@Eddietorresjrnyc I'm of the same mind as you that I don't think it's worth the hassle. A lot of people do care about having a way to run the games and demos (and sometimes other software) and some people care about compatibility with hardware, but between existing emulators, FPGA projects, community produced mobos and plugin chip "replacements," etc I think the community is well serviced and don't care too much about "Commodore" being written on stuff. I think the only thing that could make this more successful than those hardware efforts already are is if they had the designs and/or masks for certain chips and managed to get a fab to manufacture them at a reasonable price. But (through the sounds so far) it doesn't include any of that, it doesn't even include the rights to ROMs and other software, just to trademarks.
Now on the other side there are parts of the world where the nostalgia for Commodore is much, much stronger than in the US. But that would mainly be for the Amiga and those rights aren't part of this. And also the main places with that higher nostalgia are the UK and... member countries of the EU.
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Re: Despite Its Recent "Rebirth", All Is Not Well In The World Of Commodore
@Eddietorresjrnyc I'm of the same mind as you that I don't think it's worth the hassle. A lot of people do care about having a way to run the games and demos (and sometimes other software) and some people care about compatibility with hardware, but between existing emulators, FPGA projects, community produced mobos and plugin chip "replacements," etc I think the community is well serviced and don't care too much about "Commodore" being written on stuff. I think the only thing that could make this more successful than those hardware efforts already are is if they had the designs and/or masks for certain chips and managed to get a fab to manufacture them at a reasonable price. But (through the sounds so far) it doesn't include any of that, it doesn't even include the rights to ROMs and other software, just to trademarks.
Now on the other side there are parts of the world where the nostalgia for Commodore is much, much stronger than in the US. But that would mainly be for the Amiga and those rights aren't part of this. And also the main places with that higher nostalgia are the UK and... member countries of the EU.