WTF - Amiga 1000x - hmmm.. Not not x1000, 1000x!

[haywirepc]

http://www.commodore-amiga.org/en/forum/27-commodore-usa/15452-commodore-amiga-1000x-minus-the-keyboard-garage-and-custom-keyboard

Seems like an okay design for a case, but its a horrible name for a computer considering we already have amigaone x1000.


I guess they are behind in spamming this forum with their stuff...

At least they have progressed beyond vinyl stickers I suppose, but still, an amiga this is not.

[haywirepc]

BTW, I wonder if this will be 3,000$ too.

[haywirepc]

Probably because the logo is their only selling point. They want to make sure everyone sees the only thing they have worth buying.

I think they should just manufacture stickers and case badges. At least then people would be able to make their own "amigas" just like them! hahaha. :p

[haywirepc]

Besides the obvious attempt to mislead and confuse people....

They still have yet to explain their legal right to use either the commodore name or the amiga name. Isn't that stuff still in legal hell?

I would think that if the rights to use either name are still being argued over in court then they can't just keep using them until the court cases are settled...

[haywirepc]

They are more likely making computers in quantities of 10's not hundreds or thousands. Kinda like the corner store pc shops?

The difference is they have delusions of grandeur.

[haywirepc]

I often wonder what the behind the scene conversations are like when they see that people have found their parts sources or they get busted trying to pawn off other people's computers with their stickers on them as their own....

Barry : Leo, they found out about our stickers stuck on the cybernet zpcs! Dammit Leo, now no one will buy them!

Leo : Its okay, lets just cancel that model and delete it from our website.

Barry : Yeah that sounds like a plan and lets never mention this again.


A few months later....

Barry : LEO! They found out our vic slim is just another existing all in one keyboard imported from asia with our stickers attached!

Leo : Lets just ignore that and keep pretending we made it.

Barry : That sounds like a plan, then lets announce MORE new models!

Leo : YES!


A few months later....

Barry : Dammit Leo, now they found out where our 1000x cases came from.

Leo : Its okay, now we stopped using stickers!

Barry : Oh yeah! Never mind, these idiots will buy anything!

[haywirepc]

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_VicSlim.aspx

Still shows as commodore branded on their website. I suppose if the legal nightmare continues, they don't even actually have the right to use the commodore logo, or call their company commodore anything....

I would think thats a big deal and deserves some clarification or comment from them, but I guess they'd rather people didn't know.

As for amiga.com Silly Billy just sold a few tablets with amiga stickers so he could still claim they have amiga branded products. This way, they can continue to claim ownership and trademark rights to the name and licence the name to anyone with a couple of bucks.

I hope eventually all the grave robbers run of out money or schemes so anyone can make amiga branded products or use the logo.

[haywirepc]

MorphOS is in so many ways just like amiga os.

COS is in so many ways NOT like amiga OS, and required about 2 nights to develop verses years and years of hard work MorphOS took, regardless of what hardware it runs on.

Hard not to respect guys who busted their ass writing code for years and years more than someone who stuck an amiga sticker on a bog standard pc and did a commodore theme on mint linux.

Pardon us idiots for seeing the difference.

[haywirepc]

Wish them the best of luck, even though I'm a critic of their methods.

Keeping amiga alive is tough.

Amiga however, is not linux, but maybe it should have been 10+ years ago.

Divided camps, no fucus. Its just an ideal now.

And nothing can live up to the past I think, when it really mattered.

(Sigh)

[haywirepc]

"I know it's not popular around here, but linux kernel plus a thoroughly amiga like UI would have been a decent way to go, at some point in the past."


Thats what I meant, I meant the different amiga camps are seperated and fractured. AOS4, MORPHOS, AROS, all wasting resources doing the same thing 3 times. In regards to CUSA and linux, its not a bad idea just 10 or more years too late...

If 10 or more years ago amiga fans did the linux kernel plus a thoroughly amiga like ui and agreed on some standards for application programming, I think the ng amiga scene would be much better off now...

Doing that now would just create another camp, though I still think its a great idea, but not with a linux gui. I am watching broadway x developments with great interest...

Steven