'And now the fun really begins'.
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    7·
    21 days ago

    In his street-filmed mini episode, Simpson continued, “And it all means that Commodore is finally in the hands of those who truly care - the community and the original employees… And now the fun really begins as Commodore reboots, not just as a retro brand with next-gen ideas, but as a digital detox brand, picking up right where we left off in the 90s. Therefore, we will be positioned to free society from toxic tech, and bring joy back to computing – 90s and Y2K style.”

    Amiga was before my time (not to mention the Commodore), but I am curious how they will implement their “digital detox” concept.

    • Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      21 days ago

      I had an Amiga 1000 back in the day. It had all the signatures of the makers on the inside of the case, including a paw print, I guessed for the dog that helped with debugging.

      And if you pressed a certain combination of keys, and ejected the disk from the drive, it showed “We made it, Commodore fucked it up”

      Now they have to just not fuck it up.

    • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      I’m curious as well. On the one hand, retro stuff doesn’t need much power but the market is only for nostalgia and even there is a competition. On the other hand PCs and Macs dominate the market for powerful machines.