C64x Unboxing videos

[J-Golden]

So basically youre paying 400 or so for a replica c64 case+keyboard?

Really?
The mobo/cpu combination is worth slightly under $100,
TRY DOUBLE THAT

Now I'm no mathematician, but isn't Digex basically admitting that Fishy_fiz is correct? That, yes, if you bought the Mobo and CPU it'd be about $200 off the shelf and everything else you are getting is costing the extra $400?

[J-Golden]

First you were picking on Franko and now you are picking on Smerf. Do you have to be such a bully? :lol:

+1

[J-Golden]

@A3KOne:

I think you hit several really good points and I'm glad you took the time to explain your thoughts out fully.

The one thing I guess you and I differ on is the state of the community.  I know we are a very cautious lot when it comes to announcements and promises of new hardware.  We push the envelope to try to find out what is really going on since we have been burned so often with hollow replies and hype.

Most of the valid issues brought up deal with the fact that the C64x isn't anything new.  It's just a PC in a custom case.  CUSA trying to pass it off as something more is insulting to people and that is what stirs the emotions.

On the other hand, there is a strong, positive following for the FPGA Arcade, Natami and the Minimig.  They each are striving to recreate what the Amiga was while trying to create a platform for future development.  All of these projects have faced their own firing squads and survived to prove themselves.

If the C64X is cool to you, then go for it!  I hope it works great for you and does all you hoped for and more!  And who knows, maybe they'll pull an Amithalon and produce a way to perfectly emulate the Amiga w/o an added OS layer.  Now THAT would be cool!

[J-Golden]

Long story short, it's taken both "sides", both C-USA and its opposers for things to have gotten as comical as they have.

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Yeah, I'd have to +1 that.

@psxphill: I'm not quite sure if you understood the meaning of that paragraph.  I was commenting on the fact that CUSA is advertising the C64X and its siblings as a full stand alone computers with its own OS and everything.  This is untrue.  That is what I was talking about.

I'm also confused as to where the "passive aggressive" feelings come from.  I really could care less about CUSA.  As far as I can remember, I've never said anything against them other then my post a few up from here.  I hold no grudge towards them or any of their employees.  And I do hope that everyone who DOES buy a C64X gets their money's worth, that's all.

I've watched as threads deteriorate and have noticed that they tend to follow the same pattern.  Member A starts post with a thought, some information or news.  Members B, C, E and F like it or agree.  Members D, G, H don't agree and say so.  C and F see their point and say so, A and E don't see their point and say so while B gets mad and says so; usually in a quick, heated message.

The messages about the post become more and more polarized and heated driving the post away from being about sharing information and getting more into emotion.  This goes on until someone addresses a poster instead of the post.  Now it has become personal and all hints of intellectual are out the window.

This is an exaggeration and simplification combined, I agree.  But that is what happens more often than not in these situations.  And what's worse is that more often than not the offensive post that starts it all was meant as a joke or a good ribbing, but taken the wrong way.

I just wish people would be more relaxed and not so up at arms with everything.  That would snip a lot of A.ORG's issues at the bud.

I hope this better clarifies my views and why I say things.  Honestly, I just like to help people out...

[J-Golden]

Now dammy, we both know it isn't the success of CUSA that is getting so many people up at arms. I would say what it is but Darrin already said it so well that I don't want to waste the space by repeating it.

I still stand by what I've said.  If you really want to spend money on it and you think it is worth it to you, go for it!  But it isn't for me.  I guess there are others who feel that way and are a bit more agitated about the flood of messages for every little new thing they do.

I'm just glad they stopped short of telling us when the go poo.

[J-Golden]

Number6, your  knowledge, wisdom and ability to craw logical conclutions has been noted.  You have been wieghed and found worthy of promotion.  You are no longer number6...
 
 
YOU ARE NUMBER 2!!!!!!!!!

Now get back to running this madhouse...:lol:

[J-Golden]

Dammy, you do realize that that post has already been posted already on this thread and that the original poster of that post posted it possibly more positive then you...

I love Alliteration, don't you?:roflmao:

[J-Golden]

... What IS COS?!?!?  Or even COS 1.X?  I've seen the name splashed around and that it is a skinned Linux distro.  Is 2.x an Amiga themed skin instead of a C64 themed skin?

What is the big deal about COS?  I asked you this before and you completely ignored me...

[J-Golden]

zING!!!!

Dang it!  My zing zanged too slow and came after the wrong post!!!!