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Posted By
gerliczer
on 2025-06-12
15:07:51
|  Re: Interesting news: "THE BIG ONE: Let's Buy Commodore®"
Yet another half an hour long video about something that could be said and written in 5 to 7 minutes. Could you boil it down for us, please?
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Posted By
JamesC
on 2025-06-12
20:20:55
| Re: Interesting news: "THE BIG ONE: Let's Buy Commodore®"
Skip forward to 17:37.
They asked the current trademark owners if they could license the Commodore name, and the trademark owners offered to sell them the company.
The rest of the story is in an upcoming Part 2.
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Posted By
MMS
on 2025-06-13
08:44:21
 | Re: Interesting news: "THE BIG ONE: Let's Buy Commodore®"
@gerliczer: as James told.
Extra to that:
- the message is that there should be a legally Commodore labeled, low profit Webpage to offer spareparts (CPU, PLA, SwinSID, new PSUs, IEC and video cables, etc)) as cheap as possible that may lenghten the lifetime of the existing old machines to make them easily accessible for people. That coudl save thousands of machines from the bin. Just imagine: would be great to have a SAFE source of working TED chips from Commodore, right? To get cheap User ports, even C16 memory Expansion connector, Joystick and tape connectors ?
- The second topic is that all the new developments (like The C64 Mini, Amiga Mini, Mega 65, etc) should have proudly show the Commodore logo, without any fear that someone would sue them for that. It could boost further development, especially if there could be some official support on the initial cost from a Commodore focused organisation. It could prevent that people who develop such machines, would have major financial loss on such a project. (there was a case someone lost $ 87k to fulfill the orders. that's not a small amount)
- With some competent newly developped machines the Commodore brand (school computers) could be reintroduced to schools to create the new generation of C= enthusiasts, programmers, musicians, graphicians, etc. That machine could offer the enhanced BASIC from startup, may offer classic games at your fingertip, but should be ready for email, web or other languanges like Python, C++.
It could be a great (cheap) starting platform has a clear link to the company, kids may request their parents to buy one for home too. I read several articles, that the BASIC is the optimal starting language for elementary school kids. (especially if the speed is there too).
Please forget that urban legend about the GOTO command's long term negative impact on programming skills. Fake news. It was a joke from a Fortran teacher, and became a de facto statement, but it is not true. Even more: from BASIC V3.5 onwards anyone can create a structured program without a single GOTO command (I suppose based on my experience).
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Posted By
George
on 2025-06-13
16:10:21
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@MMS
If think Peri is doing the right thing. If everybody wants to donate 5$, we as the hole retro community could make this possible. Maybe we will see the V364 one day or other recreations
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Posted By
MMS
on 2025-06-15
02:16:27
| Re: Interesting news: "THE BIG ONE: Let's Buy Commodore®"
@George : 364 would be great, but I suppose a Plus/4 compatible housing with a numeric keyboard would be a greater news than an expensive faithful 364 replica.
BTW a new machine with working nice keyboard similar to The C64 (not Mini) would be great and that could emulate the 364 too, including all the others too.
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Posted By
George
on 2025-06-28
17:49:34
| Re: Interesting news: "THE BIG ONE: Let's Buy Commodore®"
Peri bought the rights and is the CEO of Commodore! He also brought in Bil Herd, and many other former Commodore people from the past.
So we might see a rebirth of the 264 series, maybe with sprites and SID-chip this time!?
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Posted By
Crown
on 2025-06-29
05:05:26
| Re: Interesting news: "THE BIG ONE: Let's Buy Commodore®"
Not much detail in the announcement video, few tidbits tough. Showed previous valuation around 17M, but says he negotiated to low 7 figures, which means sub 5M. That could mean that they are buying only majority shares and old owners are still around on the cap table. But even if it is a full buyout, filling that amount with accredited angel investors without a lead VC will result in a huge cap table. Ticket sizes can be as low as 25k, but a 100k-500k investment per individuals is more likely. They also need to make sure that these investors understand that this investment might not the be the star of the power law, and set their ROI expectations accordingly. On the long run large cap table with low ROI might generate problems. He also needs to raise operating capital as well besides being able to purchase the shares, that's an additional 1-3M seed round, and they will maybe set for a year or two. Well, we will see.
Sprites in the TED has the best chance of coming from the FPGATED project. Probably would need to move system RAM to the solution, maybe add Hannes expansion, maybe add dedicated VRAM, maybe implement a SEGA Genesis/Megadrive like VDP solution, or a system similar to the 3DO.
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Posted By
George
on 2025-06-29
07:05:18
| Re: Interesting news: "THE BIG ONE: Let's Buy Commodore®"
My feature request:
- Sprites
- SID
- Mouse-Support
- C64 Mode
- 364 Case
- 3dfx-like-chip 
- Turbo-mode 100 Mhz
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