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."

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Its about time Lionel Ritchie changed career

[Timesprout]

nuff said.

Nostalgic name, but that's it.

[Rob T Firefly]

I hate to be the cynical one this early in the morning, but it's worth noting that the Commodore brand name has been bought, sold, lost, found, and liquidated ridiculously often since its 1980s heyday. The current owners of the Commodore logo and brand name have about as much connection with the people who made the C64 and VIC20 as the current telephone companies have with Alexander Graham Bell.

Loading games

[nodrogluap]

To load the games, will you still need to do

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

Re:Loading games

[Experiment 626]

Programs loaded into the C64 with LOAD "*",8 loaded into the beginning of BASIC memory and had to be executed with RUN, but LOAD "*",8,1 loaded the program into a specific location in memory. This could be done for programs started up with SYS (execution jumps to a specific address in memory), as another reply mentions. The most popular use of ",1" however was to overwrite memory such that the address the system returned to after it finished loading would contain a run instruction, causing the program execute with no further intervention after the LOAD command. Or am I overanalyzing the joke and being pedantic?

Don't RTFA

[PadRacerExtreme]

The whole thing is in the summary. Why bother linking to a blog with no real information in it?
<sigh>

Re:just a hunch

[gEvil (beta)]

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

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!

Already have one

[Zedrick]

I put a nice, thick Commodore sticker on my homebuilt 64-bit desktop.

It's just as much "Commodore" as these machines. Perhaps even more so, since I've also got a real C-1541 connected to it.

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..."

When Commodore...

[smokin_juan]

When Commodore -

- returns to making computers that boots in one second -
- creates an OS that has programming languages built-in and ready to go -
- designs a machine that will fit in a backpack -
- invents a clock that keeps time without power -
- does something revolutionary -

that's when I'll buy another Commodore. I'll be damned if I let a group of people manipulate my nostalgia to sell me something as common as air.