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A Commodore 64 For The New Millenium

Posted by chrisd on from the silly-but-pretty-neat dept.

samdu writes "The CommodoreOne is now available for purchase. The C=1 is a reimplementation of the Commodore=64 in an ATX form factor, 65c816 processor running at approximately 20 MHz, VGA out, an updated SID (with backward compatibility), 32 MB of RAM, standard IDE, PS/2 ports, and a 64 compatible cartridge slot. Let the hobbying begin." We've run previous stories on related efforts.

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  1. Emulation by ergo98 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Just as I wouldn't go out and buy a classic arcade console, but rather would run MAME, why would someone want this when the 6502 can be completely emulated very well? Emulation isn't an option when extreme performance is required, but I'd wager that a modern Ghz+ would emulate a 6502 and subsystems at a speed greatly outpacing a actual 20Mhz 6502.

    1. Re:Emulation by Neck_of_the_Woods · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I will tell you why I own some older arcade classic coin-ops. Mame is great and all, but when you have an original you have and original. Something that has more to it than just the gaming value.

      I can tell you from the way people go "holly shit do those work!" when they walk into my shop and see original Galaga, Centipede, and Sinistar arcade games running . Those games have personal attachment to them. They bring back a time in my generations history that they loved.

      Everyone always plays them all the time. There is nothing like hearing "I HUNGER! RUN COWARD!" and the simple sounds from Galaga and people having a good time at those machines. The analog feel of the controls and the battle for the high scores with everyone that plays the games.

      It is just something about the classics that make you love them, be it your time with them, or the memories that you have. Sometimes you just can't make something old better with new stuff, it peaked and you can't recreate what the old games have with new equipment.

      Just my views....

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      Neck_of_the_Woods
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  2. Re:What is this good for? by repetty · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've read that there's a healthy community of people who still write C64 software both in the US and in Europe. They get off of work coding on modern computers and then go home and challenge themselves with writing the most efficient code possible -- a novel and comparitively low priority in current software development. Think of it as building a ship in a bottle. One could build the ship outside the bottle, but where the fun it that? --Richard

  3. Economics by GeorgeK · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This product seems to ignore economics. In particular, it would be less expensive to buy a standard PC and then emulate the Commodore 64 (and also be able to run lots of other standard software).

    Perhaps their team could have used one more person with a business degree, and one less engineer, to figure this out....

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  4. "I don't want one, therefore it's a bad idea." by sczimme · · Score: 5, Insightful


    This sort of comment pops up all the time on /. and elsewhere. Just because you don't want something doesn't mean that someone else must be crazy to want it. Not everyone thinks like you do (or I do, or anyone else does).

    If you don't want one, or think it's a dumb idea, then don't buy one. Problem solved.

    This is not meant to be a troll or flamebait, though it will probably be modded as such.

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    I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
  5. Re:What is this good for? by repetty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I certainly find that most software customers aren't the least bit interested in efficiency.

    They want... FEATURES!!! ;->