Amiga.org Exclusive Interview with the CEO of CommodoreUSA

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First batch of questions from PPA (Polish Amiga News Portal) readers:

1. Is there any chance for any kind of cooperation between CUSA and Team AROS?
2. Is it planned to have AROS supported by your system? Is it going to support all the build-in hardware?
3. Do you plan to begin some sort of a cooperation with the Amiga community that has nurtured the legend for so many years? What I mean is to convince (in a financial way) three Amiga teams (AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS) to work on one operational system dedicated to one machine created by CUSA.
4. Do you plan to use the potential of Natami to create chip or card that could work with your motherboard under a new, common operational system?
5. Do you plan to create something like AppleStore and after coming to agreement with the publishers and owners of old classic Amiga games make them available to buy as ADF images or to create remakes of the most popular titles?

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Second batch of questions from PPA readers:

1. Do you plan some sort of a help for UAE project in order to add support for PowerPC to this application?
2. Do you plan to initiate a new open project similar to Wine which is strictly dedicated for Amiga operational system?
3. Do you plan to add numbering system to computer models (like in case A500, A1200 etc.)?
4. Do you consider extending the offer for much cheaper models, models which will be custom made upon the user requests, desktop models, mobile models, etc.?
5. Do you plan to create your own BIOS in Amiga style?
6. Apart from the "Commodore" name, does CommodoreUSA have anything more in common with the old classic line of Commodore systems? (logos, stickers, labels, retro keyboards are not an answer here)
7. What is the purpose of 16 GB of Ram in your system?
8. Do you intend to introduce UEFI technology instead of BIOS (of course in Amiga way)?
9. Why should we ask any questions to a producer/assembler of a regular PC computer when the only connection between this system and Amiga is by UAE?
10. Why did you use name AMIGA for a PC computer that neither its operational system, architecture nor a case even in the smallest way has any connection with Amiga?
11. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to support a project like Natami or Minimig AGA than releasing a PC with Linux and the Amiga sticker?

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Next batch:

1. Do you plan to resume the production of Amiga 600/1200/4000/CD32 in the classic form known from 1993?
2. Do you consider cooperation with Hyperion Entertainment to port AmigaOS 4 on PPC Amiga which you are planning to create in the future?
3. Do you consider cooperation with Hyperion Entertainment to port AmigaOS 4 on Amiga x86?
4. Is Amiga x86 going to have fully licensed Amiga ROM in order to legally emulate previous systems?
5. Are you going to conquer computer market of graphics station based on 4 core CPU and graphic boards with powerful GPUs?

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Next batch:

1. What is the target group for your product?
2. How are you going to convince your future customers to purchase your product?
3. What companies do you plan to start cooperation with? (not only Hyperion or Amigakit but also other suppliers and distibutors).
4. When will Amiga PPC from CommodoreUSA see the daylight?
5. Is Amiga PPC from Commodore USA going to work under AmigaOS 4 or some other operational system?
6. Is Commodore USA in possession of schematics or HDL codes for Amiga chipsets? If yes, do you have rights to use them?

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Next batch

1. What is the capital of your company? What does the ownership structure look like? What are company's incomes and costs? Does the company have any loans taken?
2. What are the company's expectations from the market? What sales number do you expect?
3. Do you have plans for selling the system in Africa? If no, why?
4. How many employees does the company plan to hire this year? Where is a real registration place for your main company (mother company)?
5. Who is supposed to be strategic investor? Where does the production take place? What part of the production will be made/is made outside of Asia (percentage of the final product)?
6. Why did you choose that kind of Amiga vision? Don't you afraid that you may end up like airline companies that were trying to make use of the well-known brand "Panam"?
7. Why don't you cooperate with Yoz Montana in the matter of Amiga cases which are modern, original and have some retro feeling?

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Another question:

Do you have plans similar to Gateway in the past, to sell socks and boxershorts with Amiga logo? Or maybe there are some plans of selling also other products with Amiga logo (vacuum cleaners, fridges and so on)?

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The last batch (I think)

1. Is the board of Commodore USA aware that making a PC in a case with Amiga logo is rather batting on people's lack of knowledge and questions "Amigans" intelligence?

2. Is CUSA aware that the only moral act that would have a positive sound on true Amigans who have been staying with Amiga for so many years is to make a system that will be realisticly connected to the legendary computers which should be hardware compatible (at least in some parts)?

3. Do you plan to release an inside keyboard system based on eg. A1200 but inside, instead of A1200 motherboard, there would be eg. Sam460ex or some other system based on AmigaOS 4?