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- From: "Bruce R. McFarling" <ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: AT to be sold to VIScorp!!!
- Date: 21 Apr 1996 10:16:21 GMT
- Organization: Department of Economics, University of Newcastle
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- Josh Spatz <a002692t@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us> wrote:
- > Hopefully, when Escom goes out of business, CMD can buy them out
- > and revive Commodore.
- Huh? "ESCOM sold rights to VISCorp" (except for the brand
- name!) tends to mean that ESCOM no longer owns the rights and
- VISCorp does. So if CMD licensed the rights from VISCorp, they
- could legally produce "Classic 64's", which could work like
- Commodore 64's, but if ESCOM goes broke and CMD bought them out
- (!?), they could legally build "Commodore 64's" but would not
- necessarily have the right to make them work like Commodore 64's
- (unless they could clean-room reproduce any still-proprietary
- stuff.
- Of course, if they produced "Classic 64's" (probably
- financially impossible), they could do stuff like add the VDC
- from the 128 and get the 80-column display capabilities and
- higher resolution graphics screen, as well as the option of
- using the VDC memory as a 64K or 48K buffer. They could build
- in a UART serial port, and they could sell it with a solid
- power supply and space inside the case for the inner workings
- of a RAMLink.
- But we've been through this before. If VISCorp can find
- a company in India that wants to license the C64, more power to
- them. If they can persuade the hypothetical Indian company to
- make it a multi-mode PAL/NTSC (and surely this must be possible
- if it is just a case of which VIC, which crystal, and which hertz),
- well, good on them. It's highly unlikely for it to be the major
- thrust of what VISCorp is doing!
-
- Virtually,
-
- Bruce R. McFarling, Newcastle, NSW
- ecbm@cc.newcastle.edu.au
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