Re: Peri Fractic and friends buy the "Commodore" brand back

On 2025-07-04 22:47:23 +0000, phigan said:
> On 2025-07-03, Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> The reality is that Commodore died decades ago. No amount of wishful
>> daydreaming will ever really bring actual "Commodore" back as anything
>> more than a nostalgic hobby and any supposedly modern device will never
>> actually be a "Commodore".
> 
> All true, but with someone like that owning the brand, they probably
> wouldn't mind putting modern homebrew devices under it. It kind of
> hinted at that idea in the video, I think. Stuff like the UltimateII+
> cart could be the Commmodore UII+ cart, etc. Same with Pi1541-II or
> SD2IEC or various other new-ish peripherals. That might be cool, no?

They are apparently talking to various developers of "extras" and 
things like the new-build motherboards, but those things alreay exist, 
and simply slapping a "Commodore" badge on it makes no real difference 
to anything, so is rather pointless.

Any new computer they make these days would simply be yet another 
bog-standard PC box to run Windoze / Linux and an emulator ... which is 
also pretty pointless. Any other device they try to make would simply 
be a cash-in exercise (e.g. the ridiculous "Commodore" mobile phone 
that was promoted at one stage by a previous brand owner).

Realistically, it would be best to leave the Commodore brand to history 
and nostalgia, and simply the niche fan group contiue as it has been.

Commodore died. Leave it be. It can't and won't be coming back in any 
sensible form ... just like Hollyweird's fad for resurrecting all the 
old shows.