CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000

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Goto http://commodore.net/ then click Amiga.

My favorite part is the HD-DVD drive, guess someone did not know they stopped being made a few years ago.

My local gamestation sells the XBOX 360 HD DVD for £20 and £30 with 10 movies lol. So maybe Barry has bought a load and repurposed them. :roflmao:

The cases were been sold by Origen from about 2008ish. So the blu-ray and hd DVD war was probably still going. Love the bad photoshopping on the images though.

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It doesn't mention if it's touchscreen is capacitive or resistive. My money would be on resistive. Though it can apparently support a resolution of 1920x1080. The screen is supposed to be used as a media controller. So you can have windows media centre running on it while you watch something on the main monitor. If this is the case they have gone for, which it does look likes there is a cheaper one with a LCD screen instead, then I can imagine they would try to leverage some sort of gimmicky professional functionality in to it.

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I have a sneaky feeling that Barry has something else hidden up his sleeve. His pet Dammy has also been unusually quiet while all this has been going on. So either Dammy has dropped the ball again and said something he shouldn't of. Or these cases will be dropped, much like many of the "future models" that they touted have. In any case I wonder if they have permission to take the images and slap the commodore and amiga branding on it.

@Kesa
I am pretty sure he has mentioned that these things will be aimed at studio's. But I can't imagine a studio buying these things to be honest given the price and specs.

I also wonder if these will still be made by hand over at his US facility.

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I can see it now.

The all new Commodore SX64X. With added touchscreen functionality and instant C64 emulation straight form the box. No need for a keyboard or mouse.

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Lets be honest, the XBOX is highly customizable. if you have the skills you can de-solder the RAM chips and replace them with larger ones. While this will not increase performance on normal xbox games, they are optimised for the original amount of ram, it makes emulation and other things far better.

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Yeah the pocket pc market died the moment smart phones caught up. But they certainly have some nice uses still today. I was considering buying one cheap and seeing about modding it with some media stuff. Try and make a nice portable media device.

And the xbox's..... I wish I never sold my modded one.

But I digress.

I still like the look of the origen case, the overall shape and style looks nice, but I wouldn't pay what they are asking for one. If they are planning on sticking lots of high-end stuff in there it better be well ventilated.

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I am sure the kinds of people he is aiming these things at won't be using optical drives very much. I would imagine that everything is done off server clusters. Why bother burning something to a disk when you can just save it to the server in a fraction of the time.

Maybe for home use an optical drive would be a better idea. But I only ever use my drive for back-up's. Also for playing Diablo II and Baldures Gate. All my games come from Steam or similar places. My mac stuff comes from the app store and music comes through iTunes.

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It's not hard to lurk over there. You just check every couple of hours to see what crazy stuff has been done. It is literally that slow when it comes to replies. Not like here where some threads you only have to blink and it's reached 5 pages of replies.

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whats worrying is the response from the CTO, who i believe is supposed to be developing this thing, about all this.

For instance, my understanding (which is not set in stone) is that the "Retro OS" will cater to more advanced use cases and come pre-installed with things like programming tools, more advanced apps and retro and advanced games and the sort of fun and quirky features and aspects present in classic systems, while the "ModernOS" likely won't, as it will cater to a more mainstream audience. Not that you couldn't download this software later.

If they have not even set in stone whats supposed to be coming on these machines then I wonder how far they actually have got with deciding whats going in the case, what the price range is or even what planet they are on.

I also wonder which version of the OS is supposed to be shipped out to those who already purchased a machine off them. After all they are supposedly getting COS mailed to them once it's finished.

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sudo eject -T cdrom

Hell between us we can code for them any time lol.

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what the hell is made of? Looking on the manufacturers website its just a standard laptop mouse..... yup i can see our friends selling these.

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Well lets face it, the Cray CX1 cost $25K back in 2008.

If I had the choice I know what I would buy. And here is a hint, it wouldn't be CUSA. :lol:

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Hell yeah it's like some reality TV show. But it's one that I can actually stand to watch. The crazy from CUSA just keeps getting more crazy.

"Lets sell replica C64's. Now lets take cheap Chinese computers and rebadge them and call the VIC. Now lets try and conquer the professional market with our range of expensive tat Amiga's. While also thinking how we can squeeze more out of these all-in-one keyboard computers. Oh look it's Paris Hilton doing a tap dancing lesson in my front garden with a unicorn and a clown!"