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Let's Buy Commodore - addressing some questions
🕑 Added 2025-06-15 09:46:15 +0000 UTCA huge thank you and welcome to all Patreons - new and old (well, retro) - for the recent support. I've been busy making a Part 2 video and working on executing the dream, but it felt necessary to address some things that have made their way to me, admittedly mainly from Reddit and Ragebait videos, but still worthy of putting some facts straight.
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Thanks for offering to send over your concept art for the operating system. Just to be clear upfront: • Receiving the art doesn’t transfer any rights to us. • There’s no payment or obligation to use it. • We aren’t under any confidentiality terms unless agreed separately. • If we develop something similar independently, that’s not considered copying. If you’re happy with that, feel free to send it over. If so please send to peri@perifractic.com
Ryan Clark
I got inspired from your video and started designing some mockups for what the UI for what a modern Commodore education computer might look like, calling it the Commodore NEMO. It would essentially be a stripped-down, coding-first computer which, inspired by the C64, launches directly into a BASIC prompt with integrated features for running software. However, it would be modernized with a sort of integrated, simplified IDE, including things like a built-in sprite & image editor, a built-in song editor, and a collection of new simple integrated commands for graphics, animation & audio/video playback. Any interest if I sent you some concept art of it?
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Commodore 640 - "The unhackable home computer"
Pharone
I grew up with the commodore 64 from running BBSes on it to playing games. It was a massive part of my life and likely a major contributor to pointing me in to my career many years later as a programmer in the internet industry. I have massive nostalgia for the C64c, 1541-II, 1581, and my old 1200 baud modern. I do see a future where Commodore can exist and thrive in the computer space, and that is in protected systems. A non-disk based computer that works off of chips and cartridges is much less susceptible to viruses, backdoor, and the rest. If you put the OS on a cartridge that is ROM only, it can't be infected by malware and the rest. Yes you would have to buy a physical cartridge each time to upgrade your OS, but I'd do that for the peace of mind it brings with it. Add multiple cartridge slots and you can include non corruptable applications to the system as well. I'd much rather login to my bank using a Commodore with a browser that I know can't be corrupted than use a pc or mac.
