https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-Ao-CpI7E

>>105733379 (OP)
no

>>105733379 (OP)
> buys "commodore"
> all he's left with is a brand name.
> that's it.
> unknown 7 figure sum
> trying to fundraise the cash
> "it's going to feel like christmas 1985 again"
> "we're doing it for the love of the brand and technology"
> there is no technology
the absolute fucking state. lmao.

retro tech is genuinely pathetic interest to have

What could you realistically even do with the brand name? Release Commodore-branded Raspberry Pi clones?

all he could possibly sell me is a DIY A500 soldering kit + case and basic accessories. but I am a boomer weirdo, so it's basically over.

>>105733379 (OP)
No

>>105733542
> Release Commodore-branded Raspberry Pi clones?
you just know it's going to be this, and a continuation of garbage released with a commodore logo, that's been going on since commodore's assets were sold off. maybe charge people money to license the name. hard to say exactly at this point since they don't own it yet, haven't even got the cash for it.

Have a bad feeling he is going to lose his home over this. He might be able to sell some tshirts and other logo branded merch but I can't see any good way of making back much of his "investment".

>>105733571
Nah, the faggot is actually pretty well-off. Well into 8 figures, I've heard.
He does all this sort of shit for the lark - think a far poorer and far more homosexual Donald Trump.

>>105733571
> he thinks he's spending his own money
are you retarded? didn't watch the video? he won't be using much of his money. this faggot is trying to raise the funds via other people to buy it. he would have done a public fundraiser but apparently wasn't allowed to or some shit.
youtubers.. paying for things out of their own pocket.. hilarious.

>>105733587
How much money has he raised?
>>105733586
Still manlier than 8-Bit Guy.

his wife is pretty hot

>>105733600
>How much money has he raised?
he hasn't said. homo and owners of commodore have come to some sort of an agreement where this homo faggot has made a successful bid for all rights so technically he is now ceo etc. and he has a certain period of time to come up with the money or it all reverts back to the previous owner. he's relying on "angel investors" to complete the deal, whoever they are. whole arrangement is shady as fuck.

>>105733379 (OP)
What is there to “save”?

Priority should be making a modern version of the SID chip

>>105734359
Trivially emulated with an ESP32.

Holden is dead buck

>>105734378
>resonant analog filter "trivially" emulated with esp32
Sure thing retard.

>>105733626
>he's a homo
meanwhile in reality he gets to bang his hot wife everyday, while you're here sperging out on this tranny board.

>>105733455 (checked)
fpbp

>>105733474
that's the sad part. I am rooting for him to succeed but the name and associated trademarks alone are 7 figures. there is no product. unless all his backers are working for free i don't know how this is going to work.

"low seven figures"

So about 3 million for Commodore?

ITT seething poorfags/jeets/chuds/troons

>>105734660
nobody cares about your favourite youtube nobody that can't even afford to buy the thing he's talking about. the only person "sperging" is you, having a mental breakdown because people can see through this embarrassing grift.

>>105734814
>ITT seething poorfags/jeets/chuds/troons
you.. do know this homosexual pedophile has no money and is literally begging for help from "angel investors" to pay for it? right? please tell us that you're only pretending to be a poorly educated nigger

>>105733542
We already had the C64 Maxi which was just that. Shame it had such a garbage limited run that I never got my hands on one as a novelty item, given it has a full functional C64 keyboard layout.

>>105734834
>angel investor
so just like any other startup? like I said you sound like a mouthbreather who never did anything in his life expect shitpost on 4chins and troon out.

>>105734660
That's a dude.

>>105734866
> just like any other startup
> buying a dead brand name, with money you don't have, is a startup
is that you, bearded homosexual pedophile? did you think you'd come to /g/ and find people that cared about you, your trash channel and your latest grift?

>>105734866

>>105734952
based

>>105734916
Lesbian beard. Her gf moved in for a while but as is the case with lesbian couples, it didn't last.

>>105734986
you just know the bearded faggot was getting pegged by both these women at the same time

