Tulip to Relaunch C64

Ola "4pLaY" Jensen writes "The Dutch PC manufacturer Tulip who bought the Commodore brand name has decided to finally do something with it and re-launch the C64 in some form. Exactly what it will be is still a puzzle in my mind but from reading their news it seems to be a PC with some OS flavour with a C64 Emulator." I spent many hours on a C64 when I was in elementary school, and this brings back a lot of memories.

Comments

What's in store for a moderm C64?

[Chmarr]

So... what kinds of things do we REALLY expect from a newly-introduced machine?

- DRM! No, you won't be able to play any of those old C64 games. You'll need to wait for the secret-key-signed versions... that is... until this version's DRM is cracked

- Dolby 5.1! Now you too can play those Bruce Lee games, and Jumpman, in fantastic 3D sound

- 24 bit colour! Okay, so you only get 16 colours total, but... you get a fantastic choice of exactly what shade of red you'd like

- super-basic... does away with basic keywords and reprograms each of the graphic character sets to be a word all of its own

- Games on tape are replaced with a CD rom... AUDIO CD roms :)

- Keyboards no longer a couple of inches high... now a couple of feet high! Who needs a desk!

- And other fantastic improvements...

Re:What's in store for a moderm C64?

[Tim]

"DRM! No, you won't be able to play any of those old C64 games. You'll need to wait for the secret-key-signed versions... that is... until this version's DRM is cracked"

Yes, just imagine...Compute!'s Gazette might still be here, had they only been able to protect their MLX source from the rampant pirate hordes:

49152 :076,032,195,000,001,003,051
49158 :004,032,184,192,169,004,079
49164 :133,252,169,216,133,251,182
...

as it was, it was just too easy to duplicate....

Re:What's in store for a moderm C64?

[Pflipp]

I have been able to convince my little brother (then a fan of the new "house" music), that the audio noise on C64 tapes was a new sort of house.

He told me and my other brother that he liked the "music".

Re:Bitter memories

[Walt Dismal]

Oh, you're just jealous because some people can survive on $400 a year, yogurt, and a loincloth. You're spoiled rotten. When I was a kid, we only had punched cards and we LIKED it.

I skipped lunch for 13 years, saving my lunch money to buy a 5-1/2 diskette drive for my C64. And when I bought it, I was so cool, I got laid almost every night. Hurrah for the C64.

80's technology rebirth

[SystematicPsycho]

Is there an 80's home entertainment rebirth going on? First it was the atari 2600, now the commodore 64. This is what emulators are for.

Anyway, they should bring back the commodore 64 to set a revival in the good old "GOTO".

64 Bit computing

[Fritzed]

Hmm, in some form. . .

Maybe that means they will try and start competing, after all, 64 bit processors are IN!

-> Fritz

Re:VICE emulator

[anon*127.0.0.1]

Yeah, I was pretty surprised to see that GTA:Vice City runs under a C64 emulator! Seems like a pretty kludgy way to get things done, but it's a great game so I guess I won't complain.

reset

[noisehole]

back in those days you had to buy a reset button as expansion for about 2. it was plugged in the back slot of the c64.
i remember collecting all these POKE commands you had to enter for some sort of cheat after a soft reset and getting back into the game with a SYS command.

and still, if im playing games on my box im using emulators. c64 was, is and will be my favourite home computer. those times just rocked!

and yeah, i still got the holer for the 5.25" disks so you could use them from both sides.

buying reset buttons and using holers on floppy disks, heh nostalgia... who is with me?

Emulating a C64 on a PC?

[El]

Isn't that sorta like modifying your 350ZX to make it look just like a '57 Edsel?

Hopefully they'll remember too ....

[Usagi_yo]

Include the caps lock and unlock key CUZ there is nothing more irritating then reading posts from people posting from COMMODORES.

lol, Lameness filter wouldn't let me do the whole thing in caps .... kinda cool.

Re:Well, I have it on a phone

[Stuart Gibson]

Here, they go for useless shit like hello kitty backgrounds and 64 voice ring patterns and washed out 640x480 pinhole cameras for underskirt photography.

And that's why Japan is great.

Goblin