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In South Africa, a company called Tedelex had the license to import the machines. They must of done some marketing, but I never saw anything. Probably business to business stuff. but like other markets, were not sure how to sell this thing. The price did not help either.
The Amiga was not big in SA for home users. It had a big use in the professional TV and animation markets. We were lucky that we got both U.S.A and U.K. magazines in the shops, so had a good place to get our Amiga fix. For most of us, we had to import our software and hardware ourselves. I remember doing that with Imagine, Deluxe Paint and Imagemaster. Fun with fax machines and bank transfers. |
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Obviously there were regional differences, and you might expect C64 ads to be a bit different from Amiga ads, but most of the Amiga ads at least appear to have a similar theme. Or were you expecting identical ads dubbed over with different voices and prices? 1984 IBM PC adverts:- USA [ Show youtube player ] Germany [ Show youtube player ] |
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It is very much another C= thang, since all countries where these were for sale officially had their own local companies doing local marketing.
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I don't recall ever seeing a TV ad in Australia, but I didn't watch a lot of TV. That tool John Laws was on display in the computer shops, not sure how anyone thought that was money well spent.
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Given the time period of the 80's and 90's, globalization was not a business process that was common place. It really only found popularity in the mid to late 90's. Most companies and brands did give a large amount of freedom to regional and local markets.
So I would say that Commodore was doing what most other companies were doing. |
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https://archive.org/details/commodor...ge/n1/mode/2up
1987 German ad. 'MS-DOS combatible'... huh. |
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I assume the A1000 did have a Bridgeboard PC emulator or similar available by then? Even if so, it seems like vague advertising (at best) not to clarify that you need extra hardware - especially as an Amiga couldn't even read PC disks at that time, whereas I think STs and Macs could.
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![]() It emulated a roughly half-mhz 286. |
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Earliest C= ad I saw on TV was for the computer compendium bundle, narrated by Stephen Fry. Sadly nobody has it, I trawled through 100+ hours of advert compilations on youtube
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