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#1
They have the chicken head logo and the name Commodore and, well, that's really it. They don't own any of the original hardware designs. They don't own the ROMs (or the original agreement with Microsoft to use the BASIC in as many machines as they want).
So right now they can slap the branding on existing products and that seems to be where they're going but visibility is going to be a double edged sword. A guy in his basement knocking up FPGA C64 replacements can probably get away with shipping the ROM, it's not clear someone with as much pressure coverage can.
There have already been multiple attempts to "revive" Commodore by slapping the brand name on cheap Android Phones, mugs or generic tat and none of those have lasted very long.
So right now they can slap the branding on existing products and that seems to be where they're going but visibility is going to be a double edged sword. A guy in his basement knocking up FPGA C64 replacements can probably get away with shipping the ROM, it's not clear someone with as much pressure coverage can.
There have already been multiple attempts to "revive" Commodore by slapping the brand name on cheap Android Phones, mugs or generic tat and none of those have lasted very long.
#2
For those who like OSs, my Cyborg Desktop is now progressing. Why another desktop - ok another not immediately CPC-related thing...
cyborgdesktop.com (yes, it takes you to another instance of CyborgShell. type "run desktop.js"
This is a tabletop operating system. it is very colourful as i get the gist of it working. You press the people button and you can arrange people around the table, that allows for different screen regions to be setup - as the root, you can be at the side or the end, doesn't matter, but it affects how the regions are initialised. You can change the orientation of anyone. For now, only the shell is there, you can open it from any user, and it will open in their orientation. You can drag it to any other user, and it will change to their orientation.
The purpose? Multiple, but when I make the regions transparent and some applications instead of terminal, then you can perhaps have a tabletop D&D game on your 70 inch touchscreen TV with a nice seamless OS to interact with.
Other than in the movies, i couldn't find any solution to this yet. Now imagine i allow multiple players to play The Sorcerer and the Sword... that might be one of the first games on it. At least as a POC.
Applications for such an OS? Multi-user live or non-live music creation / editing tool? Sit around the desk at school and teach kids how to program? Tabletop games? etc.
cyborgdesktop.com (yes, it takes you to another instance of CyborgShell. type "run desktop.js"
This is a tabletop operating system. it is very colourful as i get the gist of it working. You press the people button and you can arrange people around the table, that allows for different screen regions to be setup - as the root, you can be at the side or the end, doesn't matter, but it affects how the regions are initialised. You can change the orientation of anyone. For now, only the shell is there, you can open it from any user, and it will open in their orientation. You can drag it to any other user, and it will change to their orientation.
The purpose? Multiple, but when I make the regions transparent and some applications instead of terminal, then you can perhaps have a tabletop D&D game on your 70 inch touchscreen TV with a nice seamless OS to interact with.
Other than in the movies, i couldn't find any solution to this yet. Now imagine i allow multiple players to play The Sorcerer and the Sword... that might be one of the first games on it. At least as a POC.
Applications for such an OS? Multi-user live or non-live music creation / editing tool? Sit around the desk at school and teach kids how to program? Tabletop games? etc.
#3
On the Ryzen 5 3500U processor I have info Low perf.
Which processors have sufficient performance?
Which processors have sufficient performance?
#4
It can't really be any *less* Commodore - they have the licensing, they have a couple of the original C= staff on board. They seem to be doing something with it though and at least trying to reclaim the spirit of the original Commodore.
I'm quietly hopeful, but I fear some bullshit is going to happen *somewhere* and people are going to get screwed over by it.
I might not be a fan of Peri, but I honestly hope them the best and we get a renaissance of cool shit coming from Commodore again.
I'm quietly hopeful, but I fear some bullshit is going to happen *somewhere* and people are going to get screwed over by it.
I might not be a fan of Peri, but I honestly hope them the best and we get a renaissance of cool shit coming from Commodore again.
#5
Technical support - Hardware related / Re: CPC 464 doesn’t boot, show...
Last post by Rabs - Yesterday at 21:39Quote from: hatman72 on Yesterday at 20:53That does look very similar, and I have seen mine produce the pattern in different colours occasionally, especially if the cassette deck is plugged in. It does look like a sensible thing to check.Either way I would follow the advice by @Bryce.
#6
Quote from: GUNHED on 11:46, 10 July 25But the M4 is a "black box" for us programmers.Seems, that it should still stay a blackbox when reading this answer.
Quote from: GUNHED on Yesterday at 18:43The problem is more complex and shows only up when reading a DIR entry name. It's solved, so everything is fine.The
C_READDIR
command has to have the ROM visible as well. What is "complex" about this?
I am not using the highlevel features, where the Z80 is not used for filesystem handling at all, but everything is handled by the external ARM M4Board CPU, moving all the intelligence from the CPC to the M4Board. But...
It would be still interesting, what bug you mentioned here, as you are talking about reading, not writing:
Quote from: GUNHED on 11:46, 10 July 25The M4 has a bug: You can't switch ROMs during data transferDid you inform Duke about the bug (whatever it should be?) and will he update the m4info.txt?
#7
to me..this is just silly...
slapping the commodore name on a system doesnt make it a commodore... even if ya have all the licencing...
...and the price is absolutely outrageous
slapping the commodore name on a system doesnt make it a commodore... even if ya have all the licencing...
...and the price is absolutely outrageous
#8
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Technical support - Hardware related / Re: CPC 464 doesn’t boot, show...
Last post by hatman72 - Yesterday at 20:53Quote from: Rabs on Yesterday at 13:13Maybe this video may helpThat does look very similar, and I have seen mine produce the pattern in different colours occasionally, especially if the cassette deck is plugged in. It does look like a sensible thing to check.
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In this video there is a similar screen pattern, sometimes, but also the usual grey screen black border RAM problem display.
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In this GadgetUK finds that IC112 74LS32 Quad OR is faulty. Not quite sure how the floating output he finds relates to the issue as pin 11 selects the printer latch but pin 8 does select the data latch (by the way I made pin 8 float on my test board and I get the usual grey screen RAM problem symptoms).
No idea if this is the same as your problem but saw it and thought I would share.
#9
I first heard about this a few weeks ago (7.6.) when Christian (Perifractic) posted his idea of buying Commodore on his channel. At first, I thought it was a silly joke, but then it happened very quickly, so it was probably planned for a while.
Christian 'Peri Fractic' Simpson is a nice guy; I wrote with him a few years ago when he did an episode about SymbOS for the Amstrad PCW.
I have no idea how this will end, but for a start, it sounds very nice that an enthusiastic person like him is now a leading part of the new "Commodore Company" team
I wish we could have the same for Amstrad, but I'm not sure how enthusiastic Lord A.M.S. is about the CPC spirit. At least it's very cool and an honor to have the CPC as the title screen of his new website.
Christian 'Peri Fractic' Simpson is a nice guy; I wrote with him a few years ago when he did an episode about SymbOS for the Amstrad PCW.
I have no idea how this will end, but for a start, it sounds very nice that an enthusiastic person like him is now a leading part of the new "Commodore Company" team
I wish we could have the same for Amstrad, but I'm not sure how enthusiastic Lord A.M.S. is about the CPC spirit. At least it's very cool and an honor to have the CPC as the title screen of his new website.
#10
No resurrection possible.
Its more like snatching corpses.
Stefan
Its more like snatching corpses.
Stefan