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  • Perifractic acquired Commodore

    From nospam.Christian.Jacob@nospam.Christian.Jacob@p34.f1120.n240.z2.fidonet.org (Christian Jacob) to All on Monday, June 30, 2025 13:41:05
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    To also start that conversation here:

    What do you guys think about Christian "Perifractic" Simpson having bought Commodore?
    I can see people talking about what sense this makes all over the world, because only few believe that he will be able to recreate that company as a successful business that also makes profit.

    However, as I understand his two videos about that topic, he has a vision of bringing back what once was a company envisioning a future that has somewhat been replaced with misuse of so called social media and doomscrolling. Christians vision is all about bringing back the joy of science, learning and experimenting with hardware and software delivered for an affordable price. However, I personally think that there are already devices that do this job. Arduino compatible micro controllers and raspberry pi to name only two. And the
    latter even supersedes the long time claim of the C64 being the most sold computer of all time.

    I am looking very forward to whatever may come, because Christian is a real retro enthusiast.
    I am also curious about the latest cliffhanger in Video 2... so let's see what's up next exactly in Video 3.

    My educated guess would be:
    A real (!) new Commodore C64 being manufactured from all new components featuring parts from different individuals finaly come together - using an officially licensed Commodore logo.
    For Christian a dream becoming true.


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  • From John Ames@commodorejohn@gmail.com to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, June 30, 2025 07:45:10
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    Everything worthwhile in the C= space since well before '92 has
    happened without the Sacred Brand; I don't expect that to change any
    time soon. In the best case, this is some nerd with big ambitions
    dropping a pile of money on the least important part of realizing them;
    in the worst case, he'll turn out to be another fly-by-night grifter
    who just happens to be better at hiding it than Barry Altman. Either
    way, the community will carry on.

    "Same as it ever was,
    Same as it ever was..."

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  • From nospam.Mortar.M.@nospam.Mortar.M.@f1.n770.z2673.fidonet.org (Mortar M.) to Christian Jacob on Monday, June 30, 2025 14:39:28
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    Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
    By: Christian Jacob to All on Mon Jun 30 2025 13:41:05

    What do you guys think about Christian "Perifractic" Simpson having bought Commodore?

    I think it's great. I always wondered what his real name was. There's an interesting YT vid by Retrocombs where he goes into some detail about the acqusition; it was his latest live cast.
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  • From kalevi@kalevi@kolttonen.fi (Kalevi Kolttonen) to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, June 30, 2025 21:48:32
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    Christian Jacob <nospam.Christian.Jacob@p34.f1120.n240.z2.fidonet.org> wrote:
    What do you guys think about Christian "Perifractic" Simpson having bought Commodore?

    The glory days of Commodore were long time in the past. I am deeply
    pessimistic about them ever coming back.

    I have been using UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD for over 30 years now and
    probably nothing Commodore could offer could replace it.

    Writing happily on Fedora 42 using tin newsreader...

    br,
    KK
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  • From nospam.Barry.Davis@nospam.Barry.Davis@f1.n770.z71.fidonet.org (Barry Davis) to Mortar M. on Monday, June 30, 2025 17:07:50
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    Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
    By: Mortar M. to Christian Jacob on Mon Jun 30 2025 14:39:28

    Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
    By: Christian Jacob to All on Mon Jun 30 2025 13:41:05

    What do you guys think about Christian "Perifractic" Simpson having bough Commodore?

    I think it's great. I always wondered what his real name was. There's an interesting YT vid by Retrocombs where he goes into some detail about the acqusition; it was his latest live cast.

    I cant wait to see how it pans out, bringing Commodore back officially is gonna be awesome. Been watching Peri's vids for years and love everything he does.

    ===
    Barry Davis Jr
    SysOp
    KrAABY Gamer BBS
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  • From nospam.Rug.Rat@nospam.Rug.Rat@f250.n135.z1.fidonet.org (Rug Rat) to All on Monday, June 30, 2025 22:21:47
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    Even without the possibility of a new Commodore64 being produced, I would think
    there would be quite a market for just the new chips such as the SID and VIC II. As supplies have dried up, leading to people canabalizing what would otherwise be repairable machines.

    What about a Commodore 128, or 65s?

    I would actually like to see a Hybrid TED, the increased color pallet and UARTS
    on the serial bus plus memory would be an interesting BBS machine..

    Rug Rat (Brent Hendricks)
    Blog and Forums - www.catracing.org
    IMAGE BBS! 3.0 - bbs.catracing.org 6400
    C-Net Amiga BBS - bbs.catracing.org 6840
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  • From nospam.Barry.Davis@nospam.Barry.Davis@f1.n770.z73.fidonet.org (Barry Davis) to Rug Rat on Tuesday, July 01, 2025 02:06:08
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    Re: Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
    By: Rug Rat to All on Mon Jun 30 2025 22:21:47

    What about a Commodore 128, or 65s?
    What about a Commodore 128, or 65s?

    What about a Commodore 128, or 65s?
    What about a Commodore 128, or 65s?


