and the trends. Intermission · 1:21
- Kiabrandultan Carlos of Mandula beep breeze
- CDTV – What is was meant to be? Don’t ask – we don’t know either. Intermission · 1:47
- Interstellar Lullaby Feryl
- No failure since then? Well, no… Intermission · 1:46
- expressiOns (Jessica) jOule
- Please don’t talk to Jessica? Intermission · 0:38
- Snow Is Falling Oleg Dunaev
- All those lost in the war.. IBM PCjr (1984), Commodore Plus/4 (1984), Sinclair QL (1984), Apple Lisa (1983), Commodore 128 (1985), NeXT Computer (1988) Intermission · 1:33
- PROMISES DRAX
- IBM PS/2 (1987) – Quite a piece of something… Intermission · 0:56
- A Return 2 Reticence Dinugz of FLIP
- Texas Instruments TI99 A/H – Only the good die young Intermission · 1:10
- Related memories EdZeS and Auricom
- One way heart Joule and Malmen
Transcript
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