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.
