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In 1994, Komodor Crushed and burned. Once a home computing giant across the United States and Europe, the company has been declined due to mismanagement and mistakes. The sacrifice was chosen clean and the pieces were reselling several times that it was difficult to follow, but with every new owner, the attempt – an attempt to make a quick bak by slapping the famous logo on any old scrap.
Watch the fans in horror while the brand appeared on the surrounding internet. Commodor smartphone. There was until the dean’s tearing. So when you play Youtuber Retro Perifractic Simpson He announced that he wants to buy the remaining commodore and give him a new life, questions were asked. The most important of them: Does the world still need a comodor?
When I am 64 years old
Commodore was initially focused on typewriter and accounting machines, but the days of their glory arrived with the ups of the home micros, causing a rapid new birth in international computing.
The biggest success was Commodore 64, which reached the beautiful place between the ability to afford costs and capabilities. While the central processing unit was slow, strong drawings and amazing audio arrangement (which is still esteemed today) motivated creativity on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. More than 5,000 commercial games were released during the peak period of the machine, and more than 15 million units were sold, making the C64 still one of the single computer models selling at all.
It is the old one aims to revive. Initially, he sought a licensing agreement with commodore brands, imagining “official” councils and alternative components as part of a comprehensive and friendly group of society. These plans that have passed with the snowball during the discussions, and Simpson found himself giving an agreement to purchase Commodore explicitly for the amount of “seven numbers”. He is now the CEO of Commodore and promises to revive the company in a sustainable manner – does not repeat past failures.
With the permission of Komodor
With the permission of Komodor
But here things become difficult. Simpson does not really have the original company because that company is no longer present. Comodore in the 1990s means that the current repetition has a number of brands, but the basic parts of the ecological system are still widespread. C64 ROMS and Amiga (Commodore’s 16 Bit Micro) belongs to Cloanto and Amiga Corporation. Amigaos is controlled by Hyperion Entertainment. Aside from flirting with the large market of cloning machines, such as C64dtv Everyone is one of the control, delivery and operation stick Thec64 MiniThe main developments that have been important over the past thirty years have all came from society, not the brand.
Computers for the masses
For these reasons, Simpson finds himself a multiple walking of the trees. It should avoid the alienation of the enthusiasts who kept the flame alive, and does not mean that the new Komodor is the only one who gives legitimacy. It should be closely cooperated with the owners of other major puzzles and the COMODORE brand licensing somewhat to the third parties interested. To recover this amount of seven numbers, the new dean must sell enough new devices, which means bypassing the basic fans base.
Currently, the first Simpson game plays greatly on nostalgia to the past – not only for C64, but in a full era. New Commodore The company gives a “digital brand for toxins (which) is based on its digital simplicity.” He holds social media, and glorifies the old days of “technical optimism”-in the eighties until the mid-nineties-and hints that Commodore can help users to restore their childhood. But the company also wants to be seen as an innovator who monitors the future, and this results in a kind of brand. The new marine dean wants to be restored alike and creative; past and future.
It is appropriate, the product of this first repetition embodies the commodore 64 Ultimate, such tensions. $ 500 gold Founders edition The disco case is loaded with a value of $ 350 Star edition Do not scream exactly its digital simplicity. But $ 300 The basic beige He is The spitting image of the original devices. All models are seriously authentic and modern by supporting the original C64 and current connection, including 1080p HDMI to not need to search for CRT TV. Inside, all FPGAS-the lines of the programmable portal Field-which ultimately means simulation instead of the less accurate metaphor on the side hand and cheap TVs to play.