Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: Have you ordered the C64x?  (Read 21721 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Hammer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 1996
  • Country: 00
    • Show all replies
Re: Have you ordered the C64x?
« on: April 08, 2011, 09:44:21 PM »
Quote from: minator;630219
I'm not the least bit interested in this system, but equally I don't hate it or anything.

The only reason I'd be interested in a C64 for is the SID chip as an interesting noise making device.  

The Commodore and Amiga we know and love are long dead.  OS4 / MorphOS / Aros will at best give you a similar desktop experience.  UAE will give you the retro experience or if you're really fussy you'll need an FPGA based system (Minimig / FPGA Arcade / Natami).  If you're really really fussy just buy a classic machine off ebay.

Note that none of those in production today are called "Commodore" or "Amiga".  They are just names now and if someone wants to make money off them good luck to them.

Apple MacBooks are just UEFI X86 PCs. My non-Apple laptop can run unmodified MacOS X 10.6 retail.
Amiga 1200 PiStorm32-Emu68-RPI 4B 4GB.
Ryzen 9 7900X, DDR5-6000 64 GB, RTX 4080 16 GB PC.
 

Offline Hammer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 1996
  • Country: 00
    • Show all replies
Re: Have you ordered the C64x?
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2011, 09:48:07 PM »
Quote from: Franko;630149
But if you're talking about CUSA products, they are not going to be "new Amiga Hardware" they're going to be (if they ever appear) nothing more than a PC running an emulator... :)

What are "all these versions of Amiga software" you speak off, don't quite make sense that sentence... ???

Folks here are grown up, well us that can see this whole load of CUSA BS for what it really is... ;)


Neo-Amigas uses PC motherboard architecture with PowerPC CPU. Officially, "Commodore-Amiga" doesn't ship with PowerPC.
Amiga 1200 PiStorm32-Emu68-RPI 4B 4GB.
Ryzen 9 7900X, DDR5-6000 64 GB, RTX 4080 16 GB PC.
 

Offline Hammer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 1996
  • Country: 00
    • Show all replies
Re: Have you ordered the C64x?
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2011, 09:52:02 PM »
Quote from: commodorejohn;630135
Given that this company is yet another player in the great game of breaking up and diluting the Commodore names while having little to nothing to do with the product that the name originally signified and their primary relation with the CBM/Amiga community has been sending over a PR rep whose main activity was insulting anybody with the temerity to suggest that maybe we'd be interested in something that wasn't PC clone hardware in a novelty case, you'll please forgive us a sour grape or two.


Commodore 64 was shipped Microsoft Basic as its basic user interface. Having Microsoft Windows follows this path.
Amiga 1200 PiStorm32-Emu68-RPI 4B 4GB.
Ryzen 9 7900X, DDR5-6000 64 GB, RTX 4080 16 GB PC.
 

Offline Hammer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 1996
  • Country: 00
    • Show all replies
Re: Have you ordered the C64x?
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2011, 09:55:49 PM »
Quote from: yssing;630205
Voted no.. Because in reality I am looking for an option to get away from x86 based HW.
Will save my money for a new ppc based amiga.


One could buy C=USA's C64X mini-ITX case and Sam440ep mini-ITX solution. Acube needs to update SAM440ep mini-ITX form factor with PowerPC 460.
Amiga 1200 PiStorm32-Emu68-RPI 4B 4GB.
Ryzen 9 7900X, DDR5-6000 64 GB, RTX 4080 16 GB PC.
 

Offline Hammer

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2002
  • Posts: 1996
  • Country: 00
    • Show all replies
Re: Have you ordered the C64x?
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2011, 11:22:56 PM »
Quote from: Franko;630233
25 years of using an Amiga & being a true fan and I'm still having to learn new things even today... what's a Neo-Amiga (not even a google search shows up that one)... :confused:

Google Dave Haynie neo-Amiga

Refer to http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=20091

Dave Haynie (lead engineer of C= Amiga)'s "neo-Amiga" label refers PowerPC class AOS machines. The "neo" prefix means "new". http://www.answers.com/topic/neo
« Last Edit: April 08, 2011, 11:27:14 PM by Hammer »
Amiga 1200 PiStorm32-Emu68-RPI 4B 4GB.
Ryzen 9 7900X, DDR5-6000 64 GB, RTX 4080 16 GB PC.