What's with this new Commodore64X/Amiga running an Intel processor, 3TB hard drive, and Linux based Commodore OS out of some company in Florida? Anybody heard of this? I just found it while cruising around You Tube. The case looks just like the original C64 but the inside/ports are all new. They have a nice looking web site.
Yeah, seen it awhile ago. It's just an old skin on a new computer, has nothing to do with the old C64 other than looks. It's too expensive for how limited it's upgrade-ability is.... It's a rich guys toy meant to impress his friends with it's novelty more than it's a serious PC meant for function. IMO
That's what I thought. Would be kinda neat to pull one out with an old C64 floppy drive hanging on the side and watch peoples' faces when it boots up. Too bad it can't run the old software/accessories. They should at least include a C64 and Amiga emulator with the deal. Wonder if they're making any money?
I just hopped on over to the companies forum... It doesn't look like things are going very well for them.
The whole reason why commodore was popular is because they made home computers affordable. They were the absolute best bang for the buck during the entire 80's. This company's the polar opposite. Blatantly cashing in on nostalgia, delivering the power of a netbook mini laptop for 5 times the price!
Unfortunately.. I'm pretty sure the C64 will still be the highest selling computer system ever made... If I'm not mistaken.. it's still the #1 selling computer system of all time.. this is mainly due to now a new computer coming out every month.. making the sales of 1 computer system limited I still wish I had one that worked.. had just a tonnage of games for my old one
I had six or seven of them up in the attic but my wife made me get rid of them. Tons of games, used to get cracked ones from some dude I knew who got them from England or some place. We used to get them before they were released to retail a lot of the time. I tried an emulator once, but I forgot how to load stuff! I used to have some fast load cartridge, Mach 3? or something like that.
Did you also have the machine gun doohickys for the joysticks and the GEOS graphic operating system complete with a desktop, mouse, and icons? According to Wikipedia it was the third most popular operating system in the world, right behind MS DOS and MAC OS. Here's another GEOS site. Apparently it was also ported to the Apple II and 386's.
I have a Fast Load cart somewhere in this house. Had an original C64 that my wife threw out, Had couple floppy drives that got thrown out, had a data cassette that my son took apart... I still have a C64s That hasn't been power up in probably 10 years... Oh, and I got a C64 TV Game Joysick with built in games and hidden features. Apparently it can even be hacked to take a PC keyboard and floppy drive, turning it into a "full" C64, but it's video and sound emulation are nowhere near the real thing. I was a hacker for the Commodore User Groups here, before the BBS even started. About 90% of the games we got from Europe, already hacked and compressed with intros. But the originals we got were a treat for us. Uncompressed floppies just itching to get cracked. I was writing my own memory and disk sector editors before Fast Hack'em came out. Fun times in the Jr High School computer lab. I hacked koala Paint and another program for the teachers to print graphics. Wrote a few of my own games too, mostly 'adult' stupid stuff. I wish I had a copy of some for my emulator. After the c64 faded away and I got my fill of Amiga games and then on to 486's and Pentiums... I've never written a program since. Last game I hacked was Puck Man demo on the Amiga. Disabled his screen blanker and enabled all levels... 1994, sorry Augenblick.
I had GEOS, but I had no mouse. It did work with keys or joystick I think.. I had no internet connection and I had no hard drive. It was pretty useless for me..
Ahh the good old days. I remember a tape drive on a VIC 20 and I think I had one for a C64. I used to write tiny little programs in Basic or something for the Apple II and 64. Then there was some Commodore magazine that had programs you had to type in, lines of numbers with a checksum number at the end. If the number didn't work you had to go back over the line and find your error. Then save all that to tape. For some stupid little game like Mansion Madness or something like that. I had a 300 baud modem, pretty high tech. Relaxx I remember those cracked games, the intros always told you who cracked them. I can almost visualize some of them, There were other cracking programs also besides Fast Hack'em, Ice Breaker was one I think.
Oh, the things we used to make Sam say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm4ZCGgzeeU"]SAM Speech Synthesis for the Commodore 64 computer - YouTube
