Amiga Update (1994-05-17)

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940517 Samsung {This line added when newsletter was archived.} 
Everyone, 
 Royan found this on GEnie last night. Please check my notes which are after  
this posting: 

 

 
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It's now  Sat  7-May-1994 10:25p 

 
News Bulletin: Amiga Continues! 
(Fri  6-May-1994  5:33p) 

 
Here is the latest news from our COMMODORE REPRESENTATIVE (not BBS or the usual 
rumour mill): 

As of 4:00PM Friday, May 6, Commodore was purchased by Samsung, who has every 
intention of continuing the Amiga line of hardware as we have all hoped. 
The Amiga will survive! Press releases with more details will probably appear 
in the next few days. 

The separate division of Commodore which manufactures CD-32 has been purchased 
by Philips. It is not known at this time if Philips will continue CD-32 
production at all, or if the CD-32 technology will simply be absorbed into 
their own CDI product line. Again, time will tell. 

Personally, I expect CD-32 to simply vanish, and the Philips CDI machine will 
suddenly get more powerful..... 
           
Stay tuned... As we hear OFFICIAL announcements, we'll post them. 

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Note that the date of posting is May 7th and there have been no press  
releases that we know of, so take it for what it's worth. On the other hand, 
this did make it past the GEnie posting screeners, so they must have some 
idea that the writer is trustworthy. As I've been saying, don't hold your  
breath but don't sell your Amiga just yet either. 
 Brad