CommodoreUSA Partners with Disney

[dammy]

Ive not bothered with any of this for a while but I think I might as well stand up and be counted.

It seems fitting that this new commodore is associated with disney as they share a common interest in marketing fairytales :roll:

I may be too young to claim I was a first generation commodore user but having inherited them from an older brother I remember them fondly and still have a working amiga that I still use sometimes. This new commodore seems to have no such sense of nostalgia and interested only in making a quick dollar selling devices you can already buy elsewhere for less. Theres no visible affection for anything or respect for anyone in the existing community and even a sense of glee from some that they are going to upset as many people as possible.

That's pretty harsh considering C=USA hasn't talked much about the Commodore Amiga series.  Why not wait until you hear the facts before you condemn them?

[B00tDisk]

They're only making 5 of them and each one comes with a "company position".

Did you mistake this for an "X1000" thread?

[Franko]

That's pretty harsh considering C=USA hasn't talked much about the Commodore Amiga series.  Why not wait until you hear the facts before you condemn them?

Well why don't you stop spouting your opinions on how spiffy this new fake Amiga is going to be and what crap emulator it's going to run as well until we hear the facts from a reliable source (which is not likely) as CUSA has given us more BS than a sewage plant...

[dammy]

Well why don't you stop spouting your opinions on how spiffy this new fake Amiga is going to be and what crap emulator it's going to run as well until we hear the facts from a reliable source (which is not likely) as CUSA has given us more BS than a sewage plant...

Or you could just stop reading my posts.  Or would that be too hard for you to do?

[ChaosLord]

That's pretty harsh considering C=USA hasn't talked much about the Commodore Amiga series.  Why not wait until you hear the facts before you promote them with free advertising?

[Franko]

Or you could just stop reading my posts.  Or would that be too hard for you to do?

Yup... it's one of my new hobbies...

[Borut]

Or you could just stop reading my posts.  Or would that be too hard for you to do?

Or you just don´t post them?
Some could think that the CUSA forums are better suited for X86 freaks ;-)

[swoslover]

What I am struggling to understand is why there is no mention of this in the news section of the CUSA webpage.

Personally I think CUSA has been good for the community has certainly raised some interesting debates if nothing else..

Also there is no such thing as bad publicity and in the Amiga community which has been stagnant for years now this offers some (possibly false) hope of some kind of return to the mainstream.

[Franko]

What I am struggling to understand is why there is no mention of this in the news section of the CUSA webpage.

Personally I think CUSA has been good for the community has certainly raised some interesting debates if nothing else..

Also there is no such thing as bad publicity and in the Amiga community which has been stagnant for years now this offers some (possibly false) hope of some kind of return to the mainstream.

How the frig can CUSA be good for the Amiga community when in recent days the shit constantly posted about them here has caused a number of long time A.org members to leave (KThunder, ColdFish, SpiHunter and from what I gather Boudicca)... :madashell:

I don't know how you can think that is good after the bullshit comments from the likes of Leo that we'd better like it or lump it and general antagonising remarks he, Dammy and Wolfie have made about the genuine Amiga Community... :madashell:

There has been no debates just free advertising by a certain Fanboy and pathetic remarks by CUSAs only paid employee... :madashell:

Plus all the distraction it causes here on the site by taking away the spotlight from folks questions, comments and posts about real Amiga subjects...

If you think that is good for the community then you need your head examined mate...

[Karlos]

...Theres no visible affection for anything or respect for anyone in the existing community and even a sense of glee from some that they are going to upset as many people as possible.

That's pretty harsh considering C=USA hasn't talked much about the Commodore Amiga series.  Why not wait until you hear the facts before you condemn them?

Maybe she means you: http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/mbthread.pl/amiga/expand/188813

Of course, being moobunny, that could be anybody...

[Franko]

Maybe she means you: http://moobunny.dreamhosters.com/cgi/mbthread.pl/amiga/expand/188813

Of course, being moobunny, that could be anybody...

There some bugger on that creepy site pretending to be me and there's at least a dozen ruddy threads on it now mostly instigated by Dammy and kept going by him... :furious:

Sad thing is the imposter is totally naff and Dammy thinks it is me, Barry sure knows how to pick a good quality mouthpiece, eh...

[AmigaNG]

wrong thread..oops

[EDanaII]

Again, I wouldn't be too fast in saying it's Linux.  Might be, might not be.  I don't know.  What is going to be on the C64x is going to be Linux, that is a given.  What is in store for the Commodore Amiga series, OTOH, is unknown right now.

A business model based on nostalgia that might sell 10k units of the C64x, if it's lucky, is not enough to kickstart new OS development. Nor can such a model guarantee a sufficiently large enough ROI to justify investment in new OS development. They are left with two options if it is not to be Windows: Linux or Android. Android, I'm assuming will incur licensing fees if they use it and since I doubt there business model is lucrative enough for that... Linux it is.

Now, I could be wrong on all that, but it is perfectly sound reasoning.  Otherwise, your just asking an agnostic to "have faith." Sorry, but I prefer facts, not hope and dreams.

[swoslover]

How the frig can CUSA be good for the Amiga community when in recent days the shit constantly posted about them here has caused a number of long time A.org members to leave (KThunder, ColdFish, SpiHunter and from what I gather Boudicca)... :madashell:

I don't know how you can think that is good after the bullshit comments from the likes of Leo that we'd better like it or lump it and general antagonising remarks he, Dammy and Wolfie have made about the genuine Amiga Community... :madashell:

There has been no debates just free advertising by a certain Fanboy and pathetic remarks by CUSAs only paid employee... :madashell:

Plus all the distraction it causes here on the site by taking away the spotlight from folks questions, comments and posts about real Amiga subjects...

If you think that is good for the community then you need your head examined mate...

Relax man.

If people want to be so childish as to leave because others are discussing something they don't like then I think that sums them up.

I stand by my comments, and if people get so wound up by others on an internet forum perhaps they should get some perspective on life.

I like CUSA and make no bones about it.  I don't think they have always made the best choices but at least they are trying to make something happen.

[Iggy]

Sure discuss it, not a problem for me. Could we have a little more separation between  church and state though? I agree that the new Commodore isn't going away and some are going to have to adjust to the fact. But I grow weary of the constant invasion of classic topics by the new order. A bit of mod adjsutments might do wonders.

Plaz

Good thing you're not a moderator then.

[Franko]

@ swoslover

I was only grumpy cos on Thurday a woman nearly pocked me ruddy eye out on Princess Street with her brolly and it wasn't even raining, so as you're from Auld Reekie I thought I'd have wee moan at you...