>>105733379 (OP)
>Christian "Perifractic" Simpson – New acting CEO of Commodore
>Bill Herd – Technical Advisor and Shareholder. Bill was involved in the design of the C128, Plus 4, C16 and multiple concept designs and is currently an author at Hackaday.com.
>Albert Charpentier – Will be helping with new, as yet unannounced projects. Albert is the former Vice President of Engineering at Commodore.
>Michael Tomczyk – Senior Advisor. Michael is the former Assistant To Commodore President Jack Tramiel.
>James Harrison – Teach Support Manager. James was the former head of Commodore Tech Support.
>David Pleasance – Heritage and Legacy Advisor. David has authored books about Commodore and is the former VP and Joint Managing Director of the company. He’s also the inventor of the movie tie-in bundle for the Amiga.
>Hans Olsen – Convention Facilitator. Hans is a former Demo Technician at Commodore.
>Tim Morgan – PR Officer
>Jeri Ellsworth – Technical Advisor and Hardware Partner. Jeri is from TiltFive.com and sold a million units of the Commodore Direct-To-TV retro console.
>Cem Tezcan – Visual Artist. Cen is the designer of the Commodore handheld computer concept device.
>Dan Tootill – Visual Artist. Dan is a self described Linux guy, retro-computing and electronics enthusiast, artist and musician that’s restored and built numerous Commodore systems.
>Marvin Droogsma – Title unclear. Marvin is well known in the retro community, has a massive Commodore collection, and is the founder of Arcadia.
>Matt Grandis – Webmaster
>Thomas Middleditch – Chief Creative Officer (CCO). From HBO series Silicon Valley.

He got some heavy hitters on board, even some veterans from the Commodore's golden era. If he let them do their things while he only put a "pretty face" on front, there is a chance things could work. If he starts to micromanage everything, yeah, guarantee flop.

>>105735128
I don't think anyone will be excited short of cheap & accessible clone hardware that's compatible with C64 hardware, but at that point, FPGAs already exist that you can do pinout configurations for.

>>105735128
Too many chefs.

>>105734986
You just know.

>>105733586
if he that well off why are his videos all sponsored by the CCP ? Why does he have a patron?

>>105733587
he said he remortgaged his house or something at one point

>>105733379 (OP)
Save what, a brand?
I am trying to put a positive spin on this video but its insane. If you want to sell whatever type of gadget make and sell that gadget. You don't need a fucking brand name.
Are people really attached to a logo that they are crying because now they control the logo?
I want to say I don't understand but i really do and it saddens me.
Kids don't care about that stupid logo and no one but a niche audience will care. They are selling dreams to people trying to recapture their youth and it will ultimately fail because you will never again be young.
Instead of spending all that money on the name why not just build whatever projects they want and create a new name.
>A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
and chink crap with their multi million dollar logo will still be chink crap.

about the only thing you can do with the commodore brand name at this point is sell t-shirts and other garbage, you're not going to build the brand up into motherfucking apple or some shit

all the name has going for it is nostalgia so any product you can reasonably produce is just nostalgia bait towards a group of boomers that shrinks every year as they die off

that said a high quality recreation of the original c64 case designed to hold modern pc components miteBcool but probably too much effort for the people trying to squeeze the last few bucks out of a corpse

NO!
You CAN'T BUY Commodore! It was promised to me! It was my thing! I was only doing the arcade as a side project! I'll shoot you dead you maniac!

>>105735983
Several others have fallen into a similar trap, trying to bring back joys of their youth, like the guy who tried to publish a paper magazine about electronics. He loved getting those in the mail each month when he was a kid and wanted to recreate it but with modern electronics. He was sure his fellow fanatics would support the magazine with subscriptions and also get some from "the youth of today". Think he sold a couple dozen copies and shut down after two or three issues. If 'Make' couldn't do it as a monthly magazine, some random dude trying to bootstrap his youth certainly wasn't going to.
People who publish new games for retro systems run into the same thing. They want to charge $39.95 for a new Commodore or Atari game but almost no one is going to pay that. Usually they get less than ten copies sold.

>>105736610
Isn't that the guy that stole commodore code for his own project? did he ever sort that license out or is he just ignoring it and playing pretend?

>>105736617
why would people try to sell a game for a vintage system? better to opensource the project and then you can sell limited run cartridges or whatever at a premium.
no point in locking your code away

>>105736610
>>105736629
Tic tok pepefractic. Better hope your state doesn't have stand your ground laws.

>>105736617
by the time your magazine is written, printed, and mailed out, everyone who cares about tech already saw the video a month ago

>>105736617
>like the guy who tried to publish a paper magazine about electronics. He loved getting those in the mail each month when he was a kid and wanted to recreate it but with modern electronics
The problem with shit like that is that it's a disingenuous endeavor. You're engaging in erp with a guy trying to relive his childhood. Print magazines still work, and you can even go with a retro aesthetic if you want, but it has to be a real business like those magazines actually were back in the day and not just some guy writing fan fiction.

bring back amiga

>>105733379 (OP)
Anyone try his OS? It looks like macOS with shitty graphics.

>>105733610
How did such a Chad get into retro tech and land a hot wife?

>>105736961
The Amiga brand is even more fragmented than Commodore.

