My evening with Commodore USA, LLC

[TheBilgeRat]

Aros is not a company and in the case of SCO it was the party who sued who died

greets,
Staf.

I keep forgetting Europeans have no developed sense of sarcasm.  I though the ice cream line gave it away entirely

[Digiman]

Well, since nobody asked for my opinion, here is MY dream scenario:

Microsoft suddenly has a change of heart and invests all their profit into CUSA and Workbench 5.  CUSA buys out any and all who claim to have dominion over the Amiga/commodore name.  The software side (MS) discards all previous OS efforts to include their server side software to focus on Workbench 5, snatches up MorphOS, AOS4, and sues Aros out of existence a la SCO.  CUSA buys Intel and Nvidia, makes "AmigaBox720", a set-top gaming box with optional keyboard sporting the newest best Nvidia Chip called AAAAAAAAAkikko.  Its 100% backwards compatible with all existing Amiga software natively with the special backwards bridge made out of bullshittium.  It can come in 32 different shapes and color schemes to fit your nostalgic tastes.  This new power block can then buy influence in the EU and America so that they can legally draw and quarter all Apple users.  As we all stand around the bloody hipster chunks we can sing Kumbaiyah and have ice cream.

Except Microsoft is losing out to Apple daily

[trekiej]

All this sounds like retro modding.

[tone007]

I'll gladly give CUSA's pseudo-amiga OS a spin on my own hardware if they ever actually create such a thing.

Good point, if it actually turns out to be worth a damn (riight) I'm sure it could be pirated* easily enough and the need for "specialized" hardware avoided!


*provided they decide not to allow it for free download, which would be my guess.

[TheBilgeRat]

Good point, if it actually turns out to be worth a damn (riight) I'm sure it could be pirated* easily enough and the need for "specialized" hardware avoided!


*provided they decide not to allow it for free download, which would be my guess.

Hey!  My P4 is "special!" :lol:

[tone007]

I've got a Commodore branded netbook just waiting for an OS!

[Digiman]

You might as well ask people who buy Dell or Sony or HP the same question.

Sometimes it's specs.  Sometimes it's price.  Sometimes it's looks.  Sometimes it's the name.

That's just the way it works sometimes...

There's nothing wrong with that, per se...

Wow..  People take this thing very seriously...    

desiv

Don't be stupid, comparing SONY/HP/DELL PCs is like comparing A4000D/A4000T.

PC x86 motherboard + Windows + WinUAE <> Amiga.
PC x86 motherboard + Linux + UAE <> Amiga.
Sticking Ferrari badge on a Toyota saloon <> new Ferrari car either

Look of the case plastics you wrap around it makes no difference. If you put an Atari 520ST motherboard inside Amiga 500 case and wire up the Amiga keyboard and FDD is it also a new Amiga now? What if I even show that you can still run your Amiga labelled Starglider 2 floppy? :roflmao:

Don't encourage the mentally challenged please!

(Starglider 2= dual format ST/Amiga original game disk....but will sound like an Amstrad game for some reaso )

[lsmart]

Well, since nobody asked for my opinion, here is MY dream scenario:

Apparently, one mans dream is another mans nightmare.

Microsoft suddenly has a change of heart and invests all their profit into CUSA and Workbench 5.

And then they bring back Amiga Basic, but this time it always fires requesters: "This Basic Programm wants to connect to the internet. The internet can be harmful to your computer, do you want to (C)onnect or (A)bort?" And will prompt "You can turn off your Amiga now" when you quit Workbench.

... and sues Aros out of existence a la SCO.

And while they are at it, they eliminate Linux by suing Torvalds about his first name?

100% backwards compatible with all existing Amiga software

Especially Word Perfect and IBM Transformer.

[Digiman]

Well, the specific processors used in the PS3 may be an exclusive license, but PPC is still manufactured by IBM for all sorts of stuff, so just make an offer for 100.000 boards or whatever, and you can do whatever the heck you want

IBM retain full exclusive rights to Xenon CPU (Xbox 360) and have unlimited rights to sell/modify CELL CPU (PS3 CPU) Xenon is based on 3x CELL PPE units in 6 thread/3 core mish mash.

Price/min quantity/motherboard design is the only issue (quite an issue it is too).

[TheBilgeRat]

Apparently, one mans dream is another mans nightmare.



And then they bring back Amiga Basic, but this time it always fires requesters: "This Basic Programm wants to connect to the internet. The internet can be harmful to your computer, do you want to (C)onnect or (A)bort?" And will prompt "You can turn off your Amiga now" when you quit Workbench.

 And while they are at it, they eliminate Linux by suing Torvalds about his first name?

 Especially Word Perfect and IBM Transformer.

See?  Now you're getting in the spirit!  Looks like the germans do have a sense of sarcasm

[beller]

Very nice job, Red!  You say in the lead you aren't a journalist, given the piece you might want to rethink that!

Bob

[redrumloa]

Very nice job, Red!  You say in the lead you aren't a journalist, given the piece you might want to rethink that!

Bob

Thank you for the kind remarks. I'm glad to see some people appreciated it:)

[actung_bab]

Sorry Red, not putting your report down or being disrespectful, but it's gotta go down as a non-event in my books...

Guess we'll just have to put up with the hype and constant bickering from now on...

l 100 % agree to me this just those sad sacks at amiga inc atempt to get back at community and future plans of x1000

[murple]

Why are we giving this fake Commodore wanker attention again? Great job reporting, redrumloa... but the universe would be a much better place if everybody just ignored this fake Commodore into nonexistence.

[Bif]

I didn't read through all this, but I think the C64 product is actually pretty cool from a nostalgia point of view. I think they could sell a decent number of these if the price is right.

All the other models on the site seemed pointless to me as I am not sure what they are trying to be.

Being an Amiga guy, if they did something similar with a near-exact A1000 replica, I might buy one if it was cheap enough. I probably wouldn't use it myself as I need a high end PC, but might give it to the wife just so it can look pretty on the counter while she surfs the internet. An A3000 would also look pretty good. Wouldn't be interested in any other models.

[smerf]

OS4 is worth less than anything that actually runs on hardware people have. OS4 runs only on specialized, very expensive and rare hardware. Fine for you if you want to spend tons of money on it.

Hi,

@Kthunder,

Kthunder you have to watch what you say here on Amiga.org, you almost sound sane. I have spent at least $1500 on my A1200 with upgrades, and guess what I can't find OS4 that will run on it or a power supply that will run it. If I disable all my upgrades, it works fine as a A1200.

I just wish someone would upgrade OS4 to a PC, I would buy it real quick, I hate MACS and believe only non computer people use them, I use Ubuntu 10.10 and love it, (funny how with Ubuntu I started with 7.04 and upgraded to 10.10 and haven't lost any data, almost as good as my miggy)

smerf