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Normal Sized Retro Commodore 64 In The Works
Last year a mini version of the Commodore 64 was announced and released. It holds 64 pre-installed Commodore 64 games at the cost of roughly 80 USD. The small size has a disadvantage, the keyboard needs to be external. That is going to be solved.
There are now plans from Retro Games to fab a "THEC64", a normal sized C64 replica with a working keyboard. The company posted a few teasers online, along by sharing info that the product should be available in 2019. The prototype does show some weird discoloration on the keycaps, not part if the original (which I still own my self btw). We think that's due to the prototype though.
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#5621644 Posted on: 12/28/2018 04:56 PM
I remember William Shatner hawking the Vic 20 on TV. Good times.
I remember William Shatner hawking the Vic 20 on TV. Good times.
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#5621759 Posted on: 12/29/2018 12:25 AM
RetroPie.
Cheaper, More Games and More Options.
RetroPie.
Cheaper, More Games and More Options.
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#5621810 Posted on: 12/29/2018 07:42 AM
I still have a Commodore 64 in the basement somewhere... there's an 80% chance I could get it fired up (have the RF adapter and a CRT that would accept that input, but the power supply will be the kicker here). The 1541 drive is gone (went out along with an Apple II that a bunch of mice shat in) though, and one thing I do remember is that if we wanted to play a game, you got what you typed in, and it only lasted as long as you left the device powered on (until we got that storage unit, RAM only).
When I feel nostalgic and want to play VIC-20 or C64 or whatever, the online emulators do the trick without the hardware hassle, but there is something to be said for that, eh, 'Spartan' programming interface where you're interacting directly with memory space and working with some basic syntax. My eight year old associate is taking a "programming" class, and dragging pictures onto other pictures to make things move and set up conditions just isn't the same.
I still have a Commodore 64 in the basement somewhere... there's an 80% chance I could get it fired up (have the RF adapter and a CRT that would accept that input, but the power supply will be the kicker here). The 1541 drive is gone (went out along with an Apple II that a bunch of mice shat in) though, and one thing I do remember is that if we wanted to play a game, you got what you typed in, and it only lasted as long as you left the device powered on (until we got that storage unit, RAM only).
When I feel nostalgic and want to play VIC-20 or C64 or whatever, the online emulators do the trick without the hardware hassle, but there is something to be said for that, eh, 'Spartan' programming interface where you're interacting directly with memory space and working with some basic syntax. My eight year old associate is taking a "programming" class, and dragging pictures onto other pictures to make things move and set up conditions just isn't the same.
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#5623976 Posted on: 01/06/2019 03:38 PM
Didn't the C64c have the inferior version of the sid chip in it?
Didn't the C64c have the inferior version of the sid chip in it?
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Too bad they choose to make the older C64 instead of the C64C which is what I got when I first got my '2nd' computer after the Vic-20 die. By the time I got it, they no longer have the old C64 in stock anymore and since the shape of the old C64 is almost identical to the Vic-20, I was actually glad I got the C64C which feels like a 'new' computer compared to the older style C64.
I too had sold my C64C back in the early 90s when I first learned about building a PC and end up building my first 386DX40 just so I can play Ultima VII. Ahh the good old days of gaming.
Recently I have rebuild my retro computer collection and now I have a Vic-20, C128 and an Amiga 500 along with other vintage machines but I'm still shopping for a C64C locally to add it back to my collection.