>>105736629
It's the dude from Corner Gas

>>105733379 (OP)
>troon background
it will fail
troons are 0.0000000001% of the population therefore don't matter sale-wise even if they make loud noise online and he just alienated the actual population who would buy this shit if it wasn't targeted at AIDS suicidal degenerates.
can't fucking wait for the video of this retard crying telling us how it failed miserably.
>>105735128
looks like a money laundering scheme lmao
this is a 2-engineer project : one dev, one hardware guy, the rest is corporate bullshit, most software companies could be reduced to a team under 10 people
>James Harrison – Teach Support Manager. James was the former head of Commodore Tech Support.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
lma fucking o, there is no product and yet some retard is already head of tech support

>>105737533
>troon background
rent free

>>105737675
notice the spaces between the colors

>>105737268
he seems like a go-getter type

>>105737680
rent
free

>>105737675
does not fucking matter, adapt yourself or disappear.
any variation of rainbow is now troon-owned, deal with it

What kind of product exactly do you expect "Commodore" to make? Computers? I can buy my own off-the-shelf parts and build a computer like a normal person without your help, thank you very much.

>>105737724
>adapt yourself or disappear
lmao. nah, I'll let you deal with your brain damage yourself.

>>105737675
Was that thing even worth a damn? I became used to the non-Nintendo/SEGA SoC emulators being shit.

>>105737747
carve out a hobbyist niche like arduino/rpi but more standardized, a complete all-in-one system including a display with hardware specifically chosen to allow for simplified low level dev like the c64 did back in the day where developers don't have to worry about hardware configurations or security or interoping with some monolithic operating system

>>105733455
>>105737533
Rainbows were not fully taken over by the LGBTWTFBBQ movement yet. Using it on branding was a common way to imply "we can do color graphics" which was a big deal back then.

>>105737805
>Rainbows were not fully taken over by the LGBTWTFBBQ movement yet
either very little children or troons
>Using it on branding was a common way to imply "we can do color graphics" which was a big deal back then.
but not today, they will fail if they don't rebrand

>>105737812
>very little children
attracting children is literally the reason the coopted the rainbow

>>105737812
the brand is all they have

>>105737805
>>105737812
>>105737822
Grim. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

>>105737856
exactly, this entire project is absolutely retarded
they can't revive deprecated old tech because it's unusable for anything
they can just make c64-themed x86 computers but it won't sell because c64 fans want a real one and the rest of the world under 40 does not know wtf is a c64 anyways so they'll keep buyinh acer.
it's doomed from the start, there is no targeted audience and they have no revolutionary tech they can bring to the table.
all I see in this video are grown ass adults crying about their childhood and that's just pathetic.
normal people move on with their lives instead of being stuck 30 years ago glorifying shit tech from the 90s that no one outside rich us neighborhood sused.

nostalgia is a mental illness, preserving old tech is only useful to not repeat past mistakes, it was a product of an era and it has to stay in this fucking era.
yeah childhood was bliss or something, who give a fuck, you can't go back in time, create good time now instead of trying to live in a loop reviving the same 4 years over and over.

you'll notice that the commodore logo isn't and never was a solid rainbow, portraying it as such is not only off-brand but a blatant political statement

>WinUAE emulates cycle-accurate A500
>covers all my retro needs
>is free
I really can't imagine what he could offer to make me part with my cash. whatever that is, it better be dirt cheap (it won't), so I can impulse buy.

Commodore 6.4e+7

>commodore breaks into the gpu market, surpassing nvidia within 6 months
>dominates graphics, compute, and ai
>and it all runs on BASIC

>>105733379 (OP)
with how everything is going, I might do the same with Intel soon

I hope their computer has no internet connection whatsoever.

>>105738213
external dialup modem

>>105738003
It's close enough, you autist.

>systems built around a couple of standard RISC-V CPUs - one low end, one midrange, keep it cheap and small
>OS is just DSL with a lightweight WM and documentation that can be easily accessed and understood by teenagers
>"killer app" is a P2P chat and browser client that lets you make and host your own simple web pages, accessible only to other people using the same browser

That would be a start I guess, I've always thought of Commodore and similar 8-bit systems as being a good ecosystem for beginners to learn about computers and coding without having to worry about the dozens of layers of abstracted shit that's been piled on top of them in the last 30 years - there should be a modern equivalent of this.

