@takemehomegrandma
>>Sorry, but that's utterly stupid!
Or is it? Is it stupid really? It looks like 90% of Commodore and Amiga people think this takes the piss. A C64 shell with a x86 board inside. Anyone can get a C64 off ebay and do the same in 60 minutes, with better specifications parts.
You are confused. Better look again.
>>Of course the market is true old Amiga and Commodore fans, otherwise they wouldn't bother with the Commodore Amiga trademarks!
Wrong! The Commodore Amiga trademarks are there because they are an asset. Better to use the Commodore and Amiga names rather than a brand new one but as I said before many Amigans will not touch the stuff.
You know what? I think you have spent way to much time on sites like amigaworld.net and amigans.net. You need to get out more. The world moved on long time ago.
The only value that the Commodore and Amiga brands has today, the only chance to make any kind of money whatsoever from them, is from retro gimmick stuff like this. Most people who still has any kind of recognition for the Commodore brand, left the brand more than two decades ago. Most people who still recognize the Amiga brand left it one and a half decade ago. Both categories of people are middle-aged or old today, they moved on with their lives, but many probably have happy memories from the games, etc they played back then. This would be the market.
If Commodore can identify, conceptualize and reproduce that set of nostalgic memories (and emotions they bring) into some real, tangible products, then they might have a business. And the key to this will be the trade marks of course. But it also comes down to Workbench 5, which will be the SW that ties it all together. Ideally it will come in a pre-configured and well thought through shape and form. All necessary emulators already there, the environment set up and ready to go. Maybe some kind of Internet service as an extension? If they get the software right, they can absolutely use the trademarks to sell Commodore Amiga's to enthusiasts. And if they can make the bread-box C64 design come true, then it will be a hit! Heck, I might buy one myself, just because of the coolness factor alone!
What will be *impossible* to sell, no matter the "amigaone" trademark, is the X1000 as it has been described this far. Completely impossible! You probably doesn't understand why; your use of the words "real" and "true" in combination with "amigan" in your posts (as well as the assumption that normal people (the masses) actually cares about CPU's beyond "available, cheap and powerful") shows all the signs of that much too long stay at "amigans.net" that usually leads to a misconceived perception of reality that "Amiga" would be something that it's not.
Sorry.
