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An interesting thought. I’m sure like many here, the C64 was what sparked my interests in gaming, computing, and technology. It even went a bit beyond that to influencing my tastes around music, design and aesthetics, and is probably one of the major reasons I’m working in digital today. Keen to see what they do for the nostalgia.
And that's exciting, that's the path to a lot of creative answers. It's a good response to the shareholder-centric corporate idiom: don't look at the balance sheet as the game. Look at the people and the assets as elements used to stage a show, and put on a show that people want to believe in. And it's a good answer for the AI-saturated landscape we've entered: make products that are very similar to the best ones of the past.
(All of these were actual Commodore products, a couple of which I have seen in the wild. The computers that we all know and love only represent half of the company's history.)
Those folks put a lot of time and energy to come up with a modern C64-esque computer experience. From the BASIC in ROM, an actual floppy disk, memory mapped video, and an “all in one” form factor.
Supposed to be a nice machine, I have not been following it recently, I assume it performs and is reliable.
It checks all of the boxes, I just don’t know how successful it is.
As far as anyone knows, the IP from MOS, the designs for all the chips, are just gone forever. Not that it matters that much though, I think the most interesting chips have already been fully reverse engineered
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