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

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.

Amazing!

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).

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.

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.