What the F***!

[klx300r]

Hmmm.  As much as purists will cry about it, at least they're doing SOMETHING with the brand, unlike some companies I can name

Wayne

yep just like DELL is doing something for PC's:rolleyes: c'mon Wayne a bloody Linux distro and AI has the gall to call that Workbench 5:madashell:

smells like everything else AI has done for us:flame:

[klx300r]

No delusion here, but I truly am enjoying my next-generation Amiga stuff and for me anyway it has been worth the price of admission. And my view is that A Inc. and C=USA are cut from the same cloth.

+ 1 mate:pint:

AI ain't fooling anyone here:destroy:

[klx300r]

It's a (new)start... one made necessary because of the outdated-ness of the original AmigaOS and it's derivatives and legal hassles surrounding it.

I would be against C=USA doing anything with MorphOS, AOS4 or AROS. That would be bound to fail from the beginning.

excuse me but a 'new start' with who..the infamous sheysters at AI:madashell:..ah yet again trying to make a buck off the Amiga brand and this time off the back of CUSA

I'm sure many of us would have alot more interest in CUSA if they teamed up with AROS (who like Linux is open source and unlike AI has respect in the community)

[klx300r]

Commodore Amiga is a registered and legitimate business in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We will be announcing something very soon.

heck I trust Iran more than AI..so why not:roflmao:

[klx300r]

Amiga desktop cases will be customized... Those Karma Digital cases that you currently see on the website are only the base...

yes yes we've heard it all before a million times..of course they have a 30 million dollar budget but from day one have taken others work off the internet and pawned it off as their own...all in a good honest days work for AI:laughing:

honestly I bet that bloody 'snowman' was ripped off from some poor soul too...AI and CUSA you reap what you sow

[klx300r]

Commodore sold x86 computers... and it would be doing x86 if it survived until today, including Amiga. Get over it.
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really? why don't you go back and see how well their x86 computers did

[klx300r]

If they substituted a flaky PPC mobo for the generic x86, would that make things better?  Oh, triple the price as well.

nah c/mon now do you know how much work and effort actually trying to design, and engineer a 'real' new product would cost !...now why would AI and CUSA bother with that nonsense of trying to do some real design and engineering when they can slap a sticker on existing stuff that other people already made:roflmao:

[klx300r]

See the problem here... the NEXT GENERATION Amiga. To me, a PPC Amiga running an OS as outdated as OS4 can never be next gen. It has already been tried and it failed for the most part. So it is not really a next generation thing. It's the same generation all over again, just more expensive this time. Time to try something different.
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ok Leo, now you are being a bit ridiculous here.

- OS4.1 has been evolving very nicely ever since that damn court case with the shysters at AI has been resolved.

- THREE new hardware platforms have evolved solely for running AmigaOS4.x and beyond so how can that be a failure....if it werent for the success of the Sam440 then the new Sam460ex would not exist.

- again I must stress that Commodore already tried making off the shelf pc's with their logo on them and guess what...they failed! it was a last ditch effort to try to make some money for the company and they found out the hard way that their loyal customers wanted nothing to do with that farce.

now saying that if CUSA actually make this off the shelf PC much cheaper than the next off the shelf PC then maybe people will buy it BUT i got a guy feeling that AI will want a few shyster pennies for that Amiga sticker on the case so I doubt that will happen

[klx300r]

Maybe if C= and Amiga become popular again they can think about making a computer from scratch.

hilarious comment ! AI can't even make a bloody snow man maker from scratch and make it successful:laughing:

[klx300r]

Are you people listening to what you're saying/writing? A platform from a scratch? Sure... chip in a few billion $, I'll do it, no problem

double face palm !!!....no just put stickers on existing products and then get a 10 year old to modify an existing Linux distro for you:furious:

[klx300r]

If you think C=USA will be making cheap x86 hardware, then you're mistaken. Actually, there may be few very cheap AIO Commodore models, but the majority of their product line will be for those with slightly deeper pockets. Not obscenely expensive, I think. Afterall, I think if they pull this off together with launching their Linux distro they can demand a slightly higher price in all fairness. I might be mistaken... time will show.

but if it's more expensive then who's gonna buy it other than Commie & Miggy fanboys...you do realize those guys are already in the modern scene and posting on the very forums you're on right:confused:

[klx300r]

For the millionth time... They are not after the current AOS4/MOS/AROS users. They are after the general Win/Linux/MAC/ex-Amiga users. ....

& that's my point..to attract 'the others' then they must make it cheaper because only die hard fans will spend more for what you're offering....wait....ahh so now it makes sense...AI finally tries to do something but of course it's not for the community! and again sticks it to the community..thanks for clearing that up for us !

so with the 30 million budget you guys have when are the t-shirts coming

[klx300r]

Yowsa! I missed an explosion of a thread today! I'm not reading through every page atm, maybe later. I will say I was extremely harsh on Barry at first and I still have my reservations and concerns on a few things. That said, these pictures impress me.

http://commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64Prototype.aspx

I have gone from very pessimistic and ornery to cautiously hopeful. This shows far more than slapping a label on a zPC.

red, you're 128 Tower mod impresses me more:afro:

[klx300r]

Right, so slapping a new bezel on some manufacturer's stock case, putting it in a pretty box, and skinning Linux with something that looks like Workbench makes it a completely different thing than an equivalent-spec PC assembled from components off NewEgg or TigerDirect.

"For my next trick, I'm going to turn this Honda into a Ferrari Testarossa using only a label printer and an airbrush!"

excellent analogy! in the early 90's there used to be a guy I know that drove a 'kit car' Fiero to make it look like a 3x8 Ferrari (alla Magnum PI)....sad eh

[klx300r]

You know, people... you're pretty funny.

Out there, in the REAL world, hundreds of millions of x86 PCs is being sold every year, both cheap and expensive, yet you're trying to convince me that it is wrong to sell those and that it is a failed concept.

nope it's not wrong to sell an off the shelf PC but it's sad to get the AI shysters to make a cent off each one sold with their sticker on it !

Instead, one should go in a adventure of a completely new platform and/or OS just for the sake of being completely different.

AmigaOS, AROS, and MOS are already here....and so are various Linux distro's

Good... good. Go ahead and try, put your money where your mouth is :lol:

you know real companies that care about the community already have ...oh wait..ya I just remembered that AI and CUSA don't give a rats ass about that...right Leo:angry: