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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« on: September 26, 2011, 04:47:21 PM »
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I'm still using my xbox1 as an htpc. El cheapo option ;-)


Original XBOX for a £10 off ebay, then chip it and add a few hundred gig drive and an XBMC install. How could anything compete with such an awesome solution.
At about £50 total price I'm with you all the way buddy. Nice to see someone else on the same wavelength.
Got plenty of emulators for it too. ;)
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2011, 06:36:54 PM »
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Lets be honest, the XBOX is highly customizable. if you have the skills you can de-solder the RAM chips and replace them with larger ones. While this will not increase performance on normal xbox games, they are optimised for the original amount of ram, it makes emulation and other things far better.


Very true, you can even do the double overclock mod if your a total lunatic. XD
Replacing the IDE cable is worth doing, it doesn't work for everything but loading times on some games are significantly improved.
Our old pal the compact flash IDE drive can work wonders too, HDD replacement that boots nearly instant. It's all good.

Makes you wonder why so many people just flog them for peanuts or throw them away. Very true of a lot of good old hardware. Take a look at pocket PC prices, you'll see many of them under a fiver on ebay, they still do all they did years ago and at that price just having one for a Skype phone is worth the effort.

http://pocket-hacks.blogspot.com/
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2011, 06:45:50 PM »
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can softmod it too, and of course, if playing media over the network, can probably make do with original drive (if you really want to do it on the cheap).

Great for emulation as you say.

Running a recent xbmc4xbox release ? (http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/)



Mines chipped and I have a spare too but yes, softmod is even cheaper.

XBMC, bang up to date, I'm pretty good at keeping up with updates.

Well if CUSA are going into HTPC I'm not interested. The new C64 was an all around fail in my book and I have no hope off seeing anything better from them in the near future.
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2011, 07:13:50 PM »
If you replace the term "Commodore OS" with "Linux" it makes far more sense when you read it. Has anyone seen this Commodore OS yet? is it anything other than a Linux distro?
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2011, 04:07:35 AM »
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I know this is all offtopic and all, but how do you find the new xbmc4xbox versions compared to the last release from the main xbmc team before they stopped working on it?


Latest stable version (May 19th 2011):  http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/

...and don't forget to join the forum. :)
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2011, 04:12:34 AM »
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I'll wait for the $400 wireless mouse.  I hate them $300 PS-2 wired ones.  :p


Oh you may laugh but.......  http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Gear-Head-Mouse/6100788/product.html?cid=209800&fp=F&TRACK=CSEShopzilla&mr:referralID=48d23789-e8b6-11e0-be22-001b2166becc

That's a $400 mouse that is!
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2011, 03:30:51 PM »
Well lets face it, the Cray CX1 cost $25K back in 2008.
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2011, 03:50:10 PM »
CUSA on "Dragons Den" (Shark Tank in the US I think). Now that would be TV worth watching, they would be torn apart.
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2011, 01:41:14 AM »
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I don't remember the thermaltake level 10 being that expensive, but I could be remembering wrong.

About $250-$280 for a level10 GT, more than double for the BMW level 10. But still not $1000....

...and at least the level 10 gives you something to show for it, it's a truly awesome case.

These are the official prices: http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Products.aspx?S=1341
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2011, 01:58:20 PM »
They sure are. When case prices go over $200, I for one expect to see something special for it, over $500 and I expect to see a freckin work of art. CUSA take note!

Hey, this thread has just given me an idea for another thread...
I'll post it later, I should be getting some work done right about now.
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2011, 04:32:29 PM »
http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product.aspx?c=1257&id=1481#Tab0

At about $345 this touchscreen plus the water cooled level 10 GTS will set you back just over $700, $300 more will buy you a storage draw, remote, cup holder, toaster, scented oil diffuser or whatever else you wish to pimp your case with.
CUSA are mad I tell you, maaaaaaddddd!
...and they ain't getting any cash off me!
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2011, 04:34:15 PM »
http://www.crazypc.com/other/misc/toast.htm

...yes I did say toaster and this is the one I meant.
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Re: CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2011, 06:49:38 PM »
Mini-ITX case?
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