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Remember back in 1984 during the aftermath of Atari's "1983 NA Video game crash"? Commodore's founder Jack Tramiel had resigned and took ownership of Atari and made it as Atari Corp. and had revolutionised the Atari gaming industry such as the Atari 2600 Jr., Jaguar, ST and many more. As for Commodore they still competed well with the C64 against the 2600 and not to forgot the ZX Spectrum near the 8-bit era until the new 16-bit M68000 powered computer games appeared near late 1980s.

But the question is would Commodore survived if they didn't lose their core founder, would they had move on if Jay Miner died due to his health problems like his kidney failure? And would it been an end for Atari if Tramiel didn't bought it shares and left Atari bankrupt from the 1983 disaster? Who knows but we cannae change history unless you has a time travelling DMC-12...

They all made some bad mistakes. Atari started making dumb games like E.T., Commodore's mistakes where the C64GS and that they released machines whit old technologies, like the A600. Other companies developed new technologies faster than Commodore.

If Tramiel didn't took over Atari, i think it were gone in '83. Same thing whit Apple if Microsoft didn't helped whit 150 million back in 1997.

Roman78 wrote:Same thing whit Apple if Microsoft didn't helped whit 150 million back in 1997.

Aye Steve Jobs also left Apple but returned near 1996.

There is a great book about the history and mismanagement of Commodore and Amiga called 'On The Edge'. It is a great read for anyone interested in these interesting times. In my opinion Commodore made one big mistake, they kept bringing out too many versions of the same equipment at huge cost for development and to bad sales.

Commodore 64
Commodore GS
Commodore 128
Commodore 128D

Commodore Vic20
Commodore 16
Commodore +4
Commodore MAX

Amiga 1000
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000
Amiga 600
Amiga 1200
Amiga 500+
Amiga 2500
Amiga 3000

I personally think the A-500+ and A-600 were a waste and some of the C-64/C-128 models that were a commercial fail.

The KS 2.0 ROM wasn't as reliable as KS 1.3 despite the new Workbench improved features.