The Commodore 64 is coming back, in a form that owes a debt to both Nintendo's shrunken Mini SNES and thee[sic] Vega+ Sinclair ZX Spectrum reboot.
The due-in-early 2018 “C64 Mini” matches Nintendo's plan to shrink an old machine, in this case by 50 per cent. Like the Mini and the Vega+ the revived Commodore will pack in pre-loaded retro games, 64 of them to be precise. The device will also ship with a USB joystick boasting 80s styling, HDMI out so it can connect to modern tellies and USB-mini for power.
[...] Price has been set at £69.99/$69.99/€79.99 and the machine will “hit the shops in early 2018” with Koch Media handling distribution
There's plenty of nostalgia surrounding the C64, but is it worth reviving?
(Score: 5, Informative) by Lemming on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:42PM
This is a dual core ARM with open source emulator VICE [sourceforge.net] running on it, in a fancy case with a fake keyboard.
An important point of criticism is that it seems you can not load any other software outside of the 64 games provided. There are no indications that you can read disk images via usb, but you can type out basic programs via an external usb keyboard if you like :-) And among those 64 games there are some classics like California Games, but many popular classics (eg. Last Ninja, Maniac Mansion,...) are absent.