Commodore Phoenix questions

[tone007]

Correct, the Commodore Phoenix is just a rebranded PC and won't do anything more for you than an eMachines from WalMart.

[tone007]

Necrophiliacs abound!

[tone007]

There's a difference between reselling and producing.

...though I guess he may have produced the stickers!

[tone007]

You can buy the Phoenix right now on the website, and a few people actually have.

There's a difference between reselling and producing.

...though he may have produced the stickers!

[tone007]

That Fantasy pic is pretty cool.

Cool enough to shamelessly steal, apparently.

[tone007]

So maybe we should skip anybody that wants to sell retro-styled computer stuff and just stick stickers on our Dells?

No, by all means, buy a computer that can do exactly what the computer you already have (or can get for easily half the price) does, and nothing more, solely because the case is a bit different (ha, "retro-style," good one.)

[tone007]

How the heck do you know it was shamelessly stolen? Are you the original artist? Do you know this person? You seem to be jumping to conclusions because you don't like this product.

I don't know for a fact, but there's a definite pattern here, some dork trying to make money off of other people's work.  Most artists generally would appreciate their signature not being removed from a piece of their work.

[tone007]

I would consider the fantasy case very retro styled. It looks like a modern black c64. Really cool. I'd buy one.

The fantasy case looks nothing like a C64, it resembles an A500, and it doesn't exist, therefore I was not commenting on it but on the current offerings from "Commodore." Hopefully if a case like it somehow gets magically produced, the artist is compensated.

[tone007]

I owned one c64 and several 64c's and never owned an a500, to me it looks like a c64 (64c)

..well, it's got keys, in that way they're quite similar.

[tone007]

You dont see any similarities between the 64c the c128, the a500, a600 and a1200?

Ummm ok whatever...

Hey, there are similarities between those, the Atari ST, an IBM 101 key keyboard, and a piece of pie I ate earlier in the week!  How about that.

[tone007]

Until the recent idea of fabricating custom cases, it was all fairly easy to accomplish stuff, wouldn't even have to have anything in stock. Get an order from a customer, order a system from your supplier, slap a sticker on it and send it to the purchaser.  Anybody with a few hundred bucks to start with could get away with that.

I'd hope it'd take more than a graphic snatched off of the internet to start selling an "original" system, hard to believe people would be excited enough to preorder a CyberNet/Eee/etc keyboard PC with a custom case.