Jason (The Retro Adventurers)

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This Week in Retro · Commodores Under the Christmas Tree - This Week In Retro 249 · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

Everything would have been fine if we'd only gotten 10p for each of those 680,000 issues sold every month.

And no, the answer is no.

That would never have happened for all the reasons that Dave just mentioned.

I really can't imagine that the courts want to spend a lot of time on what really does boil down to a small potatoes trademark dispute.

It's very impressive that they've sold 10,000 machines and all that, but we are still talking about very small, very, very, very small businesses here.

And to kind of echo what's been discussed, I am really looking forward to seeing actual reviews from people who have used Commodore 64 hardware at various stages of its both growth and decay on this new C64 Ultimate.

And after that, I will be more willing and interested to handicap the odds of what they might do next and how much I'm personally willing to invest, caring about those outcomes.

What I will say, I'll say two things about the whole, like what even would it mean for a Commodore to do R&D or some sort of future looking tech of some sort?

To the future-looking tech, I will say, you look at the tech landscape today, it is literally driven by trillion-dollar companies, most of which have massive cloud infrastructure, most of which have some built-in way of extracting money on every transaction, Apple and so forth, with the App Store maneuvers and the 30% monetization tax and so forth.

So going up against that, no.

Short answer, no.

To the point that you were making, Dave, where you're like, well, the community has done all of this research.

All of these products have been created.

There is room.

And Gideon Schweitzer, who did the ultimate main board, he's actually a really good example.

Because in addition to creating what amounts to an extremely good C64 implementation,

implementation on FPGA, what he also did was he cost reduced a lot of other concepts that had exist into that FPGA core.

So his flagship product before that main board came out, the 1541 Ultimate, that incorporated at a price that was very competitive with one of these gadgets, that incorporated

a floppy drive emulator, RAM expansion, Ethernet connectivity.

So there's room in an ecosystem like this for a Commodore, a CIC, or whomever to continue to cost reduce something.

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