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08.Jun.2025



Event: The Amiga at 40 (Cambridge)
Another event to mark the 40th anniversary of the Amiga will be hosted by The Center for Computer History in Cambridge, England, on July 19. (snx)

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08.Jun.2025
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Youtuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand
Years ago, Sean Donohue acquired the rights to the x86-based Commodore 64x nostalgia computer from the bankruptcy estate of Commodore USA and attempted a Kickstarter-funded remake with his British company My Retro Computer Ltd., which was founded specifically for this purpose. Due to the allegedly very high licence fees, the computer was initially sold without a Commodore licence as "My 64".

The YouTube channel "Retro Recipes" presented this new edition to a wider audience six months ago in a very euphoric video. According to the channel itself, this video, which has since been viewed more than a million times, led to an agreement between the current owner of the Commodore brand and My Retro Computer Ltd: The latter now genuinely offers its keyboard computer as the "Commodore 64x", a statement from Commodore Corporation B.V. published on the website is said to confirm the proper licensing of the brand.

Now "Retro Recipes" is speaking out again via video: spurred on by the success of the C64x coverage, he has developed the plan to acquire a kind of swarm-financed "general licence" from Commodore Corporation in order to be able to distribute all possible existing and future products with a Commodore logo. For a company to be founded specifically for this purpose, he himself was to be the managing director and Sean Donohue the head of operations. Leo Nigro, who had already fulfilled this role at Commodore USA and was currently responsible for updating the Linux distribution Commodore OS Vision, which was created at the time, would be the technical director.

The video ends with a real cliffhanger: Perifractic from Retro Recipes claims that the reply from the Commodore Corporation does not simply offer him a far-reaching licence, but proposes the sale of the entire company to the YouTube entrepreneur and his partners. However, he only wants to explain further details in a later video, part 1 of the series "Can We Save Commodore?" ends at exactly this point.

Editor's note: Commodore Corporation B.V. only owns the rights to the "Commodore" brand and the well-known "Chickenhead" logo. Software rights such as firmware ROMs or AmigaOS are owned by the Italian Mike Battilana or his Amiga Corporation, the same applies to various brands from the Amiga sector. Rumours that the Commodore Corporation would like to get rid of the trademark rights have been circulating for some time. (cg) (Translation: dr)

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07.Jun.2025



AmigaOS 4: Text editor DumbPad 0.3
Roman 'kas1e' Kargin wanted to create a simple and stable text editor with "DumbPad". It is his first Reaction-based project, version 0.3 already supports tabs and notifications uses AISS for menu and button graphics. The project "definitely has bugs" but already runs quite stably. The developer would be grateful for tests of the editor on other systems. more ... (cg)

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06.Jun.2025



Evercade handheld console: Roguecraft DX announced
Evercade (Wikipedia entry) is an ARM-based handheld console from the British manufacturer Blaze Entertainment (amiga-news.de reported). Now a special version of the Amiga rogue-like game Roguecraft (amiga-news.de reported) has been announced: Roguecraft DX (video). more ... (dr)

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06.Jun.2025



Shoot'em Up: Second demo version of "Wings of Fear"
Roar Tjørhom is in the process of creating a small shoot'em up for the Amiga with the help of the game construction kit Scorpion Engine and has now released a second demo version (video), which offers the following changes compared to the first version: more ... (dr)

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