Amiga AKeyboard: The dream is over

[spihunter]

For some reason I kinda like it?

Is it still a new project that will not pass the project stage?
Is it the next Not-Compatible-AMIGA machine by COMMODORE USA ?

http://design.yozmontana.com[/b] (by Yoz Montana)

My opinion: the design is very beautiful.

   

[Ral-Clan]

I like the look of it -- good update on the A1200 design.  But Cammy is right about the leverage issue on the front of the keyboard.

Like others have said - something is wrong with the translation of the slogan "The Dream is Over".

To a native English speaker "The Dream is Over" is an expression of defeat, meaning that hope has been crushed like  "the dream is dead".

It should read "The dream made reality" or "The dream has finally arrived".

[persia]

@ral-clan

Well isn't that what he's doing?  The dream is over, move on, nothing to see here.

[kedawa]

No longer a dream, maybe?
I doubt this is going to actually hit the market as a real product, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

[jorkany]

That site makes no sense at all. Did anybody actually read the copy?

At the top it says "Only One Amiga" but then it shows the all-in-one keyboard "Amiga", and the box "Unit Amiga Core" aka "Unit Center Amiga".

"SUPER A.G.A. HD" - orly?

"Retractable Keyboard" operation shown in the 6th image down. Okay, what purpose does this serve? So when you get tired of flipping up the back in "open" position you can "close" it to a more stable configuration?

The large lighted port on the back is designated as the "LUA (Link Universal Amiga)". Okay, so in addition to creating a SUPER AGA HD chip he's also going to create a proprietary connector and I assume protocol. Perhaps to connect to the rather ambiguous "Unit Amiga Core"?

"Grid Area" - for those times you want to get on the Grid. You've been on the Grid, right?

Seriously, there's nothing going on here except some guy practicing his rendering skills.

[Hattig]

No longer a dream, maybe?
I doubt this is going to actually hit the market as a real product, but I'd love to be proven wrong.

Nope, in English the term is very clear - when "the dream is over", it specifically means defeat and failure (to achieve the dream).

[TheGoose]

Yes, something lost in translation there. Looks like some French guy with some 3D skillz.



Kind of edgy, I could like that.

[Cammy]

Imagine how often you'd hurt yourself poking those sharp corners into your wrists accidently. I wonder if this guy has any idea why all keyboards have rounded corners.

[tone007]

Sharp corners are easier to draw!

[B00tDisk]

"Amiga AKeyboard: The Dream is Over...there, on the floor, with the keyboard where it landed when it flipped off the desk as you started typing."

[lsmart]

Also, Franko's point is very true - I have a lovely glossy black laptop that is never pretty anymore because the finish attracts and clearly displays all of my various fingerprints. Pretty to look at, not to use.

I feel the same. In the 90s I always wanted black hardware. But the experience of the last years showed that it´s the old beige boxes that have the advantage. But I don´t mind getting more colorful than that. E.g. I liked Apples original iMacs. I also think that the X1000 could use some bright/colorful makeover.

Illuminated keyboards for example are a bit distracting and completely unnecessary, if you have a beige Keyboard and just a little light in the room (think "monitor").
Have you ever tried finding a black pen in a black backpack?

[orb85750]

I certainly like the A1200 better.

[XDelusion]

Imagine how often you'd hurt yourself poking those sharp corners into your wrists accidently. I wonder if this guy has any idea why all keyboards have rounded corners.

And on that note, I wish they still made metal toy trucks with sharp corners. They always helped to delete the "not so bright children" out of society, thus resulting in a brighter future with less politicians, bankers, and capitalists.

[Nostalgiac]

And on that note, I wish they still made metal toy trucks with sharp corners. They always helped to delete the "not so bright children" out of society, thus resulting in a brighter future with less politicians, bankers, and capitalists.

+100

Tom UK

[TheGoose]

And on that note, I wish they still made metal toy trucks with sharp corners. They always helped to delete the "not so bright children" out of society, thus resulting in a brighter future with less politicians, bankers, and capitalists.

As a kid, I would sleep with at least one tractor-trailer truck and Tonka of some kind. Amazingly I'm still here.

I like that the keys are back lit, or look that way.

[Duce]

I've always liked fan created mockups of nextgen machines, even if they will never see the light of day.

This one sure is pretty and shiny, but like others have said it looks terribly unusable.  Then again, I only liked the big box Amiga's anyways and not the 500/600/1200, so I'm most certainly in the minority there.