Commodore 64 music store
p2pnet.net news:- “Once the pride of 1984, the hulking dinosaur lies open on a table in the basement of a west-end church as the 25-year-old hooks it up to an equally archaic 13-inch monitor. It doesn’t work right away. But that’s just fine for Nacu, a computer programmer from Kingston, who’s been using this laptop exclusively since he found it hidden under his parent’s bed more than a decade ago.”
And …….
“The first substantive program I even wrote was when I was 12, and it played connect 4, written in Promal on my Commodore 64. I wrote a simple board evaluation algorithm and alpha-beta pruning. It could stomp me quite thoroughly.”
The first quote above comes from a The Toronto Star story. And the second, from BitTorrent’s Bram Cohen, describes the subject —- the Commodore 64, the King of TPUG (Toronto PET User’s Group), a crew of Commodore loyalists who’ve, “stuck with their favourite computers as they moved from the cutting edge of the 1970s to the dustbin of computer history,” The Globe & Mail sums it up.
Founded in 1979, TPUG had its World of Commodore 2006 show over the weekend when, Coke-bottle glasses, flood-pants and a kind of tech-testosterone were in ample supply,” said the Star.
Meanwhile, for a while, Holland’s Tulip Computers NV owned Commodore and in 2004, promised, “New C64 products, some based on the old technologies, some new, but all ‘fitting perfectly with the C64 image’,” were on the way.
“Tulip made headlines among Commodore computer enthusiasts when it acquired the Commodore brand name in September 1997, and made headlines again in 2003 and 2004 when it tried to grab a share of the games and entertainment markets with Commodore-branded products,” the Wikipedia.
However, Tulip sold the Commodore name to Yeahronimo Media Ventures, it adds.
And guess what?
It seems under Yeahronimo, Commodore is being revived yet again.
And in one of its new personas, it is, or maybe was, a music store, complete with Microsoft DRM, “the Microsoft protection method that ‘encrypts’ the Commodoreworld downloads”.
But, “Soon offline,” said the link today.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
The Toronto Star – Still crazy about Commodore 64, December 4, 2006
the Commodore 64 – p2pnet talks to Bram Cohen, April 28, 2006
The Globe & Mail - They adore their 64s, December 2, 2006
on the way – Return of the Commodore 64, July 2, 2004
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December 4th, 2006 at 8:44 pm
Not really a much to do with the C64 just the name “Commodore”
as a brand for computer electronics. Right now it looks like they are trying to create a lot of buzz about their name and may even produce something in the future. For now they seem to be just another mobile game producer. I wish them luck.