>>105733379 (OP)
>buys dead company for like $6.000.000
>first product will be a shitty dumb-phone to emulate ""the good times""
>doesn't have any money left to start r&d and production
>all he has is an IDEA™

LMAO

>>105733379 (OP)
Here's how I understand the project

1. sell actual brand merch
2. cobrand + storefront for existing third-party products
3. coordinate an e-celebrity charm offensive

stretch 1:
4. kickstarter for a well-designed low cost retro dev machine
5. re-enter the education-market left by rpi

stretch 2:
6. ecosystem of maker bits and extensions for dev machine
7. a next-generation kind of dev platform for tinkering. for some reason NFC and phone/tablet interoperability comes to mind as a current-gen commodore approach

I think its doable but saving commodore is not that revolutionary

>>105733379 (OP)
I dislike people who talk with a face low-voice
it is so unnatural, and makes them look like a try-hard faggot
>same reason I dislike that pirate software loser

just disable the mic filters and don't force yourself to speak with an idiotic monotone voice just to stay at the bottom of your pitch range.

>>105735020
i doubt he was allowed to be in the same room when off-camera

>>105738393
I honesly don't see how they could ever outgrow their niche and do something beyond surfing the nostalgia wave by selling merch and retro hardware.
this seems like a very risky venture

>>105733379 (OP)
Save... what? I didn't even know it still exists

It's going to be an AI wearable trans-girlfriend named Commodore.

start manufacturing brand new SID chips

The brand has no value beyond nostalgia and that has already been milked with the C64 mini. If he can find a good marketer with connections he can probably make his money back (eventually) from licensing out the logo for merch. Trying to get back into the hardware market in any way would require an enormous amount of skilled employees, luck, and investors - the name wouldn't help at all and it might as well be yet another a startup.

>>105738649
That would be nice for musicians.

>>105738710
The retard could have come up with a new brand for next to nothing, even if done professionally. A million+ is ridiculous.

>>105738649
just fpga it.

>>105733455
Back then rainbows used to mean either Bible or science (it's kind of funny, stuff from the 80s is all "rainbow reading" and "rainbow bible software" it sounds so gay today.) A lot of computer companies used it because of color being new and exciting + the association with science education. The gay thing is pretty recent.

>>105738992
IIRC the SID is analog so you couldn't use an FPGA. You could probably use some OP AMP arrays and come up with a 4 layer board the same size that's essentially the same although I'd have to look at a schematic.

Heh maybe that would make a good side project since I'm getting slayed off in a month.

I encourage normal companies to steal the rainbow back. It's been corrupted enough. Make people associate it with things that make gays seethe again.

>>105739017
It's crazy how putting the SS lightning on it just makes it look more gay.

>>105739032
because all along you just wanted to have sex with fascists but they kept saying no

>>105739065
I'm actually very straight and antisemetic. There's just something about gay + nazis that seems extra gay. I don't think the rainbow thing is a good idea.

It's like when my brother's church started putting rainbows on all the nursery stuff. The cultural context is all messed up and you can't help feeling weird about that.

>>105733379 (OP)
It looks like a very elaborated scam.

>>105739102
It definitely feels that way but I haven't cared enough to figure it out. There's just so much interesting stuff on the web all the time it's hard to get too excited about even great scandals these days.

idk maybe I could come up with a way to write equity futures on the thing and short sell it to his followers then it might be interesting.

>>105739081
>There's just something about gay + nazis that seems extra gay
must be those fancy Hugo Boss uniforms

>>105738992
The SID is this weird analog-digital thing. Especially the filter, the part people want to re-create the most. Getting an 'accurate' recreeation is so hard because, thanks to manufacturing tolerances and analog ICs, even two original chips can sound just a bit different.

If it's a business, there's really no risk involved because he can declare bankruptcy at any time.

>>105733474
fools and their money like him are exactly why the vulture companies picked up the trademarks after Commodore went under

>>105733542
Yep. Atari and Sega did similar things with hyping up return to consoles.

>>105734916
You're obviously just gay.

>>105737724
Fight, or perish like a dog

>>105733503
Being poor sucks huh.

>>105738003
The fag flag has 6 colors at least and 487 standard.
Regardless I'm sick of homos stealing the visible light spectrum.

>>105740682
The new gay flag will include all light in the known universe. Enjoy floating in the dark void of space trumptards.

>>105733542
Well there are actually some things I think could be done to improve modular computers past ATX, like putting the CPU on a card with a CAMM on the back (thus making the motherboard a PCIe backpane with a little i/o), adding CAMMs to graphics cards, or adding the Samsung Oneconnect interface to graphics cards and monitors. I mean shit, even if they just do ATX motherboards they'd stand out as being the only non Taiwan based company still doing those. But will he think of doing them? Are they even economically viable for anyone to attempt let alone him?

>>105735942
Please tell me you're only pretending to be this stupid.

>>105734585
Yes, it is.
Bet you think "vinyl sounds better" too.

