Commodore 64 remade for 2010 (seriously!)

[cozza]

When I first read this I thought it was some sort of wind up - but apparently not...

A brand new Commodore 64 for 2010 (with 500 gb hard drive, DVD burner, 4gb ram etc..) codenamed 'Pheonix' (geddit?)

more details here..

http://www.commodoreusa.net/index.html

..hmmm......?????

[esq]

As long as I get to play Epyx Summer Games again without using a cassette:

[J3D]

It's a Slimline PC by Commodore

Please explain what this has to do with the 1982 [64-kilobytes] model
by the same company ?

I'll take a guess at fuck all!

Commodore went bankrupt and sold there remaining assets
to another American firm in the mid 90's

so the company and reputation would never be the same anyways.

arriving spring 2010
"shows a picture of a commodore 64 for old times sake"
then says : we were in love then...
... lets fall in love again!
introducing the Phoenix by Commodore Our all in one Computer.

[djhaze]

i thought commodore just made ugly as fuck gamer boxes these days?!?

pc world near me has loads of them and they all look hideous.

this looks like a load of crap also imo. it's not a c64 and never will be.

i still have my c64 and amiga in the loft as it happens :)

[dj jedi]

I really like the fact it looks similar to an Amiga, with everything in the keyboard 8)

The website is horrendous though, nobody will take that seriously.

[fmrl]

Big shame - I was hoping it was going to be an Uber-Amiga :(

[CMcDougall]

why? got emulators for it on PC anyways

[fmrl]

why? got emulators for it on PC anyways

Yeah, but imagine an Amiga built on current technology - it was cutting edge BITD

[DJ_Nik_Gnashers]

WANT ONE

If its cheaper than a MAC I will deffo consider buying one as next PC instead of a tower.

[The_Ruffneck]

this is stupid
original c64 had unique keys like the commodore key , this looks just like a standard keyboard.

i can't even see any commodore branding for gods sake.

another gimmick.

[Beagle]

looks like it was designed by a blind spastic in 1998 too.

[The_Ruffneck]

http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/ ... tprint-pc/

the new C= - exactly the same machine , rebadged and with a higher pricetag

[Beagle]

http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/ ... tprint-pc/

the new C= - exactly the same machine , rebadged and with a higher pricetag

haha, so basically, all these computer companies are thinking "how can we copy Apple, without actually copying and getting sued?

[fannypad]

Yeah, but imagine an Amiga built on current technology - it was cutting edge BITD

The days of new, custom computing platforms are long over. Developing cutting edge hardware is astronomically complex and expensive nowadays, even mobile phones use off-the shelf designs from massive companies like Qualcomm, Texas Instruments etc.

Besides, Amiga OS has lived on in one form or another: http://arstechnica.com/software/news/20 ... 1-ars.ars/ and MorphOS which has just been ported to the Mac Mini: http://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes-2.0.html

Not quite cutting edge, but usable.

It's all a load of bollocks though, Commodore died years ago and no amount of rebadging cataclysmically ugly Taiwanese cash registers will bring back the "C64 magic".

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