{"id":25,"date":"2008-04-28T00:42:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T22:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-04-28T00:43:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T22:43:19","slug":"old-news-commodore-bankrupt-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/25","title":{"rendered":"Old News: Commodore Bankrupt Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/amiga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24\" title=\"amiga\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/amiga-300x118.jpg\" alt=\"Amiga sells\" width=\"300\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/amiga-300x118.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/amiga.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this store some time ago in a nearby town. Maybe this would be a more lucrative business for Amiga, since the company is in <a title=\"Amiga Inc v. Hyperion VOF\" href=\"http:\/\/news.justia.com\/cases\/featured\/washington\/wawdce\/2:2007cv00631\/143245\/\" target=\"_blank\">constant trouble<\/a> ever since Commodore went bankrupt. And the current owner of the Commodore brand isn&#8217;t doing that much better either: they&#8217;re <a title=\"Commodore goets titsup (again)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2008\/04\/18\/commodore_lawsuits\/\" target=\"_blank\">about to fold again<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s the same old curse. I&#8217;ve lost count already of how many companies have owned the Amiga and Commodore trade marks in the last 14 years. At least Commodore is still a somewhat recognized brand, and I don&#8217;t think it would be too difficult to cash in on that by selling retro products, like the <a title=\"C64 DTV on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C64_Direct-to-TV\" target=\"_blank\">C64 DTV<\/a>. That&#8217;s definitely putting the brand to a better use than selling <a title=\"Commodore Gaming PCs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zen128487.zen.co.uk\/Commodore_Press_Site\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">PC towers with a C= logo <\/a>slapped onto them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this store some time ago in a nearby town. Maybe this would be a more lucrative business for Amiga, since the company is in constant trouble ever since Commodore went bankrupt. And the current owner of the Commodore brand isn&#8217;t doing that much better either: they&#8217;re about to fold again &#8211; it&#8217;s the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/archives\/25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old News: Commodore Bankrupt Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[38,4],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-amiga","tag-random-thoughts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.elitepigs.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}