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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
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: 4, Informative) by Lemming on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:08PM
This is just a Raspberry Pi running the VICE emulator [sourceforge.net] in a fancy case with a fake keyboard.
I'm much more exited about this project: Ultimate 64 [ultimate64.com]. It's no emulation, it re-implements all the chips of the original Commodore 64 in FPGA. It also has the Ultimate II+ cartridge, made by the same people, build in. This provides emulation of 2 1541 disk drives, with support for usb storage and ethernet, and a lot more. The only component of the Commodore 64 that can't be 100% re-implemented in an FPGA, because it's partly analog, is the SID audio chip. So they emulate the analog parts, but if you want you can plug in an original SID. They even sample the audio output of the SID to merge it in the HDMI output.