Oh man, oh no, this is rich, haha, tell me I didnt just see a suped up c64!
Yes you did and it is quite cool!
Will some one please tell me what the use of this hardware is for, as I refuse to think that any one would waste their money on this hack job.
Hack job? Waste money? For your information that was a beta board and it is NO hack job. The final board will be produced by Individual Comuters(Amiga hardware producer), will include tons of new features(like IDE), atx form factor and is targetting $200 for retail. If you actually did your homework you'd see this "hack job" is actually more powerfull overall than an A500/600/1000/2000 and probably A1200 out of the box. Damn cheap for a hobbiest computer!
Listen, the C64 is the #1 selling computer of all time. To this day the C64 has a cult following arguably bigger than the core group of Amigans in our community. It has a monthly glossy magazine in multiple languages with worldwide distribution. In alot of ways the C64 community is far healthier than the Amiga community.
Whats next, making a Coleco Adam run on a AMD XP2200, oh waite, no its making a Atari 400 with a AGP slot
Listen to yourself! That sounds foolish. People outside the Amiga community usually would readily ridicule YOU for having an interest in the Amiga. Think about it. They are not making the CommodoreOne hoping to go back into the mainstream, they are making it for the hobbiest to have a cool toy to play with. Up until the CommodoreOne, C128/64 users had to pay mindnumbing prices top upgrade their computers. A 20Mhz accelerator cost ~$350. A HD controller cost $500+! Compare that to what this is offering.
