But then nothing else for sale today counts Commodore died in 1994 and real Amigas died with them 
True!
I merely notice how some people (not necessarily you of course
) are totally blind brand-name followers the one day, prepared to throw thousands of dollars at mindless and absolutely insane HW projects with a buggy and incomplete OS that seems to be forever in beta, while not even wanting to have a look at the technical merits and specifications of projects like AROS and MorphOS since they are not Amiga(TM) and is as relevant to them as Windows or Linux because of them lacking the trade mark (technical merits has nothing to do with it), only to the other day make a 180 degree U-turn in their view of the significance of the trade mark as soon as some products will use the trade marks without the technical merits! First the trade mark is the only thing that matters, not any technical merits. Then it's suddenly the technical merits that matters (as long as it isn't AROS or MorphOS of course
), *not* the trade mark (which of course *still* matters to them anyway in some weird way, it's... eh, "complicated" :p)!
CUSA has really shaken the ground the BAF's stand on, the massive reactions on Amiga.org and AmigaWorld.net are proof of that, and I think this is a *huge* "LOL"! :lol:
Anyway (to reconnect to the topic of this thread); the real accomplishment of CUSA is obviously *not* putting some random, rudimentary x86 motherboard in a case! As you say, anyone can do that! The real accomplishment comes down to the rights to use the trade marks. CUSA's rights to the Amiga brand is far better than Hyperion's for example, and the Commodore brand has only been in people's fantasies until CUSA made it happen. Putting these two together is *not* something trivial.
To me, the trade mark couldn't be less important though, it was a decade or more since the Amiga name completely lost its meaning to me, and even longer for the Commodore one. But I wouldn't belittle this accomplishment, and I think it can mean solid cash to CUSA for the right kind of product combination. But obviously not from the "Amiga community", but that's not important, nobody can make a living out of this bunch of people anyway. A much too small group, and to crazy/religious for any rational entity to get involved with. It's the Church of the Holy Amiga! And the Friedens are its God's, Ben Herman is its messiah, and ssolie & Co are preaching the truth to its followers, and everyone interfering or disturbing the peace with boring things as rationality, is quickly branded infidels and blasphemer's. I very much doubt that CUSA would want to get involved too much with that, there isn't anything for them to gain anyway, so all these "CUSA rage threads" are kind of pointless and is only spamming the boards.
I would be happy with building myself an A1200 lookalike machine that allows me to play Amiga games with a Zipstick :lol: If nobody else would like one that's cool.
I don't understand this fetish some people have for computers in a keyboard? :confused: Those things sucks! I can see how it made sense back in the early days of computing, and back then people didn't know better anyway. But today? No, give me a true Amiga 3000 *replica* case, or 4000, or even 4000T!
And I mean *reaplica* as a true replication of the exterior (the internals should of course follow the ATX standards), minus the trade mark stickers of course (you wouldn't get the rights to use them anyway, unless you partner up with CUSA of course
); I will put the blue butterfly stickers there myself!
But then again, I think you *vastly* underestimates the efforts and resources needed to make something like the C64x case, and I doubt very much you would succeed (and no, I'm not interested in a "Soviet Tank" style case made of bent sheet metal that looks like your 12 year old kid brought home from some crafting class at school :lol:)...
Heck, I think you even underestimate the effort and resources needed to put up a solid, sustainable business of simply "putting some random, rudimentary x86 motherboard in a case", but good luck...!
