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Offline Boing-ballTopic starter

Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« on: June 28, 2025, 01:15:25 PM »
Good news folks. Looks like Commodore will be back! Now will Amigakit want to be a part of it?

 https://youtu.be/lN8r4LRcOXc?si=txvFedDp-38SMmyj

https://youtu.be/ke-Ao-CpI7E?si=SHmF5IPesfvxtSl0
 

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2025, 09:18:06 AM »
Very interesting. An ensemble of previous Commodore execs as advisors (no Hynie by the sounds of it) and a desire to bring the separate bits of the old Commodore back including Amiga. How does that work - Amiga OS is owned by who (never been clear to me with all the courtcases - Hyperion?) And the Amiga brand - A-Eon / Amiga Kit - so many questions.

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #2 on: July 02, 2025, 12:22:03 PM »
Following this news very closely….indeed!!
 

Offline Boing-ballTopic starter

Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #3 on: July 02, 2025, 12:44:34 PM »
Following this news very closely….indeed!!

Exciting times ahead indeed! 😉👍🏻
 

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #4 on: July 03, 2025, 01:41:42 PM »
I dont understand why a bunch of old people are wanted as advisors. To advise on how things worked in the 80s and 90s? And what are they going to bring to the table as far as product development now, the whole thing just seem like some kind of PR show to me with the super cringy slogans and stuff, but time will tell.
 

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« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2025, 09:47:25 AM »
Agreed!
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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2025, 12:00:56 PM »
Can we have less bigotry please in these forums.

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2025, 12:01:54 PM »
And who is "Liking" bigoted comments?

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2025, 01:05:52 PM »
And who is "Liking" bigoted comments?

Our regular Sheldon Cooper “Kolla” that’s who! 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

 

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2025, 01:55:41 PM »
Can we have less bigotry please in these forums.

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Not sure if you are joking or serious. I'm 52 and wouldn't choose myself as advisor on a tech startup, it has nothing to do with bigotry.
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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2025, 02:08:22 PM »
Not sure if you are joking or serious. I'm 52 and wouldn't choose myself as advisor on a tech startup, it has nothing to do with bigotry.

The way you have posted and how I have read it, is that you were serious. It does show a negative approach to those who are now working to bring back a great company. Unfortunately none of us can age backwards like Benjamin Button 😉

IMHO, It’s the best step forward.
What the new CEO is doing, is including those who worked so hard in the past another chance in redeeming a brand, that was brought o bankruptcy by those who hadn’t a clue how to run Commodore back in the day.
If it weren't for those who killed Commodore, then who knows what it could have achieved. Commodore could have been like Apple is today.
 

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2025, 02:58:34 PM »
I was serious, so to rephrase, I dont understand what hiring original staff is going to achieve (I didn't specifically mention old people now), unless of course you want to make retro stuff, but having watched both videos I really dont understand what direction this is meant to go. The vision is that the modern world need a sort of reboot from before social media became invasive and so on, so how are they going to achieve that, that's pretty bold. On the other hand at least is owned buy someone who wants to do something, but from the info being give so far I have noe clue what that is going to be.
 

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2025, 03:35:39 PM »
Id stop talking if i were you - before you dig yourself a bigger hole.

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Re: Looks like Commodore will have a new owner…
« Reply #13 on: July 04, 2025, 06:59:50 PM »
Stick to the topic please.
 

Offline BozzerBigD

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« Reply #14 on: July 04, 2025, 09:16:42 PM »
@polyp2000

We are all "old" aren't we? A ridiculous overreaction to a fair comment if you ask me! I think what he was trying to say was more in line with the now deemed politically incorrect advert for Kia-Ora where all the crows want to get in with the gang by pretending to be the kid's dog to get some of that sweet sweet orange drink! To have all these people coming out of the woodwork to basically answer the question, "What would Jack Tramiel have done?" is a bit backward looking TBH! I mean even Atari had to but a modern spin on the Atari VCS when they relaunched it!

Maybe we do need a Thomas Rattigan type character from Pepsi to keep all these misty eyed nostalgia biased people on the straight and narrow? We've got RGL for these sorts of products and I don't really think a 6% C= licensing tax is going to open the flood gates to better products! The problem is going to be defending the IP not getting Bll Herd's input into how we could launch a product like the C128!

THEA1200 is now down for a Q1 2026 release! I couldn't care less if it has C= on it but I would like to see the 'A1200' trademark freely usable on products licensed from Amiga Corp! Is that too much for an "old" man to ask!  ;)
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