YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand

[0xbadc0de5]

I watched the video and support the effort. They seemed earnest and genuine in their desire to do right by the brand's legacy. However, I can't help but feel that releasing this information before the deal is in place is doing themselves a disservice. I can understand their excitement, but this could harm or derail any negotiation efforts. Business 101: don't count your chickens before they hatch.

[sverhagen]

In this case not chickens, but chickenheads.

[dedicate]

I feel like the real story isn't 'Can We Save Commodore?' but 'What IS Commodore anymore?'. If it's just a trademark disconnected from its original tech, you're not reviving a legend, you're just starting a new company with a famous name.

[gbraad]

Commodore as a company died long ago, as can be seen in Deathbed Vigil (a video recorded by one of the employees on the last day).

For a long time it has been misused and nearly disappeared. It is about 40+ trademarks owned by a holding company. It could have been worse if this was scattered among a lot of different entities. So, this is still kind of a big deal as they can acquire all of them

[Bombthecat]

Famous with old people.

The new generation has no idea

[Nasrudith]

The only 'real' claim I could see to saving Commodore would be something adding backwards compatability this late in the game. It would be of dubious utility, but it would give a claim to legitimacy. Otherwise you might as well let it stay dead because there isn't anything to be gained from using it.

[BSDobelix]

Just watch the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8r4LRcOXc

[ekianjo]

Kind of the same situation with Atari

[yummybear]

Well I couldn't think of a better steward for the brand than Perifractic

[rwmj]

Maybe, but better if the trademarks were released to the public domain (however that could be achieved).

[rcarmo]

Yep. I don't watch his content very often, but I've done so throughout the years and can't really think of anyone else who could do it "right"

[prvc]

On the building a Commodore game room for sick kids charity idea: one thing they wouldn't have is nostalgia for the 1980s home computers. Just get them Nintendos.

[garciasn]

I didn’t have a NES growing up; my father didn’t allow “game-only” machines in his house. Instead we had a PET > Vic20 > C64 > PC over the years. Being I write code for a living, it seems his plan paid off for me?

That said, why can’t there be nostalgic 80s/90s consoles AND same-era computers?

[skywal_l]

The video from the youtuber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8r4LRcOXc

[arexxbifs]

IMHO, what would give real value to retro enthusiasts is BSD licensing all the Commodore (and Amiga) IP, rather than these constant efforts to slap the chicken lips logo onto some random hardware in the hope of charging premium for an "official" product.

Would any of the many replacement/emulation/FPGA efforts that already exist be better with a specific logo? More convenient? Cheaper? More successful? I have serious doubts.

This feels, as the saying goes, like a big fat nothingburger.

[layer8]

Context from the link: Editor's note: Commodore Corporation B.V. only owns the rights to the "Commodore" brand and the well-known "Chickenhead" logo. Software rights such as firmware ROMs or AmigaOS are owned by the Italian Mike Battilana or his Amiga Corporation, the same applies to various brands from the Amiga sector.

[neuroelectron]

It would be interesting if they pivoted to a modern OS stack. lowRISC cpu and so on, everything known and documented.