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Commodore 64 Makes a Half-Sized Comeback

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 04 2017, @04:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the shoulda-priced-it-at-$64 dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 1) by Chromium_One on Thursday October 05 2017, @02:05AM

    by Chromium_One (4574) on Thursday October 05 2017, @02:05AM (#577280)

    ... because the C64 doesn't have a 6502 CPU, it's a 6510. IIRC the 6510 adds an 8-bit I/O port, adds a couple opcodes, and modifies a few opcodes. Again IIRC the 6510 should run all 6502 code just fine, unmodified, while the reverse won't be true.

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