I'm a long time pessimist and non-believer of C=USA, so I'm going to make this short. While I admire Barry's efforts and persistence, I simply cannot understand how this will work in the long run.
Sure, a PC that looks like a C64 will sell a few thousands, but then what? The market is satisfied, where are the next buyers?
It's a
PC. You can buy a small Dell desktop for a few bucks that does the exact same thing, it runs Windows, Linux, AROS and whatnot. It may not have the same specs, but it's more or less capable of doing the exact same thing.
So then what do you have? A fancy looking plastic shell?
It's nothing left to make it special. The magic is gone.
I will GLADLY buy a commodore machine
I'm sorry (and please don't take this as a personal attack) but why would anyone buy a PC just because the case looks special? I don't give a flying puck what my computer looks like. Hell, if my A600 was mounted in a beige PC tower I'd still use it. It's the interior that interest me, not the exterior.
And, to be brutally honest, x86 is as interesting as knitting. But maybe I'm not exactly Barry's target audience.
This is the only way forward.
It's not the
only way forward, but it's definitely the easiest.
