CommodoreUSA site updated

[TheDaddy]

Please stop editing your posts AFTER someone has quoted one of them. I put up a witty reply which included a fantasticly brilliant photo but now it makes no sense at all  

Sorry!

I'll come up with some other "insult" soon I have got plenty for people like him.

[TheDaddy]

What a spanner!

[redrumloa]

I wake up this morning to see this thread spiraling out of control. I won’t point fingers, we are all adults here. Let us PLEASE get back on topic and not resort to personal attacks?

[Kesa]

I wake up this morning to see this thread spiraling out of control. I won’t point fingers, we are all adults here. Let us PLEASE get back on topic and not resort to personal attacks?

Noooooooooooooooooooo........

This thread is funny:roflmao:

[TheDaddy]

I wake up this morning to see this thread spiraling out of control. I won’t point fingers, we are all adults here. Let us PLEASE get back on topic and not resort to personal attacks?

Not so sure about the adult bit though...damn it I should have chucked a few more "insults" in before you woke up, missed an opportunity...

[don27dog]

in a *real* context, the trademarks commodore and amiga could be the way to reach those masses of people that once owned a commodore or amiga!"

B I N G O !!! there are millions of people out there that used to use COMMODORE or AMIGA !!! I am a perfect example of this... My 1st computer was a Vic 20 followed by c64,128, a1000,500,2000,3000T when I shut off my Amiga in 97 I didn't touch them until a few years ago when I was home at my parents over Christmas and was bored and found them up in the attic. I brought them home with me and they have been used daily for a few years now. In the time I was away I had no idea that Winuae, Morphos, Aros, OS4 exc even existed. I think each camp has become so close minded that they can't see how much potential CUSA has to bringing back old users and software developers. If ever there was a way to catch the attention of old users it is by using the name COMMODORE and AMIGA !!!! I'll wait and see but IMO CUSA has the potential to sell a lot of units bring back many old users that don't even know we still exist..

[Manu]

One thing I don't get. Some complain about the PC64 case looks too old etc. etc.
HUH ? It's SUPPOSED to look 80's, is that news to anyone then tell me all about it.

And the plastic prototype you see on their pages came from a printer. It can't look as good as one that came from a injection moulding machine.

[TheDaddy]

One thing I don't get. Some complain about the PC64 case looks too old etc. etc.
HUH ? It's SUPPOSED to look 80's, is that news to anyone then tell me all about it.

And the plastic prototype you see on their pages came from a printer. It can't look as good as one that came from a injection moulding machine.

It's just a matter of opinion, personally I think it's a bit weird that you re-invent the wheel. From a design point of view (aesthetically) it should have been a take on the C64 case looks.

Look at all the various retro looking cars and take ons of various successful designs of the past. VW did NOT make the Beetle look exactly the same did they? BMW didn't make the new Mini look exactly the same, Fiat didn't make the new Fiat Cinquecento exactly the same as the original did they? This looks exactly the same as the C64 case.

So you would expect the A1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 to look exactly the same as the original...they don't. They are black HTPCs.

Never said anything about the prototype...I can get that it is a prototype...

So just a personal opinion.

[Franko]

B I N G O !!! there are millions of people out there that used to use COMMODORE or AMIGA !!! I am a perfect example of this... My 1st computer was a Vic 20 followed by c64,128, a1000,500,2000,3000T when I shut off my Amiga in 97 I didn't touch them until a few years ago when I was home at my parents over Christmas and was bored and found them up in the attic. I brought them home with me and they have been used daily for a few years now. In the time I was away I had no idea that Winuae, Morphos, Aros, OS4 exc even existed. I think each camp has become so close minded that they can't see how much potential CUSA has to bringing back old users and software developers. If ever there was a way to catch the attention of old users it is by using the name COMMODORE and AMIGA !!!! I'll wait and see but IMO CUSA has the potential to sell a lot of units bring back many old users that don't even know we still exist..

@ don27dog

Your post is the perfect example of why Commodore USA upsets a lot of folk. That's the whole point folk are trying to make here against Commodore USA is folk like yourself who have been away from the Commodore scene for a while will be fooled into thinking (if you don't do your homework first before you buy) that you are buying a brand new Amiga or C64 based on the original machines hardware & architecture...

