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[persia]

Yep, Googling the news it seems they are running out of free publicity, time to break into that fictitious $30 million advertising budget.

[number6]

Originally Posted by persia

Yep, Googling the news it seems they are running out of free publicity, time to break into that fictitious $30 million advertising budget.

The brief history of that one:

Commodore USA Appoints Korey Kay

The direct quote "Projected budget: $30 million." and from reading the entire article you can see it was meant to be applied over time, not all at once.

Listed on CUSA's Board of Directors

Mr. Kay is not presently a board member. This is explained:

by Leo here

Technology link for Korey Kay:

http://www.koreykay.com/pt7.html

The reference to work done for Commodore in the past is illustrated there.

His current involvement? Dunno.

#6

[persia]

Looks like Moochie took his place on the board....

Originally Posted by number6

The brief history of that one:

Commodore USA Appoints Korey Kay

The direct quote "Projected budget: $30 million." and from reading the entire article you can see it was meant to be applied over time, not all at once.

Listed on CUSA's Board of Directors

Mr. Kay is not presently a board member. This is explained:

by Leo here

Technology link for Korey Kay:

http://www.koreykay.com/pt7.html

The reference to work done for Commodore in the past is illustrated there.

His current involvement? Dunno.

#6

[Middleman]

Originally Posted by persia

Looks like Moochie took his place on the board....

Don't touch Moochie, he's a good dog! He was the one who signed off my birthday present last year! (a CUSA C64x Ultimate)

[CritAnime]

Just got back from a few days holiday. So catching up with stuff. Been looking over at c-a.org and it seems they are going through yet another round of product updates.

http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...?lang=en#13988

Commodore USA CTO

Actually, we are reassessing our models, specs and prices right now with the feedback we have received since launch.
Current purchasers will be contacted and provided with the new choices to decide how they wish to proceed.
It's all good.

[Optimus]

Funny that's the only post referring to a re-config, and there is nothing since.

They do have one member that said he was going to buy a low end one, and Barry promised to rummage the tech department (Leo's desk?) for a mouse for him, because he said he was thinking about getting one from AmigaKit.

[vox]

Commodore Amigas are going with x86_64

Only CommodoreUSA "Amigas" not the OS. In fact, that is much Amiga as "Amiga" dildo

[number6]

@thread

Some new advertising apparently coming in the form of contributions to a telemovie:

Commodore USA assists Underground Telemovie

Google search shows the makers of the movie were looking for "geek" hardware to add to the movie.

The art director is looking to get hold of old Commodore 64 machines, Amstrads and IBM PCs for the production.

source

#6

[kedawa]

Too bad they don't make any of the computers that the art director is looking for.

[CritAnime]

Originally Posted by number6

@thread

Some new advertising apparently coming in the form of contributions to a telemovie:

Commodore USA assists Underground Telemovie

Google search shows the makers of the movie were looking for "geek" hardware to add to the movie.



source

#6

This makes for an interesting little snippet.

They wrapped up shooting.
All the equipment was returned as far as I can see, along with a few other odds and ends they purchased along the way.
Commodore USA will be in the credits.

What did they purchase and why did they return it?

[AAACHIPSET]

amiga?? where ?? .....i dont want emulation ...what i want is a new custom chipset ...bootable dvd an a few other odds an bods ..usb be nice etc...if i wanted emulation id have bought one of the amiga one boards
or similar ...given this is a hobby machine it doesnt have to be top of the range anything ..just usable for games an internet browsin email etc ..thats why the natami is a good idea ..add ppc to that an you have a basic machine ..why is it so hard for these companies to get it ...

[vexar]

Originally Posted by CritAnime

Just got back from a few days holiday. So catching up with stuff. Been looking over at c-a.org and it seems they are going through yet another round of product updates.

http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...?lang=en#13988

Commodore USA CTO

I wonder if that has to do with the power supply...

[CritAnime]

Nah it was more to do with the fact that people were not willing to spend silly amounts of money for it. So they quickly did a u-turn and dropped the price.

[persia]

They are discovering the depth of the keyboard computer market makes a kiddie pool look dangerous and that nobody in their right mind is going to pay huge sums of money to a company that might not be here tomorrow. Going into the only part of the computer market that isn't growing (desktops) was a move fraught with hazards. I gave them a generous 50-50 chance of survival in the long term, but watching them so far I'm lowering that to a 40-60 percent chance of survival...

Disappointment doesn't begin to cover it. There's no vision, no innovation. They're just a large computer shop...

[CritAnime]

This has been my argument with them for a while. The whole "bigger and better things to come. But in the mean time we need to sell these cheap computers at a inflated price." to me stinks of trying to make a quick buck before the bottom falls out of it. The moment they said they were making c64x with it's custom case design instantly made everyone's expectation of them shoot through the roof. And since then it seems like they are failing to recapture that same spark that got some people so hot and bothered over the c64x.