Thread 107115552

The son of Jack Tramiel, Leonard, along with the Commodore retro community, have secured all 47 original trademarks. Commodore is back with modern hardware in a retro-inspired chassis, and a new Linux-based OS, Commodore OS Vision 3.0, based around the same principles that made the original Commodore appealing for enthusiasts and hobby programmers. While Commodore becoming an industry player again is very unlikely, and they're clearly leveraging nostalgia to make a buck, it's interesting to see the company necro'd from the ether. What does /g/ think about the return of Commodore?

i like doing pc-like computing via mister since there's less spyware hardware

>Linux-based
Temple port wen

>>107115552 (OP)
Impressive! Very nice. Let's see Bill Gates' letter to the community...

bruh what is this font
i can't read this

>>107115552 (OP)
>Linux-based OS,
gay
should have used AmigaOS

>>107115752
What a cunt someone go to that address and beat his ass

>>107115775
2011 kino

>>107115552 (OP)
commodore game library replacing SDL3 and Raylib when

>>107115552 (OP)
the 'speccy was better

>>107115552 (OP)
so the same mini-itx case they've been selling for years?

> Powered by a FPGA recreation of the original motherboard
> $299 MSRP
...you can dumpster-dive at any uni and pick up multiple FPGAs for free. You can buy an ESP32 for about $3; it'll have more MIPS, memory, and utility than this thing

>>107115552 (OP)
Wow I'm sure basedlennials will go wild for this shit while the rest of the world continues on with their life.

>>107115752
>most of you steal your software
>YOUR software
That's right, silly Billy. It's mine.

>>107116937
What a fucking retard how can I steal what is by his own admission already my property?

>>107115552 (OP)
I really don't see where this could actually go. I can only see them basically fishing for nostalgiabucks. What else are they going to even do as a company?

>>107116895
You're thinking of Gen X. Millennials do not give a shit about Commodore.

>>107116993
Yes, genx or boomers.
>>107116988
It's an attempted cash grab from the audience that buys anbernic shit.

>>107115775
You're too young to understand.

didnt they already do an fpga
commodore??

>>107116993
What even happened here?

>>107115552 (OP)
You already nailed it OP. It's going to flop.

Hey, let's see how much money we can make off these LGR Fanboys and Greybeards by rehashing all of our old crap into some stupid raspberry pi clone with a C64 emulator.

They need to focus on making a useful minimalist OS, that would be cool. Instead they'll market the c64 again. Dross.

>>107115552 (OP)
>Commodore is back with modern hardware in a retro-inspired chassis, and a new Linux-based OS, Commodore OS Vision 3.0,
>based around the same principles that made the original Commodore appealing for enthusiasts and hobby programmers.

Those two halves of the sentence aren't really compatible with each other.

The original Commodore wasn't about being "retro". It looked like that because it was the norm back then. It was the cost efficient and logical design back then.
The original Commodore didn't use a unix insipired OS originally made for mainframes, because it was a PERSONAL COMPUTER in it's purest form. Nothing against Linux, but by design it's the polar opposite of what Commodore was.
The original Commodore didn't just use "modern" hardware either. It used unique hardware. That was particular true with the Amiga. Nobody needs another x86/ARM linux box.

>>107115552 (OP)
>Commodore [International] returns
not if the Italians stop them first

>>107115552 (OP)
>Linux-based OS

How dare you do this to King Terry, lover of the Commodore? Heathens!

>>107119181
I actually downloaded the distro and put it on an old Mac Mini I have laying around. It was kinda...

>meh

>>107115552 (OP)
8bit guy is gonna piss himself more than usual
wonder if he regrets being a trump voter

>>107116071
This, literally why???

>>107115552 (OP)
I don't understand why you're trying to pass off the Linux thing as their big comeback product. That's a free Linux distro made by a fan being sold with a custom ITX case. Commodore isn't making it.

Their comeback product is the C64U which will ship soon, and then from next year they plan to do new products instead of just leveraging nostalgia.

So much of what you wrote in your post is incorrect to the point that I'm convinced you're either an AI or an Indian and I'm not sure which is worse.

>>107115574
Which core, and what exactly are you doing with it? The only computer cores I've really used are MSX, C64, and Apple II.

>>107115552 (OP)
Custom chips and open architecture or it's garbage.

Doesn't have to be competitive, just unpozzed by corporate spyslop and allow full, unrestricted, ring zero access to hardware under the OS of my choice, including none.

>>107115552 (OP)
>>107121034
>no mention of amiga properties
ruh rooh, shaggy.

>>107121221
despite bold claims of
>this is not a replica
>this is no emulation
they're going to pump out old slop but with 2025 enhancements until they make enough money.. i assume. and no amiga shit. but good on them anyway. i would love to see the return to making unique computers.

>>107118963
This. If you wanted to risk legal action, anyone could also make a "Commodore" by this definition (i.e. stick the trademark on it).

I, for one, welcome our new Commodore 64 Overlords.

>>107118963
they should have brought back commodore as a cheap manufacturer of pcs (computers for the masses or whatever that jew said) instead of this shit retro fag stuff didn't commodore make pc clones back in the day too

>>107118610
Bad vertigo from bending over if I had to guess.

>>107115552 (OP)
retro shit needs to be left in the past

>>107115552 (OP)
what is the point of all that? just let go already.

>>107115552 (OP)
Anyone who includes "From the desk of..." in their letters or websites should rope.

great now let's see commodore run some LLMs

>>107115552 (OP)
>Linux-based
Went from excitement to sheer disappointment in record time.

>>107116988
The stated goal for future products are things that are basically not enshitified. Stuff you are interested in using but without them siphoning your data, trying to take over your life, or sticking you in a walled garden.
We'll see if they actually hold true to that goal, but that's what they were initially saying.

>>107125819
>The stated goal for future products are things that are basically not enshitified.
>Linux-based OS

>>107115552 (OP)
>a new Linux-based OS,
BRING BACK AMIGA OS

>>107125858
Yes , I wanna run the prevue channel

>>107118190
>anbernic
RG351P fucks, just not as an emulator. Good for controlling robots.

>>107115752
>Paul Allen and myself

>>107115775
sovl

>>107115552 (OP)
>Linux
Why not AROS?

>>107125858
It already exists, and I don't know why they aren't using it http://www.aros.org/

>>107125819
You do realize that every other major computer company before the "enshitiffication" died because of intel unparalleled (albeit extremely crappy and insecure) CPU development right? That everyone had to adapt and use x86+windows or linux shitty OSes to survive?
They're not going to compete with intel and windows by making their own fab with their own architecture and OS. It wasn't feasible 20 years ago it isn't certainly feasible now. The only target they have is retro enthusiasts with x86 or ARM mock ups. Not suprised they already announced using linux of course. It WILL be a shitty product by default, the best you can hope is that they will at least use the good kind of material from that age for the chassis, but i doubt it.