Amiga Case Designer Faces Intimidation

[Digiman]

Wait, let me get this straight - TheDaddy is admirable for putting his own time and money into an Amiga-inspired project, therefore we should feel bad for disliking the company that harassed him about something that wasn't even wrong for him to do? Yeah, that makes sense.

 
Exactly, they made a mistake assuming he was the kind of scum who stuck Commodore sticky labels on cases sold without a licence without reading the web page properly.....I wonder who has done that before before hmmm :lol:

[Digiman]

You can keep that. Noone has protected the tick since fall of Commodore, it has been used for 20 years by anyone without the need for any license - it's abandoned and public domain.

The red/white beach ball can't be Amiga Inc's property either, it was used as a product logo by a hardware vendor for A1000 products in 1985/86.

Therefore nobody else can do anything other than buy said company's rights (which Commodore didn't do) if they want to stop EVERYONE using it.

Also you can't stop someone calling a computer "A.M.I.G.A" as they are initials, as long as you define the five letter acronym and none of the A letters stand for the word "amiga".

And yes the font used by Commodore for the word "Amiga"can not be objected to as it is royalty free

:banana:

[darkage]

I think we might be starting to go down this road..  remember apple sueing anyone that uses anything that even resembles an apple.

[Kesa]

I think we might be starting to go down this road..  remember apple sueing anyone that uses anything that even resembles an apple.

That really happened?

[A1260]

The truly amazing thing for me is that C=USA have completely missed an opportunity.

They sold some C64x's - not many, to be sure (going by the lack of activity on the official support forum) - but more than they will the Amiga Mini, because people aren't dumb enough usually to spend $1000 on a name - they need a USP (no, a name of a computer that died 18 years ago is not a USP to 99.9% of the world). Yet here they are and someone's done some really fine work in doing exactly what the Amiga community want - they've done something new, and relevant. Even people who dislike the keyboard computer are congratulating him on doing something so professional on his own and for his love of the platform, because they recognise the work done and respect the fact that he's doing something new.

Why aren't C=USA trying to talk to Lorriano and trying to license the design, or at least elements of it? He's done most of the hard work. If they did that they'd gain individuality, they could say they were helping a community member, they could say they were listening to the public. They could repair at least some of the damage they've already done. They would gain the all-important USP they need. Sure, only to a fairly small market, but they'd be a reasonable sized fish in a small pond - right now they're a very expensive minnow in a giant ocean of sharks.

I know where I'd rather be.

if you read the interview you would know that barry makes it perfectly clear, he is not here for the community. barry is only here to make easy 100% profit with not lifting a finger... so paying anyone is outta the question. cusa damaged their own reputation with their arrogant and idiotic behavior. it is nothing to repair here, soon cusa will be buried with the atari's e.t. in a landfill somewhere and forgotten.

[TheDaddy]

Does anyone think it would be a good idea to move the LEDs to the left instead of centrally?

Can't do right as it fouls the memory on the x86 board and the picoPSU on the SAM460...

If you think about it the X500 is all reversed

  compared to the A500

Drives on the left too...

Opinions?

Thanks

[theformula]

Does anyone think it would be a good idea to move the LEDs to the left instead of centrally?

Can't do right as it fouls the memory on the x86 board and the picoPSU on the SAM460...

If you think about it the X500 is all reversed

  compared to the A500

Drives on the left too...

Opinions?

Thanks

I don't think they look that bad in the middle personally.

[TheDaddy]

Thank you for letting me know...

They would look like this:


Alternative LEDs position (on the left).

Thoughts?

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ledsalternative.htm

[A1260]

Thank you for letting me know...

They would look like this:


Alternative LEDs position (on the left).

Thoughts?

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ledsalternative.htm

i say go for the left, it looks more clean and neat... that's my opinion.

[vox]

Thank you for letting me know...

They would look like this:


Alternative LEDs position (on the left).

Thoughts?

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ledsalternative.htm

Original A500/A1200 is far right. If that isn`t possible far left is more look a like then central. Even it looks fancy I don`t recall any computer to have LEDs in the middle :-)

[A1260]

i did a few changes so it dont look to square... and a bit more like the 500... just minor changes..

[danwood]

I can hear Barry cutting and pasting the legal letter from Apple's website already...  Close call TheDaddy!

[danwood]

No I don't...  
With the exception of the 2000 (which was functional), C16, and the Plus 4, I think I liked most Commodore cases.
To each his own..

Indeed each to his own, I'd say the Plus 4 was the nicest looking 8-bit machine they ever produced.

[VuData]

Indeed each to his own, I'd say the Plus 4 was the nicest looking 8-bit machine they ever produced.

I liked the plus 4. I've even started to like the design of the ST case recently (I'm sure they had the same designer).

[cecilia]

Hi everyone,

I have updated my page:

http://www.loriano.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk

Updated the video...now in HD, put the volume up to max and select HD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAMCVDumhZQ

Thanks!

just posted a link to the video on my amiga group on facebook.

good luck with your project. I love to see people working on such things

[TheDaddy]

Thanks a lot for your support.