Mr. Barry,
Thank you for doing work for the Commodore community. I am sure there are folks out there who bought your C64x and are happy with your product. Those people could be folks who grew up with the Commodore 64 and thought it would be cool to replace their PC with another PC that cosmetically looks like a C64. Me, I wouldn't buy it because the C64 is perfect as it is and I felt it was too much money for me right now to put in a machine just to have it look like a C64. Yet your work has been appreciated by me.
I feel that people just want to put you on the spot. You have no interest in AROS, you made that clear a long time ago. I doubt you want to incorporate anything into your systems other than your own stuff. That will take years and I also doubt you can pull it off.
You are working on an Amiga line that is supposed to do more than it would ever be able to do. That I am not going to buy either. I just don't see it being a success. It is going to take so much more to really amaze the crowd. Maybe I am wrong, I would like to be wrong, I just don't see it happen.
My advice to you would be to do custom cases. Make them out of metal.
Make Vic20, C64 and Amiga 500, 600, 1000, 1200, 3000 and 4000, plus a 4000T tower out of metal and a simple powder coat. Make it look exactly like the original. I would also love to see an Amiga 600 case made out of metal prepared for a small PC motherboard with hot air exhaust in the back like you did with the C64. Perhaps prepare the A600 case for a MiniMIG?
Install a custom keyboard like you did with the C64. Remember how the Amiga 500 caps lock button has the light built in. Stuff like, details matters!
People can put their own hardware inside, most of us know how to do that.
I do have a question: When you acquired the Commodore "thing" did you get any papers containing "secrets", items like unknown future designs? Stuff like that we would all appreciate to hear about, if such exists.