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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #74 on: July 10, 2011, 11:53:53 PM »
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And best of all it gives you two "Atari" style digital joystick ports (justl like a real C64) which you don't get with a C64x.

Nice bit of kit.  I have the 8 bit and 16 bit ones and they work.

Please, only use these on "dead" Commodore machines with good keyboards.  Don't trash a good one.  :(


OMG! that's really amazing. How it works with special keys like page up/down, home, print screen, windows keys and etc?
It would be really nice to use a trashed A1200 with it.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #75 on: July 11, 2011, 12:24:07 AM »
Regardless of what everyone says, I still have the original and this is pretty cool seeing the new one.  Its a new product, even if specs aren't quite that spectacular and I honestly can't wait to see the first Amiga off production line.  If it seems good, I may buy one just to have it and try it out.  Even though some people on here have issues with C=USA at least they have release actual Hawrdware that Gateway or Amiga INC failed to do.  Especially after the pre-order T-Shirt BS with A-inc I am honestly hoping the new Commodore does go all out with Amiga and who knows maybe they can be the next Apple (well I mean rise from the dead, but be better lol).  Anyways here's to hopefully a new Amiga of some kind for sale.
 

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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #76 on: July 11, 2011, 12:46:43 AM »
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Even though some people on here have issues with C=USA at least they have release actual Hawrdware that Gateway or Amiga INC failed to do.


Gateway has sold tons of PCs.

Amiga Inc. even sold some too.

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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #77 on: July 11, 2011, 12:52:28 AM »
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Just wish people would give more support to projects like FPGA Arcade and NatAmi.  If there's a true successor to the Amiga legacy, it's these guys like Mike/Yaqube and and the NatAmi team down there in the trenches with soldering irons and compilers blazing.  And yes, I say that as someone who paid for a SAM 440, which I do enjoy.  In this day and age, we gotta root for the little guys and those that came before them, like Georg Braun (GB 1000) and Dennis van Weeren (Minimig).  The FPGA Arcade and NatAmi should fill a huge gap in the market, providing a top performing "legacy" style Amiga that can be used for more than just games.  Will the price be high, compared to a 3.5ghz windows PC?  I am sure it will, since you can buy a well equipped x86 PC for a few hundred bucks off the shelf.  This is a hobby market, and no one can complete against the big guns price wise.  I'll pay a premium for a good niche product.

The C-USA products are Intel/x86 PC's.  No more, no less.  Any sales, hype or buzz they make won't further our causes or best interests and Commodore fans and the respect for the legacy of said products.  While I have no love for their business practices, I wish them well - but anyone thinking that C-USA will bring Commodore back from the dead and into the mainstream is delusional.  What they sell are commodity PC's running Linux.  No bashing here, plain facts.  They aren't selling any more "magic" than any other PC maker slapping commodity hardware in a shiny case.

You are buying a Linux PC from them, wth the promise they will release some form of integrated and seamless emulation solution, C64 OR Amiga.  You can obtain that yourself at a far lower cost with far better performance, but I am sure C-USA's products will appeal to some and I wish said buyers the best, sincerely.
 

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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #78 on: July 11, 2011, 01:44:31 AM »
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Just wish people would give more support to projects like FPGA Arcade and NatAmi.  If there's a true successor to the Amiga legacy, it's these guys like Mike/Yaqube and and the NatAmi team down there in the trenches with soldering irons and compilers blazing.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #79 on: July 11, 2011, 01:45:34 AM »
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OMG! that's really amazing. How it works with special keys like page up/down, home, print screen, windows keys and etc?
It would be really nice to use a trashed A1200 with it.


That's the problem though, the lack of Windows keys when using these old keyboards.  I used mine to plug in when I wanted to run VICE, WinUAE etc (I had an empty A1200 case with a keyboard on a shelf from when I strip out the motherboard and put it in an Elbox tower case).

I'm sure Windows users are going to be feeling the pain too when they try and use the C64x for serious daily use with certain programs.  Hell, I can't imagine life without a numeric keypad.  Even my last 4 laptops had full keyboards.  :)
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #80 on: July 11, 2011, 01:50:17 AM »
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Quoted for absolute, utter truth. Would that more people in this community valued things like creativity, skillful architecture design, and community spirit more than they do a rented brand name.


What get's me is that poor Steve Jones did this (and is still doing it) with his Imica series PCs for AROS.  Why isn't Spammy and the C-USA camp jacking off over his efforts?  He's been doing it modestly for over a year and putting money back into driver development.

His machines can run UAE and VICE too.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #81 on: July 11, 2011, 02:02:06 AM »
Dell, Acer, and HP sell quite a few PCs too.  


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Regardless of what everyone says, I still have the original and this is pretty cool seeing the new one.  Its a new product, even if specs aren't quite that spectacular and I honestly can't wait to see the first Amiga off production line.  If it seems good, I may buy one just to have it and try it out.  Even though some people on here have issues with C=USA at least they have release actual Hawrdware that Gateway or Amiga INC failed to do.  Especially after the pre-order T-Shirt BS with A-inc I am honestly hoping the new Commodore does go all out with Amiga and who knows maybe they can be the next Apple (well I mean rise from the dead, but be better lol).  Anyways here's to hopefully a new Amiga of some kind for sale.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #82 on: July 11, 2011, 02:07:23 AM »
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Dell, Acer, and HP sell quite a few PCs too.


For far less money.
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #83 on: July 11, 2011, 02:30:05 AM »
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Dell, Acer, and HP sell quite a few PCs too.

Sweet!
Where's the link on the Dell webpage to the their computer in a retro case??

Oh, you mean they make PCs in PC cases?

I thought the whole point of the C64x was that is was in that case?
Not sure why people keep bringing up big PC makers who aren't doing what C-USA is??

I'm not going to buy one; I agree it's too expensive for what you get, but the bashing is making the basher's look dumb, and I know some of them aren't...

But, it's a free country..  Bash away..  ;-)

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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #84 on: July 11, 2011, 02:50:41 AM »
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What get's me is that poor Steve Jones did this (and is still doing it) with his Imica series PCs for AROS.  Why isn't Spammy and the C-USA camp jacking off over his efforts?  He's been doing it modestly for over a year and putting money back into driver development.
But he doesn't have The Name, man! Who cares about all that crap like community involvement and serious development work when you don't even have the Holy Name rented? Where's the sense of priorities!?
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #85 on: July 11, 2011, 04:00:54 AM »
@desiv

You have to wait. The C=USA "Amiga" is a PC in a PC case!

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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #86 on: July 11, 2011, 04:18:19 AM »
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@desiv You have to wait. The C=USA "Amiga" is a PC in a PC case!
True...  I'll agree there..
Even I think that's pretty sad, and I'm pretty easy going..
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #87 on: July 11, 2011, 07:50:56 AM »
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So, will you just stop whining now?

Who cares about that?
 

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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #88 on: July 11, 2011, 10:33:03 AM »
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Re: C64x Unboxing videos
« Reply #89 from previous page: July 11, 2011, 11:24:20 AM »
Might just buy one for my roadcase, will add a nice retro element to my set :banana: And lets face it...I can't run Traktor on an original C64 ;)