@ChrisH

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For example? I mean, a *lot* of people (inc some Amiga magazines IIRC) were convinced they were for real at the time, and they managed to string people along for quite a while. As I recall, the hints that it was a fake took time (and occasionally some actual journalistic investigation) to accumulate.

* you couldnt find reference to their products from the internet (it was supposed to be long existing company)
* they had dummy download (nothing to download) section for their existing products
* later on content was added to their "download" section. I downloaded one and it was some renamed photoshop file

Problem with CommodoreUSA is that it is fairly easy to bundle PC with AROS and sell it. Everyone could have this kind of business and only thing which could be a hoax is rights to the Amiga trademark.

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Maybe this is a "certain detail"? Quote: Even the stolen images arent scaled properly, s

Maybe. Anyone can fake a press release and claim they acquired something. They obviously dont have copyrights to some or many images used on their website. It is not very convincing.

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