Amiga Case Designer Faces Intimidation

[Crom00]

Lorriano,

You could do well in an ebay store with this, some youtube videos, and posting in all the retro forums. I expect C= USA to purchase one, send it to china for costing and get it copied and get it made for a song and sell it for $$$

I saw your posts and totally got that you were not sellin with the logos included or that the case is bare.

Good luck I'd buy one.

[Crom00]

So cool man, a nice simple sheet metal design. Sheet metal means no tooling costs. I wonder how much it would cost to make a few hundred..

[Crom00]

This is so typical of modern companies today. They are quick to jump down the throat of perceived copyright violation but don' t do aa good job of actively engaging the community. I know at least one big copyright holder who has legal teams scouring eBay for copyright violation and unauthorized selling of content , but little to no activity to bring new licensees on board or develop actual product that caters to the fan base.

They seem to be into be more interested in making money off of what they got through potential lawsuits than developing ip.

Just my observation.

[Crom00]

At least Lorriano designed a case instead of taking off the shelf cases and slapping a logo on them. I actually like the cases C= USA have done or rather rebadged. Maybe the interest level will inspire them to make a modern A1200 style case. It wold be cool if there was some sort of attachment that could make the keyboard case more of a CPU case for those that want to go back to the modern CPU box style of case.

You can always plug in a USB keyboard. They hit the ball with the c64 case though. I do think the Amiga wedge case design has merit too.

[Crom00]

I showed the case design to a late teen early 20's student who never really had exposure to wedge cases. He likes this design becuase as long has he can fit a desktop board and related components in there with access to a couple of PCIE slots he is happy.

He says its a great LAN party machine as it's console like. All desktop class parts in one unit.

We are all old farts on here with nostalgic ties to wedge cases. I was curious to get a young bloods opinion.