Re: [Semi-OT News] Commodore announces a dumb-smartphone

On 2026-07-05 08:04:58 +0000, BobbieSellers said:
> On 7/4/26 22:20, Your Name wrote:
>> On 2026-07-05 05:00:02 +0000, Smithwicks said:
>> 
>>> In article <[email protected]>,
>>>  Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> As anyone could have guessed, the new "Commodore" owners have announced 
>>>> a pointless ill-fitting garbage device using the brand name, just as 
>>>> many previous owners stupidly tried / planned to do.  :-(
>>> 
>>> Call me silly but I saw this coming from a mile away and I'm not 
>>> opposed to the idea. A De-Googled and OS-level SM-blocked device is 
>>> actually not a bad idea imo, though the form factor is obviously 
>>> reaching for nostalgia. I guess I can't see the "pointless ill-fitting 
>>> garbage" aspect but I'm open to more of your take. At least they 
>>> haven't started selling pencil sharpeners... yet...
>> 
>> The problem is that the dumb-samrtphone is simply going to be the thin 
>> edge of the wedge as they cmoe up with more ridiculous things to stick 
>> teh "Commodore" brand onto.  :-(
>> 
>> They should have just kept with the C64 and perhaps the Amiga 
>> (realistically a "new Amiga" is at best never going to be anything but 
>> a Windoze PC with a so-called "Amiga OS" slapped on top). The company 
>> is never going to reach the height it was in the past and will, and 
>> *should*, just remain a nostaglia brand rather than trying to cash-in 
>> via silly gimmicky gadgets.
> 
> 	There are hardware Amigas on the market.

The only real Amiga hardware for sale are original machines selling as 
used on eBay and similar places.

Anything else is a pretend "Amiga", usually a bog-stanard Windoze PC or 
cobbled together 680x0 / PowerPC box running at best what claims to be 
AmigaOS or simply running an emulator ... but neither are actually a 
real Amiga since they don't have the custom chips, etc. that made the 
Amiga what is was.

No new computer will ever have those types of custom chips either. 
There's simply no real reason to do it with CPU and GPU chip 
capabilities these days.




> Like the original system the price is too high for me.  But the best 
> Amiga Emulations do not run on top of Windows but on a stripped down 
> Linux running
> only a "Just In Time" aka JIT emulation of the MC 680x0 processors 
> series on the X86 processor which I saw at an AmigaWest Show quite some 
> years ago.
> 	The performance of the laptop with a 500 MHz Pentium laptop was 
> comparable or faster with Amiga native hardware speeds  The makers of 
> the emulation
> software ran into problems with licensing before I could buy a copy but 
> there are Linux Amiga Emulations but you will have to buy the ROMs from 
> some source and the Emulation that does run on Windows might be a 
> simple way to acquire the needed software roms.
> 
> 	I sold my Amiga 1000 and its Expansion box, My A2000B with the 50 MHz 
> 68060 and lots of 32 bit ram some time ago and GNU/Linux as spoken by 
> texstar
> is enough for this hobbyist.
> 
> 
>>> If Peri wants to lean into Commodore being a "digital detox" brand (his 
>>> branding, not mine, ofc) then I say more power to them. There's either 
>>> a market or there isn't.
> 
> 	I really don't much care about the Commodore brand since the man that 
> made it a great company is gone. That was Jack Tramiel who went on and 
> bought Atari.
> 	Jay Miner died long ago and without him there never would have been 
> any Amiga and he was a community member running an Amiga BBS down the 
> Peninsula. I was in my 40s then when I got into computers with the 
> C=64,C34/128/CPM,AmigaOS,WindowsXP and then Mandriva Linux.in my 60s 
> and I am 88 YOA now.
> 
> bliss- Dell 7730- PCLinuxOS 2026.07,Linux 6.18.37,Plasma 6.7.2