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The Commodore brand finally staged its comeback Wednesday, ... the Commodore 64 runs a version of the Linux operating system on an Intel processor, and boasts 2GB of memory and a modern Blu-ray or rewritable DVD optical drive.
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The legendary computer was first unveiled in early 1982, and quickly dominated the nascent computer scene, helping to launch the home computing market thanks to its entertainment focus. The Commodore brand finally staged its comeback Wednesday,
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The new iteration of the classic computer won't run Windows (although the company claims you'll be able to install it if you so choose). Instead, the Commodore 64 runs a version of the Linux operating system on an Intel processor, and boasts 2GB of memory and a modern Blu-ray or rewritable DVD optical drive.
that this was a real offering from Commodore. Unfortunately, it appears to be, once again, just smoke and mirrors. On their home page at http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx is the prominent message "Available Now for Pre-order". $695 for commodity hardware in a retro-looking keyboard case is pretty expensive.
The last "innovative" Commodores didn't come from Commodore at all. The "computer in a joystick" Jeri Ellsworth built that emulated a C=64 and ran 30 video games was innovative. She also designed the chip which was used in the C-One, which was a recreation of several Commodores on an FPGA board.
I was all set to get an Atari 800 with 16kB when the C=64 came out around Christmas time. So Atari loaded it up with 2 more 16k memory modules to bring it to 48k and for the same price! Score!
Oh, yeah,... Those were the days... I actually started to learn 6510 assembly programing... STARTED, that is... never got anywhere...
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The last "innovative" Commodores didn't come from Commodore at all. The "computer in a joystick" Jeri Ellsworth built that emulated a C=64 and ran 30 video games was innovative. She also designed the chip which was used in the C-One, which was a recreation of several Commodores on an FPGA board.