{"id":34914,"date":"2025-10-07T03:45:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T07:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/?p=34914"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T16:15:28","slug":"via-hackaday-now-that-commodore-is-back-could-amiga-be-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twiar.net\/2025\/10\/07\/via-hackaday-now-that-commodore-is-back-could-amiga-be-next\/","title":{"rendered":"via Hackaday: Now that Commodore is Back, Could Amiga Be Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now that Commodore has arisen from the depths of obscurity like Cthulhu awoken from R\u2019lyeh, the question on every shoggoth\u2019s squamose lips is this: \u201cWill there be a new Commodore Amiga?\u201d\u00a0 The New Commodore is reportedly interested, but as [The Retro Shack] reports in the video embedded below, it might be some time before the stars align.<\/a><\/p>\n

He follows the tortured history of the Amiga brand from its origins with Hi-Toro, the Commodore acquisition and subsequent Atari lawsuit, and the post-Commodore afterlife of the Amiga trademark. Yes, Amiga had a life after Commodore, and that\u2019s the tl;dr here: Commodore might be back, but it does not own the Amiga IP.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re wondering who does, you\u2019re not the only one. Cloanto now claims the name and most of Amiga\u2019s IP, though it remains at loggerheads with Hyperion, the distributors of AmigaOS 4. If you haven\u2019t heard of them, Cloanto is not an elder god, but in fact the group behind Amiga Forever. They have been great stewards of the Amiga heritage over the decades. Any \u201cnew\u201d Amiga is going to need the people at Cloanto on board, one way or another. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s impossible\u2013 the new Commodore might be able to seduce Cloanto into a merger, or even just a licensing agreement to use the name on reproduction or new hardware.<\/p>\n

While a replica C=64<\/a> was a no-brainer for the revived Commodore brand, it\u2019s not quite so clear what they should do with the Amiga name. An FPGA reproduction of the popular A500 or A1200<\/a>? Would anyone want newly-made 68000-based machines<\/a>, or to follow Hyperion and MorphOS to now-outdated generations of PowerPC<\/a>? All of these have been proposed and argued over for years.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d love to see something fully new that captures the spirit of the bouncing ball, but it\u2019s hard to imagine bottling magic like that in the twenty-first century. For now, Amiga lies dreaming\u2013 but that is not dead which can eternally lie, and we hold out hope this Great Old One can return when the stars are right.<\/p>\n

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Blog \u2013 Hackaday Read More<\/a><\/p>\n

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