If they can sell me something for $500 or less that will let me shove in original cartridges or floppy disks, I am cash in hand. If they can’t, they go away.
Not sure yet more emulation boxes are what the world needs. Peri did touch on the concept of producing products that would exist if commodore existed through today.
Would be cool to have a C64-inspired line of Linux laptops with a custom C64-themed distro of Linux, rock-solid drivers, and an app store of well-tested applications.
Perifrantic makes an interesting point in anticipation of critics that will chime in to assert “this will never be the original Commodore.” In his defense, the retro tech enthusiast says “what if we got 47 trademarks from 1982, or original Commodore engineers back, original executives, assistants, ROMs, Amiga? I mean, at some point, it does start to become the real Commodore, right?”
An interesting thought. I’m sure like many here, the C64 was what sparked my interests in gaming, computing, and technology. It even went a bit beyond that to influencing my tastes around music, design and aesthetics, and is probably one of the major reasons I’m working in digital today. Keen to see what they do for the nostalgia.
I can't wait for the new Commodore calculators, filing cabinets, telephones, and typewriters!
(All of these were actual Commodore products, a couple of which I have seen in the wild. The computers that we all know and love only represent half of the company's history.)
I guess the big question is how well is the Mega65 doing.
Those folks put a lot of time and energy to come up with a modern C64-esque computer experience. From the BASIC in ROM, an actual floppy disk, memory mapped video, and an “all in one” form factor.
Supposed to be a nice machine, I have not been following it recently, I assume it performs and is reliable.
It checks all of the boxes, I just don’t know how successful it is.
As I understand, the really interesting parts of Commodore (the MOS designs) were lost forever when they shut down the first time.
As far as anyone knows, the IP from MOS, the designs for all the chips, are just gone forever. Not that it matters that much though, I think the most interesting chips have already been fully reverse engineered
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 44.0 ms ] threadAn interesting thought. I’m sure like many here, the C64 was what sparked my interests in gaming, computing, and technology. It even went a bit beyond that to influencing my tastes around music, design and aesthetics, and is probably one of the major reasons I’m working in digital today. Keen to see what they do for the nostalgia.
(All of these were actual Commodore products, a couple of which I have seen in the wild. The computers that we all know and love only represent half of the company's history.)
Those folks put a lot of time and energy to come up with a modern C64-esque computer experience. From the BASIC in ROM, an actual floppy disk, memory mapped video, and an “all in one” form factor.
Supposed to be a nice machine, I have not been following it recently, I assume it performs and is reliable.
It checks all of the boxes, I just don’t know how successful it is.
As far as anyone knows, the IP from MOS, the designs for all the chips, are just gone forever. Not that it matters that much though, I think the most interesting chips have already been fully reverse engineered