team-founders · pounder2025c64u

The Commodore 64 Ultimate comes from a new team that recently purchased the company. Co-founded by Sean Donohue, Leo Nigro, and retro YouTuber Christian "Peri Fractic" Simpson, Commodore International is made up of new faces and many from the early days of Commodore and the retro computing scene. We have the Father of the Commodore 64, Al Charpentier; Jeri Ellsworth, who created the C64 joystick, which was a fully working C64 in a joystick; and Dave Haynie, who was an original Commodore engineer and is closely associated with the Amiga. There is also Bil Herd, one of the engineers from Commodore's 8-bit era, and RJ Mical, who contributed to Commodore's Amiga, as well as the Atari Lynx and the 3DO.