My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

[TheBilgeRat]

Ok, the keyboard was out of the case and you didn't pull a cap to show the switches?!  And the cap printing?!

Ok, on a serious note...why the diverse product line of "commodores?"  Apart from the C64 clone, the rest looked like generic crap.  Better business sense would be to take the only product worth anything (that fancy C64 box) and market the crap out of it.  Also I am guessing those passively cooled processors get hot hot hot!

[TheBilgeRat]

an up to date Amiga OS would need billions to make commercially successful... It is as viable as is space elevator.

Citation needed.

[TheBilgeRat]

What do you mean? Wolftothemoon said it, so it must be true! He even talked about all the things you'd need to do and made up some numbers to go with them!

I was just gonna ask the workers on an up to date AmigaOS (say, Piru) where their cut of that billion dollar pie is...

[TheBilgeRat]

Well, since nobody asked for my opinion, here is MY dream scenario:

Microsoft suddenly has a change of heart and invests all their profit into CUSA and Workbench 5.  CUSA buys out any and all who claim to have dominion over the Amiga/commodore name.  The software side (MS) discards all previous OS efforts to include their server side software to focus on Workbench 5, snatches up MorphOS, AOS4, and sues Aros out of existence a la SCO.  CUSA buys Intel and Nvidia, makes "AmigaBox720", a set-top gaming box with optional keyboard sporting the newest best Nvidia Chip called AAAAAAAAAkikko.  Its 100% backwards compatible with all existing Amiga software natively with the special backwards bridge made out of bullshittium.  It can come in 32 different shapes and color schemes to fit your nostalgic tastes.  This new power block can then buy influence in the EU and America so that they can legally draw and quarter all Apple users.  As we all stand around the bloody hipster chunks we can sing Kumbaiyah and have ice cream.

[TheBilgeRat]

Aros is not a company and in the case of SCO it was the party who sued who died

greets,
Staf.

I keep forgetting Europeans have no developed sense of sarcasm.  I though the ice cream line gave it away entirely

[TheBilgeRat]

Good point, if it actually turns out to be worth a damn (riight) I'm sure it could be pirated* easily enough and the need for "specialized" hardware avoided!


*provided they decide not to allow it for free download, which would be my guess.

Hey!  My P4 is "special!" :lol:

[TheBilgeRat]

Apparently, one mans dream is another mans nightmare.



And then they bring back Amiga Basic, but this time it always fires requesters: "This Basic Programm wants to connect to the internet. The internet can be harmful to your computer, do you want to (C)onnect or (A)bort?" And will prompt "You can turn off your Amiga now" when you quit Workbench.

 And while they are at it, they eliminate Linux by suing Torvalds about his first name?

 Especially Word Perfect and IBM Transformer.

See?  Now you're getting in the spirit!  Looks like the germans do have a sense of sarcasm

[TheBilgeRat]

Hi,

@Runequester,

Don't worry about not watching the Superbowl. Rottenburger stunk, threw two interceps in the first quarter, Mendenhall done his famous fumble thing and the Steelers lost, Rottenburger tried to put it out in the last minute but failed miserably, the Steeler defense or steel curtain had holes in it all night long and the Steelers lost. Everything about this superbowl sucked, even the place where they played at (Dallas), but then again everything in Texas sucks.

smerf

Rottenburger?  Was this a food fight?  And what exactly were they stealing?  The only thing I understood in this paragraph was "Texas stinks"

Yes.  Yes it does. :lol: