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REVISITING THE PAST

David Pleasance will be no stranger to Commodore fans, as he was a prolific figure during the company’s Amiga years. The former managing director of Commodore UK was behind the extremely successful Batman Pack for the 16-bit computer and published a Kickstarter-funded book in 2020 called Commodore: The Inside Story, which effortlessly doubled its original funding goal thanks to over 1,200 loyal backers.

David is back with a brand-new book which promises to be another first-hand account of David’s time during the company’s final tumultuous years and what happened once the Amiga name was sold off. But what was the reasoning behind David making such a book in the first place? “Because I

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