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Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Hanrahan@lemmy.world to c/amiga@sopuli.xyz

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Aside from mostly old farts like myslef who started on a C64 before going to an A1000 to an A1200, is there legs left in this ?

Surely a port to Linux and replace the desktop with something Amiga like is about the only option, short of some.tech bro investing Billions ? Somethibg like Mint but Commodore with the Amiga dekstop if they control the IP?

Us old farts are.going to die out and i havent had any Commodore or Amiga hardware for 2 decades now.

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[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lemon64 thread

This comment sums it up pretty well:

"If you watch the video you will understand the title is a bit of a clickbait. He is not buying Commodore, he wants to deal to get cheaper licensing fees for whoever wishes to use the Commodore name. For example Ultimate64 could become the official Commodore FPGA board. I don’t see this changing anything to be honest. Unless this will mean that we can buy a brand new C64 based on Ultimate64 (with case, keyboard, keycaps etc) at a sub 200€ with VAT price. Which I doubt."

[–] robogeek@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you watch to the end, you'll see there is an offer to buy the holding company. Even in the thread link you posted someone says this and the poster of the comment pasted above actually says, "my bad l got bored and didn't watch to the end" or such.

[–] Twig@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

True. And the comments after that agree that the main point still stands.