>>105740697
Word on the street is that Trump is going to pass a law that forces gays to use a photograph of a late terms AIDS patient infested with monkeypox as their flag, like how they make cigarette companies put pictures of cancer patients on boxes.

>>105734660
god i love pixie cuts

>>105734745
>unless all his backers are working for free i don't know how this is going to work.
that part has not been explained. the goal (for now) seems to be just getting the money before a certain time. what they will do with the brand after they acquire it is anyone's guess. many fear these faggots will just use it to license the name and logo out to put on trash products, like what has been happening since the 1990s. if they go the UNIX route: license out the name, trademarks etc. to products that comply with whatever requirements that aren't gay, they might have a better chance. it's hard to undo decades of damage done to the brand by charlatans

>>105738460
>i doubt he was allowed to be in the same room when off-camera
most likely this

>>105733379 (OP)
I remember, back then, a rainbow didn't mean Gay Fist Fucking and AIDS.

>>105740402
>exactly why the vulture companies picked up the trademarks after Commodore went under
pretty much, anon. us old fucks are tired seeing the same story every decade or so involving the ownership of commodore's dusty bones. anyone born after 1995 has no idea what commodore was or is. these fags are going to need a spectacular business plan to make it work and not repeat history again. and i fear history will repeat again.

Would. From every parallel port.

>>105742268
> chicklet keyboard
> micro cassettes
designed by: mental illness

>>105733503
Retro tech as in copy-paste or ape it, yes.
As in figuring out the spirit of it and the lost techniques so we can use them in the context of mosern tech, however, is turbo based. But nearly nobody does the latter.

>>105742275
You have no soul.

>>105736617
This is dumb. Magazines take years to take off and a lot of marketing moneys has to go in there. He should have started with an online version with a paper offering that has additional contents of some sort and done spot sells for higher rates than subscriptions. Literally business 101.

>>105742277
>lost techniques
nothing is lost, but new shit is discovered every so often. many such cases.

>>105736695
print media can have far more technical contents because they're easier to read and reread and index segments of interest. Thry can have complex diagrams that aren't suitable for video formats. They can even tackle super-niche contents because they are easier to refer to in time. However, online text is strictly superior for obvious reasons.

>>105733379 (OP)
At best we gonna get few "official" chink retro consoles. At worst it will be another Intellivision Amico.

>>105742262
The value is in the merch. If they do any kind of hardware it'll be like with the fags who bought Atari - an off-the-shelf SBC in a 3retro5u shell, basically just more merch with no practical value.

Honestly, they're in even worse shape than the Atari brand since at least Atari had games to its name. All Commodore has is... a logo.

>>105742318
Pic related.

>>105742290
you're welcome.

>>105742320
>merch
god help us all.
> it'll be like with the fags who bought Atari
they are extreme cringe merchants that hardly anybody takes seriously in current year
>All Commodore has is... a logo
can't wait for the cringe merch and the logo slapped onto atari-like sbc tech efforts. it's going to make me cringe so hard that i fear i might die.

>>105742318
>At worst it will be another Intellivision Amico.
nice

>>105742304
There are actually a lot of lost technologies around BECAUSE new trxh takes over ans new techniques must be used to make good use of these new techs. It often happens that as the new tech matures, it starts adopting characteristics of the old stuff but we have lost the knowledge to capitalize on it. It's why it's basically impossible to introduce cpu's with vastly different archs today (like ia64 or forth chips), where we used to be able to deal with a bazillion devices with a bazillion different chips or why a lot of yeaterday's software runs worse than naive code today and can yet run 6x faster using yesteryear's techniques (dav1d)

>>105733379 (OP)
These gay pride guys are insane. Has he really inserted all of those toys?

>>105739003
Yep. Rainbow Magazine was a computer magazine for the TRS-80 Color Computer (and compatibles). No one thought it was connected with homosexuality in any way. The only somewhat ideological connection was a theological one with Noah and the Great Flood, after which God made a rainbow as a sign of his new covenant with man and a promise to never again flood the Earth.
When Rambo movies were smuggled into the Soviet Union, his name was mistranslated as Rainbow. This wasn't seen as weird to the Soviet audience. The University of Hawaii's men's athletic teams have long been know as the Rainbow Warriors (excluding the late June Jones era).
Gay theft of the rainbow is recent and it's amazing how complete of a job they've done with that theft.

>>105742320
>merch
That will be interesting because there are hundreds of places you can buy unlicensed merch for all retro brands, including Commodore. Are the new owners going to start going after these unlicensed uses? Do they have funds of those legal fights, which will just end up with the place in China that's selling them changing their name and popping up a new sales channel?
>We're the only place for officially licensed Commodore tshirts and beach towels
Doubt they'd even net $10k in sales from that.

