Re: TheC64 Maxi

From: Justin <shadow_at_darksideresearch.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2019 16:35:49 -0500
Message-Id: <C5D42EFA-F444-4E7C-B86A-011673FC9778_at_darksideresearch.com>
I noticed there are no pre-orders for the US.  I wonder if the unclear ownership of the IP is behind that since otherwise it is hard to imagine that they wouldn’t want to sell into Commodore’s biggest historical market.

> On Jul 9, 2019, at 16:20, Rhialto <rhialto_at_falu.nl> wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago, the big version of the C64 Mini was announced.
> 
> https://retrogames.biz/the-c64
> 
> https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/the-c64-fullsize-neuauflage-des-commdore-64-erscheint-im-dezember-a-1274397.html
> 
> Does anyone happen to have some more info than the marketing blah blah?
> The web page claims in the small print "CBM 8-Bit ROMs © 1977-1984
> Cloanto® Corporation.".  That's the first I hear of that; I thought
> everybody agrees that nobody knows where the copyrights of those ROMs
> went. I do know that Cloanto appears to have obtained the Amiga ROMs.
> 
> -Olaf.
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