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Commodore acquired for a 'low seven figure' price – CEO from retro community
- wileydragonfly 1y agoIf they can sell me something for $500 or less that will let me shove in original cartridges or floppy disks, I am cash in hand. If they can’t, they go away.
- selcuka 1y agoCartridges I can understand, as they are hardware, but why floppy disks? It's just data and it's better to back them up to a more reliable format anyway.
- soulofmischief 1y agoIt's part of the charm. :)
- wasabinator 1y agoNot sure yet more emulation boxes are what the world needs. Peri did touch on the concept of producing products that would exist if commodore existed through today.
- gnabgib 1y agoDiscussion yesterday (92 points, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408459
- gwbas1c 1y agoWould be cool to have a C64-inspired line of Linux laptops with a custom C64-themed distro of Linux, rock-solid drivers, and an app store of well-tested applications.
- duskwuff 1y agoBest we can do is an overpriced SBC in a decorative case running VICE. (/s)
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- milchek 1y agoPerifrantic makes an interesting point in anticipation of critics that will chime in to assert “this will never be the original Commodore.” In his defense, the retro tech enthusiast says “what if we got 47 trademarks from 1982, or original Commodore engineers back, original executives, assistants, ROMs, Amiga? I mean, at some point, it does start to become the real Commodore, right?” An interesting thought. I’m sure like many here, the C64 was what sparked my interests in gaming, computing, and technology. It even went a bit beyond that to influencing my tastes around music, design and aesthetics, and is probably one of the major reasons I’m working in digital today. Keen to see what they do for the nostalgia.
- crq-yml 1y agoPeri's approach is built around his Hollywood production experience: you don't have to be the real thing, you have to be believably close to the real thing. IOW, verisimilitude. And that's exciting, that's the path to a lot of creative answers. It's a good response to the shareholder-centric corporate idiom: don't look at the balance sheet as the game. Look at the people and the assets as elements used to stage a show, and put on a show that people want to believe in. And it's a good answer for the AI-saturated landscape we've entered: make products that are very similar to the best ones of the past.
- LaundroMat 1y agoAdding noise to the signal here, but "Don't look at the balance sheet as the game. Look at the people and the assets as elements used to stage a show, and put on a show that people want to believe in." is a quote I want to remember forever.
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- II2II 1y agoI can't wait for the new Commodore calculators, filing cabinets, telephones, and typewriters! (All of these were actual Commodore products, a couple of which I have seen in the wild. The computers that we all know and love only represent half of the company's history.)
- reaperducer 1y agoI received a vintage LED Commodore calculator as a gift a few years ago. I guess it's time to move it from the closet to my desk.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoA friend has a Commodore filing cabinet. It's not anything fancy, as a filing cabinet goes, but it does have the Commodore name on it.
- ChrisArchitect 1y ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408459
- whartung 1y agoI guess the big question is how well is the Mega65 doing. Those folks put a lot of time and energy to come up with a modern C64-esque computer experience. From the BASIC in ROM, an actual floppy disk, memory mapped video, and an “all in one” form factor. Supposed to be a nice machine, I have not been following it recently, I assume it performs and is reliable. It checks all of the boxes, I just don’t know how successful it is.
- dazlari 1y agoI'll have to start keeping up.
- mystified5016 1y agoAs I understand, the really interesting parts of Commodore (the MOS designs) were lost forever when they shut down the first time. As far as anyone knows, the IP from MOS, the designs for all the chips, are just gone forever. Not that it matters that much though, I think the most interesting chips have already been fully reverse engineered