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Mainstream news articles about Commdore and the Amiga
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Author:
Jenny List
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Aug 13, 2026
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The story of Commodore, the famous manufacturer of home computers, is a murky one at best. Commodore fans will decry their woeful marketing and dismal product roadmap, while former employees such as our Hackaday colleague [Bil Herd] have shone a bit of light on the goings-on behind the scenes. The company’s final demise in the collapse of the German company Escom scattered its parts to the four winds, but now we find a potential return to clarity. |
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2000-12-10 |
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Aug 03, 2026
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{{ARCHIVED}} AMIGA'S scalable operating system, Amiga DE, will be embedded in TV set-top boxes by Christmas, with handheld devices and games consoles scheduled for next year. Amiga president and CEO Bill McEwen, in Melbourne earlier this month to unveil the AmigaOne PC, says the rejuvenated company has set its sights well beyond the desk-top PC market. "We, as a company, are focusing all of our attention on OEMs (original equipment manufacturers)," says McEwen. "We have a consortium in Japan of 63 companies and this will be using our stuff on a whole new breed of handhelds. |
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{{ARCHIVED}} Amiga owners who have been holding their aging computers together with tape and bailing wire are rejoicing at the news that Gateway 2000 Inc. will introduce a line of the desktop machines and a new operating system within a year. Gateway 2000 bought the rights to the Amiga brand and its patents in a German bankruptcy court in March, leading to feverish speculation among the groundbreaking graphics computer's small but devoted core of fanatics. Gateway operates Amiga as a separate division, but until now has kept mum about its plans for Amiga |
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Following a five-year sabbatical, the Amiga side of the liquidated Commodore International Ltd, now called Amiga Technologies GmbH, and a subsidiary of Escom AG (CI No 2,695), will mark its return to the personal computer and games consoles market with the September launch of the Amiga 4000T Tower and A1200 machines. The primary objective was to get Amiga products back on the market as fast as possible, said Petro Tyschtschenko, general manager of Amiga. |
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The latest Commodore press release reads less like a conventional corporate update and more like a carefully placed signal to the retro computing world. Beneath the travel notes, the Italy setting, the private meetings and the easy humour, there is a serious business story developing. Christian Simpson, better known to many retro fans as Peri Fractic, is not only trying to sell new Commodore hardware. He is trying to rebuild a broken technology mythology into a functioning modern company. That is a much harder job than producing a good retro computer. |
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Commodore Corner. I am Peri Fractic, of course, president, CEO and Chief Joystick Waggler here at Commodore, and we are coming up on a year since the launch of the Commodore 64 Ultimate. All of the original pre-orders have long since shipped, and we’re improving the logistics daily with some real and tangible changes — but not just the original pre-orders have shipped. |
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