Commodore 64

I posted this on Blake's wall yesterday. Seems pretty cool and I'm almost tempted to look into buying one, but I wanna hear his opinion or from someone else with experience with the original machine and retro computing. He's not too talkative though, I'll just assume he's busy

 

I thought this was a modern PC in a C64-like case?

(64, 128 & Plus 4 in the garage somewhere...)

 

Yeah it is, with a bunch of C64 emulation stuff installed. I know it's really nothing special aside from the case but if someone was interested in buying a C64... would it be better to fake it or go real?

 

I guess the nostalgia factor and built in emulation would be pretty neat for someone that owned the original but I can't see an underpowered nettop shoved into a 30 year old computer case selling well for nearly $600. They're doing some cross promotional stuff with Tron Legacy, maybe that will push sales. Their new Amiga line does look pretty sleek through.

 

seems to underpowered to take it seriously, I also always found the c64 pretty ugly honestly even at the time when they made the second gen c64s they were a lot better looking.

I think they should forget the c64 and concentrate on remaking the Amiga, but even so I see this whole thing as nothing more than a gimmick if it was still the original company I'd take it more seriously.

 

Underpowered for what? It's not supposed to be running the Facebook data servers or anything, it's just an average, everyday computer. I don't think they expect anyone to use it as their main gaming rig, that'd be dumb.

 

But it's not it's an atom processor it's basicly a netbook in a bulky case with no screen.
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201114/7034/Commodore-breathes-new-life-into-iconic-C64-computer

 

You can buy a ASRock nettop with the same hardware configuration for $150 cheaper or sans disc drive from a number of different companies for around $350. The Vic slim is slightly more reasonable at $400 but you're still paying around a $50 premium for having all the components shoved into a keyboard which seems silly to me.

 

The C64 was my first computer and a huge part of me still consider it the best computer I ever owned. Everything from the silky smooth scrolling and wonderful SID-sound to the 16 color palette. Oh, and the software, games in particular. Wonderfully rich experiences with great gameplay never going above the 52K internal memory.

There's a good chance my next game after Squid Drop* will be something extremely C64-inspired.

If the new C64 can give a decent C64 experience out of the box I will probably need to pick up one of these.



*Yes I did have to mention it here as well.

 

Does anyone know the price?

 

Thank you.