A Retro YouTuber Wants to Take over Commodore. Yes, He's Serious

https://tedium.co/2025/06/19/peri-fractic-retro-recipes-commodore-profile/

by shortformblog • 1 year ago

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gnabgib• 1 year ago

Discussion (80 points, 12 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215117

shortformblog2• 1 year ago

This is a fresh interview with him with many additional details.

shortformblog2• 1 year ago

Hey, just to offer more details on this piece: After I saw the initial video with Perifractic, I reached out to him via fax (a 20th century technology) to set up an interview over Zoom (a 21st century technology). Over an hour-long call, he offered a ton of details on the project that weren’t in the video.

“Now, I won’t go into too many details, but we basically took out a second mortgage on our house to get this done,” he told me. “It’s been seven months, nearly eight months of work, actually.”

We also talked about how a revived Commodore might interact with prominent existing Commodore-adjacent projects like Amiga Forever and the Commander X16, and discussed the possibility of new hardware.

carra• 1 year ago

That's so cool! Thank you for taking the time to talk to him and give us more details in the project.

mattl2• 1 year ago

I’m highly skeptical of this.

There have been a number of people in the retro YouTube communities getting crowdfunding for things that don’t really work out.

But if he can truly pull it off that will be very impressive.

I must confess I haven’t seen many of his latest videos after they started having I think AI slop thumbnails on the videos?

benchly• 1 year ago

There are ways to kill those.

https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-YouTube-Video-Thumbnail-Imag...

The strangest part is after I removed those "shock face" thumbs, I feel like I'm using an entirely different platform. The only time I see them is when I use the YouTube app on my PS4 which is hooked to a large TV, useful for when I'm watching the not-AI-documentary-style creators I like.

mattl2• 1 year ago

I only really watch YouTube on my Apple TV attached to my TV.

andrewstuart• 1 year ago

You can’t go home again.

loa_in_• 1 year ago

It's not like the technologies are nowadays impossible, they're just incompatible with globalization and mass consumption.

bni• 1 year ago

The Commodore brand is useless today. The other IP that was once associated with Commodore is owned by different entities, disputed, and in some cases unknown who owns it.

A Retro YouTuber Wants to Take over Commodore. Yes, He's Serious

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