Commodore 64 Nettop Brings Back Memories
Commodore 64 Nettop Brings Back Memories
Posted 12/23/2010 at 8:02am
| by Paul Lilly
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Load"*",8,1. Look familiar? If so, then like myself, you can remember cutting your tech teeth on the Commodore 64. I can't honestly say it's my favorite PC of all time, but it was my first, and you always remember your first.
Well guess what, folks. The C64 is back, at least in form, and in function it's purportedly "better than ever!" An upstart called Commodore 64 has licensed the Commodore name from Commodore Gaming and is bringing back the classic PC as a modern day nettop.
On the outside, it looks mostly like the Commodore 64 you remember from way back when. But its guts are completely different. There's a mini-ITX motherboard inside with an Intel Atom 525 dual-core processor nestled as snug as a bug in a keyboard. Other updated amenities include Nvidia Ion 2 graphics, 2GB of DDR3 memory, a pair of SATA 3Gb/s ports, a tray load DVD writer (Blu-ray optional), multi-card reader/writer, and five USB slots.
On the software side, there's a C64 emulator pre-installed so you can stop waxing nostalgic and relive all those classics. All that's missing is a price and a release date.
Image Credit: Commodore USA
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jgrimoldy
December 23, 2010 at 2:19pm
I really hope that the keyboard feels every bit as spongey as the original's!
'Love to see an Atari 400/800 remake come back.
<edit> No Captcha? "Mollom Privacy Policy" ?? Let's hope this works better.
ShyLinuxGuy
December 23, 2010 at 12:44pm
I'd like Apple (or just some company) ressurect the Macintosh SE, just with an LCD monitor and a DVD drive instead of the little CRT and the floppy. Behind the LCD can be a RAID array. Maybe have an external video output for a bigger monitor in the back too. That would be sweet.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the Macintosh SE, as it was my first very own computer (age 8), and my mom found it at a yard sale down the street for twenty dollars. I had it until 12, when my 6-year-old cousin knocked it off my desk and broke it. Then, I inadvertently switched to PCs after that. my first being the old family computer that ran Windows 95.
excellentjim
December 23, 2010 at 9:57am
I keep a PC in the front room for guests (my girlfriends kids) and I would love to replace it with this. Just the conversations that will start when I have friends over will be worth the cost (what ever that might be).
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