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[commodorejohn]

Shock and surprise, who could possibly have seen this coming.

[mechy]

Originally Posted by commodorejohn

Shock and surprise, who could possibly have seen this coming.

hehe.. How on earth could anyone be taken in by C= USA from day one. I don't think these guys know what a real Amiga or C64 is.

Mech

[persia]

Commodore-Amiga.org is pretty much dead anyway, I think they are beginning to realise that getting into a market that is stagnant, using a company name noted for cheap products and pricing those products way above the competition may not have been the wisest thing to do.....

[Kesa]

If they are dead then why are they getting more traffic than we are?

"We have 389 guests and 2 members online"

[Lurch]

Most of those guests will be bots :-(

[persia]

It never shows less than 300 some guests, maybe it's a running total or something. Maybe they're all waiting for a page to load, it's so slow.

[CritAnime]

From what I can gather the online details are not accurate. If someone logs in it registers them on the list. If someone looks at a thread it registers them as looking at it on the top of the thread page. However both are offset by atleast half an hour. So oif someone navigates away from the page it will still show them as viewing the thread. Much like is someone navigates away from the site it will still show them as been active. The only sure fire way to drop from the list is to log out.

I know this as I have registered there in the past but then got banned almost the same day. Their active list for guests is probably way, way, way off. Because it does the same for guests.

[Kesa]

Crit. You are making it sound accidental. I'm not saying they are deliberately falsifying their numbers but you have to admit it wouldn't be too hard and obviously it gives a better impression of the company having that many users. But have you noticed how the numbers are always generally the same compared to Amiga.org which are fairly varied?

[CritAnime]

I am not saying either which way. Just pointing out that the user and guest list, along with the who's lookin at a thread thing, are way too offset to get an acurate reading of how many people are visiting the site. I would imagine it was an oversight initially, they are using joomla which is great as a CMS but makes a crap forum device, of the forum plugin. But as you say it gives a good impression of the overall traffic to the site.

What ever the inital intent of the site you can see from rcent activity that it nows been engineered towards a advertising vehicle. After all he owns the domain name and the server.

[persia]

Whatever happened to MasterChef? He started this thread and disappeared...

[TheBilgeRat]

Originally Posted by persia

Whatever happened to MasterChef? He started this thread and disappeared...

Shill!!!!!!

[AmmoJammo]

I looked up "commodore USA" and was confused as to why the words commodore and amiga were even being used?

[number6]

Originally Posted by AmmoJammo

I looked up "commodore USA" and was confused as to why the words commodore and amiga were even being used?

They licensed both "Commodore" and "Amiga" from their respective owners after seeing a value in using those brand names.
Long story...wait for the movie. Heh.

#6

[number6]

@CritAnime

As we discussed elsewhere...mkay. So now they move one of the Vics from the Commodore side of their lineup and it becomes an Amiga.

Just for those updating their scorecards...

The VIC Mini is now the Amiga MIO.

source

Oh...and that means the Amiga Mini is no longer the entry model. Feel free to correct the other thread. Heh.

#6

[CritAnime]

I did one make a list of their products, both existing and "future" models, but for the life in me I can't find it. So I will try and list it all again.

Pheonix - This was one if the initial models announced when CUSA first started. This later became the first Vic Pro.

Iviticus - This again was an early model that was intended for release. This was canceled (http://gizmodo.com/5554750/commodore...s-eee-keyboard)

Amigo - This was yet another announced (http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost...48&postcount=1) system but was never shown or released.

C64x - Released and shown a lot. This has seen several revisions including standard, pro, extreme and supreme. Including a barebones system, just the case, and now announced clear and black cases (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...?lang=en#15395) which were renounced by Barry. Gurrent model comes with an i7 processor.

Vic Slim - Initially two versions of the slim were produced. A pro version, this was the pheonix, and a less powerful black slim version. The silver (pheonix) vic was replaced by the current slim and the original slim was dropped completely. It has had a couple of hardware revisions. These computers are pre-built computers. However CUSA has access to the "barebones" case. At time of writing a "clearence" barebones (the old slim model) is available with a Atom D525 1.8GHz processor where as the current barebones comes with Intel Atom D2700 2.13GHz.

Vic Mini - This was origionally the same case as the Amiga Mini (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/en/co...odore-vic-mini) but in black and no laser etched Amiga sign. However this was replaced with the current Mini which is a rebadged ZOTAC ZBOX Giga ID70 Plus (http://www.zotac.com/index.php?page=...&Itemid=100275). No barebone is available as this is a simple rebadge with the same specs. It is priced at $999.

Amiga Mini - Current model is either a Streacom F4 or Wesena Minit ITX2 (http://www.wesena.co.uk/product.php/5/2/itx2). It has a laser etched Amiga sign on the front along with stick on Commodore branding. Initially only available in silver it was revised when the Vic Mini was replaced with the Zotac box. Now you can get it in black or sliver also with or without Amiga branding. Initially only one hardware setup was available which was an i7 with 16gb ram. Only the HDD was cusomizable and these were a traditional 1tb HDD, 300gb SDD or 600gb SDD. it was described as the sportscar of the computer world. However these were revised after numerous complaints about pricing ($2740) to include i3 and i5 processors and RAM selection. All systems include NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 430 GPU with 1GB DDR3. These have been linked to Zotac motherboards. A barebones model is available in both black or silver and with or without etching. hints of yet another hardware revision has been mentioned also (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...?lang=en#15477)

Amiga Mio - this was recently announced (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...?lang=en#15395) in Barry's big update. However it's been revealed that it actually the current Vic Mini (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...?lang=en#15477). This change in name is to apparently make it easier identify and place it in the current product linup and is now the entry CUSA Amiga. No news on pricing has been announced.

Amiga 1000x - Hinted at a while back in a news article on commodore-amiga.org (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/en/co...lash/78-a1000x) this box, which was a photoshopped image from an original Amiga 100 box, was shown around several sites. It turned out to be a Wesena E5 (http://www.wesena.co.uk/product.php/7/3/e5) case and Iton Bluetooth keyboard (Read my post http://amiga.org/forums/showpost.php...2&postcount=73). However a recent update from barry shows a pre-prdouction case with etched Amiga logo (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...?lang=en#15452). Initially though several possible cases have been shown over the last year and a half including Kama T series and Origen S series. Pricing has been hinted at starting from $2495 (http://www.commodore-amiga.org/forum...&lang=en#13166). No specs have been announced.

Amiga 2000x and 3000x - Several possible cases have been shown over the last year and a half including Kama T series and Origen S series. No other news has been mentioned other than they could be expensive.

Amiga 500x - This was initially suspected to be the current Vic pro. However no further info came from this. Seems to be a dead project.

Now I lost my original list with all this on. So I had to piece it together from my own posts and what I could remember. If anyone can remember anything else then please let me know and we could update this.

@number6
I know you have a nose for info. If you can rememebr anything then please let me know. Also it shows how they constantly change their minds about hardware.