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.

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

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

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

There doesn't seem to be an interview here.. just quotes lifted from videos and other articles. Some AI summarisation. Never the less, the content is still: someone's trying to buy commodore, doesn't own it yet. (btw, the fax is 20th century tech from AT&T or 19th century tech from Alexander Bain or Frederick Bakewell)

I’m sorry you can’t tell the difference between a 2,500 word profile and an AI piece.

Did you actually read the article? Doesn't seem like it, the author says he literally talked to Peri in it.

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?

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.

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

You can’t go home again.

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

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.