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[Hell Labs]

Originally Posted by tone007

2.something or 3ghz P4. I haven't had it on in a while.

Standard size motherboard? What make, model?

[tone007]

No, board is custom made for/by Cybernet. It looks like the A1200's little brother inside.

[persia]

I thought so, the Cybernet is such a ridiculous looking thing it had to be a joke.

[Amiga_Nut]

Originally Posted by Hell Labs

You quoted the wrong post. Also, it's clearly still a C64, but repaired and upgraded with commonly avalible parts. it makes the most logical sense. It's a manyfold improvement. So he can't use floppys or tapes any more. Who cares? floppys, especially those 5.25 ones, suck. they're slow, corrupt easily, and take up space. Tapes? lol.

When will people stop pretending the chips, the very thing that they cannot actually see -

No strike that

- The layout of some transistors inside the chips, something they cannot see, feel, or hear, actually matter. They don't. There is only two things that matters:

1) it works.
2) it can do what it was made for.

Stop acting like a child.

erm even today using a dual core CPU JUST FOR reSID it is still not 100% accurate...and who uses DVDs any more...so why bugger up the casing when a small SD card slot where the tape deck is works better.

The shape or colour does not make a C64 what it is, no more than a hat on your head makes you the person you are...it's what's inside that counts in both cases.

The muted colours, the familiar sound of combinations of SID features, the advantages and disadvantages producing the compromises compared to other 8bit machines at the time...THIS is what makes a C64...not some piece of **** mini ITX with an Intel/AMD running an emulator.

Sure it looks cool, but why would I run a compromised bit of kit like that. I have...

The perfect computer for my needs.
A real C64 and CRT display.

So between the two above I have no need for anything else...VICE runs fine with TV output and a Stelladaptor on Wintel box and real C64s of various flavours for the real nostalgia hit of loading music and clanky keyboard

You comments surprise me though, not only are you speaking like a spoilt little gates banger but factually incorrect to the disadvantage of the achievements to the manufacturer of the Amiga...both aspects of your character have no place on this Amiga forum TYVM.

[Hell Labs]

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

erm even today using a dual core CPU JUST FOR reSID it is still not 100% accurate...

No, just incredibly accurate.

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

and who uses DVDs any more...so why bugger up the casing when a small SD card slot where the tape deck is works better.

Everyone uses DVDs, apart from cutting edge nerds who've moved to blueray. I don't think I've seen a computer in real life with an SD card slot.

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

The shape or colour does not make a C64 what it is, no more than a hat on your head makes you the person you are...it's what's inside that counts in both cases.

No, it's what it does. In this case, it runs C64 software.

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

The muted colours, the familiar sound of combinations of SID features, the advantages and disadvantages producing the compromises compared to other 8bit machines at the time...THIS is what makes a C64...not some piece of **** mini ITX with an Intel/AMD running an emulator.

End result is the same. In fact it's better. You can actually use it as a serious computer now.

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

Sure it looks cool, but why would I run a compromised bit of kit like that. I have...


The perfect computer for my needs.
A real C64 and CRT display.

Space/Cost.

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

So between the two above I have no need for anything else...VICE runs fine with TV output and a Stelladaptor on Wintel box and real C64s of various flavours for the real nostalgia hit of loading music and clanky keyboard

Point?

Originally Posted by Amiga_Nut

You comments surprise me though, not only are you speaking like a spoilt little gates banger but factually incorrect to the disadvantage of the achievements to the manufacturer of the Amiga...both aspects of your character have no place on this Amiga forum TYVM.

In english please?

[kolla]

Originally Posted by Hell Labs

Everyone uses DVDs, apart from cutting edge nerds who've moved to blueray. I don't think I've seen a computer in real life with an SD card slot.

Really, what isolated rock do you live on?
SD slot is standard on laptops and desktops alike these days, and it has been like this for qutie a few years already.

[Crom00]

Whatever happened to the Commodore Netbooks? Now that's something I'd consider.

[Hell Labs]

Originally Posted by kolla

Really, what isolated rock do you live on?
SD slot is standard on laptops and desktops alike these days, and it has been like this for qutie a few years already.

Laptops? Sorry, I own a real computer. And i've never seen one on a deskstop, ever. The point is, they are not a Disc replacement. They are for cameras.

[maffoo]

Originally Posted by Hell Labs

Laptops? Sorry, I own a real computer. And i've never seen one on a deskstop, ever. The point is, they are not a Disc replacement. They are for cameras.

Since when is a laptop not a real computer? Mine runs all the same software as my desktop

As for the SD card slot, I'm sure I've seen desktops with built in card readers (can't remember where, I think I've seen Medion and HP machines with them.) And SD cards work fine as disk replacements too - I used to have a netbook that booted AmigaSys from one, and I've used them in place of USB thumb drives if I didn't have one to hand.

[kolla]

Originally Posted by Hell Labs

Laptops? Sorry, I own a real computer.

I doubt that, sounds more like a toy of some sort

I never cared that much for SD slot, yet, my office quad-core workstation has it (and it's 3 years old or so), my eeepc has it, the lenovos we hand out at work have it, the PS3 has it, the Wii has it (no idea about xbox), this old 3-4 year old HP midi tower has it, the eeeboxes have it, the ASUS pundit here has it. And if that wasn't enough, there are memory card readers buildt into monitors and keyboards as well. Oh, and the minimig has it.

[kolla]

Even this old joker has it

[zombie10k]

The new commodore company should hire Ben Heck to reproduce his classic C64 laptop. Using real C64 keyboard and mobo, I think he nailed the retro look and feel.







Does anyone remember the A1200 PAWS from the early 90's?

it's fun looking back at the potential of the portable A1200, if a bit comical by todays standards.

[MaDDuck]

So it's an April fool's day hoax then........

Still a very nice looking piece of kit. When I first saw the removable HDD cover plate, it looked a lot like a cartridge port!


My head is still spinning, if it is fake, who would do it and why? If it's real, it's just nothing more than a nicely equipped ZFP computer, that caries on the spirit of the Commodore C64.


Oh well!!

[Lurch]

Going to have to say, what a flop? I'll pass, doesn't look like a modern commodore computer to me. Plus when you go to their website the advertising they are using is surely something a 5 year old has done or perhaps someone stuck it together in 5 minutes using powerpoint or something similar. Hope they didn't pay someone to do it.

Rebranding some (now old) cybernet computer is not a good move. I get a pain in my chest just thinking about what these companies are doing to both Commodore, C64 and the Amiga name.

BTW, just about every computer these days has a card reader....

I'll go back to lurking again d