The New Commodore 64, Updated With Its Old Exterior

[The Straight Story]

The New Commodore 64, Updated With Its Old Exterior

I was just 6 years old when the Commodore 64 computer went on sale in the summer of 1982. Although I already owned a computer at the time — a ZX Spectrum — I remember my excitement about possibly getting my little hyperactive hands on the newly released Commodore.

At the time, the Commodore computer cost $595 and came with a whopping 64 kilobytes of memory. It also contained a graphics and sound card that stood apart from other computers of the day.

Now, nearly 30 years later, the Commodore brand has taken on new management and is re-releasing its flagship computer, this time with all the amenities of a modern-day computer packed inside.

In its heyday, the Commodore 64 was one of the most successful home computers made, shipping more than two million units a year for almost a decade after its release. Although exact numbers don’t exist, experts estimate that the company sold between 15 and 30 million Commodore 64 computers.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/the-new-commodore-64-updated-with-its-old-exterior/

Link to the new one:

Play all your favorite 8-bit era games within seconds of turning the Commodore 64 on, by either selecting the C64 icon from the boot menu to run a C64 emulator directly, or from a media center program within our own Commodore Operating System.

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

[pscot]

1. Does it come with a tape drive?

[TheKentuckian]

3. Remember hitting the pre-internet BBS's at the blazing speeds of 300 baud?

[eleny]

6. Yup!

[Systematic Chaos]

2. My friends and I were Atari 800XL freaks back in the day.

I really hope someone decides to do this sort of thing with the 800XL and ST computers.

[hunter]

17. I'm still an Atari 800 freak.

The emulator in Linux works great. I've still got all my old atari stuff boxed up in the garage but I don't have to leave my desk if I just want to play Pengo or dig up some old software I wrote in 1985.

[kestrel91316]

4. I'm such a geezer. I got my first computer in 2000 at the age of 43.

One of my cousins, however, had a Commodore 64 at age 9.

[Mnemosyne]

13. Another geezer here. I got mine in 2003, at the ripe young age of 45. n/t

[hyacinthlandry]

5. OMG that is awesome!

All my geek friends are gonna shit! LOL

[lumberjack_jeff]

7. No function keys.

:shrug:

[eleny]

8. We had an Amiga and loved it

[dionysus]

9. i still have an A500! maybe i should set the bad boy up!

[eleny]

12. We gave our A500 away to some kids who didn't have much

When I'm sorry we don't still have ours that helps ease the sting.

The graphics were great and with everything in the keyboard it was ahead of its time. Fire it up!

[CrownPrinceBandar]

10. Nice. I wonder if they'll bring back the Trash 80 next?.........

I had one of these, tape drive and all.



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[PCIntern]

11. I still have a working ADAM computer with the tapes and the

instruction books.

[dionysus]

14. that was my very first computer. i was a tot.

[PCIntern]

19. I was two years out of dental school...n/t

[dionysus]

20. i had my colecovision hooked up to it too. at young age, i knew my future would be with computers.

[The Straight Story]

24. My first was a trs-80 model 1, 16k ram, tape drive

Ahhh the good old days of computers.

Gonna go watch war games now :)

[Iggo]

15. I think my VIC 20 is still in the garage somewhere.

[Trajan]

16. Hilarious ....

I spent HOURS and HOURS typing in BASIC programs, and then spent hours and hours trying to find them on the tape drive again ....

They introduced 'Graphic Sprites' on C64 .... Precursors to today's 'icons' ....

It was a whole new world then ....

I actually started programming on a Commodore PET ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET ) creating short programs to perform calculations that were tedious to do by hand ...

Damn I feel old ...

[backscatter712]

18. SCHWEET!!! I want one!!!

They need to do the Atari 800 next!

[Recursion]

21. That takes me back

I learned Forth and Logo on one of those. Good times.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

22. Neat

Now they just need to put in a 64-bit cpu/motherboard and Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

[Kalun D]

23. LOLZ!

comes with Linux Ubuntu, Commodore must not like Windows.