Amiga Case Designer Faces Intimidation

[Digiman]

Looks more like Acorn machines than any Commodore case so I don't see the reason for C=USA showing their true colours to the community.

Think they don't like people showing up their Amiga/VIC Mini rubbish idea for the lack of effort

[Digiman]

Now why in the world would you start some silly flamebait thread title like that. How lame put I'm so tired of this anti Commodore usa crap. This guy put up a bunch of money and energy for this project. What are you guys doing to help amiga name out commercially? Exactly.

And what exactly is C=USA doing to help the Amiga scene?

(clue: answer includes the letters f,c,u,k, ,a,l,l, )

[Digiman]

Wait, let me get this straight - TheDaddy is admirable for putting his own time and money into an Amiga-inspired project, therefore we should feel bad for disliking the company that harassed him about something that wasn't even wrong for him to do? Yeah, that makes sense.

 
Exactly, they made a mistake assuming he was the kind of scum who stuck Commodore sticky labels on cases sold without a licence without reading the web page properly.....I wonder who has done that before before hmmm :lol:

[Digiman]

You can keep that. Noone has protected the tick since fall of Commodore, it has been used for 20 years by anyone without the need for any license - it's abandoned and public domain.

The red/white beach ball can't be Amiga Inc's property either, it was used as a product logo by a hardware vendor for A1000 products in 1985/86.

Therefore nobody else can do anything other than buy said company's rights (which Commodore didn't do) if they want to stop EVERYONE using it.

Also you can't stop someone calling a computer "A.M.I.G.A" as they are initials, as long as you define the five letter acronym and none of the A letters stand for the word "amiga".

And yes the font used by Commodore for the word "Amiga"can not be objected to as it is royalty free

:banana:

[Digiman]

Do not make them in black with a proper keyboard or you may get in trouble with Sinclair USA

[Digiman]

Well this is great news, not only will my Amiga cases look exactly like various Amiga models....they will also be labelled correctly by brand and model number in huge embossed Amiga logo.

Oh how I laugh muhahahahaha.

[Digiman]

Just wow, having the dog on the board of directors.

A nod to Jay Miner's dog on the list of staff at Hi-Toro?

[Digiman]

It's CUSA's answer to Mitchie the dog don't ya know... If Jay Minor was still about I wonder which "Commodore" he'd have disliked most.

Still be the A500

[Digiman]

They probably only paid for Commodore logo but as the Amiga trademark is dead Amiga Inc are fukt now and couldn't have sold it.

The best they could have done to avoid problems would have been replica cases, but I suspect C64x didn't make much of a profit hence VIC Mini/Amiga Mini bolloks

[Digiman]

Great legal loophole, lets call Lorianos case Amiga 500 Replica and ship it with slim DVD, so we declare it Amiga 500 replica DVD drive

(it`s a joke, its already X500 and with no stickers, but Loraino is great example of "I can, you can"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3aVj1JOz_c

It doesn't look anything like any Amiga case, it is a BBC Micro case more than A500 so that would be wrong IMO.

[Digiman]

Muchie in previous career...  



He looks a little spooked maybe he's sufferring from post traumatic stress disorder these days?

Nah he's just seen Barry's business plan and wondering when he goes bankrupt who will be buying his dog biscuits :lol: