Hi all

This is the first time i have posted here before sorry if its in the wrong place but i thought this sounds like a good place to put my email i got back from commodore.

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Dear Mister Statham, I will discuss the proposal you send for sure internally. Off course this is a heavy project which huge investments but we can always discuss it. Please follow our moves as we will launch a lot of goods the next coming months! Thanks! Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commodore Gaming BV Hessenbergweg 111, 1101 BS, Amsterdam – The Netherlands Jeroen V. Blankenstein Chief Operational Officer j.blankenstein@commodoregaming.com Tel: +31 (0)20 3113 550 Fax: +31 (0)20 3113 572 Mob: +31 (0)6 22 248 150

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Van: info (info AT_ rig DOTnl )
Verzonden: dinsdag 20 juni 2006 0:19
Aan: jblankenstein _AT_ rig.nl; bkeilman _AT_ rig.nl
Onderwerp: FW: commodore reborn

Hi

To all at commodore just been reading a post on Amigaworld.com about the things you are doing all sounds like good things. But what would be the icing on the cake would be for commodore to make new PPC motherboard to run Amiga OS4 on as we have not got any hardware to run this fantasic os since Eyetech have not produce any more amigaone motherboards and Troika and ACK are still ideas with no pictures of real hardware. We need a company that is prepaired to take a risk and bring back the fun in computing again. the thought of Commodore Amiga brings a smile to my face and this would make a great ending to a long history (story) in the world of Amiga. As Amiga goes fall circle and starts back at Commodore.

Min specs for board i would like is
AGP 8x
USB 2
No coms or parralle ports
PCI express would be a dream
Socketed CPU
DDR memory of any type

Any responce to this would be nice just to see that you have read it and maybe taken a intrest.


LInks to sites of intrest

www.amigaworld.com
http://os4.hyperion-entertainment.biz/
http://www.eyetech.co.uk/
http://www.troikang.com/


Wish you well with your buisness

R Statham

edited by wegster- the quadruple line spacing and non ubfuscated email addresses were driving me nuts, was taking up several screens with whitespace..

Last edited by wegster on 21-Jun-2006 at 04:53 AM.
Last edited by Goldfish on 20-Jun-2006 at 06:14 PM.

@Goldfish

Ehm....

it's amigaworld.net...
not .com...

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@Seer
Damn, ya beat me!

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@wegster

Hehehe...

What ya gonna do about it


BTW, Goldfish, you might want to remove your email adres from your post..

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@Goldfish

Good! I doubt they really care, but at least they reply.

It is amigaworld.net

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@Seer

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What ya gonna do about it

/me notices that shiny button labelled, 'Delete Post' next to your name...and is somehow strangely drawn to it, not unlike Helgis wanting to flip random switches in AmigaOnes....

@the letter.

I'd be surprised if 'Commodore' had any idea who Troika, Ack, EyeTech, or even Hyperion were. Sorry, but as it stands, it just basically reads as, 'Can you give me this, please?' without much incentive. I am kinda wondering how much spam those guys get, though..

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@Seer

Thanks for telling me about my email in text nice to see people on hear who care about other users. Thanks again

@Goldfish
Actually, please obfuscate their email addresses as well, you can leave the with name AT blah DOT com etc, format, but it's not nice to let bots/spiders harvest other's email addresses...

*shrug* we'll see. It is nice that they responded at all, though!

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@wegster

Why you powermonger...



@Goldfish

No probs.

Seems like a good positive response you got, if it leads to anything we'll have to see tho. Seems C= got the money to actually get things done, but if that also covers motherboards.. (Then again, they do have hardware.. not very "exciting" hardware so far but that's more then A inc has, they allready seem to have more games for mobile phones)

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@Goldfish

Welcome!

It's always nice to have an extra carp in the bucket!

I like the new Commodore. Even though they are doing lots of other things, it is really not any different from the business that the old Commodore did. I would welcome any hardware from Commodore as a good thing!

