CHICKEN HEAD wrote to RUG RAT <=-
What impresses me about the "new" Commodore is that they've got a lot
of the original engineers lined up...including Dave Haynie, who had his 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?
Heck they even have Leonard Tramiel as "CTO"...Chief Tramiel Officer.
Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing given how Atari was run
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.
Would love to see an updated C128 or see the C65 as a "finished"
product. For now I can't wait for my C64U to arrive. I've been using durexForth in VICE and I can't wait to use it on a "real" C64.
I think the last update they gave said they are including GEOS with the 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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