    ===
    Barry Davis Jr
    SysOp
    KrAABY Gamer BBS
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  • From nospam.Barry.Davis@nospam.Barry.Davis@f1.n770.z74.fidonet.org (Barry Davis) to Rug Rat on Tuesday, July 01, 2025 02:07:16
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    Re: Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
    By: Rug Rat to All on Mon Jun 30 2025 22:21:47

    What about a Commodore 128, or 65s?

    I def would love to see 128 gets some retro love. I mean I love the Vic 20 and the 64 but I loved the 128 using CPM on as well.

    ===
    Barry Davis Jr
    SysOp
    KrAABY Gamer BBS
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  • From nospam.Dennis.Slagers@nospam.Dennis.Slagers@f2060.n280.z2.fidonet.org (Dennis Slagers) to Barry Davis on Tuesday, July 01, 2025 13:27:48
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    Hello Barry!

    30 Jun 25 17:07, you wrote to Mortar M.:

    I cant wait to see how it pans out, bringing Commodore back officially
    is gonna be awesome. Been watching Peri's vids for years and love everything he does.

    Yeah I watched the news .. as ex-employee of Tulip Computers NV I was involved with the
    Commodore E-vic (the MP3 player) and saw that they changed the logo (Ugh .. ) And saw the C64DTV joystick being sold in the US when the brand was licensed..

    After that a lot of things happened .. but than it was already of my desk ;)

    Dennis


    ... I don't troubleshoot; I blame the vendor.
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  • From nospam.Mortar.M.@nospam.Mortar.M.@f1.n770.z2679.fidonet.org (Mortar M.) to Barry Davis on Wednesday, July 02, 2025 00:31:52
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    Re: Perifractic acquired Commodore
    By: Barry Davis to Mortar M. on Mon Jun 30 2025 17:07:50

    Been watching Peri's vids for years and love everything he does.

    For the most part, so do I, but format-wise, I prefer his earlier vids.
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  • From phigan@phigan@bbs.penisys.online to comp.sys.cbm on Friday, July 04, 2025 22:56:59
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    And saw the C64DTV joystick being sold in the US when the brand was licensed..

    After seeing the mods you could do to it to make it a real C=, I really
    wanted one of those joysticks and was bummed I didn't pick one up when I
    had the chance. A friend of mine at the time got two of them, one for
    him and one for his brother, and he had told me that when he moves away
    I could have his, but that never happened :).

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  • From phigan@phigan@bbs.penisys.online to comp.sys.cbm on Friday, July 04, 2025 22:59:27
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    there would be quite a market for just the new chips such as the SID and VIC II. As supplies have dried up, leading to people canabalizing what would otherwise be repairable machines.

    Oh yeah, good call! All of those new replacement chips like the BackSID
    and Kawari and such could now go under the C= name, too! As long as all
    the I.P. owners play nice and don't get into any disputes over things in
    the future. Like if the Kawari becomes the Commodore Kawari, all the
    profits and whatnot should probably go straight to the Kawari makers,
    etc.

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  • From John Ames@commodorejohn@gmail.com to comp.sys.cbm on Monday, July 07, 2025 07:46:26
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    On Fri, 4 Jul 2025 22:59:27 -0000 (UTC)
    phigan <phigan@bbs.penisys.online> wrote:

    Oh yeah, good call! All of those new replacement chips like the
    BackSID and Kawari and such could now go under the C= name, too! As
    long as all the I.P. owners play nice and don't get into any disputes
    over things in the future. Like if the Kawari becomes the Commodore
    Kawari, all the profits and whatnot should probably go straight to
    the Kawari makers, etc.

    I'm sure all the people who've spent years engineering and refining
    these solutions will be just *thrilled* to subordinate themselves to
    some YouTuber who splashed out a bunch of money for zombie trademarks.

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@ank@spamfence.net to comp.sys.cbm on Wednesday, May 20, 2026 22:26:47
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    On Mon, 30 Jun 2025 21:48:32 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

    Christian Jacob <nospam.Christian.Jacob@p34.f1120.n240.z2.fidonet.org> wrote:
    What do you guys think about Christian "Perifractic" Simpson having bought >> Commodore?

    The glory days of Commodore were long time in the past. I am deeply pessimistic about them ever coming back.

    There is still a lot of retro stuff going on for the coming max 40 years
    or so. Thus reviving a dormant brand seems to be a good idea if
    commercial interests are NOT the reason.

    I have been using UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD for over 30 years now and
    probably nothing Commodore could offer could replace it.

    Nostalgia. You of course needed to own a Commodore product back in the
    day. But if you were in Atari or other manufacturers of home computers,
    you probably won't care.

    Writing happily on Fedora 42 using tin newsreader...

    43 was out when you wrote this. I recently upgraded my 43 installation to
    44. Was actually quite painful compared to upgrade a Debian installation,
    but it worked.
    --
    Andreas
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  • From Bo Holt@usenet@vk3heg.net to comp.sys.cbm on Sunday, May 24, 2026 01:00:02
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    Nostalgia. You of course needed to own a Commodore product back in the
    day. But if you were in Atari or other manufacturers of home computers,
    you probably won't care.

    I am 45 and had a CoCo 2 as a child. I love the new Ultimate because I am getting to experience an alternate childhood ;) Plus my little nephews love it, too.

    ... Bork was a dork... that's not too political, is it?

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