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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: brownb2 on August 26, 2010, 01:16:16 PM
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It even has "A" keys and appears to be running a modern AmigaOS...!
http://www.commodoreusa.net/testhome.html
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It even has "A" keys and appears to be running a modern AmigaOS...!
http://www.commodoreusa.net/testhome.html
The years-old picture they ripped off and called their new computer? Yes: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=53630&page=5
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*in before the punch-ups start"* :)
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I notivce the AussierBen seems to have stopped defending this bollocks on this site now. and that he has been made CTO of this company. What a joke
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The years-old picture they ripped off and called their new computer? Yes: http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=53630&page=5
Gotta love it how they claim they've tried to contact the author while cropping out the author's name and contact details.
That being said, there is NO excuse: Copyright is absolute. No amount of trying to contact the author makes it ok to steal their artwork.
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The whole thing stinks and their business practices( if you want to call them that) are laughable.
I have never said this before, and its nothing to do with the commodore name as it hold no attachement to me, I hope this business fails so bad.
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Here we go again. . .
It's not new for 2010, or 2009 or 2008 or 2007, etc.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
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I read they got approval to call it a Commodore PC64. It packs a dual core Atom and Nvidia ION2.
It might be worth a look as a collectors piece, depends on price though.
check here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/commodore_name_bounces_again/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/commodore_name_bounces_again/)
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Can no one take them to court. Seriously the site looked like a fraud from day one and I still can't understand from where did they get the license to use the Commodore name! Does anyone know how they are using the Commodore name (which I assume it's owned by someone) with no one planning to sue them?
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Can no one take them to court. Seriously the site looked like a fraud from day one and I still can't understand from where did they get the license to use the Commodore name! Does anyone know how they are using the Commodore name (which I assume it's owned by someone) with no one planning to sue them?
The story goes that they put up the site with the Commodore name in the hopes that the property holder would contact them. Supposedly Commodore Licensing (who claims to hold the name) did contact them and they worked out a deal to use the name Commodore.
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Since the use of the name "Commodore" is a trademark issue, and unlike copyright and patent, one must actually defend against unauthorized use, maybe this is an attempt to invalidate the trademark on the name Commodore.
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Here we go again. . .
It's not new for 2010, or 2009 or 2008 or 2007, etc.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Apologies I'm new to Amiga.org - I had searched commodore usa prior to posting but hadn't seen the other old post.
Shame, I read theregister article earlier and had considered them for a new themed PC. Glad I signed up here first - I guess el reg seems to be spot on about flying by the seat of their pants...
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I dont think anyone's going to buy a machine looking like that tbh.. especially not with a desktop with patterned windows. how old is that!
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I didn't know big ben ausie (more like big ben bull shit) got named an officer of the company, thats pretty funny. He was on here defending them and now it looks like we all know why. What a deushbag.
This whole "company" is a joke. I heard they don't have any actual computers, if someone orders something from them, they order it, have it delivered to the guys house, then slap the fake commodore sticker on it and send it back out to the customer.
Really high class operation they have going there, complete with the website parts they stole directly from apple inc.
Jack asses.
Steven
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gotta agree with Piru here..that's pretty shoddy :-(...I hope they at least give Marko credit for his design
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hmmnnn looks supicious to me. Funny the "new" computer, then the following post with link to original picture. Must be another small scale "hopefuls" operation like when Amiga inc had that one person "company" supposedly making the new amiga's. WHY CANT WE GET A COMPANY THAT IS ACTUALLY GOT MONEY, POTENTIAL AND BRAINS???? If Apple can rise up then it wouldn't impossible (although very far fetched) for a company to resurrect Amiga in some small form, but for peets sakes I'd rather have nothing than these fake ass companies like this and Amiga inc.
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LOL anyone see where they tried to remove the mouse cable to make it look wireless. Man they at least could have taken a few more minutes and done a better job.
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I'm surprised they didn't try to turn the CRT into an LCD with some bad Photoshopping. Oh, wait, they probably don't know CRT's aren't hip, hot technology anymore.
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ah, so this is the way they do it??!! i havnt got a wireless mouse yet, but if this is as easy im going to make one in a minute, just let me find my pair of scissors ;D.
oh and i have a spare crt somehwere here, there must be a way to turn it into a modern flatscreen. lemme think...
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Isn't this where one of the old school die hards pokes fun at Hyperion for its continued use of the Amiga name?
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Twenty years ago, the old commodore company were putting Amigas into PC style boxes, now the new commodore company is putting PCs into Amiga style boxes.
Maybe they are caught in some sort of weird temporal distortion field?
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As someone who's been outside the Amiga bubble for 13 or so years it seems to me that the future lies mainly in game systems like the C64 joystick type devices, the Minimig (for classic computer use low power profile computing) and the upcoming X1000, and possibly... possibly AROS once its software and driver base expands - it's competing IMHO with the likes of Linux and Ubuntu in particular however. This is me just being subjective - obviously you're entitled to your own view :)
I don't think companies like this will be more than a flash in the pan and they probably detract from larger annoucements as "yeah just more vapourware or niche machinery". Certainly alienating the core fan base isn't going to help you as a company or with publicity when the reason you've licensed the trademark is to bring those and Commodore fans on board.
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See AMIGA-fantasyB.jpg from 1999 on Aminet for the original picture.
This is the AMIGA fantasy created by Marko Hirv.
I have always liked these pictures. I think this would have been a cool design.
But this is not the right way to do it, unless the original creator has given his permission.
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