Discussion (80 points, 12 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215117
You can’t go home again.
The Commodore brand is useless today. The other IP that was once associated with Commodore is owned by different entities, disputed, and in some cases unknown who owns it.
I’m highly skeptical of this.
There have been a number of people in the retro YouTube communities getting crowdfunding for things that don’t really work out.
But if he can truly pull it off that will be very impressive.
I must confess I haven’t seen many of his latest videos after they started having I think AI slop thumbnails on the videos?
Hey, just to offer more details on this piece: After I saw the initial video with Perifractic, I reached out to him via fax (a 20th century technology) to set up an interview over Zoom (a 21st century technology). Over an hour-long call, he offered a ton of details on the project that weren’t in the video.
“Now, I won’t go into too many details, but we basically took out a second mortgage on our house to get this done,” he told me. “It’s been seven months, nearly eight months of work, actually.”
We also talked about how a revived Commodore might interact with prominent existing Commodore-adjacent projects like Amiga Forever and the Commander X16, and discussed the possibility of new hardware.