My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

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OS4 is worth less than anything that actually runs on hardware people have. OS4 runs only on specialized, very expensive and rare hardware. Fine for you if you want to spend tons of money on it.

Hi,

@Kthunder,

Kthunder you have to watch what you say here on Amiga.org, you almost sound sane. I have spent at least $1500 on my A1200 with upgrades, and guess what I can't find OS4 that will run on it or a power supply that will run it. If I disable all my upgrades, it works fine as a A1200.

I just wish someone would upgrade OS4 to a PC, I would buy it real quick, I hate MACS and believe only non computer people use them, I use Ubuntu 10.10 and love it, (funny how with Ubuntu I started with 7.04 and upgraded to 10.10 and haven't lost any data, almost as good as my miggy)

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Hi,

@Runequester,

Don't worry about not watching the Superbowl. Rottenburger stunk, threw two interceps in the first quarter, Mendenhall done his famous fumble thing and the Steelers lost, Rottenburger tried to put it out in the last minute but failed miserably, the Steeler defense or steel curtain had holes in it all night long and the Steelers lost. Everything about this superbowl sucked, even the place where they played at (Dallas), but then again everything in Texas sucks.

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Hi,

@red,

Hey red you should know by now that some people are going to believe what they believe, and no amount of talking will change thier mind. I know how these people feel, because I am one of them, the Amiga was and still is magical. To think you can throw it in a PC case and sell it as an Amiga is quite wrong, a year ago you couldn't convince me of such a thing, but after playing with Amiga Forever on one of the newer computers I have changed my mind, the magic is almost comming back again, especially when I do not have to determine:

is it PAL or NTSC
is it CD32
is it CDTV
do I have to turn on or off memory
what do I have to downgrade.
is it AGA or is it OCS

It just seems so much more fun to load and run on Amiga Forever and I found out if their is no copy protection (are you listening EA) even your productivity programs like Pen Pal, Final Writer, Amiga File will run on Amiga Forever.

OK, it is not Amiga, but it is saving my hardware on the real Amiga's and that is what I care about.

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@EdanaII,

If it won't have an Amiga-like OS, then C=USA is making a fatal mistake. Better to call it the Commodore Colt or the Commodore PC10 than the Amiga.

You know I forgot about the Commodore Colt, brings back memories, trying to convince people to buy the Amiga instead of the Colt when I worked for Commodore as a salesman.

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Did you read the article I linked? Coke did all the right things, made all the correct choices, except for one thing: they ignored the "cult" that supported them.

When entering a new market, or in this case, being a new entry into the market, don't ignore your early adopters. It could make all the difference. And who are the early adopters in an Amiga branded market? Ummm... all you have to do is read here and get the majority of opinions. At least, you can get a good idea of who they aren't.

If it won't have an Amiga-like OS, then C=USA is making a fatal mistake. Better to call it the Commodore Colt or the Commodore PC10 than the Amiga.

If they don't, those prodigal Amigans they do bring back will end up wondering why their "Coke tastes funny."

People who own A4000s aren't silly enough to fall for this C=USA stuff

Hi,

@Digiman,

I own 2 A4000's

One that is working and one that I am trying to fix, and I also own 2 A3000's in same situation.

I sort of like what C-USA is doing, and had planned doing something similar myself except I was going to butcher an A500  and a C64, put an mini AT board in them and run an emulator, windows xp and possibley Ubuntu.

Sooooo

I will take this as a personnel attack on me because you are saying I am silly. (sniff, sniff, tears in eyes) get him red.

my wittle smerf feelings are hurt,

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Hi smerf...

Methinks your fibbing, telling porky pies, winding us up...

COMMODORE... SALESMAN...

No such beastie every existed, that's like saying I once worked as a hitman for Mother Teresa or I sold seashells on the seashore...

Wind up... Surely...

Franko

Hi,

I sure did work for Commodore, I worked for them for three years as a salesman, and won salesman of the year for three years straight Selling Amiga 500' s, Amiga 2000's, Colts, PC10's and PC20's. The funniest event I had was when a women walked in and told me she wanted to buy a hard dick for her husband on his birthday. I calmly showed her some of the new 10 megabyte and 20 megabyte hard disks that we had in the store and then I and the Apple salesman died laughing when she left.

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