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Mini Commodore 64 is Coming to North America on October 9

posted by chromas on Wednesday July 25 2018, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
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In case you missed it, last September Retro Games announced it was going to put out a mini version of 1982's Commodore 64 called the THEC64 Mini. The system actually shipped in Europe earlier this year, and is finally coming to North America on October 9, just in time for the holiday season. It's available for preorder now for $70.

Half the size of the original version, it comes with 64 preinstalled licensed games including Impossible Mission II, Boulder Dash, Jumpman, Pitstop II and Speedball II: Brutal Deluxe that may bring back some fond memories if you were born in the '60s or early '70s. Perhaps because it's too retro, it doesn't have quite the same kind of appeal as Nintendo's NES Classic or SNES Classic mini consoles, which sold out quickly at launch.

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  • (Score: 2) by SanityCheck on Wednesday July 25 2018, @11:13PM (1 child)

    by SanityCheck (5190) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @11:13PM (#712774)

    It's just a game console with pre-loaded games? No way to program, or load your own programs? I'll stick to my emulator.

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  • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday July 25 2018, @11:50PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @11:50PM (#712791)

    BASIC is included and you can plug in a USB stick with a disc image file. Not as useful as it could be but they at least made an effort. They didn't include the assembler but 6502 cross assemblers are pretty easy to find and would you really want to assemble on an emulated 1MHz machine if you can avoid it? I did it on a real C64, kinda slow. I never had one but I assume there native C and other compilers too. If you have an image file those should run as well but looks like you just get one emulated floppy so that might be a prob. MESS or one of the many other emulators would be a better environment to develop in anyway.