What the F***!

[klx300r]

I've used Firefox since it was called Phoenix.
It's a bloated piece of crap.

ok then perhaps you can team up with AI & CUSA to make a better web browser for your Workbench 5 iranian version eh...I'm sure many of us here will be waiting:razz:

[the_leander]

Perhaps you're campaigning to be their marketing director?

Plaz

Hey don't knock it, it worked for the other guy :lol:

[klx300r]

.... Perhaps you're campaigning to be their marketing director?

Plaz

why not...hey Leo..you got some spare room in that garage AI is working out of:lol:

[nicholas]

ok then perhaps you can team up with AI & CUSA to make a better web browser for your Workbench 5 iranian version eh...I'm sure many of us here will be waiting:razz:

We already have a faster and more standards compliant web browser.

[Terminills]

ok then perhaps you can team up with AI & CUSA to make a better web browser for your Workbench 5 iranian version eh...I'm sure many of us here will be waiting:razz:

I would say Fab's version of OWB is far better then firefox ... but that's me. =]

[Plaz]

I hope the CUSA has some other plans in mind beside competing as yet another Win/Linux based clone distributor. Else I predict this ride will be over in a very short term.

Maybe the plan is basically to continue as a cool custom case maker? And what better way to get some startup publicity than to grab a classic name badge. Clever idea actually.

I don't mean to, and I'm not trying to disparage CUSA, but I can't help but be reminded of another startup that was once related to a company/hobby that I also currently partcipate in.

Here's a link to that very old and odd story.

http://www.barthworks.com/cars/electriccars/1979solargen.htm

[smerf]

(I don't really care whether they have the legal rights to the name or not)

AND

They don't really care what you think, they pais there money and theis does there thing.

( - they're still trying to sell a standard x86 PC as somehow being a "new Amiga.")

Looks new to me, I never saw an Amiga Box using an X86, just think an Amiga Box using a Intel or AMD quad core. Now that is power and new.

 (If that's the case, the genericlone Pentium 4 workstation I'm typing on is as much an Amiga as what they're selling,)

Pentium 4, Good God we dumped that trash 10 years ago, where you living in the dark ages. My oldest computer (besides the Amiga) is a intel core 2 dual, heck, I don't even think the salvation army would take that Pentium 4 now.

( and I didn't have to sit around looking at terrible POV-ray renders and wondering how much the distributor was going to charge me for it.)

Neither do I my AMD 1090T 6 core AMD processor does it just fine, and only uses 12% of my processing power.

Face it look at todays computers, heck even a five year old MAC is outdoing the Amiga, and we have WAYNE to verify that. You guys are sounding just like the IBM fan boys when the Amiga first came out:

1.  It uses a different underpowered processor.
2.  It isn't compatible
3.  Why use a mouse a keyboard is much faster (Bill Gates)
4.  Multi tasking - I can only do one thing at a time, what do I need that for.
5.  Stereo Sound - come on, on a computer, if I want to listen to music I will turn on my
     stereo and listen to good music.
6.  Look at their dos, on mine all I have to do is type in C: what is this DF0: HD0: junk.
7.  What programs are they going to run, it just doesn't meet the business standards.
8.  The Amiga's disks can't be used in an IBM, it is the wrong format.
9.  Ham, yea I had some the other day for dinner.

I will wait and see before I pass judgement.

smerf

but then again I always did say just accept Amiga Forever as the new Amiga, it works, works well, and I likes it.

[Plaz]

Hey don't knock it, it worked for the other guy :lol:

Based on the few conversations we've had, I think BigBen took on the job really believing it would be a positive for the old community.

I also suspect based on other threads and postings since then, that the realities of the business have probably altered the original vision.

Darth Vader: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."  

Plaz

[coldfish]

I hope the CUSA has some other plans in mind beside competing as yet another Win/Linux based clone distributor. Else I predict this ride will be over in a very short term.

Maybe the plan is basically to continue as a cool custom case maker? And what better way to get some startup publicity than to grab a classic name badge. Clever idea actually.

I don't mean to, and I'm not trying to disparage CUSA, but I can't help but be reminded of another startup that was once related to a company/hobby that I also currently partcipate in.

Here's a link to that very old and odd story.

http://www.barthworks.com/cars/electriccars/1979solargen.htm

re Solargen:  What is it with Americans and wood-grain on station wagons?  

[Iggy]

I can live with that.



Fair enough.



Honestly? A bit "meh". I neither like nor dislike it, when I saw the revamp I realised that after all the nonsense that had gone on, I really didn't care about them. Their product range if it ever ships on some fronts looks mildly interesting, although I'll be blunt and say that an all in one keyboard style unit simply doesn't do it for me, it never did even when I had a wedge 1200. The case for their big box system looks the business however.

That said my next computer purchase is likely going to be something like an older shoebox pc (like a first gen AMD64) that I can use a media server/nas/mucking around. For "desktop" use I'll likely stick with my Asus F5 and replace it with another 17ins laptop when the day arrives, for portable I have my EeePC 701 which goes everywhere with me which I'll again get another netbook when it gets retired.

Well there are some more things we agree on. I think if you're going to still use a desktop, it ought to be compact (media servers really interest me).
And, with the drop in laptop prices, its hard not to just recommend them for most uses.

CUSA biggest mistake may be not having a laptop.

BTW - I too have a few A64s. Back when everyone was buying P4s I had a hard time explaining why this was a superior processor. Its interesting how that one worked out.

[persia]

I really don't get the fascination with Wedges, the longest any 1200 has lasted in my house without being put in a proper tower is three months...

[commodorejohn]

Face it look at todays computers, heck even a five year old MAC is outdoing the Amiga, and we have WAYNE to verify that. You guys are sounding just like the IBM fan boys when the Amiga first came out:

Well, as I said earlier in the thread, I don't have a problem with people who want to run Amiga-like OSes on Intel hardware. Certainly your typical x86 desktop these days offers a whole lot more oomph than any actual 68k Amiga hardware, or even the various PowerPC-based machines the MorphOS/OS4 users swear by. What I have a problem with is this company proposing to take standard PC hardware, slap it in an Amiga-reminiscent case from another manufacturer, load it up with a public-domain operating system that's been re-skinned to look like Workbench, and sell it with the brand of a classic computer with which it has nearly nothing in common in hardware, in software, or in spirit, and then expect people to go "ALL HAIL THE NEW AMIGA! IT IS RISEN INDEED!" I don't claim to be the ultimate arbiter of what "Amiga" is, but I'm pretty certain it's not "generic hardware + slightly customized packaging + graphics-hacked free OS + MAGICAL AMIGA BRAND."

[smerf]

@ coldfish,

(re Solargen: What is it with Americans and wood-grain on station wagons?)

1. It has class.
2. It is stylish
3. It makes a good surfer mobile
4. Woodies are always in style.

smerf

[Darrin]

4. Woodies are always in style.

smerf

and that can mean something entirely different in the USA...  

[smerf]

@Darrin

LOL!!!

smef

[Iggy]

and that can mean something entirely different in the USA...  

Yes, even my wife would agree, woodies are ALWAYS in style.