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Amiga Mini Posted on 8-Sep-2014 22:50:12
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| I've seen this pic of the 'new' Amiga from Commodore USA and I was quite pleased I might say, sleek, clean, somewhat reminescent of A1000. Sadly when I got to see the real Amiga Mini I was a bit disappointed, good specks though... Last edited by pixie on 09-Sep-2014 at 01:47 PM.
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 0:46:21
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Where do you see this? I like the idea if it ran AmigaOS 4 or MOS.
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 2:28:27
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 3:45:26
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Nice case but it is nothing more than an overpriced PC.
Why the hell they used the Amiga brand on this?
Anyway CUSA and uts products is just crap to me.
However i would take just the case and put anything NG Amiga that would fit in there. Lol. _________________ Peg1, Peg2, Efika, Amiga 500, Amiga 1230, Amiga 4000PPC, Sam 440EP, AmigaOne XE, MacMini PPC, PowerMac G4, G5 |
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 4:25:39
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I think they were going to call this one the Amiga 1000x.
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In various CUSA postings some years ago.
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The case they were going to use was identified at the time. If they are still available you could always get someone to custom engrave it and put a Sam ine the 440 itx would fit but not sure if you could get a 440 flex or 460 in there since I can't remember the case spec now. |
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 5:04:05
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Lovely box, sadly it lacks the spirit of what Amiga was all about - a custom chip based computer with a real soul.
Now, what would have been nice would be this box, with a powerful FPGA motherboard and a completely overhauled classic OS powered with super AAA+ custom chip cores, to allow us to have all the creative fun in world, as it used to be... ::sigh::
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 6:25:14
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Have to say that this case are simply fantastic.
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 7:24:40
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 7:39:21
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You need the engraved Amiga logo on in to add more charm.
The Commodore logo is also wonderfull. _________________ retired |
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 8:43:32
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| this exactly shows the degree of despair when amiga public cheers an ugly pretentious case for very rough resemblance of the iconic amiga design. its about the same as if someone would be fond of mid nineties models of macintosh performa being flat desktops with the cd bay (popularly called pizza box btw, just to remind what the customers thought of the design).
btw, funny that i cannot log in here from my official polish mobile ip, but through first best anon proxy, because of the ip has been banned. reminds me of some other site where the users deem such practices necessary.
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 12:57:29
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Perhaps it's because I came to Amiga via Sinclair hardware but the Commodore brand means little to me. In fact, I believe that Escom's decision to spin off Amiga as as separate entity was the right one. |
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 13:16:38
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| What's "Amiga USA" ?
I don't like the case, it looks cheap. But what's inside is that matters. Not that this has anything to do with Amiga ...
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 13:47:55
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 13:59:55
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wawa wrote: this exactly shows the degree of despair when amiga public cheers an ugly pretentious case for very rough resemblance of the iconic amiga design. its about the same as if someone would be fond of mid nineties models of macintosh performa being flat desktops with the cd bay (popularly called pizza box btw, just to remind what the customers thought of the design).
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Maybe you're confusing things here because "pizza box" has nothing to do with the beautfulness/ugliness of the design, it's just a common name for a form factor that was popular back then. In fact you had very horrible/anonymous things called "pizza box" and yet you had beautiful designs like NeXT Station and SGI Indy equally called "pizza box".
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 15:04:17
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I wonder how many design degrees you have or the reason why your taste is somehow better or more enlighten then the rest. _________________ Indigo 3D Lounge, my second home. The Illusion of Choice | Am*ga |
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 15:30:45
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 17:09:36
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 9-Sep-2014 18:09:44
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That company was (is?) called Commodore USA and introduced several retro styled computers like C64x and Amiga Mini running Linux distribution called CommodoreOS.
However, these computers were too expensive (introductory price of Amiga Mini was 2400 USD! ...falling to 1500 USD in one week), company and its founder Barry Altman (RIP) did nearly anything to alienate Amiga community and it seems to end as another Amiga commercial failure (A-Eon probably sold more X1000s than CommodoreUSA Amiga Minis).
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 10-Sep-2014 3:58:07
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Hmm, didn't that OS turn out to be a modified Linux Mint or something?
Hmm, this makes me think about a person that posts here.
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Re: Amiga Mini Posted on 10-Sep-2014 4:06:42
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A-Eon probably sold more X1000s than CommodoreUSA Amiga Minis |
I'm only aware of one person who bought an Amiga Mini. I could be wrong but I strongly suspect that it was the only rebranded Zbox they had. |
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