I agree, I owned the 800, 800XL, 1040ST from Atari. I never got into the
C64, the load times on it were dreadful. Long live ATARI! :D

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Priest [apriest--netidea.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 11:14 PM
To: <Address Masked>
Subject: RE: RE: Commodore 64 returns!


I wonder just how much they can do though. I mean, while they could
prevent
someone from using the Commodore 64 name in a way that indicates
official
blessing, that doesn't prevent people from making websites about the
C64.
There is fair use after all. And emulators are perfectly legal as long
as
they don't make use of copyrighted code. I believe the main support
would be
Atari vs. Coleco over the Gemini, and Sony vs. VGS regarding
reverse-engineering the bios. As long as the emu didn't include said
copyrighted code, or use the Commodore 64 name, they should be alright.
-----Original Message-----

After reading this article, I have come to the conclusion that it's BAD
news, not good news.

The article never actually mentions that Tulip is starting to make C64
systems. And it hints that Microsoft products will be running, which
doesn't make sense... what it sounds like to me is that they are going
to
start chasing down all those emulator makers and suing them for
intellecual
property piracy, and then forcing people to pay for Tulip's exclusive
emulator.

It sounds like they are also going to create an official Commodore
website... which may be good for people who are C64 junkies to have one
single place to go to.. but we all know that that's not very practical,
everything C64 cannot be hosted on one single site. But then that they
are
going to start charging license fees to some 300 other companies that do

something Commodore related, which will probably force a lot of them to
shut

down....

So tell me.. am I reading the article wrong? Because if I'm not.. I am
suddenly a lot happier that I am an Atari enthusiast instead of a
Commodore
enthusiast.