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#1 2007-03-15 11:49 am
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Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
Maybe this belongs in Gaming but it is news from the world of tech and gadgets:
It seems Commdore is making a comeback, as a high-end boutique gaming PC manufacturer.
Pretty cool. I remember my first computer class in 1983, using a Commodore PET and BASIC. Hoping the program I saved to the tape drive would be the tomorrow. . .
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#2 2007-03-15 11:53 am
Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
So Commodore is back and is just like Alienware or VoodooPC. Color me unimpressed.
If they bring back the Amiga, then I might be impressed. At this point, they're just another OEM peddling Windows boxes.
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#3 2007-03-15 12:42 pm
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Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
It's not even the same company. Just someone who purchased the rights to the name and logos so they could get instant brand recognition.
Besided which, I was reared on the Apple ][ and the TI-99. 
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#4 2007-03-15 1:33 pm
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Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
Yeah its just the brand name, although it is cool to see the old commodore logo on some of those machines.
I was a C64/128 and then Amiga user. In fact if it weren't for the commodore 64 I probably would be doing something totally different with my life these days, like being a ski bumb or a thieving street person.
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#5 2007-03-15 2:22 pm
Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
test wrote:
Gawd, those new ATX cases are nice 
robco wrote:
So Commodore is back and is just like Alienware or VoodooPC. Color me unimpressed.
If they bring back the Amiga, then I might be impressed. At this point, they're just another OEM peddling Windows boxes.
Amiga is its own company these days.
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#6 2007-03-15 4:09 pm
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Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
Yeah, it ain't the "real" Commodore, just another me-too fake boutique system flogger milking lunch money from pseudo-wannabe gamers/lamers. To me that is the cool part - I get a laugh watching other people pay for the priviledge of watching vampires sodomise a dead horse.
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#7 2007-03-15 6:17 pm
Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
HackerJax wrote:
Yeah its just the brand name, although it is cool to see the old commodore logo on some of those machines.
I was a C64/128 and then Amiga user. In fact if it weren't for the commodore 64 I probably would be doing something totally different with my life these days, like being a ski bumb or a thieving street person.
It's not too late.
Purses are incredible easy to snatch - the first few arrests you get off pretty easy, and after that, you've learned how to avoid the cops.
Just be careful what country you do it in. I only type with one hand.
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#8 2007-03-15 7:46 pm
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Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
I used to want an Amiga 1000 for video work. A toaster would still cool to have.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
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#9 2007-03-16 4:27 am
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I have a working Amiga 1000. And indeed I have plugged it straight into my VCR and recorded my graphics demos with it. I will always regard it as the greatest computer ever designed, in a spiritual sense.
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#10 2007-03-16 4:28 am
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Re: Welcome Back . . . Commodore??
I still have my Amiga 2000 and Video Toaster. The cool thing about it is that I can say I was a Lightwave 1.0 user.
I turned it on about a year ago. It still works just fine.
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