Commodore 64 Gets Priced, Comes in 5 Models

[exfileme]

Commodore USA is now taking pre-orders for the revamped Commodore 64, with prices ranging from $250 to $895.

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[aznshinobi]

Should've waited for the release of Llano, that would've been better than the ION2 and the Atom board in my opinion. That or using E-350 would've been interesting as well.

 

[joytech22]

[citation][nom]AznShinobi[/nom]using E-350 would've been interesting as well.[/citation]

That is both similar priced and much faster than ATOM and SB's IGP.

I wish companies would look into this stuff before throwing junk out the door.

 

[tacoslave]

case is overpriced if it came with a psu(the smaller ones are expensive) or a powerbrick than maybe it might be worth it but nah im just not into it.

 

[spectrewind]

Hmm...

LOAD"*",8,1[ENTER]
"Press Play On Tape"

And that noisy 1541 5.25 inch drive...


Those were the days.

 

[rwpritchett]

Man that brings back memories...

Can you get Hard Ball to run on it?

 

[maestintaolius]

[citation][nom]spectrewind[/nom]Hmm...LOAD"*",8,1[ENTER]"Press Play On Tape"And that noisy 1541 5.25 inch drive...Those were the days.[/citation]
I'm pretty sure load "*",8,1 was to load off the disk drive, to load off the cassette you just typed load "*"

 

[LordConrad]

[citation][nom]AznShinobi[/nom]Should've waited for the release of Llano, that would've been better than the ION2 and the Atom board in my opinion. That or using E-350 would've been interesting as well.[/citation]
So get the Barebones version and put a Llano Mini-ITX board in it...

 

[LordConrad]

[citation][nom]maestintaolius[/nom]I'm pretty sure load "*",8,1 was to load off the disk drive, to load off the cassette you just typed load "*"[/citation]
I thought the tape was ,9
or was ,9 the second diskette drive?

 

[memadmax]

For those of you that are "confused"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_DOS

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Several friends of mine had the C64. Although it was in the mid 1980's it seems like it was only yesterday.

 

[zx6r6]

To load from tapes you could simply hold shift and press runstop. Either that or load ""

 

[Pyree]

"Where are my keys??" - This will be my thought if they keep the original keyboard layout.

 

[Guest]

It's too bad they're not doing a modern rendition of an 8 bit operating system. An 8 bit system that can interface with modern hardware.

 

[Guest]

buy a piece of shit or use that money to buy a real machine and run an emulator... i know what i would do.

 

[velocityg4]

They could have made it much faster. That case looks big enough to handle a regular notebook motherboard with a the dual and quad core mobile Intel Core i series CPU's. Maybe even performance notebook GPU's.

 

[electrontau]

Overpriced. And Ubuntu is free.

 

[christop]

Syntax error on line 47.

 

[adamboy64]

Ok. Even the high-end one is really quite weak.

 

[reprotected]

You get better specs with laptop hardware, and they are about the same size, if not bigger.

 

[Guest]

Come on, dudes... you know it's not about the specs, it's all about design these days.

 

[adamboy64]

As much as I bagged the whole thing a few posts earlier, the Vic-Slim seems to be.. not too bad. I like the concept of it a bit better.

 

[dalauder]

Wow! This is really expensive! It's like they don't realize the popularity of the original Commodore 64 was that it was CHEAPER than the average computer of the time.

They really should've released an attractive reworking of the C64 at a reasonable price tag to regain market share. Going for nostalgia purchases just isn't a big-thinking plan.

Seriously, if you told people they could have a computer that could hookup to their HD TV wirelessly (just include a powered dongle that hooks to the back of the TV) and do everything they need (which dual core Atoms can) with a laptop battery included for $300 to $550, they'd actually have something going.

Instead it's an ugly, expensive, nostalgia block of pointlessness.

 

[bugo30]

meh, I've got the real deal (in a box in a closet somewhere), why would I want an imitation?

 

[ta152h]

What's the big deal? It's not a Commodore 64, and does nothing like it. It's a just a PC clone in drag.

Human stupidity, and reliance on appearance rather than substance is nothing short of amazing. Make it look like a Commodore 64, and somehow it's a Commodore 64? Ummmm, right.

If anything, they should have put an ARM processor in there, since it borrowed heavily from the 6502. If it runs PC software, it's not a Commodore 64, it's just a clone. This is just putting lipstick on a pig.