With Gates stepping away from MS, this may be a good time to jump on a probable oportunity just around the corner. I think Gates is doing this for business reasons as I really think he has good forcasting ability know matter how anyone feels about him. I believe that governments are putting pressure on MS and this will make it hard for MS to do business in the future. Gates has most likely seen this happening and is bailing out now. This could be the right time to come back into the fold with a new platform/or a familiar old one that is revamped like OS4.

@Goldfish

Hmm...... good news I suppose.

I just wonder how long they would consider it before contacting AInc to find out licensing costs then bining the Idea.

Amiboy

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@Amiboy

They are a serious company and therefore expect to have to pay to use other peoples products.

@Amiboy

If A.Inc had any sense they would be jumping for joy that such a big player is interested, especially with the situation they are in at the moment.

@Goldfish
Er... sounds like a PFO letter to me. Have fun with it anyway.

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@Seer

Its probably a positive thing that goldfish didnt give commodore the correct link to this website....

@gafstu

Why ? Helgis left didn't he ?

/runs

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Er... sounds like a PFO letter to me

A bit like trying to contact Amiga Inc. At least CBM have the decency to reply.

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@Amiboy

I think it has more to do with return on investment rather than just how much it costs.

I think it could benefit both really. If Commodore wants to get into the PC business then, it would certainly be cheaper to liscense an OS like OS4 for their product than it would be to try and develop it on their own. Not to mention how long it would take. That is for any company. It would be especially good for Commodore as their pockets are probably not nearly as deep as someone like a Sony type company.

I think it would really make good sense for them, as Amiga/Commodore brand names together would be an extra bonus.

Another area that may be good for them is to do the same thing as they did with their C=64 joystick thing. I am sure that AmigaInc could liscense a similar product using the classic Amiga as a model. It would blow away the competitions games with the old Amiga games. I don't think that would be a bad move for them either.

If they truely want to get into the Personal Computer or Console market, they would have a hard time finding a better deal than to just pay the small fee for the Amiga OS4 liscense.

Nowadays, it makes much more sense to not do everything in-house. By buying into an OS4 liscense, they would have a product they would not have to be concerned with supporting. They would just have to concentrate on the hardware side and leave the software side up to AmigaInc/Hyperion. It really is a bargin for what they would get and how quickly they could get it.

I hope they are serious about the Amiga, I know I am. The Amiga has many good things going for it right now. Eyetech were probably not funded well enough to make a good profit off of the Amiga hardware. It really needs good advertising to do that. They were trying to get a large part of the sales going to the server market running Linux. When that did not gell, then it became unfeasable for them to persue it any further.

If the Amiga had real advertising dollars attached to it then it would do well. The C=64 had advertising the Amiga never did. The one that was the cash cow was the C=64. The Mac commercials are pretty good at exposing what is wrong with windows. An Amiga could do the same and add stiff competition to the Mac if properly marketed. I think in the next few years the Mac is going to continually gain ground on MicroSoft. I think that the Amiga could get part of that business too.

The Amiga can not continue by marketing to ex-Amigans. The Amiga will at some point need to break into a new generation of first time Amiga users. It will take time, but I think the new Commodore could really pull it off very well. A Commodore/Amiga partnership would work very well indeed.

I am optomistic, but I think if given a chance and some dollars it could be a good investment. Especially at this stage in the Amiga OS developement.

However, I have faith that the other hardware will show up. I think the reason why it is takeing so long, is that Eyetech sort of dropped the ball without much notice. Now these other hardware vendors have to scramble to put something together. Who knows, perhaps the hardware in development could also be liscensed under Commodore. So all Commodore would have to do is build a flashy case and put an advertising campaign together. If done right, I do not think it is even that risky. The big question though is what does done right mean? To me it is just good advertising and making the product available. You do not have to have to be the best, you just have to make everyone think you are. You can sell anything with proper advertising. I think it could make really good business sense.

@ikir

Ikir, i received a similar e-mail 4 months ago.

I think that they are interested.

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