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The Return of the Commodore?

Posted by Zonk on from the smoke-me-a-kipper-i'll-be-back-for-breakfast dept.

PseudoSapien writes "A Dutch consumer media company is hoping it can tap the power of the VIC 20, the PET and the Commodore 64 to launch a new wave of products, including a home media center device and a portable GPS (Global Positioning System) unit and media player. They're talking about Resurrecting Commodore." From the article: "Commodore is far from the first company to try to revive a once-popular tech brand. The Amiga, Commodore's onetime PC brand, has had its own decades-long history as fans tried to preserve both the computer's operating system and brand despite the lack of strong corporate backing."

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  1. Open Office? by rolypolyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    The good news: It will run Open Office. The bad news: The Open Office suite will come on 382 floppy disks.

  2. Re:How about by wfberg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just don't publish programs in magazines. That really was a painful and stupid way to distrubute software.

    It also happened to be the only viable way to distribute software, economically atleast.

    Actually, in The Netherlands there was a programme on radio that broadcast data tapes (!). Just tape the radio show to cassette, run a translator from BASICODE (which was the "univeral" basic dialect the broadcasts were in) to your home computer's very own basic dialect, and you were in business. The show was called NOS HobbyScoop if I recall correctly.

    Also, I recollect (fondly) an issue of MSX Magazine which had a flexi disc record (you know, like one of them vinyl records your grandaddy used to have, but the flexi disc was a superthin version of this) which you also copied onto cassette to load onto your machine.

    Later on I even became aware of broadcasts of computer data using Teletext pages on Rai Uno (Italian tv - teletext is broadcast in the superfluent scanlines of PAL television, much like closed captioning is broadcast in the extra scanlines of NTSC); these were also targetted, at first, at home computer user, and only later at PC users (but by then, BBSes were the norm).

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  3. This isn't Commodore. by Caspian · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From TFA:
    "The Commodore Navigator is a Windows CE-based portable device..."

    I stopped reading here.

    I don't know what these people are doing with the Commodore name, but whatever it is, it isn't Commodore.
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  4. Re:I won't be the last to say... by hey! · · Score: 5, Funny

    You kids. Remember loading the terminal driver for the 33ASR on front panel register switches, then bootstrapping from paper tape? Remember playing Star Trek games that printed out the entire board after every turn?

    Remember where i put my teeth?

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