Commodore 64 making a comeback

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Commodore 64 awakes from slumber with makeover

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mikedisd2

Cool, genY can now discover the awesomeness of the '80s.

Hopefully permed mullets and bubble skirts are just around the corner.

Incidentally, I see a lot of teens wearing Max Headroom style sunglasses these days.

DevilWAH

I suprised, I actualy think this looks quite good, and deficiently a space saver.. wonder how much it will be?

I cut my computer teeth on a comodore 64, that tape drive was the best. start loading, go have tea and come back to it having failed and starting again...

I don't do gameing or anything like that so yer one of these would look great on my desk

RobertKaucher

Eh... I'm not really into Pokemon.

xkcd: Not Really Into Pokemon

captobvious

DVD-RW? 64 bit processor? It's not a true Commodore 64, what's the point?

DevilWAH

captobvious wrote: »

DVD-RW? 64 bit processor? It's not a true Commodore 64, what's the point?

My real commodore 64, sits in a draw unused, and its not much use for anything much these days.

Things like this are neither meant to emulate the original, or replace the original.

My current PC sits in the middle of the sitting room looking ugly, I don't do gaming, I just need a PC for working on, And its a bonus if it looks nice. Done the custoume cases and doing that is all getting a bit old for me now.

So for some one who wants a decent looking (for ones own taste ), bit of a retro look, and a PC that does every thing a modem PC should do, why not.

Like I say I would rather have that sitting in the room, than a dirty big square grey/black box.

GrayhenTor

YouTube - PRESS PLAY ON TAPE: Retro Action

Retro Action!

earweed

Was there a Commodore 64 on there somewhere? lol

GrayhenTor

I think so, but I'm gonna have another look just to make sure...

mikedisd2

Wait, SodaStream isn't cool anymore?

Hyper-Me

price?

7char

petedude

Sounds cool to me, in sort of a Mac Mini kinda way.

Ahriakin

"During the same panel, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that he and Steve Jobs approached Commodore with an Apple II prototype, which was much more advanced in color, graphics, sound and games. Apple at the time didn't have the money to make and sell the Apple II, and was hoping Commodore would push the design to market. Commodore, however, preferred to develop the Commodore 64 as a simpler, lower-cost, black-and-white-only machine."

Does anyone ever check their facts anymore? The C64 was light years ahead of anything else on the market, even successors up until the jump to 16 bit, for sound and graphics. And games? Almost 30 years later and they still can't do them.
So not only do they print a claim that the Apple II (of all machines, all greenscreen and beeps from what I remember) was more advanced but also that the C64 was B&W only...it had 16 colours FFS....16 beautiful wonderous colours!!...(well we loved them then)