If you get a chance, read Edwin's editor's notes - it's a heartfelt description of what he is trying to do here.
Or if you haven't already, see also
He's very open to a variety of vintage-computing related submissions - he wants this community driven, and at these early stages we have a chance to help drive the direction. It may eventually have to cater to the vast Commodore content (just go to csdb.dk to see just a taste of the active content going on in the Commodore community - I was amused that for my own modern-make C64 game, within minutes a Trainer for it showed up here).
Anyhow, consider doing a submission - for those who live and breathed all this for 40+ years, everything seems old-hat. But there is a broader public out there, unaware of these old systems and what they can still do. It's a scene somewhat like vintage cars - you can choose to keep them "period correct" with all original parts, or you can do some mild upgrades, or go wild and transplant engines and gearboxes into new bodies.
And sure, I also miss the "quieter" art-style of the late 1970s, the subtle funny cartoons that weren't over the top gaudy (in contrast to modern arts with perfectly computed synthetic lines, etc). Some of the staging done in old PC Magazine advertisement still give me a chuckle at the effort they went into. Even the old computer user groups periodicals/newsletters had some funny hand drawn arts. But whatever the style is, it won't please everyone.
In some ways, I see the vintage computing community as sort of like Renaissance festivals. Re-enactments of ancient joust or human chess matches are kind of silly, but they are a form of public outreach - a distraction from the modern daily grind, while honoring the past (tribute to how things were). To me, doing some BASIC code is a pastime, like a crossword puzzle. if I get a little more spare time, I'll dabble in some machine code.
Lastly, I think Peri's CommodoreCare goals is noble also. I've often wondered if humble 8-bit systems might be therapeutic in some way. Be it either to young kids, or perhaps even at retirement homes. There may be some merit to something that quickly boots into a piece of software, and staff-comfort in knowing that one thing is the only thing it can do. I've even wondered if that could work for certain kinds of prisons, as a kind of therapy device (with less IT overhead than a modern device).
