Commodore Phoenix questions

[KThunder]

There's a difference between reselling and producing.

...though he may have produced the stickers!

So maybe we should skip anybody that wants to sell retro-styled computer stuff and just stick stickers on our Dells?

[tone007]

That Fantasy pic is pretty cool.

Cool enough to shamelessly steal, apparently.

[tone007]

So maybe we should skip anybody that wants to sell retro-styled computer stuff and just stick stickers on our Dells?

No, by all means, buy a computer that can do exactly what the computer you already have (or can get for easily half the price) does, and nothing more, solely because the case is a bit different (ha, "retro-style," good one.)

[KThunder]

Cool enough to shamelessly steal, apparently.

How the heck do you know it was shamelessly stolen? Are you the original artist? Do you know this person? You seem to be jumping to conclusions because you don't like this product.

[KThunder]

No, by all means, buy a computer that can do exactly what the computer you already have (or can get for easily half the price) does, and nothing more, solely because the case is a bit different (ha, "retro-style," good one.)

I would consider the fantasy case very retro styled. It looks like a modern black c64. Really cool. I'd buy one.

[tone007]

How the heck do you know it was shamelessly stolen? Are you the original artist? Do you know this person? You seem to be jumping to conclusions because you don't like this product.

I don't know for a fact, but there's a definite pattern here, some dork trying to make money off of other people's work.  Most artists generally would appreciate their signature not being removed from a piece of their work.

[tone007]

I would consider the fantasy case very retro styled. It looks like a modern black c64. Really cool. I'd buy one.

The fantasy case looks nothing like a C64, it resembles an A500, and it doesn't exist, therefore I was not commenting on it but on the current offerings from "Commodore." Hopefully if a case like it somehow gets magically produced, the artist is compensated.

[KThunder]

I don't know for a fact, but there's a definite pattern here, some dork trying to make money off of other people's work.  Most artists generally would appreciate their signature not be removed from a piece of their work.

Anything we could possibly produce at this point would be at least partially off someone elses work. If he bought all rights to the art he could do anything he wants with it, even sign his own name.

[KThunder]

The fantasy case looks nothing like a C64, it resembles an A500, and it doesn't exist, therefore I was not commenting on it but on the current offerings from "Commodore." Hopefully if a case like it somehow gets magically produced, the artist is compensated.

I owned one c64 and several 64c's and never owned an a500, to me it looks like a c64 (64c)

Ok an a500 or 1200 maybe. Anyway its cool

[tone007]

I owned one c64 and several 64c's and never owned an a500, to me it looks like a c64 (64c)

..well, it's got keys, in that way they're quite similar.

[KThunder]

..well, it's got keys, in that way they're quite similar.

You dont see any similarities between the 64c the c128, the a500, a600 and a1200?

Ummm ok whatever...

[tone007]

You dont see any similarities between the 64c the c128, the a500, a600 and a1200?

Ummm ok whatever...

Hey, there are similarities between those, the Atari ST, an IBM 101 key keyboard, and a piece of pie I ate earlier in the week!  How about that.

[KThunder]

Hey, there are similarities between those, the Atari ST, an IBM 101 key keyboard, and a piece of pie I ate earlier in the week!  How about that.

what does that have to do with anything? I was with you through most of this discussion but this is a bit off.

[KThunder]

ummm what kind of pie was it?

[KThunder]

ohhhh they are wedges, geeze that took a while. Ok but the lines and grill etc are very commodoresque.

[persia]

All these comments about a product that doesn't exist, drawn by an unknown artist who likely doesn't know his work is being used, produced by a furniture company reusing the Commodore brand.  Yawn.

We all know if Commodore had survived they wouldn't be making computers in a keyboard (aka screenless laptops).  They did that a decade an a half ago because it was cheaper to construct.  Now it's more expensive.   Had Commodore survived they'd have switched to laptops and would be coming out with Android tablets....