What you will in fact be buying is nothing more than a custom built case with off the shelf parts running an emulator, thats what upsets a lot of folk as CUSA are promoting these things as if they were an updated version of the original CBM machines, which they are not...

I mean a company with so much money to spend intent on alienating the folk who may have been most interested in their products makes no sense whatsoever, hell they cant even get their own marketing or wording right on their site...:rolleyes:

Commodore® trademark used under exclusive worldwide license by Commodore USA, LLC for its line of AIO (All-In-One) keyboard computers, and is the trademark of Commodore Licensing, BV, registered in the United States and other countries. Amiga® trademark used under exclusive worldwide license by Commodore USA, LLC for its line of AIO (All-In-One) keyboard computers, and is the trademark of Amiga Inc., registered in the United States and other countries.

How on earth can their Amiga range be classed as an All-In-One keyboard computer when the ruddy keyboard is separate from the main desktop box, makes about as much sense as anyone daft enough to buy one of the things...

[tone007]

Having already built a MicroITX motherboard into a C64 case (and yes, it was simple with basic knowledge of how to use a Dremel, plastic couldn't be easier to play the mod game with) the novelty of this idea has already worn off for me, and the system is long since disassembled for use in other projects.

[Digiman]

Well, the site does look much better.

Once he starts shipping product (which I'm sure he will), he'll finally silence a large portion of the naysayers.

I told you guys after contacting Altman, he's serious about this.

And the use of the Workbench name is a brilliant way to side step the Hyperion/AOS  trademark issue.

I will pass judgement if he sells the actual C64 case design as in the 3D renders (ditto A1000/2000/3000) the rest of his stuff is of no interest to me as apart from the A2000/500 abominations all Amigas were stylish and those all in one units with stuck on C= labels are pig ugly sorry.

The issue with this guy has always been nobody wants what you can buy but what he has renders of and is supposed to sell in the future. So unless that C64 case styled rendered PC is produced with identical keyboard as shown colour me "couldn't give a crap"

[Digiman]

Having already built a MicroITX motherboard into a C64 case (and yes, it was simple with basic knowledge of how to use a Dremel, plastic couldn't be easier to play the mod game with) the novelty of this idea has already worn off for me, and the system is long since disassembled for use in other projects.

The keyboard used is the issue, as it is with doing PC inside Amiga 1200 units I did ages ago. If the C64 ones look exactly as shown and the price is cheap enough then great.

Personally the 64C case is nicer IMO.

[orb85750]

And does anyone take this statement of theirs seriously?

"September 14, 2010 – Commodore USA announced today the selection of Korey Kay & Partners as its Agency of Record for Branding and Creative Development. Projected budget: $30 million."

They have been saying and presenting questionable things for some time now, IN MY OPINION.

[Digiman]

Well, that rules out any traditional AmigaOS or it's offspring :lol:

Workbench 1.3 was stable for me...1 crash a year! Just can't do anything that a modern OS does

[Manu]

And does anyone take this statement of theirs seriously?

"September 14, 2010 – Commodore USA announced today the selection of Korey Kay & Partners as its Agency of Record for Branding and Creative Development. Projected budget: $30 million."

They have been saying and presenting questionable things for some time now, IN MY OPINION.

It's too early to say really. If they just finished the prototype then they are at the best just about finishing the mould which is a tough job. It has to work in production. Often you have to do test runs send it back to the factory that makes the mould to fine tune it a bit and test it in production again and so on. Kore Kay & Partners maybe don't have anything to market just yet but who knows maybe in 2-3 months we could start to see something. That's my take on it.

[Franko]

You know something all this claptrap about Commodore USA is really quite pointless, amusing but pointless...

I've lasted for 25 years using the original Amiga hardware on a daily basis and original Commodore computers since 1982 when I got my first Vic 20, so whatever CUSA finally produces will not really mean much to me and the same can be said about A-Eon and the X1000, the site still says due late 2010 and even when you signed up for their mailing list you don't even get one email from them sod the lot of em I say...