Commodore computers resurrected

[duanedesign]

I just sent support@commodoreUSA.net the following email:

Hi,

I am an old Amigan, & I love much of the design of your new Commodore.

As you would have seen from the emails title my main question is how can you run AmigaOS on an Intel CPU based system?

Is there a rewrite of AmigaOS going on that will take it from PPC to x86, or is there another way to run AmigaOS on Intel?

There are quite a number of people on forums that I attend who would be VERY interested in the answers to this.

Also, hopefully you will be marketing a machine in the future that will provide a superior GPU, preferably ATi, as their open-source drivers are really starting to get it together, & will be great this year.

Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Have you received a reply yet to your email? I guess if you had you would of posted it here

I love the forums. Reading this thread i learned more about this computer than I have in the past couple weeks through other media sources.

[handy]

Have you received a reply yet to your email? I guess if you had you would of posted it here

No reply.

I think they saw my email as one from an uninformed enthusiast. We have all learned a lot more since I wrote that.

I also think that they haven't got time to waste, as the way that their web page is being developed indicates that they seem to be in a rush.

I love the forums. Reading this thread i learned more about this computer than I have in the past couple weeks through other media sources.

Yes, we benefit from the large number of researchers of various topics that are members of the community.

[bpalone]

has anyone ordered one of these?

I purchased a refurbed system from Cybernetman a couple of years ago. It is an Elite-4 model, which doesn't have a touch pad. It was bought so I could continue to use Win2K in a portable system. I sometimes have to spend weeks to months living and working out of a motel room. I have never liked XP so it was method to allow me to keep from migrating upward on the M$ treadmill. Not to long after it was acquired, I decided to make the move to Linux, which was a good one.

It works fine with 2K and 8.04 Hardy. I use an XVGA monitor and 2K doesn't have a good driver, so things are distorted a bit, but that is not the hardwares fault. In Hardy it works just fine with the XVGA monitor. I just downloaded Video drivers from their site, to see if they are newer than what I have. I continue to dual boot, as I have a couple of things that need ******* to run and one website that needs IE only for one portion of it. I keep threatening to capture some packets to see if I can create a Firefox plugin to solve that issue. But, for now it is easier to fire up ******* either in a VM or natively.

If you are short on space, they are great. But, they are not made for gaming, etc. (I assume as I am not a gamer) The model I have takes about twice as long to rip a DVD using Acidrip, as an old AMD 939 3400 that just recently had to be retired. I haven't ripped anything on the new machine to compare. It could be a memory issue for that, as the Elite-4 only has 1 gig and the AMD had 3 gig, so the slowness may be entirely memory. For day to day email, word processing, spreadheets, etc., it does just great. It also handles a virtual machine fairly well, at least one running 2K.

If anyone has more questions, please ask. If I know the answer I will reply and if I don't I'll say so. Hope this gives everyone an idea of what they are. As has been stated, they are not cheap. But, I also like the fact that I could replace most everything from sources other than the manufacturer, which is something you normally can't do with laptops, except hard drives and memory.

This has gotten long enough.

[MisfitI38]

Looks like you can order them now. Pretty nifty.
http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

[frogotronic]

Hey,

Check it out: http://youtu.be/z6EswIQFV2Y

- CH

[CharlesA]

Threads merged.

[forrestcupp]

Threads merged.

Now you have to lock the thread and give yourself an infraction for thread necromancy.

[Bandit]

I like the VIC Slim model

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_VicSlim.aspx

[CharlesA]

Now you have to lock the thread and give yourself an infraction for thread necromancy.

Didn't feel like locking the other thread.

[coolglobal]

I first found this site here:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/07/c...unning-ubuntu/