Boot up

Submitted by Darth Ninja on Tue, 07/24/2007 - 11:35pm

Will the new Commodores have this boot skin?
http://tinyurl.com/2vgnk6

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Call me sentimental, but I

Submitted by Marcus_Soperus on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 5:45am

Call me sentimental, but I wish they'd include a C-64 emulator and some games. Of course, then their 'crack' team of marketing people would need to decide which emulator and games to bundle: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Commodore+64+emulator

The first technical writing I ever did was to boil down the C-1541 floppy disk drive manual to a single page so my customers at Children's Palace (also home of the $50 TI-994A) could figure it out. LOAD "$",8, anyone?
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Marketing Ploy

Submitted by Bin3ry on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 12:42pm

It sounds like some kinda terrible marketing ploy to me. I mean,"the components inside the boxes were just too powerful to be just gaming PCs", how lame is that. I think i will stick to building my own. Thanks Michael, for giving another great and honest review. This is what makes MaximumPc the greatest PC magazine on the planet.

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Amiga

Submitted by crank on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 2:08pm

The Amiga was my very favorite computer. It was the first multi-media computer. I would rather see it come back than the Commodore. How would a new Amiga be configured?

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I, for one, think the

Submitted by TheMurph on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 1:09pm

I, for one, think the mushroom cloud design looks pretty sweet. But that's just me. :D

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Not just another after market rig, or is it?

Submitted by Talcum X on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 6:05am

I often wondered where the big 'C' went after all these years. But looking at the list of innards, it seems to me to be just another pre-built, after market rig. Beyond the custom C-kins, which isn't a new process, and maybe the enclosure, its everything anyone else can pick up at NewEgg. Now, that said, it's good stuff inside. I was almost hoping to see the Commodore come back as it once was, but modern. But then I remembered, "I don't want to see another Packard Bell" either. Proprietary = Bad Ju-ju.

Welcome back Commodore, and good luck.

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Commodore began the love

Submitted by oihorse on Tue, 07/17/2007 - 5:02am

My first computer, my first real gaming machine after the Atari.

I was always boggled at how much they squeezed out of that little machine, and reaffirms my belief that today's games are bloated beasts wasting massive amounts of computer resources.

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This is the review that keeps my subscription up-to-date

Submitted by RGCook on Mon, 07/16/2007 - 6:35pm

Guys - you are at your best with this review. The comment about mushroom clouds and MBA had me laughing at loud.

But on a serious note, I wish Commodore the very best. I may be dating myself but my first computer was a Commodore Colt, with an 8087 processor, two 5.25" floppy drives and (I think) 640K or ram with a VGA monitor. The mouse was an expensive add-on! I remember staying up late many nights, reading the GW-Basic manual that came with it. I taught myself a lot about programming - stuff that I still use as I endeavor to learn VB.NET, some two decades later in my profession as a chemical engineer. Yes, I cut my teeth on WP 5.0/5.1 for DOS and dreaded the migration to Windows 3.0 when our company said it was time to "upgrade". I sold the machine to a friend of mine back in 1994 and he still uses it to run simple programs for his service station.

I have found memories of my Commodore.

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