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Worth it for the replica case alone!

  pete1061

   This does sound very interesting. But the mini one seem more like just a
   "look alike".
   I look forward to the fully functional one? That is if it's 100% C-64,
   C-64 OS and everything.
   This obviously is a box with built in games, a console without cartridges.
   The only thing "C-64" is the shape of the device, and games from that
   platform. Not really the Commodore platform though.

   So many of us are hoping for the resurgence of Commodore, and the systems
   they had. You are teasing us fans here, we will he hoping for the real
   thing, which you promise later in a full size one?

   Don't forget the Amiga, who owns that platform right now? get together
   with them and do something.

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  ReflectedLightEntertainment

   Amiga is more complicated. The Amiga OS is owned by Hyperion. The Amiga
   trademarks is either with Cloanto or still with Amiga Inc. / Bill McEwen
   et al.

   That should clarify ownership issues somewhat. Commodore USA only licensed
   and it was licensed to them by Amiga Inc. at that time. I think Amiga Inc.
   may have sold those rights to Cloanto as I believe Amiga Inc. is basically
   defunct now.

   Hyperion was awarded the rights to the Amiga OS after a lengthy lawsuit
   with Amiga Inc. Ugly lawsuit.

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  Lordling

   [2]ReflectedLightEntertainment Is that not just the AmigaOS 4, so the
   PowerPC build? Would a retro machine need to run this? If not then it's
   back to Cloanto who own everything else it seems.

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  ReflectedLightEntertainment

   [3]Lordling

   Not exactly. Cloanto doesn't own the Commodore trademarks, either. The
   patents are expired so no point in claim or other legal b.s. because the
   legal protections for original patents is expired and no longer available
   as a legal protection in the U.S. and many other countries. AmigaOS code
   could be ported officially to other CPU architecture by Hyperion. Over the
   years, the rights have been split up all over the place.

   I don't think AmigaOS would be needed to run a C64 emulated system because
   after all, the Amiga operating systems from PPC era and it's predecessors
   on the original 68K classic Amiga computers were a separate line of
   computers by Commodore than the C64 which used largely different hardware
   technology like Mac was to the Apple II, the Amiga is kind of to the
   Commodore 64/128 series.

   Somehow, Commodore didn't translate the transition to Amiga quite as
   effective as Apple did.

   That's my opinion on the history. Who owns the rights is a bit messy
   especially after ESCOM.

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