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Re: What the F***!
« on: January 11, 2011, 04:30:21 PM »
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Ouch my Lord! It is sooo lame! :( We all can produce this new Commodore product at home... :(


Honestly, I'd prefer to see nothing done to further the Amiga legacy than what C-USA is doing, lol.  I don't find their putting stickers on a PC case with a PC mobo, reskinning an open source OS with an "Amiga" theme and renaming it "OS 5", then slapping an emulator on said box and selling at what will be likely an elevated price to be promoting the platform at all.  Just like I didn't when they put out their all in ones that were asian junk that you could buy at a fraction of the price of what they were charging with the C=/Amiga decals on the same darned machines.

The entire C-USA thing leaves a hideous taste in my mouth and the one "representative" of C-USA that's chimed in on A.org hasn't done anything to make people think that the company is anything other than moneygrubbing scam.  Then again, I felt the same about the boingball stickered PC $5 keyboards being passed off as "Official Amiga" gear.  Thankfully in a free market, I don't have to buy such items if I don't wish to.

I don't see much innovation in slapping PC hardware in a PC case, reskinning an OS, adding an emulator and suddenly it's an "Amiga".  It's no more an Amiga than the PC I got in front of me that runs UAE.  Ain't a damned thing about C-USA that doesn't come off as extremely shady in my books, lol.

Then again, while I have no use for vintage Amiga hardware atm, I still do see the Amiga name as sort of sacred ground, so I may be overly sensitive about what can be viewed by some like myself as blatant attempts on cashing in on a legacy.  No one is twisting my arm to purchase the stuff, so in the end, best of luck to C-USA if they actually bring said products to market in a fashion that doesn't make a mockery of the Amiga tradition.
 

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Re: What the F***!
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2011, 10:12:20 PM »
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Also how fun will it be when someone comes to your house and mocks you when they see a Commodore 64 under the TV and you suddenly show them it running Modern day software and playing blu ray movies

And their retort will be:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/c64/

Note the "Posted on April 28, 2003" date  :)

Sure, the 933mhz CPU in that C-64 Mini ITX build is dated by todays standards, but the concept of throwing PC hardware in an old retro case is far from new, and certainly doesn't make it anything other than a PC in a retro case running emulation.

I hope C-USA brings solid offerings that people are interested in buying, but the things they are doing are far from inventive.
 

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Re: What the F***!
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2011, 10:58:00 PM »
Curious where you are getting you data regarding Chrome being the most vulnerable web browser.

http://www.taranfx.com/most-secure-browser
 

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Re: What the F***!
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2011, 11:21:47 PM »
Cool, thanks.  Didn't mean to come off as an argumentative dick, I just enjoy reading different takes on browser security since they tend to vary wildly.