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Commodore 64 Primed For a Comeback In June

Posted by timothy on from the new-use-old-number dept.

angry tapir writes "The Commodore 64 is getting a makeover, with a new design and some of the latest computing technologies, as the brand gets primed for a comeback. The revamped computer will be available through the Commodore USA online store, which is set to open June 1. The computer will be an all-in-one keyboard, with Intel's 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities."

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  1. Re:64-bit?! by RulerOf · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Bonus points to the first person that can rip an mp3/flac from an old cassette and get the program to load.

    Has anyone ever done that? Come to think of it, since MP3 discards audio outside of human hearing ranges, would it even work? I suppose that since (usually by limiting to 9600bps or so) you can get a fax machine to work on a VoIP line, this could work as well though.

    That'd be really neat/useless, feeding MP3 files to a c64 emulator to load applications. :D

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  2. It claims OS X support? by benwiggy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you go to the company's website, on the link in the article, they claim it will run OS X. Interesting to see how quickly Apple's lawyers move in for the kill

    Oh, and I submitted this story to Slashdot a week ago. Tsk.