The current owner of the trademark, Amiga, Inc, licensed the rights to sell hardware using the Amiga or AmigaOne brand to computer vendors Commodore USA, Eyetech Group, Ltd. and A-Eon Technology CVBA.

** Commodore International Corporation, a Netherlands-based company that bought all the global rights, patents and assets to the Commodore brand in 2005

Escom paid US $ 14 million for Commodore International, primarily for the Commodore brand name.

It separated the Commodore and Amiga operations into separate divisions and quickly started using the brand name on a line of PCs sold in Europe.

In September 1997, the Commodore brand name was acquired by Dutch computer maker Tulip Computers NV.

Yeahronimo Media Ventures soon renamed itself to Commodore International Corporation and started an operation intended to relaunch the Commodore brand.

The company launched its Gravel line of products: personal multimedia players equipped with Wi-Fi, with the hope the Commodore brand would help them take off.

CIC's founder, Ben van Wijhe, bought a Hong Kong-based company called Asiarim, and Asiarim purchased the Commodore brand from Reunite.

Co-owner of the Commodore brand.

* Commodore Gaming-Co-owner of the Commodore brand and maker of Commodore-branded gaming PCs.

Commodore brand 8-bit computers used PETSCII encoding, particularly notable for inverting the upper and lower case compared to standard ASCII.

Internationally, the Commodore is again badge engineered as the Chevrolet Lumina and Chevrolet Omega, along with its new export market in the United States as the Pontiac G8 ( discontinued as of 2010 along with the Pontiac brand ).

Tulip Computers ( which had acquired the Commodore brand name in 1997 ) licensed the rights to Ironstone Partners, which cooperated with DC Studios, Mammoth Toys, and The Toy: Lobster Company in the development and marketing of the unit.

Also in 1995 Escom bought Commodore International for US $ 14 million, primarily to get the Commodore brand name.

Tulip made headlines among Commodore computer enthusiasts when it acquired the Commodore brand name in September 1997, and made headlines again in 2003 and 2004 when it tried to grab a share of the games and entertainment markets with Commodore-branded products.

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Then, to match the look of the C64, CBM changed the drive's color to brown-beige and the name to Commodore 1541.

* USS Commodore, the name of various United States Navy ships

Commodore is the commonly used collective name for Commodore International Limited and the various national companies that operated underneath it, including Commodore Business Machines ( CBM ), the U. S .- based home computer and electronics manufacturer with headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania that it shared with its parent.

Original Commodore logo: all-lowercase company name ( 1962 – 1984 ).

In 1962, Commodore went public at New York stock exchange under the name of Commodore International Limited.

The operational headquarters, where research and development of new products occurred, retained the name Commodore Business Machines, Inc.

Second Commodore logo, with mixed-case company name ( 1985 – 1994 ).

In July 2004, Tulip announced a new series of products using the Commodore name: fPET, a flash memory-based USB Flash drive ; mPET, a flash-based MP3 Player and digital recorder ; eVIC, a 20 GB music player.

In late 2004, Tulip sold the Commodore name to Yeahronimo Media Ventures for € 22 million.

Asiarim then changed its name to Commodore Holdings Corporation ( presumed to have become effective March 2011 ).

The Commodore Semiconductor Group ( formerly MOS Technology, Inc .) was bought by its former management and in 1995, resumed operations under the name GMT Microelectronics, utilizing a troubled facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

In 1995, the company, operating under the name GMT Microelectronics ( Great Mixed-signal Technologies ), reopened MOS Technologies ' original, circa-1970 one-micrometre fab in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

While the Quantum Link service ran on a Commodore 64, using only the Commodore's PETSCII text-graphics, the screen was visually divided into sections and OLMs would appear as a yellow bar saying " Message From :" and the name of the sender along with the message across the top of whatever the user was already doing, and presented a list of options for responding.

Tramiel wanted a military-style name for his company, but names like Admiral and General were already taken, so he settled on the Commodore name.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.

As more execs and researchers left Commodore after the announcement to join up with Tramiel's new company Atari Corp., Commodore followed by filing lawsuits against four former engineers for theft of trade secrets in late July.

Hunt the Wumpus was adapted as an early game for the Commodore PET entitled Twonky, which was distributed in the late 1970s with Cursor Magazine.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he spent much of his time at sea on his personal fleet of ships as " Commodore " of the Sea Organization, an elite inner group of Scientologists.

In late 1976, CBM purchased MOS outright on the condition that Chuck Peddle would join Commodore as chief engineer.

The Land Element is directly commanded by the Commander PNGDF, Brigadier General ( Commodore ) Peter Ilau, and has been significantly reduced in size due to restructuring ( from 3, 500 to 1, 800 as of late 2007 ) and currently comprises the following:

Early personal computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as those from Apple, Atari and Commodore, did not use RGB as their main method to manage colors, but rather composite video.

Even though these records were never licensed for sale in the U. S., they were heavily imported through jazz shops like Commodore and Liberty in the late 1930s and were sold through the 1940s and into the early 1950s.

In the late 1880s, the county Sheriff was Old West gunfighter legend Commodore Perry Owens.

In late 1846 Frémont, acting under orders from Commodore Robert F. Stockton, led a military expedition of 300 men to capture Santa Barbara, California, during the Mexican-American War.

They departed from Kingston in thick weather late on 7 November and evaded the ships of Commodore Isaac Chauncey, which were blockading the base, among the Thousand Islands at the head of the Saint Lawrence River.

In late 2008 Holden made changes to the VE Commodore, including the addition of a passenger seatbelt-reminder system.

* Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture identifies Enterprise Captain Willard Decker as son of the late Commodore Matt Decker.

By the late 1980s, a number of consumer level computers such as the Apple Macintosh, Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga began to have enough power to handle the task of digital audio editing.

In spite of this, it was not a commercial success because it was launched too late when the ZX 81 / TS1000's successors, the ZX Spectrum / TS2068, were already available and the home computer market in general was dominated by Commodore, Atari and Apple.

In late 2004, Holden introduced the VZ range of Commodore vehicles which in 2005 were upgraded to feature the 6. 0-litre L76 V8 engine in SS sedans and other variants.

From 2003 onwards as well as his more typical Acid style he has also released drum and bass songs made on old samplers, a Commodore Amiga and various early digital synthesizers, again displaying an interest in late 1980s and early 1990s dance music.

Development was started in late 1999 by Holden of Australia in order to replace the aging V-body platform underpinning their Commodore VT-VZ platform after sister division Opel announced that the Opel Omega ( on which the Commodore was based ) would be discontinued.

The Victor 9000 ( distributed in the UK by British company Applied Computer Techniques as the ACT Sirius 1, and in Australia by Barson Computers as the Sirius 1 ) was designed by Peddle — who had also designed the first Commodore PET — and presented for the first time at the Systems show in Munich, Germany in late 1981.

Integrating televisions and personal computers dates back to the late 1980s with tuner cards that could be added to Commodore Amiga PCs via the Video Toaster.

Although Gunboats No. 2 through 10 ( minus No. 7 ) arrived in the Mediterranean too late to see action, they remained there with Commodore Rodgers's squadron until summer 1806, at which time they sailed back to the United States.