Now That Commodore Is Again, May Amiga Be Subsequent?

Now that Commodore has arisen from the depths of obscurity like Cthulhu awoken from R’lyeh, the query on each shoggoth’s squamose lips is that this: “Will there be a brand new Commodore Amiga?”  The New Commodore is reportedly , however as [The Retro Shack] reviews within the video embedded under, it could be a while earlier than the celebrities align.

He follows the tortured historical past of the Amiga model from its origins with Hello-Toro, the Commodore acquisition and subsequent Atari lawsuit, and the post-Commodore afterlife of the Amiga trademark. Sure, Amiga had a life after Commodore, and that’s the tl;dr right here: Commodore could be again, nevertheless it doesn’t personal the Amiga IP.

Should you’re questioning who does, you’re not the one one. Cloanto now claims the title and most of Amiga’s IP, although it stays at loggerheads with Hyperion, the distributors of AmigaOS 4. Should you haven’t heard of them, Cloanto is just not an elder god, however in actual fact the group behind Amiga Perpetually. They’ve been nice stewards of the Amiga heritage over the a long time. Any “new” Amiga goes to wish the folks at Cloanto on board, a method or one other. That doesn’t imply it’s unimaginable– the brand new Commodore would possibly be capable to seduce Cloanto right into a merger, and even only a licensing settlement to make use of the title on replica or new {hardware}.

Whereas a duplicate C=64 was a no brainer for the revived Commodore model, it’s not fairly so clear what they need to do with the Amiga title. An FPGA replica of the favored A500 or A1200? Would anybody need newly-made 68000-based machines, or to comply with Hyperion and MorphOS to now-outdated generations of PowerPC? All of those have been proposed and argued over for years.

We’d like to see one thing totally new that captures the spirit of the bouncing ball, nevertheless it’s arduous to think about bottling magic like that within the twenty-first century. For now, Amiga lies dreaming– however that isn’t useless which may eternally lie, and we maintain out hope this Nice Previous One can return when the celebrities are proper.