Fubar512 Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 The Commodore 64 is back, and even boasts the same price it had...in 1982! http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/04/commodore-64-is-back-with-hdmi-out-intel-atom-chip-blu-ray.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheTechnologyBlog+%28Los+Angeles+Times+Technology+Blog%29]LINK Quote
+whiteknight06604 Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I had one back in the day and I played gunship untill the damn thing died. Quote
+Stary Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 I sold mine many many years ago... made me nostalgic now. But does it ships with amber-black CRT? Quote
Muesli Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 Mine is still up and running, complete with tape drive and the 'real floppy' !!! Quote
the test pilot Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 the old one was a revolution in his time, the most powerful hardware that 16-bit could even get... The new one instead is quite lo-spec. Quote
Icarus999 Posted April 7, 2011 Posted April 7, 2011 (edited) The Commodore 64 is back, and even boasts the same price it had...in 1982! http://latimesblogs....gy+Blog%29]LINK The first computer I ever used my high school had these back in 82/83. Edited April 7, 2011 by Icarus999 Quote
Lexx_Luthor Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 I had a TRS80 but wouldn't want a modern equivalent looking one. I became a huge fan of PC compatible stuff, build your own out of parts you want, swap them out, blah blah... As for going retro, I still use software I wrote back in 1990s that runs on 16bit MSDOS 6.22. All I do is unplug my Win~7 drive and plug in one of my old 400MB or so DOS drives and I'm using a current (AMD) 64bit cpu to run 32bit DOS extended FORTRAN compiler on 16bit DOS. Its amazing the backward compatibility in hardware-software. Quote
Gr.Viper Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 The new machines feature a dual-core Intel Atom 1.8GHz processor, a Nvidia Ion2 graphics chipset, and as much as 4GB of RAM and 1TB of memory. So, they stuffed standard netbook hardware in the old box and called it the return? Meh. "It's 99% American made -- everything except the motherboard is American made," *reaches for the phone* I call bulls**t. Although, if it's a netbook mobo then at least the CPU, sound and video are hardwired into it, so "except for the motherboard" leaves mainly the stickers on keyboard to be US-made. Quote
MigBuster Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 It really needs a cassette drive to get the real experience of that era - waiting 20 mins for a game to load - ah those were the days....... Quote
JediMaster Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 Don't forget the squeal from the TV speaker like a down-modulated fax/modem call that lasted all that time.... Quote
Gr.Viper Posted April 8, 2011 Posted April 8, 2011 Can the user downclock the CPU to original values to increase the immersion? Quote
Lt. James Cater Posted April 11, 2011 Posted April 11, 2011 (edited) Man, i remember learning the rudiments of programming on one in high school back in 1984! Two friends of mine had them at home and we had ourselves quite a computer gaming club going along with our RPG activities. Ah, the memories! Edited April 11, 2011 by Lt. James Cater Quote
+NGHENGO Posted April 11, 2011 Posted April 11, 2011 (edited) Paradroid FTW! No Paranoid was by Black Sabbath...................LOL I can remember those sweet '80s days in wich there were two big family........ You: the "Commodore Guys" and we, "The ZX Spectrum Guys" and just in the middle the few fortunate Son that their Parents had the money for one of the early IBM or Apple too. But in gaming skills C64 and ZXSpectrum offers much more than the others.......... Ahahaha the compact cassette as HD was a cheap smart idea....ahahahhah................. Mau. Edited April 11, 2011 by NGHENGO Quote
+Veltro2k Posted April 12, 2011 Posted April 12, 2011 My first flight sim was 50 Mission Crush on the 64 ,,boy the changes in technology Quote
Spinners Posted April 13, 2011 Posted April 13, 2011 My other big favourite for the C64 was Uridium - same guy who wrote Paradroid (Andrew Braybrook IIRC). Anyone remember Jeff Minter? Man, that guy was on something a bit stronger than blue smarties... The C64 'flight sims' (lol) were desperate though weren't they? Quote
Slartibartfast Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 Me I had a BBC... Elite by David Braben anyone... Quote
+ErikGen Posted April 18, 2011 Posted April 18, 2011 Commodore 64 ... my first computer before the Amiga 500 and a looong series of M$ compatible PC. Today, on wave of memories, i have installed C64 , Zx Spectrum and Nintendo 64 emulators into my smart phone . AAAAAHHHH ... Maurizio was a Sinclair guy ... just erased from friends list . Quote
shotdown Posted May 2, 2011 Posted May 2, 2011 the old one was a revolution in his time, the most powerful hardware that 16-bit could even get... The new one instead is quite lo-spec. Actually, the most powerful hardware that 8-bit could even get... Quote
mertio23 Posted July 23, 2011 Posted July 23, 2011 I never owned a C64, but I had the VIC-20 before it, and the Amiga 500+ after it. Can I have a nerdgasm now, please! Quote
squid Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 this definitely deserves a picture in the thread Dear God ... nostalgy porn ... nerdgasm it is! i was so young and not having enough money (me or my family) to afford this back then. i was drooling over some friends 64s ... My first teen work money went to a ZX Spectrum+ , oh dear talking about excitement back then ... An amstrad 6128 with colour monitor is still my fetisch... never was able to get one or an amiga ... having thoughts of nailing this C64 or an amstrad from ebay ... Quote
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