>>105742451
>Are the new owners going to start going after these unlicensed uses?
big doubt
>Do they have funds of those legal fights
hell no. i figure the worst they could to is send threatening letters to unauthorized sellers, which end up in the paper shredder or filtered into the email spam folder to be ignored. it's a mystery as to what this bearded homo and his "angel investors" are going to do with it. i assume it will be shit.

>>105733379 (OP)
People like computers for the computing part. No one gives a fuck about computer brands unless they're supported by good computers.

>>105733379 (OP)
I hope he'll succeed, in... whatever it is he's thinking. But I don't hold out much hope.

>>105738380
>there should be a modern equivalent of this
They're called microcontrollers.

Can't watch that guy's videos because of his breathy deep ASMR flirty voice he has always going (at least had, haven't tried watching in like 3 years). It's like he's about to fellate the mic. Or picking the urinal right next to you out of 10 free ones and then unsolicitedly starts whispering in your ears all flirty.
Just fucking talk about old shit, man. I'm not a woman nor gay so it doesn't work on me.

>>105737533
>>105733455
>>105734735
Zoomers are so fucking retarded holy shit

>>105733474
>>105733379 (OP)
He doesn't even own the copyright on the consoles or the software, that's something I don't think he understands. Buying the name isn't actually buying the consoles, the software, the firmware, it's just a name.

The current Atari holders ran into the same problem when they bought Atari and then realized that this doesn't mean they own Atari the console, just the name. This guy needs an IP lawyer to explain what he's actually getting.

>>105736610
qrd? He never wanted Commodore, that's why he was making the commander
He has a whole documentary about how commodore ran itself into the ground.

>>105744070
If given the opportunity to name it the Commodore 2020 or something like that, he probably would have jumped at the chance but yes, 8-Bit Guy seems a bit more grounded and takes smaller risks. He probably will never make enough money from the Commander computer to cover all the cost, much less his labor, but the whole endeavor is orders of magnitude smaller than what the Commodore brand buyers are doing.

>>105744044
>He doesn't even own the copyright on the consoles or the software,
i'm pretty sure he's aware of that. all the useful parts of the ip (the software) was sold off to a bunch of useless faggots milking amiga faggots.
>when they bought Atari and then realized that this doesn't mean they own Atari the console
patents expire anyway. anybody can build whatever they want after the expiration date. all atari had left was software (i think). but they had at least something more than just a brand name. commodore has nothing left in the tank. ideally if you wanted to restart commodore you would want to buy up everything you could to make it whole again.

>>105735128
if all of them are taking home on average 50k a year, thats 700k annually. How does he expect to pay them if he can't even pay for a dead brand without investors?

>>105742451
>Are the new owners going to start going after these unlicensed uses
they can complain to amazon and get them taken off major reseller sites, but no, they can't make china stop making them

>Doubt they'd even net $10k in sales from that.
you're underestimating merch sales, people buy the fucking shit out of hats and t-shirts, if they're even halfway competent they'll at least make their money back in 5 years

The real win would be hyperion and cloanto settle their differences and finally open source everything. For comparison RiscOS got opened and now anyone with a raspberry. pi can use it.

>crowdfunds $7 trillion dollars
>begins massively buying up talent, manufacturing equipment, and entire factories
>starts producing its own hardware running its own proprietary OS, Commodore Basic V8.0, with the help of Terry who has actually been hiding out this entire time disguised as a homeless to evade the glowies
>outcompetes Apple driving them to bankruptcy, buys up the remnants and dominates the mobile market with Commodore flip phones
>goes on to buy Microsoft, Google, Intel, AMD, and finally... nVidia, unifying all technology under the Commodore brand name
>the white race is saved.

>>105744012
I'm gen y but prove us wrong
they'll go bankrupt under 2 years because they have no plan and no engineers

I feel like atari and commodore were both fundamentally bad companies that just happened to have a few hit products mainly due to lack of any real competition

>>105733626
>homo
he has a pretty wife and a cute child you goof

>>105734857
it was a bit shit desu, the joystick was nowhere near the build quality of the original ZipStik, that thing was rock solid, all microswitched.

>>105745870
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Commodore_64_logo-3-11.svg
Yes, you all retarded and should be in a gas chamber.

>>105746918
BANKRUPT UNDER 2 AÑOS

>>105745853
Sounds awful

start manufacturing brand new commodore composite monitors and they'll have my money

>>105747176
This

>>105747176
I'm sorry, CRTs do not pass modern energy standards for displays. Manufacturing and sell new CRTs would be illegal.

