Commodore 64 Comeback?!

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Kingrow

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#103240 1-Jun-2012 22:13

Hello.

I just thought I might make you all aware of this very cool information I recently found out about. As a former user of this classic computer, I am very excited to learn about it! Not sure if it is or will be in NZ though, so if it isn't, I'm hoping that this is but the beginning of me letting people know about it, and demand its appearance down here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64x

I'm hoping that it'll be compatible with classic game software...

xpd

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#634445 1-Jun-2012 22:40

Already been released in the US, and its just a PC in C64 style case etc...think it comes with an emulator but thats it.

I never had the C64 myself, went straight to the Amiga, loved that and have a nice little WinUAE setup.

Gavin / xpd / FastRaccoon / Geek of Coastguard New Zealand

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#634451 1-Jun-2012 23:00

Had to reply. Commodore USA released this sometime a go, they had stolen photos from other sites, the Commodore OS they promised was just Linux.

The list goes on, they now want to ruin the Amiga name.

Don't buy their over priced rubbish. This is very close to the heart for me as I'm an Amiga maniac.

Check out some real hardware, google things like cameleon commodore 64 ;-)

If you are into Amiga's check google minimig, FPGA Acrade, Amiga One X1000, Amiga OS 4, Hyperion many many hardware and new software projects.

I have an Amiga 500 Plus which I've upgraded, Kickstart 3.1, AmigaOS 3.1, 2MB Chip, 10MB Fast, a SD card floppy emulator, Indivision ECS, USB/PS2 mouse adapter, CF SCSI card reader, 2GB CF-Card (hard drive), PICO ITX PSU, upgraded the CPU to a 68010 so I can run WHDLoad games correctly, on the look out for an accelerator card or an aca 520 if Jen's finally get's around to making it. Also picked up an Svideo adapter and a couple of PC to Amiga floppy drive adapters (not that I really need those now).

Also have a WinUAE box with a couple of USB competition pro's, wouldn't know it was a PC though have hacked it a lot.

Not to mention have a G4 PowerPC running MorphOS, which I pimped to 1.25GB RAM, SBLive, 5 port USB card etc....

Anyway I wont go on :-)

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#634453 1-Jun-2012 23:09

Here's another great site to checkout :-)

http://www.commodorefree.com/issues.html

Mark

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#634931 3-Jun-2012 10:42

I have a Chameleon 64, great toy :-)
It supports c64, amiga and Spectrum at the moment. My own vhdl efforts can flash an led hehehe