My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

[save2600]

Here's a question though, will they be building in a 9pin D-connector adaptor on there so you could play a two player game with a couple of REAL competition pro joysticks not that USB retarded competition pro?

Little things like that would go a long way.

Yes it would, but at least products like this exist if not:

http://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=267

...and yeah, a bit of thanks goes out to Red and company for the interview and pics! Lot's of bickering and comic hysteria going on in this thread, but I'm in the camp that would like to see Commodore logos and products commercially produced again. The consumer (some of us even) will sort it all out in the end anyway as per the capitalism norm.

[save2600]

However, what do you think of C-USA's Workbench 5 marketing?  Perhaps they could call it "Morph Workbench 5"?

Wait... we're talking about CUSA using AROS. Anyway, this is where someone looking for success has got it right. Marketing micro's has always been a numbers game. For those involved that *wanted* to succeed en masse that is. Obviously not the agenda of the X1000 or SAM people, but ahem.... Hardware specs aside, let's just focus on OS's for a minute. Mac is up to 10.6, Windoze is at what... 7? MorphOS is at 2.6. AROS/Icaros is at 1.x?

Marketing wise, it's typical that they'll want to continue the practice of padding *any* numbers they can a bit. Average Joe that's out to purchase a new Commodore computer (not us by a long shot, but the people that are going to substantially monetarily supporting their products) is not going to be keen on low numbers or builds. Perception is everything. So yeah, from a marketing or viability standpoint, a Workbench 5 makes more sense than to call it 4.2 as Joe Blow hasn't been keeping up on the soap opera that has been Amiga trademarking and licensing these past 17+ years. If you're thinking Joe Blow may not even be interested in these products at all, I can tell you with certainty that there are a TON of people here in the States that have fond memories of their C64's. MANY of which never even heard of an Amiga computer!  lol   While that may sound F'd up to us, it is what it is.

Not sure if this was exactly the angle you were thinking, just trying to put things into a simplistic marketing perspective. Something the Commodore of yore hardly could be bothered with.  :lol:

-edited- my post slightly. Not sure what to make of the 'Commodore' or 'Workbench' usage marketing wise in relation to AROS, but I guess 'Commodore' would be better than 'GEOS'.  lmao  I'm amazed at the number of people I've met throughout the years that never heard of Amiga, but knew what a PET, Vic-20 and C64 was. Hell, even the Plus/4 got more airtime than the Amiga ever did thanks to those damn infomercials!

[save2600]

Here's my tuppence worth... This guy, Barry, seems like a reasonable bloke with a bit of cash and bordom on his side. He doesn't know much about the retro commodore scene but thinks there might be a Market for some vintage styled equipment. He sees it as a fun little hobby to keep him busy and he clearly has motivation to make a product.
IMHO I think all the whingers here should just shut up and let him do something, you never know, he might make an intereting product... If he fails to deliver then, definitely give him crap for it...

I had this long diatribe basically outlining the same thing last night, but decided not to post 'cause I thought it would have just gotten lost among the pages and pages of BS. So thanks for this Bloodline!

[save2600]

Instead of posting this diatribe/bs an "I agree" would have been acceptable and shorter way of saying the same thing

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There's your brevity buddy    :lol:

Oh and almost forgot...