Neil (The Retro Collective)

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

Yeah, I can read it out.

Okay.

I won't attempt an accent because Dave doesn't have a particularly distinctive accent, does he?

No.

What does he?

No, no.

The one thing I can tell you is that something that we have to do, whether you like it or not, and one of the reasons why Commodore failed in the past is we are going to license people who make things for Commodore or Amiga.

Again, Amiga coming up.

I'm not sure why at this point.

We're going to license them if they want to use our logo.

But if you consider, for example...

Let me give you a great example.

In 1992, there were 13 Amiga dedicated magazines in the UK with an audited circulation of 680,000 magazines, and they never paid a penny royalty, not one penny.

Now, that's ridiculous, says Dave.

They were living off our name.

We wouldn't be asking them for a lot of money, but maybe if it was 10p a copy or something, and that's because they made their living out of it.

Can you see what an opportunity that was missed and why Commodore ended up going bankrupt because they were not getting revenues in from things that they should have done?

I mean, I'm not sort of endorsing just the money for the rope, but I think anybody who is making a living out of the back of us should, or off the back of us, not out of the back of us, should be paying something so that I can tell you it is definitely happening.

Okay, did that make sense?

I kind of muddled through the quote there, but that's what Dave said.

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