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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« on: April 05, 2011, 10:49:21 PM »
Yep, time to give

a rest until C=USA folds and disappears...
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2011, 03:44:32 AM »
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Darrin you should really give it a rest. What happened to you??? I mean, seriously??


Jim, I've been wondering the same thing about you, seriously.  I'd still trust you with my wallet, but there are some severe double-standards here at the moment.
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2011, 03:49:39 AM »
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So you are not interested in a product and Darrin is not interested in a product so god help anyone who is not uber-negative? I hope for the sake of pimple faced teenagers in your area that you do not dislike McDonalds.


To quote Michelle from 'Allo, Allo', listen carefully, I will say this only once (mind you, it sounds sexier with her fake-French accent):

It isn't that I'm not interested in the product.  They could make a zillion different Commodore items and I would purchase the ones that would appeal to me.  It is purely the bastardiszing of the Amiga name which is still an active product (even if it is to a minority) by hijacking the name and putting it on totally un-related products.  Add to that the rather nasty attitude of Barry and the spamming of the site with multiple threads when a single one constantly being updated would be enough...

Commodore always made diverse products, be it calculators or various genres of computers.  This isn't about that.
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2011, 03:55:26 AM »
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Please tell me what double-standard I am engaging in?


Well we have Franko banned for threading behaviour and yet Barry can issue a "tell me who you are and I'll kick your ass" statement and he goes unmoderated.

Care to ban Barry for life too?
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2011, 04:56:36 AM »
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I guess you mean OS4? I have not seen any attempt by CUSA to shut down Hyperion/Acube/A-Eon.


OS4 and classic hardware that is still being produced.  Not to mention projects that have true Amiga relevance such as the FPGA Arcade and Natami.

Sure CUSA haven't tried to shut them donw, but they did (and still are) attempting to confuse the market and undermine the products.  Even a blind man couldn't miss that.

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Unrelated? The C64x is a dead ringer visually for a C64 and AFAIK will eventually come with a custom distro that includes compatibility layer. Commodore 8bit forums are generally mildly positive or apathetic


I've nothing against the C64x apart from it being unfinished and that god-awful keyboard.

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The plans for the Amiga is not even finalized or at least not publicized. It is my understand that at the very least a comparability will be added to the distro.


Time for Barry to wake up and drop the "Amiga" name from products that are not "Amiga" then.

I can't understand why he just didn't market Commodore PCs with a general emulation package to cover previous Commodore machines and leave it at that.  Calling these machines "Amiga" was the idea of a fuckwit and designed to provoke a response.  Well, he got it and now he's throwing tantrums in the corner because he can't buy everyone.

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You know that I was pretty harsh on CUSA initially. Some of it was valid IMO, they made some misteps. Barry admitted to me he made some missteps. But there was also slander/libel. Looking back the crap thrown at him was extreme. How would you react to be called a "con artist" or "scammer"? I can relate, I have been called the same things.


I'd like to say that he could learn from his mistakes and that he wants to do good, but I get the distinct feeling that he was just blowing smoke up your ass and telling you what you wanted to hear.  He's most likely manipulating you because if he really did believe he had made mistakes then he would be on here issuing an apology and clearly stating his new business goals instead of issue threats he can't deliver.

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I don't think Barry ever created a thread.


Generals don't physically fight wars, they just order their troops to do it from the comfort of their armchairs.

Regardless of whether one of Barry's lackies started a thread or not, why are they not just merged as many forums tend to do with multiple threads on the same subject matter?

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So why feel so threatened? You have implied some pretty harsh things Darrin and you were comfortable with the libel being thrown at me. I really don't get it.


Threatened?  Disgusted is the word you should be using.  I pride myself on my ethics and character.  When I see something like this happening under my nose then I feel the need to speak up, even if it is uncomfortable for those involved.  What's worse, I cannot be bought off.

I see you tactically ignored my "banning" comment.  Actions speak a thousand words...
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2011, 04:58:50 AM »
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I did not ban Franko, I gave him 2 infractions for continuous personal attacks and slander. If Franko got banned, someone else did it.

You will have to ask someone else to help you with that. I have never handed down a permanent ban and couldn't even try if I wanted to.


Oh bugger, yes you did!  Sorry.

Well I'm glad it wasn't you and I apologise for thinking it was so.

I still think he was being manipulated and set up for it and WHOEVER it was needs to look at the other camp too.
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2011, 04:59:27 AM »
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Some people get played like a fiddle.


Yeah, and some people are happy to hold up the sheet music...  :(
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2011, 05:37:30 AM »
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He's not banned. I just checked. Actually, our permanent banned list is quite short. Last one was yesterday, a automated spambot account. Before that it goes to last May then it gets really old.
He's just joined a few others I've seen that have changed their member title to Banned.  
If Franko would stay out of the CUSA topics and not start any on them. He'd be fine. He has a whole website of his own to rant on, not to mention the rest of the Internet.


Dammit!

Well, at least we all have next year's April Fool Joke:  We'll all change our titles to Banned and go and post on Amigaworld.net for 12 hours.
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #8 on: April 06, 2011, 07:04:24 AM »
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Mine was blank, but figured I would upload a new one. :)


Oooh!  Spot the difference.  :D
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #9 on: April 06, 2011, 07:42:05 AM »
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Changed again. lol :) No difference now. ;)


Perhap Dammy would like one and he can put a C= on the hat.  :)
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Re: This place is ruined. Time to leave.
« Reply #10 on: April 07, 2011, 01:47:51 PM »
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Off topic but ZX Spectrum tape is slow but not as slow as the C64. Jeeze Louise go and make a coffee, a sandwitch, eat it and come back.  Sometimes to the dreaded "Tape Loading Error"  nooooo!  
Fun times my arse!


The worst game I remember for loading off tape was Arcadia64 which took over 20 minues to load.  To think that today we sit there cursing programs that take a couple of seconds to load.  :D
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