What's the Deal With CommodoreUSA?

[Digiman]

Amiga 1000 was REVOLUTIONARY in hardware AND OS over anything for a decade FACT, 500 was ugly but bought you the 1000's technology for half the price, 2000 was a monster but still only 8mhz but hey better than EGA PC with crappy sound blaster card or those crappy Apple Macs for £2000 *bletch*

Commodore USA makes pure sh1t full stop, ugly 'Amiga' machines with crippled built in graphics that won't run 2004 'cutting edge' games and well not much better than a £200 netbook. All running on a mildly breathed over copy of Linux Mint distro (which does less for the machine than a copy of XP running a Amiga OS 4 skin in reality and all the inconvenience of using Linux today over Windows gives you) Oh and apart from the C64x all their machines look FA like a the machine they are supposed to be resurrecting too.

You decide where they went wrong?

In fact you can decide with your PayPal accounts when the Amiga 1200PC machines launch from my website.

(and if anybody doesn't like the C= logos on them tough sh1t I won't remove them. FU )

[Digiman]

Ive said before and people got mad, but a linux /base/ for an Amiga os is the only sane option left.

You have access to extremely wide base of hardware, with drivers available, you have access into modern applications etc.
Develop a desktop environment that genuinely feels and functions like a fully featured amiga environment and go from there. Heck, amithlon proved what could have been.

Yeah, it wont satisfy the purists but neither does anything else. So fuk 'em.

I have to disagree here because i7 is the tip of the smelly dog poo that is humans have run out of talent to make truly faster processors and all we're going to get is more cores on a chip. Linux will soon be left behind as benchmarks with Win 8 beta on the latest 8 core AMD CPUs shows.

There is no solution because nobody has the money to throw down the drain that is making a bespoke ground up x86 Amiga OS. The hardware and the OS have to be designed hand in hand and by the same company. This is never going to happen so no point getting angry, that's just how it turned out. The two most pathetic machines out of 6 incompatible architectures won out, and Apple is only here today due to sales of iBollox otherwise they would have folded by 2000

[Digiman]

As far as emulating everything else Windows is now top of the heap IMO.