CommodoreUSA Partners with Disney

[Darrin]

Karma is a bee-atch, maybe this is the lowlife vermin Benjamin Hermans reaping what he has sown......

I can't see why we have to suffer though.  

[Darrin]

So this whole rage thing is about protecting Hyperion?

No, it is about using the "Amiga" name to describe actual "Amiga" products and not a linux PC running UAE or some tablet with a checkered wallpaper.  If it is this difficult for you to understand then this will end up being a very short and very expensive business venture.

You've pissed off actual Amiga users so they're not going to buy.  You're also going to piss off old Amiga users who end up thinking "what does this shit have to do with my old miggy?".  Way to go.

[Darrin]

In case you missed it earlier Darrin, I'm not an employee nor am I an investor of C=USA.  In fact I can remember feeling the rage you have right now when they deluded the worthy Amiga name by some rebadged h0rked up PPC mobo with the name AmigaOne which sold initially running only Linux.   You had the same rage back then, right?

Whether you are being paid by Barry stroking your ego, stroking your wallet or just shipping you a "free product", you're employed by him to run his propaganda machine as shown by your position on his website.

[Darrin]

Your history is a little weak Darrin. You seem to forget the Bridgeboard pre-installed in many big box Amigas. You also seem to forget the A3000UX which came with only Unix at some dealers.

Jim, that is the worst strawman argument I have ever witnessed, and I hang out in Sci-Fi forums!  

For starters, the Bridgeboard was pre-installed in a minority of computers to target the small number of business customers who also wanted to run MSDOS software without cluttering up their desktop with 2 machines.  It was still an "Amiga", but it just happened to have some hardware to allow it to run MSDOS applications.  It was never a PC.

Again the A3000UX was a specialist machine targeted at a specific audience and was not the "Standard Amiga".

Commodore also shipped A2000s to schools complete with BBC-B emulators loaded, but they certainly didn't add an ACORN sticker to the front of the box or market them as "Arcon Amiga BBC Model B2000".

[Darrin]

Why is Commodore brand any different than the Amiga brand? Hyperion went to court and got what seems like a very favorable settlement. Hyperion could have done the exact same thing as CUSA but they did not. Business is business and AFAIK Hyperion is irrelevant to CUSA's plans. Irrelevant is a far cry from sticking it to Hyperion.

You have it in reverse.  Commodore was always the manufacturer and they made Commodore products no matter what processor or OS they used.  Amiga was the range of computer that natively ran a particular OS.  That OS was never Linux or Windows.

So, once again, these Commodore tablets are about as "Amiga" as my grandmother's tits.  End of story.

[Darrin]

To ease the tensions(and still be ontopic)...

Great, now what the hell do I do with this painful swelling?  :mad:

[Darrin]

They're exactly like your grandmother's tits:  flat, shiny, and loves to be played with, with boys like you.

I guess my grandfather's cock is more your thing.

[Darrin]

Wrong thread, this thread is about C= partnering with Disney. The Amiga branded tablets are a pretty much speculation atm.

You mean you faked your pictrures?!  Troll!  

[Darrin]

Here's my personal Commodore/Amiga story. If I didn't have one, I wouldn't be doing this now, would I? early 1980's...was running a large business, but didn't want to spend the $$ on a "real IBM" system ( read: could not afford). The son of one of my managers told us he would set up a C64 (toy, in my eyes), and write all the specific programs I needed. The usual, just customized for our industry; A/R, A/P, Payroll, Inv control, invoicing , w/p etc. It ran great..and had these cheap little toys installed in all 187 locations. They ran flawlessly for years...and made me a shitload of $$, even with the noisy dot matrix printers! years later, I used the Amiga w/ Newtek Video Toaster in HUNDREDS of cable company headends for their character gen and other in house productions. made a fortune on that, because the only alternative was the multi thousand $ studio equipt. that they were all using before. Long story short..i loved them then..and I still love them now. Only difference between you and me....I took my $$$ out from next to where my balls rest (my pocket) and put it into something real......and you've done what to promote and help the "cause"

Tell someone who gives a damn.  Now crawl off.

[Darrin]

So are you finished now?

I wish you were.

[Darrin]

Wish I was what?

Finished.

Shouldn't you be busy deleting the negative quotes on your website before people read them?

[Darrin]

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God! I can see why that was cut.

[Darrin]

Yeah - Mike was not on his A game that night and Walken does a terrible scots accent.

BUT it was the perfect analogue to this thread - this clip was about 6 minutes too long

It's a shame as I like Mike Myers and Chris Walken, but the "acting" was wooden as hell.  It was like watching a really, really, really bad school play.

Now if you want something funny and Scottish, then look no further than Fat Bastard!