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Tulip to Relaunch C64

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blast-from-the-past dept.

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.

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  1. What's in store for a moderm C64? by Chmarr · · Score: 4, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:What's in store for a moderm C64? by Pflipp · · Score: 4, Funny

      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".

      --
      "We can confirm that Debian does *not* ship the version with the trojan horse. Our version predates it." [CA-2002-28]
  2. Re:Bitter memories by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 4, Funny
    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.

  3. 64 Bit computing by Fritzed · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm, in some form. . .

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

    -> Fritz

    --
    Spooooon!!!!!
  4. reset by noisehole · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?