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A Retro YouTuber Wants to Take over Commodore. Yes, He's Serious

15 points by shortformblog 1y ago

gnabgib 1y ago
Discussion (80 points, 12 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215117
- shortformblog 1y ago
  This is a fresh interview with him with many additional details.
  - gnabgib 1y ago
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    - shortformblog 1y ago
      I’m sorry you can’t tell the difference between a 2,500 word profile and an AI piece.
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    - polpo 1y ago
      Did you actually read the article? Doesn't seem like it, the author says he literally talked to Peri in it.
shortformblog 1y ago
Hey, just to offer more details on this piece: After I saw the initial video with Perifractic, I reached out to him via fax (a 20th century technology) to set up an interview over Zoom (a 21st century technology). Over an hour-long call, he offered a ton of details on the project that weren’t in the video. “Now, I won’t go into too many details, but we basically took out a second mortgage on our house to get this done,” he told me. “It’s been seven months, nearly eight months of work, actually.” We also talked about how a revived Commodore might interact with prominent existing Commodore-adjacent projects like Amiga Forever and the Commander X16, and discussed the possibility of new hardware.
- carra 1y ago
  That's so cool! Thank you for taking the time to talk to him and give us more details in the project.
mattl 1y ago
I’m highly skeptical of this. There have been a number of people in the retro YouTube communities getting crowdfunding for things that don’t really work out. But if he can truly pull it off that will be very impressive. I must confess I haven’t seen many of his latest videos after they started having I think AI slop thumbnails on the videos?
- benchly 1y ago
  There are ways to kill those. https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-YouTube-Video-Thumbnail-Images https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-YouTube-Video-Thumbnail-Imag... The strangest part is after I removed those "shock face" thumbs, I feel like I'm using an entirely different platform. The only time I see them is when I use the YouTube app on my PS4 which is hooked to a large TV, useful for when I'm watching the not-AI-documentary-style creators I like.
  - mattl 1y ago
    I only really watch YouTube on my Apple TV attached to my TV.
andrewstuart 1y ago
You can’t go home again.
- loa_in_ 1y ago
  It's not like the technologies are nowadays impossible, they're just incompatible with globalization and mass consumption.
bni 1y ago
The Commodore brand is useless today. The other IP that was once associated with Commodore is owned by different entities, disputed, and in some cases unknown who owns it.

15 points by shortformblog 1y ago

Discussion (80 points, 12 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215117

shortformblog 1y ago
This is a fresh interview with him with many additional details.
- gnabgib 1y ago
  [flagged]
  - deleted 1y ago
    [deleted]
  - shortformblog 1y ago
    I’m sorry you can’t tell the difference between a 2,500 word profile and an AI piece.
    - deleted 1y ago
      [deleted]
  - polpo 1y ago
    Did you actually read the article? Doesn't seem like it, the author says he literally talked to Peri in it.

shortformblog 1y ago

Hey, just to offer more details on this piece: After I saw the initial video with Perifractic, I reached out to him via fax (a 20th century technology) to set up an interview over Zoom (a 21st century technology). Over an hour-long call, he offered a ton of details on the project that weren’t in the video. “Now, I won’t go into too many details, but we basically took out a second mortgage on our house to get this done,” he told me. “It’s been seven months, nearly eight months of work, actually.” We also talked about how a revived Commodore might interact with prominent existing Commodore-adjacent projects like Amiga Forever and the Commander X16, and discussed the possibility of new hardware.

carra 1y ago
That's so cool! Thank you for taking the time to talk to him and give us more details in the project.

mattl 1y ago

I’m highly skeptical of this. There have been a number of people in the retro YouTube communities getting crowdfunding for things that don’t really work out. But if he can truly pull it off that will be very impressive. I must confess I haven’t seen many of his latest videos after they started having I think AI slop thumbnails on the videos?

benchly 1y ago
There are ways to kill those. https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-YouTube-Video-Thumbnail-Images https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-YouTube-Video-Thumbnail-Imag... The strangest part is after I removed those "shock face" thumbs, I feel like I'm using an entirely different platform. The only time I see them is when I use the YouTube app on my PS4 which is hooked to a large TV, useful for when I'm watching the not-AI-documentary-style creators I like.
- mattl 1y ago
  I only really watch YouTube on my Apple TV attached to my TV.

andrewstuart 1y ago

You can’t go home again.

loa_in_ 1y ago
It's not like the technologies are nowadays impossible, they're just incompatible with globalization and mass consumption.

bni 1y ago

The Commodore brand is useless today. The other IP that was once associated with Commodore is owned by different entities, disputed, and in some cases unknown who owns it.