Project: New (colored) case for A1200

[candyman]

I think Philippe show us Photoshop images because he doesn't have any prototype to show: no molds, no cases, simply as that. The costs are high and he could make some money too... But: why not? He create new cases that can help us to enjoy again. I don't think it's a fraud: please consider that many important people of Amiga history are supporting this thing...

[Iggy]

By that logic Commodore was truly evil for selling the Amiga in the first place.

Very good.point.
Amigans frequently attack those seeking to make a profit.
Consider this, if there was no profit to be made most businesses would never be started (and you would miss out on a lot).
Attacking basic business principles is foolish.

[LoadWB]

Very good.point.
Amigans frequently attack those seeking to make a profit.
Consider this, if there was no profit to be made most businesses would never be started (and you would miss out on a lot).
Attacking basic business principles is foolish.

I notice a good number of said individuals come from places where profit has been eliminated as a noble pursuit, but happily live off the profit of others.

[Cosmos Amiga]

By that logic Commodore was truly evil for selling the Amiga in the first place.

Yes, you are right : Commodore USA had gold in their hand, and sold only about 5 millions Amiga...

That was a big failure for me, compared to the quality of the machine, about 5 years ahead of all the other computers on the market...

[Yasu]

Yes, you are right : Commodore USA had gold in their hand, and sold only about 5 millions Amiga...

That was a big failure for me, compared to the quality of the machine, about 5 years ahead of all the other computers on the market...

So? So maybe the Amiga was the greatest thing ever and it failed. Happens all the time. Without Commodore, the Amiga might have failed a lot faster. Or it might have just been chips in an Atari crap computer. Or maybe just a bunch of patents no one cares about.

But according to your logic, Jay Miner should have given the design away for free. That would have been the noble thing to do. And then we would have had 10 Amiga users alltogether instead.

[Cosmos Amiga]

So? So maybe the Amiga was the greatest thing ever and it failed. Happens all the time. Without Commodore, the Amiga might have failed a lot faster. Or it might have just been chips in an Atari crap computer. Or maybe just a bunch of patents no one cares about.

But according to your logic, Jay Miner should have given the design away for free. That would have been the noble thing to do. And then we would have had 10 Amiga users alltogether instead.

You can do business with ethic and moral ! And you will have much better sales and results in the long term...

For example, near all games softwares were very very expansive back in the days : editors want destroying the Amiga with VERY high prices in France... Personnally, I could not buy, cost too much money, and all my Amiga friends cannot too...

Hopefully, piracy and XCopy (a reaction) coming, and save the Amiga : software is the food of the machine...


High software prices = unhappy users = a lot of piracy = few software sales = few hardware sales = death of the machine...

With low software prices (moral & ethic) = happy users = much less piracy = more software sales = more hardware sales = the machine lives...


Anyways, think what you want, I say the Thruth and you perfectly know that : there was (and is) a lot of parasites in the Amiga community who sink our computer...

[Fransexy_]

Anyways, think what you want, I say the Thruth and you perfectly know that

There is always people like you that believe that have the absolute true and that all others are wrong,liars and or stupid or who knows what other things

[Cosmos Amiga]

There is always people like you that believe that have the absolute true and that all others are wrong,liars and or stupid or who knows what other things

Too late troller : I added you on my parasite list...

[Fransexy_]

Too late troller : I added you on my parasite list...

That confirm what i said

[candyman]

Philippe said that a mole costs about 30k Euro and we need at least 3 molds to get brand new A1200 cases (with some brand new goodies). So he need 125k Euro (molds, plastic, etc...) to gerlt the work done. For this reason the user will pay 79 Euro for each case that probably is an high price if you consider the new cases like three pieces of plastic but also the right price if you consider them like the only opportunity to get a brand new, upgraded, Amiga case. So, Cosmos, if the price according to you is bit ethic, what the average Amiga User should do? Missing this opportunity? Do you know a better (less expensive) way to get the same result done? Just to know.

[polyp2000]

" Philippe said that a mole costs about 30k Euro "

Thats some serious mole!

[IanP]

On their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/a1200housings it now says "Manufactured under license from Amiga Inc." and the images have been altered to include the AMIGA logo on the cases. Could the Amiga brand finally be appearing on a real Amiga related product again?

[sm3]

Interesting. I hope the Kickstarter is successful this next run. I'd really like a nice new case or two (and keyboard) for my 1200 and Amiga Reloaded board in 2016

[candyman]

Let's hope in some mechanical keyboards.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Let's hope in some mechanical keyboards.

Correction: let's put some money into backing a project to make them.  Just "hoping" for something is like wishing for fishes.

[candyman]

There are many traditional keyboards out there. Personally I hope the keyboards will be mechanical: on the contrary I'll make a pledge for the cases only :-)