>>105747722
do lpd in a crt size, lazors instead of electron guns easy peasy

dead on arrival

>>105743814
You've missed the point of my post. Old 8-bit computers were still general purpose computers, not embedded controllers - just very affordable and relatively easy to understand from the ground up for someone new to computers.

Someone should port SymbOS to the new Commodore machines.

>>105733455
Pride flags use 6-8 color rainbows and the one on his wall is FIVE. Shut the fuck up.
>>105746918
It's impressive how the mere appearance of a rainbow is enough to get some people angry.
>>105748017
Contiki works on the C64.

>>105733455
>he doesn't know

>>105733455
Rainbow colors predates the LGTB movement, AFAIK these are the colors of San Francisco.

>>105748344
maybe you should pick a different flag for your disgusting fetish instead of using one intended to attract children

>>105733455
It's this rainbow. Many computer companies used something of the sort in the 80s to brag that their computers could display in color.

>>105739003
>Back then rainbows used to mean either Bible
True, it's also a Jewish flag.

>>105733379 (OP)
>will this troon fag save commodore
Not buying anything from fags or designed by fags.

With everything said,
In the video unprompted he mentions people hating rainbows, which was weird.
Spending spending millions, even if crowdfunded, on a name of a computer brand because you had it as a kid is also weird.
Finally this guy has a genuinely unsettling way of speaking.

problem with rainbow merch is that even if you know it's the commodore logo, everyone in public that sees you wearing it thinks you just suck cocks

I'm an oldfag who loved his Amiga 500, but I can't imagine any attempt to revive the brand would do anything interesting. They're not actually going to make their own new computer architecture, so any computer they released would just be a commodore-branded PC with a markup to milk the nostalgia factor from oldfags who are slightly more retarded than me. Pointless.

>>105749812
>unprompted
He mentioned what prompted it, and it was retards complaining about colors.

>>105747740
Doesn't sound ez pz, but it does sound cool as fuck

>>105733379 (OP)
ALL IN ONES WITH MECHANICAL KEYBOARDS

>>105748748
Think it just has to do with the Abrahamic god.

>>105733379 (OP)
What is there to save?

>>105749952
It was unnecessary in the context of a video announcing purchasing a brand name. Stay on topic, not try to do a weird flex because it's gay pride month.

Also a reminder: when 8-bit guy commissioned this guy to make the case for the commander x16, instead of creating something reminiscent of the c64 or an amiga he just went and got a mass-produced chink vtech-lookin piece of shit case with a $2 keyboard. Hideous sense of aesthetics. Whatever he uses "commodore" for will be both gay and ugly. That's a fucking guarantee.

>>105750699
I trust Perifractic more than the fucking 8-bit Guy. Yeah, but are grifters but 8-bit Guy is the kind of person who doesn't care about brands and is happy about half-assed things.
Perifractic at least care about the brand, considering he bought it for a very big sum of money.

>>105750939
>considering he bought it for a very big sum of money.
did he buy it? from the video it sounded like the holding company signed an agreement with him for an intent to buy but they still have to find the money.
convincing enough idiots to kick in enough money for nothing but a name is an uphill battle

>>105750939
>I trust Perifractic
To do what exactly? The whole things comes off as an extremely sketchy grift. Every video leaves off with some "You won't believe what happens next" cliffhanger. Nothing about it is transparent at all, he wants you to buy him the thing because "he cares" lmafo. And everything is completely fake and polished about it too. He even pulls out the "I know there are a lot of scammers out there" line, like yeah I would never trust anyone who needs to tell me that.

Perifractic is just a very well passing FtM tranny.

>>105747722
CRTs are 100% efficient at being CRTs. That is the primary purpose of the product. Its not a display.

>>105749838
This. The merchandise won't sell if the only place you can show it off without being misunderstood is in the background of your "retro gaming" YouTube stream.

>>105751162
tell it to the judge

>>105733379 (OP)
This is just a case of going from a bunch of out-of-touch businessmen hoarding legacy IP to a Xoomer nostalgiatard hoarding 'retro' IP, because I can almost guarantee you he's not going to respect his users' freedom by fucking finally open sourcing Commodore's software like AmigaOS, etc.

>>105736644
Normie game developers don't respect their users' freedom, so they rarely open source their game engines. If only they were all like John Carmack.

>>105745853
beautiful

>>105746749
there wasn't any competition. commodore and atari released capable and affordable 8/16-bit computers that were useful for more than just word processing and spreadsheets. commodore destroyed their 8-bit competition by undercutting everyone, especially texas instruments. jack tramiel wanted texas instruments to suffer the most because they tried to kill his business.

>>105746819
everyone i've ever met that spoke like him always ended up being homo despite claiming (and insisting) they are straight.

