Recreating the Amiga Walker Case

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JJ wrote:
You couldnt sell them, there would be copyright infingement i think.  Didnt mercarnia or whatever buy the rights to the case design etc ?

You mean Merlancia, and yes, he did, and to the Gateway case design as well.  However, before proclaiming infringement or the like, you should first check with a lawyer (no Ben Hermans jokes guys).

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Matt_H wrote:
I thought the designs eventually ended up with some of the Pegasos/bPlan/Genesi guys? Weren't drawings for several tower variants presented at a Pegasos show a few years ago?

I think it's a nice design for an art installation, museum, or kiosk terminal, but its large footprint and the inability to stack anything on it makes it very impractical for home/office desktop use.

Those weren't varients, they were the same model.  You could split the case horizontally and insert sections to make a tower out of it.

And while the actual unit and plans wound up at Genesi, the rights to them wound up at Merlancia so I understood.

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Darth_X wrote:
Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who liked the Vader-Helmet case... *sniff*

 :-D

I did too Darth, I did too.

Now the MMC, that was just.... yeck!

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B00tDisk wrote:

murple wrote:
I would be STUNNED if Merlancia actually tried to prevent somebody from building cases like that.

Regardless of the aesthetics of the case (or, in this instance, the lack thereof) I'm quite sure Doctor Professor Ryan of Merlancia would love love loooooove to find some shyster lawyer and squeeze a little bit of fresh cash out of anyone whom he perceived was stepping on anything that "belonged" to him, so I wouldn't try it myself.

you know that reminds me, I haven't seen him online lately.  How is he doing now I wonder.....