Commodore Phoenix questions

[KThunder]

They look pretty cool, but you have to have at least two cables connected right? Power and video?
I'd run Aros on it...

[KThunder]

I think that we should let the IP owners worry about what is legal or not. If you don't think it is legal don't buy it. I really don't think it really matters too terribly much. None of the IP owners are tech powerhouses anymore, any advertising is a good thing I should think.

And by the way why is it when a Commodore or Amiga fan actually comes through and produces something we could all actually buy and enjoy someone goes and says it is disgusting. Is Minimig disgusting? or UAE, or Aros, or OS4? I think this stuff is cool.

I have a Commodore 90mhz pentium that I think is pretty cool. It was made after Amiga was split from commodore and there are very very few of them around. I've debated ripping out the guts and putting in a quadcore AMD system. Right now it is how it left commodore. Probably not a lot of people would want this computer, but I kinda like it.

[KThunder]

What are you talking about the phoenix looks nothing like the fantasy. The fantasy is all curved with a full grill along the top. The phoenix is square with the touchpad and speaker grills at the top.

I know you guys may not approve of this but lets not get carried away.

Oh wait I didn't actually check the commodore link you posted. Yeah that is the same. Maybe he and the original are the same guy or working together or something?

[KThunder]

This guy hasn't produced anything.

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

[KThunder]

That Fantasy pic is pretty cool.

[KThunder]

There's a difference between reselling and producing.

...though he may have produced the stickers!

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

[KThunder]

Cool enough to shamelessly steal, apparently.

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.

[KThunder]

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.)

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

[KThunder]

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 be removed from a piece of their work.

Anything we could possibly produce at this point would be at least partially off someone elses work. If he bought all rights to the art he could do anything he wants with it, even sign his own name.

[KThunder]

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.

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

Ok an a500 or 1200 maybe. Anyway its cool

[KThunder]

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

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

Ummm ok whatever...

[KThunder]

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.

what does that have to do with anything? I was with you through most of this discussion but this is a bit off.

[KThunder]

ummm what kind of pie was it?

[KThunder]

ohhhh they are wedges, geeze that took a while. Ok but the lines and grill etc are very commodoresque.