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First Commodore 64 LAN Party

Posted by timothy on from the dude-are-we-late dept.

Leif_Bloomquist writes "The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."

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  1. Re:Immortality by Alwin+Henseler · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But the hardware will wear out eventually, and nobody's making any more, (..)

    Not any time soon - a couple hundred thousand C64's were built just a few years ago, battery-powered and all. Although the build quality isn't very good, these are real C64's, and solder-friendly too. Take out the circuit board, fix the video, wire up an additional joystick and a real keyboard, and you're all set.