WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!

[Darrin]

Case looks to be a Wesena E5 case, with the Commodore badge covering the Wesena logo.

http://www.wesena.co.uk/product.php/7/3/e5

Can be found for under a hundred bucks via a few sources.

Nice find.  

I guess the "keyboard garage" they mention is 4 stick-on feet to raise the thing high enough to slide the keyboard under.

Scan their "partners" list for a local company that provides the "Amiga" etching.  Using a simple stencil, it shouldn't take long.

I do like the aluminium case look though.  It would be a nice addition to a Home Theatre setup, but I'd like a bigger one that could take more expansion cards, drives, etc.

Note the un-sold C64x units in the background... or petrhaps they've been returned for repairs.  Still no signs of any actual "workers".

[Darrin]

I don't really care what Commodore USA does. I also think the C64X was a decent idea, and I might even buy a 1000X case if it looked just like a real A1000. What boggles my mind is reading the comments in that thread in that forum. People actually exist that anxiously await news of this generic case that has nothing to do with an Amiga?! Eek.

I like this comment from the CTO:

We will have no problems with mass producing these cases.
Mostly everything will get done at the factory.
 It's just the initial batch that haven't.

Obviously has a little trouble understanding the difference between "rebadging" and "producing".  He's right though, everything apart from the Commodore sticker and the Amiga etching is being done at someone else's factory.  

[Darrin]

I think it would have been better to faithfully reproduce the A1000 case and keyboard. Then they could have offered just the case/keyboard combo. That way retro enthusiasts would have something to tinker with, and anyone who wanted a genuine CUSA full blown computer could buy an entire system.

I think that now the truth is out and we know they're simply a "corner shop with a web-page" that there is obviously no money left to design and manufacture yet another case and keyboard from scratch.

There's no way of knowing how many C64x cases were manufactured and sold, but from the picture of the 1000x there's at least 3 left.  I'll guess that sales fell way below expectations and no additional production runs were made.  So, from a financial point of view it makes perfect sense to look for an off-the-shelf design and in this day an age there is probably just about every sort of desktop shape, size and colour available on the market.  What really matters is what they put inside the machine and past experience unfortunately suggests that it will be under-powered and over-priced.  If they do decide to do a kick-ass configuration then the price will probably make your eyes water.

The target market still seems to be the Linux user with more money than sense, an inability to build his own system and who used to be an ex-Amiga user.

That seems to be a hell of a limited market and I'm willing to bet that any Linux user who likes this case is more likely to buy a Wesena case, install his own motherboard and do his own engraving.

I'm guessing that the "franchise" option is their only hope for revenue and for that they need to convince people they have some products and designs to sell (even if they can't actually sell them).

and here's the Commodore Amiga 2000x:
http://www.wesena.co.uk/product.php/8/0/e6/459379660812a7fc501f12f8093bb520

[Darrin]

By the way have OS 4.1 on my PPC 240 mhz Amiga, if you call that progress, I would rather use Amiga DOS 1.0, it was much faster and worked way better.

smerf

If I was trying to run Windows 7 on a 486 then I'd probably rather use MS-DOS.

[Darrin]

Hi,

Good Point!!

but

Wasn't the original OS 4.0 made for the Blizzard PPC, I could be wrong, but if I remember back that far, OS 4.0 was made to be run on the Blizzard PPC, it is just that things got caught up on 4.0 in court, and by the time things got loose, the Blizzard PPC was no more.

but yes I think you are right.

smerf

Yep, the problem is that we've waited for so long for a PPC OS that the original classic cards just aren't up to the task.  It reminds me of my Efica board which is really not up to the task of running MorphOS (so I welcome the new discount given on purchasing a MOS key for it because it reflects how well the OS will run on low-spec hardware).