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Commodore acquired for a ‘low seven figure’ price — new (acting) CEO comes from the retro community

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨cm0002@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-acquired-for-a-low-seven-figure-price-new-acting-ceo-comes-from-the-retro-community

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  • blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would be sick if the new ownership drives a whole alternative ecosystem to Windows/Mac, perhaps with a very user friendly Linux distribution and nice peripherals and other hardware to go with it. Maybe even a phone and private cloud service!

    Go ahead Commodore, upend the market with a focus on privacy and the retro vibe without making it cheesy.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re in luck!

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      • blarth@thelemmy.club ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh man, and based on my favorite distro.

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  • Gnugit@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Amazing!

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  • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    While I think this is cool, I didn’t really see any explanation of what their products will be. Retro computers for gaming? A new Amiga computer? A Linux derived platform running on their own hardware?

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m hoping that whatever it is, it’s not a lazy cash-in. The world doesn’t need any more ARM-based Linux novelty gadgets in replica cases running emulators more or less well enough.

    Something building on Jeri Ellsworth’s FPGA-based emulation platform (commercialised in the C64 DTV joystick console) would be cool; perhaps a Commodore-branded turnkey MiSTer box with pre-licensed Commodore/Amiga ROMs and titles. That and/or developing platforms into modern equivalents (imagine a new Amiga running on ARM, with new versions of AmigaOS that have IPv6 and Unicode and all the technologies we take for granted today).

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  • RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    He did post this video a couple of days ago, but I had a hard time getting past the intro because I was cringing. Part 1 was great though.

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  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I feel like somebody already tried this a few years ago. I vaguely remember there being an Atom powered C64. I wonder what their product line will be like this time.

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