>>105751772
Same vibe with this guy, despite the broken wife.

>>105751619
Only thing I would be interested in would be a netbook like device with everything hardware accelerated (audio, video decoding AND encoding) with ages long battery life and AmigaOS in it.

Sadly no way to use AmigaOS given current situation.

>>105753454
Who cares about AmigaOS? MorphOS is 10-times better than it, by far.

>>105750699
Literally nothing wrong with that case.

>>105753584
pretty much everyone with an amiga
>morph os
i'm sure the 4 or 5 people that use it on the amiga really like it but it is extreme bloat.

8-bit guy silence is deafening.

>>105756716
i wonder if they have an agreement but won't talk on either side until it goes through

>>105735128
Dunno, I feel like bringing back people from the original Commodore board is the last thing they should aim for, given how they ran the company into the ground.

>>105756716
does he have socials?

>>105758797
>how they ran the company into the ground
Not entirely their own fault. Apple and IBM (and PC clones) just ate their lunch.

>sbc yearly release
Great! Another Pi clone.

>>105762067
>Apple and IBM (and PC clones) just ate their lunch.
IBM stopped making PCs in 1987, apple were struggling to sell any significant number of machines (Apple 2 was still selling more units than the mac until the 1990s) - Commodore destroyed them with the c64, which became the best selling computer in history, and PC clones weren't all that popular until after commodore starting hitting the wall after '92. what other revisionist history written by obese failures do you have to share? at least try and make your repulsive lies entertaining instead of embarrassing.

>>105758797
>Dunno, I feel like bringing back people from the original Commodore board
not from the commodore "board", these are former employees, engineers and people wanting to contribute to it. the original people responsible for commodore's demise are dead and long gone. it's amazing how you useless cunts just make up the rest due to chronic schizophrenia and fentanyl abuse.

ARE YOU KEEPING UP WITH THE COMMONWHORE?
'COS THE COMMONWHORE IS KEEPING UP WITH YOU.
ARE YOOOUUUUUU KEEPING UP?
'COS THE COMMONWHORE IS KEEPING UP WITH YOU.

>>105759828
facebook , no insta or X

>>105749858
I can design a 64 bit 6502 based ISA and gate level schematics in logisim evolution if they hire me.

Picrel is the top level view of the ALU of an 8bit Architecture project on hiatus.

Commodore is turbo baby duck, even if the real Commodore technically survived a few more years Windows 95 would have killed them anyway.

>>105747905
MCUs are simple as fuck like a Compydore 64
I guess what you mean is that you also want simple chips like VICII, SID, CIA to implement I/O so you don't need to bitbang IO and get noice hardware assistance for things like sprites and raster interrupts?
Anyway, aren't there a couple of other companies that got the Commodore software copyrights that this dude with his hot pixie wife need to acquire as well to fully resurrect it? I think there was one that got all the Amiga stuff and another that got the rest.

momentarily ignoring the desecrating corpse of nostalgia, what the fuck is this branding?

>>105733455
Bait, I can't believe anons fall for this.

>>105743930
He is a voice actor, so he probably does that out of some sort of habit.

It's funny to read /g/ about this kind of happenings, always so much hate, just blatant troll-esque hate towards ANY subject at all, no matter what anons are going to hate it and shoot it down.

>>105765803
>what the fuck is this branding?
awful
>>105765687
>aren't there a couple of other companies that got the Commodore software copyrights
yes. all this british faggot & friends are buying is the business name and related ip. their idea is to rebuild that business. and if the list of who's who of commodore world are included it might have a chance.

>>105765996
> so much hate
cope. people have healthy skepticism involving anything commodore related in current year due to previous owners whoring the name out and selling garbage. people don't want to keep seeing the same thing happen decade after decade. your twitching manvagina can relax since they don't have all the money to buy it yet.

>>105764780
Based boomer

>>105763745
>IBM stopped making PCs in 1987
The fuck are you talking about? Did you confuse IBM for another company?

>>105733379 (OP)
No, but I don't want to actively root against him

>>105766920
He was pretty far off with the timeline. IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005.

>>105763745
>IBM stopped making PCs in 1987
Maybe they stopped doing desktops but you forgot the IBM thinkpads. At least until they sold that division to Lenovo.

>>105742663
This. Raspberry Pi literally came out of nowhere and gobbled up the entire DIY microcomputer market the Commodore 64 used to claim when GenXers were children. I'm not sure what exactly nu-Commodore can do to become relevant again or just make money other than supporting fan projects for old Commodore/Amiga devices and capitalizing on nostalgia. Like every usecase I can think of is countered with "you can do the same (and better) with a Raspberry Pi".