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Re: My evening with Commodore USA, LLC
« Reply #14 from previous page: February 07, 2011, 03:30:32 PM »
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Why does it have to be innovative? I understand some people only want it to be innovative to honour the memory of old Commodore and the Amiga. You can do that without innovation by making sure the brand at least survives, think of it as selling Commodore branded PCs. Does that make you feel better?
No. No it does not. As I've said before, if there's truly nothing about the real Amiga that they feel is worth salvaging, they should let it die peacefully. And "think of it as selling Commodore branded PCs?" No! If they are naming something "Amiga," they had damn well be delivering something Amiga-like, and I'm not going to just sit back and pretend they're making smaller claims that could be said to be in line with the facts just because people want this to be real. To keep going with my "Victorian mother" analogy, advising us to "lie back and think of Commodore" isn't going to make the proceedings any more satisfying.

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I moved onto the no longer grey box PC and that fondness for the custom hardware faded a long time ago and based on a recent poll "would you buy an X1000" it did a long time ago for a lot of other people. If you can't sell it to the die-hards here who can you sell it to? :)
Except the X1000 does have a following, even if it's one I can't personally fathom, and it is only one hardware-revival project among several. There is still an opportunity to build a successful next-gen Amiga-like hardware platform, unless you're one of the people here for whom "success" is defined as "storm the market and destroy all competitors forever, no exceptions."
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Re: My evening with Commodore USA, LLC
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2011, 02:36:05 AM »
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Does this look like slapping a glue-on Commodore badge to a PC? ;)
Nope. Looks like slapping a screw-on Commodore case to a PC.
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Re: My evening with Commodore USA, LLC
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2011, 02:54:53 AM »
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You would have to admit this takes quite some effort and cost to produce above and beyond slapping a sticker on white box PC, no?
Cost and effort? Absolutely. Does that translate into the authentic claim to the crown they think it does? No, it's completely irrelevant. Thus, while I don't discount the time and effort involved, I say that it's no more significant to the Commodore/Amiga community than slapping a sticker.

Just a shame all that time and money aren't going towards something actually Amiga-related, is all :(
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
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