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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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:57PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday October 04 2017, @03:57PM (#577064) Journal

    This is just another Linux settop box with a custom case, that isn't even functional so is cheap enough, preloaded with an emulator.

    This was my reaction too. Boring. You can't stuff a cheap SoC running Linux and an emulator into a box that resembles the system of old and call it retro. If they engineered a modern C64 SoC including genuine SID core then that would be much more interesting and retro.

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