C64x Unboxing videos

[Darrin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8xMh7k2Bhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0IkSWTqts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHx_ImWsNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emzz0lbr8uQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po49nHTotJ8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5mjAxVjGtQ

So, will you just stop whining now?

You obvious don't understand (or want to understand) what the problems with C-USA are.

[Darrin]

As I've said more than once, It's not really my cup of tea but at the end of the day, it's a real product that they got to market. You have to give them credit for at least that much.

I dare say It'll probably sell reasonably well too.

credit to Dell, HP, Gateway, Acer and the guy down the street who makes his own PC from barebones kits too then?  ;-)

I thing the sales will dry up after using the keyboard for a month and experiencing Bazza style tech support.

[Darrin]

But is it military spec?

It is almost worth buying one and sending it to Doomy.

Almost.

[Darrin]

I know it's going to sound like trolling but...

I honestly don't know the history behind all the stuff thrown at CUSA... what exactly happened?

As for the C64x I don't mind it but i can't see myself parting with that much coin for one.

Well, in short, they "stole" a lot of their early info from Amiga fans and tried to pass it off as their own designs.  Then they started threatening people with cut & paste legal letters for the internet, then they started threatening and insulting anyone who pointed any of this out or who disagreed with their business model.  Then they started trying to pass off any other company they bought components off or purchased advertising space from as either "their facilities" or "their hand-in-hand partner".  Let's not mention the lies behind the sales numbers and production runs where they couldn't work out between them whether cases had been shipped, were being produced, were still prototypes, etc.  Hell, the C64x was supposedly shipped once a couple of months ago (says Spammy) only for Leo to then post that they were still trying to decide whether to include a mouse in the package (hard to put something in a box that has already been mailed), and as you can see, the first deliveries have only just happened.  Oh, and the threats, homophobic remarks and lies just keep on coming.  Did you see the the pictures of "their factory in China" showing thousands of motherboards apparently being shipped, only for The Daddy to find the link to the same photographs showing it to be 2 years old and of a factory in Germany?  Classic stuff!

If they just came clean and said that they were a PC reseller, operating on a shoestring budget from a small building in a Florida business mall then they would get a lot of respect.  Unfortunately, the community has had its fill of lies over the years and the pure unprofessionalism of the company doesn't bode well for after-sales support.

C-USA has had months to turn around, apologize for past mistakes and reboot their image.  It seems that they are led by people with character flaws running so deep that they can't even manage that.

That's the problem.  

[Darrin]

http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=474

And best of all it gives you two "Atari" style digital joystick ports (justl like a real C64) which you don't get with a C64x.

Nice bit of kit.  I have the 8 bit and 16 bit ones and they work.

Please, only use these on "dead" Commodore machines with good keyboards.  Don't trash a good one.  

[Darrin]

There are a lot of business, DIY and marketing experts on Amiga.org. They can do it all cheaper, better, faster and have 100k units ready at the drop of a hat.

We're definitely not in the same category as these arm-chair business super-stars

No, you're in the "liars and cheats" category.

[Darrin]

Geez, will you give it a rest...

You mean, will I stop answering questions or correcting statements?

No.

[Darrin]

Yeah, that would be pretty great. I'd have to think that a C128 reimplementation plus a 65816 core equivalent to the SuperCPU would be easily doable on inexpensive FPGA hardware...I'd be all over that, let me tell you.

We already have the C64 in FPGA thanks to the Chameleon64 and it has extended memory and a CPU turbo mode (for all you GEOS fans).  

To me, Commodore fans should be way more interested in that compared to a PC in a look-a-like case.

I must admit that I like the idea of someone pushing a retro-computer software combination as the current offerings from the Big Companies seems to consist of those annoying "Wild Tagent" games.

C64x case aside, what we have on offer from C-USA is a choice of repackaged off-the-shelf computers from existing retailers with minimal customisation and a quickly hacked together offering of an existing free OS bundled with a few free software packages.

Save some money and for a few dollars download and install:
AmigaForever
VICE
MAME
plus any other freeware that grabs your attention.

I wonder how many customers are going to be upset by the lack of bundled pirate ADF/D64 files.

[Darrin]

Hehe, hit a bit too close to home for you did it, Darrin? Does this mean we're in the same group now?

But don't worry, arm-chair experts need love too. xoxox :-)

No Barry, it doesn't.  

(I know you're not really Bazza)

[Darrin]

Sorry about this because i'm not a native english speaker, but, what does that Bazza stuff mean?

Barry's official nick-name.  

He has a few more too.

(Bazza tends to be a Chav version of Barry in the UK).

[Darrin]

OMG! that's really amazing. How it works with special keys like page up/down, home, print screen, windows keys and etc?
It would be really nice to use a trashed A1200 with it.

That's the problem though, the lack of Windows keys when using these old keyboards.  I used mine to plug in when I wanted to run VICE, WinUAE etc (I had an empty A1200 case with a keyboard on a shelf from when I strip out the motherboard and put it in an Elbox tower case).

I'm sure Windows users are going to be feeling the pain too when they try and use the C64x for serious daily use with certain programs.  Hell, I can't imagine life without a numeric keypad.  Even my last 4 laptops had full keyboards.  

[Darrin]

Quoted for absolute, utter truth. Would that more people in this community valued things like creativity, skillful architecture design, and community spirit more than they do a rented brand name.

What get's me is that poor Steve Jones did this (and is still doing it) with his Imica series PCs for AROS.  Why isn't Spammy and the C-USA camp jacking off over his efforts?  He's been doing it modestly for over a year and putting money back into driver development.

His machines can run UAE and VICE too.

[Darrin]

Only in Darrin's world .. he calls random strangers "liars and cheats". Perhaps its something in the water :-)

It was in reference to your use of "we're" in your first post (like you think you're part of C-USA).

You may want to drink some water yourself and work out the difference between "I", "we" and "they".  ;-)

Spammy has trouble with that too strangely enough.

We're definitely not in the same category as these arm-chair business super-stars

[Darrin]

A few users on here got their panties in a twist over the fact CUSA actually produced a product(legally) that they did not approve of and these users said CUSA could not possibly ever complete such an item. Its not uncommon on this site for a few users to be pathetic, and abusive if people do not follow them over the cliff to extinction.

Errr... no, that wasn't it at all.

Nice fantasy though.  Is Bazza giving you $10 off your C64x for that post?

[Darrin]

Ah, apologies you weren't being a dick, you just fail at reading comprehension :-)

Perhaps we need a [Darrin] tag that puts everything in big letters and single syllables ;>

or alternatively we could send you back to school to do grade-level English.