CUSA Amiga range will cost up to $25,000

[Tripitaka]

can softmod it too, and of course, if playing media over the network, can probably make do with original drive (if you really want to do it on the cheap).

Great for emulation as you say.

Running a recent xbmc4xbox release ? (http://www.xbmc4xbox.org/)

Mines chipped and I have a spare too but yes, softmod is even cheaper.

XBMC, bang up to date, I'm pretty good at keeping up with updates.

Well if CUSA are going into HTPC I'm not interested. The new C64 was an all around fail in my book and I have no hope off seeing anything better from them in the near future.

[persia]

So Barry is advertising a US$25K machine by saying it runs C64 programs?  That's some advertising....

[CritAnime]

Yeah the pocket pc market died the moment smart phones caught up. But they certainly have some nice uses still today. I was considering buying one cheap and seeing about modding it with some media stuff. Try and make a nice portable media device.

And the xbox's..... I wish I never sold my modded one.

But I digress.

I still like the look of the origen case, the overall shape and style looks nice, but I wouldn't pay what they are asking for one. If they are planning on sticking lots of high-end stuff in there it better be well ventilated.

[B00tDisk]

Goto http://commodore.net/ then click Amiga.

My favorite part is the HD-DVD drive, guess someone did not know they stopped being made a few years ago.

That was a riot.

Him losing his **** over the blue-ray drive at someone in the cusa forum was even more hilarious.  Oh my God don't you know these are slimline slot load drives and totally worth $200 - who the hell still bothers with optical media these days?  Good God.

[B00tDisk]

So Barry is advertising a US$25K machine by saying it runs C64 programs?  That's some advertising....

Especially when you can get a US$25 machine that will run C64 programs.

[CritAnime]

I am sure the kinds of people he is aiming these things at won't be using optical drives very much. I would imagine that everything is done off server clusters. Why bother burning something to a disk when you can just save it to the server in a fraction of the time.

Maybe for home use an optical drive would be a better idea. But I only ever use my drive for back-up's. Also for playing Diablo II and Baldures Gate. All my games come from Steam or similar places. My mac stuff comes from the app store and music comes through iTunes.

[Tripitaka]

If you replace the term "Commodore OS" with "Linux" it makes far more sense when you read it. Has anyone seen this Commodore OS yet? is it anything other than a Linux distro?

[commodorejohn]

Him losing his **** over the blue-ray drive at someone in the cusa forum was even more hilarious.  Oh my God don't you know these are slimline slot load drives and totally worth $200 - who the hell still bothers with optical media these days?  Good God.

Hearing about stuff like this almost makes me wish I lurked there. Almost.

[eliyahu]

If you replace the term "Commodore OS" with "Linux" it makes far more sense when you read it. Has anyone seen this Commodore OS yet? is it anything other than a Linux distro?

no. although leo has included GTK themes, wallpapers, and gratuitous commodore-esque styling cues everywhere.

it's just linux. i love how in their 'support' section of the site, they link to the public linux mint fora. :roflmao:

-- eliyahu

[CritAnime]

It's not hard to lurk over there. You just check every couple of hours to see what crazy stuff has been done. It is literally that slow when it comes to replies. Not like here where some threads you only have to blink and it's reached 5 pages of replies.

[Daedalus]

If you replace the term "Commodore OS" with "Linux" it makes far more sense when you read it. Has anyone seen this Commodore OS yet? is it anything other than a Linux distro?

Well, Dammy seems to confirm here that it's basically Linux Mint - two different distros actually, depending on what market the machine is aimed at.

[CritAnime]

whats worrying is the response from the CTO, who i believe is supposed to be developing this thing, about all this.

For instance, my understanding (which is not set in stone) is that the "Retro OS" will cater to more advanced use cases and come pre-installed with things like programming tools, more advanced apps and retro and advanced games and the sort of fun and quirky features and aspects present in classic systems, while the "ModernOS" likely won't, as it will cater to a more mainstream audience. Not that you couldn't download this software later.

If they have not even set in stone whats supposed to be coming on these machines then I wonder how far they actually have got with deciding whats going in the case, what the price range is or even what planet they are on.

I also wonder which version of the OS is supposed to be shipped out to those who already purchased a machine off them. After all they are supposedly getting COS mailed to them once it's finished.

[vox]

whats worrying is the response from the CTO, who i believe is supposed to be developing this thing, about all this.



If they have not even set in stone whats supposed to be coming on these machines then I wonder how far they actually have got with deciding whats going in the case, what the price range is or even what planet they are on.

I also wonder which version of the OS is supposed to be shipped out to those who already purchased a machine off them. After all they are supposedly getting COS mailed to them once it's finished.

Well, now it seems its not COS but those Mint (RETRO/MODERN) CommodoreOS OEM or something cryptic like that.

Seems C64x users will be viewed as "retro" and get the ability to run Amiga software on their C64 (interesting retro of the retro) while Commodore USA Amiga (hard thing to write!) will get the modern thing, since its their "most modern and futuristic model".

Since nothing is really known of these we have to wait and see.

Sadly, to put the cost down, they never supplied option of having Windows with the machines: so C64x is most expensive Linux nettop up to date.

If they continue the same with their high end workstations (aka Amigas)
will this MINT FUTURE be enough?

[buzz]

XBMC, bang up to date, I'm pretty good at keeping up with updates.

I know this is all offtopic and all, but how do you find the new xbmc4xbox versions compared to the last release from the main xbmc team before they stopped working on it?

[Darrin]

I wonder if that $25,000 computer will come with a mouse?  It took them ages to decide whether the C64x should have one.

[commodorejohn]

Oh, definitely. It'll have a $300 mouse to go with the $1000 case.