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Title: Commodore article on The Register
Post by: InTheSand on February 21, 2006, 08:13:34 PM

Glosses over early Commodore history, then gives a bit about what's going on with the current brand owners, might be of interest...


Article is here (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/21/commodore_chickenhead/).

And, linked from the article, see here (http://www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=3612) for an announcement regarding Commodore's "plan ... to open new channels for delivering digital media content, which can include video, music, games and business applications for mobile phones and handheld devices"... Sound familiar?!

It's a shame that nothing of any note has been done with either the Commodore or Amiga brands... Ah well!

Title: Re: Commodore article on The Register
Post by: Delta on February 22, 2006, 03:17:24 PM

I don't understand the crazyness about portable stuff.  I personnaly don't own a cel phone or any other similar device.  I can't just seem to find the interest of using something smaller than my own hand to play games or browse the net.  And i'm not even entering the cost per month subject.

I miss the old times when a cel phone was used to "call" someone only.

This market will fall apart soon, its impossible that the whole world is asking for these products...are people so interested and i'm already an old grumpy man?   :lol:

Title: Re: Commodore article on The Register
Post by: poktis on February 22, 2006, 08:39:59 PM

I understand what you think, even I appreciate my ipaq and my sagem phone. I liked Snake on my nokia 3310 too ;=) Great game.

Look at :
http://hardware.commodoreworld.com/default.aspx?i=&s=products&c=29&p=44

Commodore should use Tomcat or... an arexx server to allow amigans to buy the new hardware. LOL.

Title: Re: Commodore article on The Register
Post by: Waccoon on February 23, 2006, 10:17:34 AM

@Delta:

I know!  I refuse to own any of these things.  My brother-in-law writes OSes for cell phones, and I get to try out all kinds of unreleased alpha software and games.  Nothing is even remotely fun, despite being "cutting edge."

But, hey, if people will actually pay $2 for a stupid ringtone, I guess there's money in the market.

As someone who uses a Wacom tablet all the time, a notebook computer (shrunken-down TabletPC) seems to be the way of the future to me, especially one where you can "image" your PC desktop onto a memory card, and take all your software with you, not just your documents.  That would be cool.

Title: Re: Commodore article on The Register
Post by: Delta on February 23, 2006, 02:42:24 PM

I just figured out that I have no occasion to use these (except for the phone calls maybe).  In my every day life I am always doing something, never waiting for anything so the pocket toy would always be off :)

Its probably a good thing for students or business people who have to use buses, taxis or wait for appointements all day I guess.

Title: Re: Commodore article on The Register
Post by: Rob on February 25, 2006, 10:47:02 PM

Provide you Innvest  your money and cash your shares before  the price drop you should be cool