POLL: What is the most viable Amiga platform for *you*?

[Franko]

Conspiracy theory's are great, they liven up any conversation and there is always some truth to be found in them if you dig deep enough...

The "nefarious discussions" that may or may not have taken place only you are privy to at the moment, or have you forgotten them already...

[Franko]

It's like trying to have a serious discussion with a chatbot with you...

Is that it... I've been watching you type this ruddy reply for the past 12 minutes & 11 seconds now and that's all you've came up with (thought it was going to be something epic)... :lol:

Anyway chatbots are boring then tend to go a wee bit barmy when I talk to them and seem to get awfully confused by some of the things I say for some weird reason...

At least you always give me something to say, whether it makes much sense or not doesn't really matter, it's all done in the best possible taste...

[Franko]

@ Redrumloa

Methinks you may mean this thingy...

WEB COMPUTERS INTERNATIONAL - WEB IT

even though I wasn't on the net back then I do recall seeing a few articles about it in magazines at the time. It never received any favourable reviews and seemed to just disappear...

Big difference between that and the CUSA products though are the WCI WEB IT never attempted to look like the C64 or even make claims that it was the new C64 or it's successor...

[Franko]

@ Red

"Trolling" is my business it seems and if that's what you wanna call me the so be it, after all it's just silly made up word used by internet numpties...

The box may say Commodore 64 and the badge on the machine may say Commodore 64 but not even a three legged blind man and his guide hamster would have thought it was a genuine C64...

[Franko]

Doesn't change the fact that they were trying to market it as one. However, people do still seem to think that the fact that other companies tried to market unrelated hardware as "Commodore 64" or "Amiga" makes it okay for C-USA to do so. It doesn't. It doesn't matter how many people did so in the past. And the only reason I wasn't deriding the Web.It at the time was because I wasn't online and wasn't a member of the Commodore community then. (Well, that and the fact that, with a name like "Web.It," it mocks itself. God, what were people smoking in the '90s?) Had I been on a Commodore newsgroup at the time, I would have expressed precisely the same sentiments towards it as I do towards C-USA.

Gotta agree with that 100%...

Trouble is most of the ones supporting CUSA can only dig into the past looking for excuses to back up CUSA as they can't think of anything better by themselves to say...

This isn't the past this is here and now and what CUSA plan on selling is about a genuine and real as the Loch Ness Monster or the fact that I'm a brain surgeon...

Even Red seems to be changing his tune from some of the posts he's made here, reckon a Coke wasn't the only thing Barry slipped him...

[Franko]

@ CommodoreJohn & Dandy

?!!!!!!!!!!

[Franko]

Great C64 videos you put on the web - didn´t know that there was so great marketing at Commodore - curious why this didn´t happen also for Amiga?
Was this marketing for GB specially or also for the US-market?

Most of those ads are American & Austrailian only 3 (I think) were for the UK market...

There are around 18 Amiga ones I have from all over the world, just need to finish trying to restore them as best I can before I put them on the site...

[Franko]

I had a friend from high school who found out a few years ago that I liked all things commodore, and he remembered a commodore commercial from the 80s "I can do more with my commodore 64!"

Many places here in the states Apple had a strangle hold on the schools. My school had "trash80's" in the middle school and Apples in the high school with a few pc's showing up later on.

That's interesting, I haven't came across that one yet, you don't have it by any chance do you, it would be nice to add to the collection...

[Franko]

I believe in Nessie  

Are you suggesting the Loch Ness Monster isn't real? Jeez, man, have some national pride! I'm not even from the UK and I show that poor beast more respect!

@ commodorejohn & save2600

I shouldn't really be telling you this (keep it to yourselves) but, Nessie is just a tourist scam that we use to overcharge (mainly yanks & Japs) during the summer so we can make an extra few quid to keep the nation supplied with buckfast...

It's a bit like the wild 3 legged Haggis shoots we take them on up the hillsides...
 


Hi Smerf ...

You know them 7 million ex Commodore users that you party with every weekend, well at your next party could you look for a wee fat baw faced git that goes by the name of Gib and ask him when I'm going to get back the tenner I lent the bugger back in 97...

As for the lavvies getting bunged up, simple solution let them use the back garden instead (just make sure they do their business over the fence into the neighbours garden)...

(PS: how do you manage to fit 7 million ex Commodore users into a guinea pig cage !!!)

Franko