Ok guys, I will be doing a report on Commodore USA this week

[VingtTrois]

I am local to Barry Altman and Commodore USA. I just got off the phone with Barry and he invited me over to see the progress that is being made with the company and on the products. Considering my initial reaction when I heard of this company and it's products was knee-jerk and sharply skeptical, it would only be fair to Barry to take his invitation to see the products, documentation and anything else he would like to show.

I plan on taking pictures where possible and asking questions. I will probably do a full report here on Amiga.org before the end of the week.

Stay tuned...

Excellent. Thanks redrumloa!
I'm really excited to see what will come out ... in fact, I'm waiting since 1994, so a few more years does not kill me (the childrens of my childrens can also expect to have good news about COMMODORE/AMIGA/etc...).
But there must be good and really strong arguments to convince me.

Ask him why he doesn't like me...

:laughing:

[runequester]

I certainly trust Red, so eagerly awaiting this

[redrumloa]

Why are people paying this asshat any attention? Commodore & Amiga died in 1994 and anybody else claiming the name since then (with the exception of Escom) needs to be ignored into nonexistence.

Please refrain from personal attacks. You may be as negative as you wish, but personal attacks are against the TOS.

[runequester]

forgot this.. will you take questions along from us?

[Iggy]

That's cool Red.
So you finally decided to take him up on his offer?
He can be pretty convincing.

I've got a pretty good BS detector myself, and while I have seen some hyperbole on in his announcements, everything he's said to me seems pretty straight forward.
And he does have experience running a business

I'm looking forward to seeing anything you're shown.

[redrumloa]

forgot this.. will you take questions along from us?

Within reason.

[Kesa]

Ask him about Doomy because i really miss him a lot

[Franko]

@ Redrumloa

Genuine question this, I would appreciate if you could ask Mr Altman...

My main (in fact only) real gripe is the naming of his products eg: C64x, Amiga 1000x & WorkBench, would it be possible for him to rename the products differently (as they aren't even on sale yet) so as to distinguish them from what most folks would call a C64 or Amiga and thus put an end once and for all for what I believe is total confusion and lets face it nonsense on both sides...

[redrumloa]

That's cool Red.
So you finally decided to take him up on his offer?

It became clear to me there was at least some substance when I saw the C64 case pictures. I am local, so why not take advantage of that and see first hand if he offered? I'm beyond skeptical and yet my conversation with him was interesting, to say the least.

[Terminills]

It became clear to me there was at least some substance when I saw the C64 case pictures. I am local, so why not take advantage of that and see first hand if he offered? I'm beyond skeptical and yet my conversation with him was interesting, to say the least.

Man you stole my interview...j/k congrats.

[redrumloa]

Man you stole my interview...j/k congrats.

You aren't local :razz:

[spihunter]

I'm looking forward to hear how this goes.

[Terminills]

You aren't local :razz:

This is true...

[EDanaII]

It became clear to me there was at least some substance when I saw the C64 case pictures. I am local, so why not take advantage of that and see first hand if he offered? I'm beyond skeptical and yet my conversation with him was interesting, to say the least.

I think it's Leo that's preparing the C64 cases, so I don't know if Barry would have any... of course, I don't know if he wouldn't either, so I'm just saying...

[KThunder]

@ Redrumloa

Genuine question this, I would appreciate if you could ask Mr Altman...

My main (in fact only) real gripe is the naming of his products eg: C64x, Amiga 1000x & WorkBench, would it be possible for him to rename the products differently (as they aren't even on sale yet) so as to distinguish them from what most folks would call a C64 or Amiga and thus put an end once and for all for what I believe is total confusion and lets face it nonsense on both sides...

We have had the Commodore bv machines, the tulip c64 the c64 dtv, and various amiga entities, and noone interested in the tech has been confused.

I think Red should make this tour as low key, low agression as possible, asking the guy to rename his entire product line is a bit pushy, especially since he paid for the ability to name the products what he did.

Red, I think you are just about the perfect person to do this. I look forward to your report.

[Franko]

We have had the Commodore bv machines, the tulip c64 the c64 dtv, and various amiga entities, and noone interested in the tech has been confused.

I think Red should make this tour as low key, low agression as possible, asking the guy to rename his entire product line is a bit pushy, especially since he paid for the ability to name the products what he did.

Red, I think you are just about the perfect person to do this. I look forward to your report.

Well from the Fan Page on CUSAs own site plenty of folk seem confused...

I'm not in a position to either demand or push the owner for a name change I am merely ask him to consider it that's all...