Subj : Re: Perifractic acquired
To   : Chicken Head
From : Dave Drum
Date : Fri Sep 05 2025 05:26 am

-=> CHICKEN HEAD wrote to RUG RAT <=-

 CH> What impresses me about the "new" Commodore is that they've got a lot
 CH> of the original engineers lined up...including Dave Haynie, who had his
 CH> hands in the C-128 and designed the AGA chips for Amiga.

Did I do a Rip Van Winkle and sleep through the start of this saga?

 CH> Heck they even have Leonard Tramiel as "CTO"...Chief Tramiel Officer.
 CH> Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing given how Atari was run
 CH> by the Trameil brothers, but it gives me a warm and fuzzy.

So long as they don't let Mehdi Ali and Irving Gould anywhere near it.

 CH> Would love to see an updated C128 or see the C65 as a "finished"
 CH> product.  For now I can't wait for my C64U to arrive.  I've been using
 CH> durexForth in VICE and I can't wait to use it on a "real" C64.

 CH> I think the last update they gave said they are including GEOS with the
 CH> C64U.

 > 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..
 
Be nice if they'd bring the Amiga back. Then I could get rid of the emulator
and use the real deal.

I predict I'll be burning some bandwidth using my Bing search engine to
check this out.

.... MS-DOS=suit & tie, Macintosh=cool shades, Amiga=high heels & leather

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