28.Aug.2025
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New Commodore owner: third video in the "Let's buy Commodore!" series
In the third episode of his "Let's buy Commodore" series, YouTuber Christian 'Perifractic' Simpson shows footage of the contract signing three weeks ago in Amsterdam, as well as recordings of various video calls with well-known personalities from the Commodore scene who want to support Simpson in an advisory capacity.
Explaining whether there will be an official "Commodore Amiga" - a question allegedly posed to him "by precisely one million of you" – the new Commodore CEO states (minute 8:45 of the video): "Well, if I could snap my fingers and just make it so - I would. For now, what I can say is I had some positive meetings about it, but it's not all up to me: The ball is now firmly in others' courts, and they know my cartridge port is always open."
In a conversation with Leonard Tramiel, son of Commodore founder Jack Tramiel, Simpson hints at what products are still in the pipeline after the C64 Ultimate (minute 20:03 of the video): "We have a product roadmap with about 12 to 14 solid ideas for the next four years. We will try to do two things really well each year. One of them is calculators."
Editor's note: The "C64 Ultimate" is advertised as a ready-to-use revival of the C64, but the product description in the shop still states that the required ROM images may need to be installed manually
"via guided ROM setup on first boot" - which suggests that the new Commodore has not yet acquired a licence for the C64 firmware from the rights holder Mike Battilana. Battilana would also be the contact person for licensing the Amiga brand and the Amiga operating system. (cg)
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