Kim Dot Com Documentary Shows an Amiga 500

[Pyromania]

I was watching the Kim Dot Com Documentary today on Amazon Prime Video and guess what I spotted, an Amiga 500! It was his first computer.

https://www.amazon.com/Kim-Dotcom-Ca...ght+in+the+web

It's an interesting documentary to watch and now it's even better with an Amiga in it. I have watched the Kim Dot Com story develop over the years but didn't know he was a fellow Amiga user until today. Screenshot is taken directly from from the documentary approximately sixteen minutes in.

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This is likely to trigger a flurry of responses. Yes, he was a member of the amiga scene, though not a very much respected/liked one. He went under the handle Kimble / Toyax / Bitbug for different purposes -- ran a pretty sizeable BBS in Germany and was founder/leader of Romkids (a console group -- back then it was relatively easy to get a supplier in HK or JP and you could churn out releases easily)

He became famous/notorious for going on TV and exposing how to Bluebox in Germany; some people blamed him for the demise of BB in Germany. His 2nd reach for stardom was when he got busted for insider trading charges for letsbuyittogether.com

The rest is +/- in the open: the participation in gumball races / lavish life in Hong Kong and finally his move to NZ.

[jPV]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

I have watched the Kim Dot Com story develop over the years but didn't know he was a fellow Amiga user until today. Screenshot is taken directly from from the documentary approximately sixteen minutes in.

You have never visited Wikipedia page of him? And especially seen this picture of him with A4000.

But yea, he's probably one of the most hated persons in the BBS scene because of those reveals in public.

[Pyromania]

@jPV

I did a search and found no occurrence of the word Amiga on his Wikipedia page.