at the temporal coordinates: 9/6/01 12:45 PM, the entity known as Victor
Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net conveyed the following:
>
>> Uhm.. Commodore 64 is hardly dead, there are still people building hardwa=
> re
>> for it and new programs and OSes pops up all the time. You cannot even sa=
> y
>> that it is abandoned, as the people who do stuff with it today are very
>> dedicated. The guy I share apartment with has a C64 buildt into a tower,
>> featuring a IDE disk and CD-drive, CPU upgrade, I/O-card etc. etc. :)
>
> I think what he meant is that it became dead as a revenue stream for
> Commodore, because how could they get software developers for their
> platform when those developers couldn't make any money because of the
> pirates?
Not to mention the fact that Commodore is long dead itself.
- Eric.
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