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358888dc No.3775246

Eric Schwarz will be ecstatic.

https://gamingretro.co.uk/breaking-perifractic-buys-commodore-is-now-ceo/

Yes, you are awake; no, you haven’t drunk too much, Commodore has been bought by members of the retro community.

After previously revealing an offer had been made to him to buy Commodore while inquiring into licensing, Perifractic has published an update video.

Perifractic explains the Commodore purchase
https://youtu.be/ke-Ao-CpI7E?si=NhAwc45tdiANhuxB

92a75a95 No.3775251

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Who gives a shit? We have sbcs like the raspberry pi built into custom 3D-printed cyberdecks now.

8ea538d3 No.3775358

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>>3775246
That's interesting and I wish them well. It's hardly a done deal, however. They haven't raised near enough money yet. In fact, that whole half hour video comes over like the infamous vaporware ads from the 80s – just trying to stir up interest and attract investors.

39d60138 No.3775360

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I also wonder about him referring to Amiga. I thought the Amiga IP and trademarks had been legally separated from Commodore years ago.

e2e2f7b2 No.3775396

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Save the chicken lips!

35355028 No.3775512

>>3775251
>Who gives a shit? We have sbcs like the raspberry pi built into custom 3D-printed cyberdecks now.

Cyberdecks are useless nerd art pieces that nobody really uses for anything. A raspberry pi isn't powerful enough to run desktop productivity software and you're constrained to run Linux which doesn't really have any good apps in the first place.

0dcc3e48 No.3775514

>>3775251
> Who gives a shit? We have sbcs like the raspberry pi built into custom 3D-printed cyberdecks now.
Well, if the makers of those toys wanted to sell them preloaded with C64-like retro games, they will now have a running company they can negotiate with to use the Commodore name and logo.

Both parties could benefit.

35355028 No.3775517

>>3775514
> they will now have a running company they can negotiate with to use the Commodore name and logo.

Why would you need to do that? The old games generally didn't use the name or the logo and weren't owned by Commodore.

ae62bd4f No.3775518

>>3775517
That reminds me, Commodore machines had a ROM with useful code that games could use. A jump table was provided to reliably get to the code you wanted. The official developers manuals warned not to jump directly into the ROM, but always use the jump table.

Commodore updated its ROMs and the jump table was updated too, but only games made by Commodore would still work.

Game makers from other companies had ignored the tech manuals and jumped directly into the ROM. They had no reason to care. At that time all the profit came from the first six months a game was for sale.

0ba3600c No.3775519

>>3775517
> Why would you need to do that? The old games generally didn't use the name or the logo and weren't owned by Commodore.
No one has mentioned putting commodore logo or name on games. Only hardware.

3da53872 No.3775528

>>3775512
>A raspberry pi isn't powerful enough to run desktop productivity software
Oh? And you can run "productivity software" on your old Commodore 64? lol

5904a9c1 No.3775542

>>3775528
No, but you can run retro games on actual hardware instead of a crappy emulator. I mean, that's the entire point of it - real SID chip and all.

5904a9c1 No.3775543

>>3775519
>Only hardware.
Why would you need to do that? If you want to run "C64-like" retro games, you don't need to brand it with a Commodore logo.

5904a9c1 No.3775546

>>3775518
>Game makers from other companies had ignored the tech manuals and jumped directly into the ROM. They had no reason to care.

Using the jump table induced an extra JMP instruction, which took more CPU cycles to execute. If you're running a tight loop or have to count your cycles to meet exact timing requirements, as was the usual case in these systems, you would have to trim off whatever extra you can.

The "Useful code" was the C64's operating system, providing functions like reading the keyboard, mouse, memory allocation etc.

5904a9c1 No.3775548

>>3775518
The way these old machines worked, since RAM cost so much at the time, they put the operating system on a ROM chip in the same address space as the RAM so it acts like your operating system is already loaded up when you boot. Don't have to waste any RAM for code that never changes.

It's the exact same thing as BIOS on a PC, but on a PC you had so much more memory that you could just ignore the BIOS and have your own routines - so the BIOS ended up just doing the work of a bootloader and then handing the control over to another operating system that resides entirely in RAM.

bfe72c0e No.3775555

>>3775543
> Why would you need to do that? If you want to run "C64-like" retro games, you don't need to brand it with a Commodore logo.
Think it over. The answer will come to you.

69936691 No.3775909

The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer:
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/the-commodore-64-ultimate-computer-is-the-companys-first-hardware-release-in-over-30-years-pre-orders-start-at-usd299

b1708dd6 No.3775919

>>3775555
Nope. I still don't get it. Retro games don't need special branding on hardware to play - they just need the compatible hardware or a software emulator. The only reason for the Commodore branding is taking money out of nostalgic suckers.

>>3775909
>No software emulation, this 'faithful recreation of the original motherboard' runs on an AMD Artix 7 FPGA.

Yeah, no software emulation. Hardware emulation instead. Another money pull, since the original hardware contains circuitry that cannot be faithfully emulated on an FPGA since it's based on partially analog chips. It's a software emulator compiled to run on an FPGA which has no advantage over running a C64 software emulator on a Raspberry-Pi.

0b4803ea No.3775946

> Nope. I still don't get it.

That is so sad for you. You are doomed to live your entire life never being able to understand basic concepts of technology.

> Another money pull, since the original hardware contains circuitry that cannot be faithfully emulated on an FPGA since it's based on partially analog chips.

I hope you are not stupid enough to be talking about the SID chips.
> Sound: 2 × SID sockets (6581/8580) with auto voltage and filter detection, UltiSID octal core FPGA SID emulation, SID-TAP header

f4ec7b2e No.3775981

>>3775946
>UltiSID octal core FPGA SID emulation
>SID emulation

Yep.

Ooh, but you get the sockets so you can go rob a museum for the ancient chips.

f4ec7b2e No.3775982

>>3775946
>basic concepts of technology

What basic concepts? The fact that branding doesn't make technology technology, and you're paying for nothing.

b3714695 No.3775992

>>3775981
> Ooh, but you get the sockets so you can go rob a museum for the ancient chips.
Wrong retard. Commodore enthusiasts can remove the chips from their old machine and reuse them. And any imbeciles who threw them away can buy them (with a hefty imbecile tax) from eBay.

b3714695 No.3775994

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>>3775982
> What basic concepts?
So sad for you. You'll never be able to understand.

4cf9fd7f No.3776010

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>>3775994

https://youtu.be/l3MtqWz4XuE?si=h-W_enIRKB7ZBu5n

f4ec7b2e No.3776032

>>3775994
Nobody can confirm unless you explain what there is to understand.

But you can't.

e65c553a No.3776034

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>>3776010
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/49674

f4ec7b2e No.3776035

>>3776010
Songs mentioning ICQ, 25 years out of date, pretending to be randumb internet trolls while middle-aged.

Nothing sadder.

4cf9fd7f No.3776047

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>>3776035
You'd know all about sadness, cuz just like Steam, ur stuck living life in the bottle.

https://youtu.be/EdhoX1Xu6ZI?si=sH5CuT1N1Khw44cU

0ba3600c No.3776238

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>>3776032


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