Commodore Returns with New Gaming PCs

JamesO writes "Commodore is a name which will bring memories flooding back to many a gamer and it's been announced that the legendary brand is to return with a new range of high specification gaming PCs. The new Commodore PCs optimized for gaming will be launched at the CeBIT show in Germany on March 15 and attendees will be offered the chance to play the latest PC games using the purpose-built PCs."

Comments

Its about time Lionel Ritchie changed career

[Timesprout]

nuff said.

Commadore 64(bit)

[drspliff]

Are these machines 64bit too?
It'd be nice bragging rights: I've got Linux/Windows running on a C64!

Bit Early?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

It's a bit early for Slashdot to start posting lame April Fool's articles, right?

Re:Bit Early?

[rhyder128k]

Seems like the old ploy of slapping a respected old brand name on some unrelated kit. There is a company selling Acorn branded equipment in much the same manner:

http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1698.html

I won't consider one of these machines to be a true Commodore until they start to do things like:
Refuse to give the currently running Star Trek series a free machine as a prop forcing paramount to acquire a Mac instead.
Make a cut-down budget machine that is more expensive to manufacture than the regular machine (a600).

When I have some *guarantees* that they are running the business into the ground even though they have massive lead over their competitors, then I'll consider this to be a Commodore. And not before!

Atari was a better system

[xzvf]

My Atari 800 was way cooler than the C64

Re:Atari was a better system

[pipatron]

That's because no one ever bothered to turn it on.

Re:Atari was a better system

[SCPRedMage]

Everyone on Slashdot has a Thing that works, but isn't used much. I call mine "Playstation 3".

Re:Atari was a better system

[AmberBlackCat]

I call mine "husband".

In separate news...

[squiggleslash]

...the new Cray MCX, an amazing new supercomputer with a 2GHz Core2Duo, 512Mb of RAM, and a 40GB hard disk, goes on sale tomorrow.

I fail to see the point in this product being branded Commodore. It's another PC.

20th Century PCs

[Otter Escaping North]

"25 years ago, Commodore launched the best selling personal computer of the late 20th Century, the C64"

-- Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming.

There's a CEO with vision for you. Best PC of the late 20th century. Would've been best all time except for getting pwned by the mid-16th century's "Conquistador 200."

Loading games

[nodrogluap]

To load the games, will you still need to do

LOAD "*",8,1
RUN... :-)

Re:just a hunch

[gEvil (beta)]

I wish I owned ten ATMs. I'd be able to buy just about anything I wanted...

Re:just a hunch

[j00r0m4nc3r]

Many will have got bored of tweaking and now be happy to buy a prebuilt machine

You're right about that. There are so many different bus speeds, and CPU types, and memory types, and chipsets, and video cards, and so on and so on... Who wants to keep track of all that shit and build their own computer nowadays just to save $100? It used to be fun back in the day, but nowadays I just feel like, "Sheesh. Just give me something that works already so I can get back to re-drywalling my stupid living room..."

Re:Is it gonna be called

[operagost]

** CBM BASIC V2 **
3583 MEGABYTES FREE

READY.

Re:just a hunch

[GrumpySimon]

Since this is sounding like a support group of recovering addicts: Hi, I'm Simon, I'm 27, and I owned an Amiga. It affected me so much that I spent an afternoon recreating the good times in XHTML.