The entire concept that this company is going to do mainstream television advertising is quite honestly the most silly thing I've heard yet, regardless of who their partners are. I always knew the C= fanatics here were sheep like, but really - setting cash aside for a TV ad campaign that targets C= fans, you're preaching to the wrong choir, lol. The TV ad idea is a preposterous waste of money. 99.99% of the computer using mainstream market doesn't want a clickety clackity 80's-esque computing experience, much less a Linux/emulation one, or one with Win installed on it that looks like it has a gimped keyboard. I hope they've got an elegant solution to that one (Win on that C 64 remake). If they don't, that keyboard on that new 64 would be absolutely useless to a guy like me that uses keycombos in windows more than a mouse.
No one but a C= fan will have any interest in these things unless C-USA is damned near willing to give them away.
Thanks for the report, Red. Gave me a little optimism for you C64 guys out there, at least the thing seems to look the part. I'd just personally take the 3 hours and couple hundred bucks that it would need and make a 64/Mini-ITX casemod, but I admittedly have no interest in the C 64. I wish the interview gave me some hope for their Amiga efforts, but I'm afraid I don't see a single innovative thing they are proposing.
That being said, I'm likely not their target market. For a couple hundred bucks I can build a UAE rig, AROS rig, or buy a Mac and register MorphOS. I hope their pricing is attractive enough that their Amiga offerings will be viable, but for the life of me I can't figure out how they will be in the day and age of $250 Bestbuy PC's that you can simply install a linux distro and UAE on yourself. I don't see a darned thing I couldn't do for myself, I suppose. I still see it as cashing in on a brandname that should have been left to sleep peacefully years ago.
