Commodore USA begins shipping replica C64s next week, fulfilling your beige breadbox...

Engadget ^ | 6/19/11 | Jesse Hicks

[markomalley]

Now if they could make the Blu-Ray look like the C1541, they'd be right in there:

[Fresh Wind]

Nice, but it ain’t a replica if it doesn’t match the performance of the original C64.

[Krosan]

I think a modern wrist watch exceeds the computing power of original C64.

[SJSAMPLE]

That’s a positively modern compared to the first single-sided 360K drives available from Commodore.

[from occupied ga]

If you're like us, you've probably been holding your breath in anticipation since Commodore USA announced its replica of the famous C64

Can't say that I have.

[golux]

They’re going to lose their shirts.

“Colors and graphics” may be fun for the kids when it comes to Pong and Pac-Man down at the arcade but they just aren’t going to be an issue in personal computing.

Thanks but no thanks... I’ll hold on to my PET.

[Bigh4u2]

I only have one question.

Why?

[BuffaloJack]

Idiots.
1) the only people who would want to tinker with a C64 are geeks.
2) they would want to open it up and work with the original parts.
3) Geeks are smart enough to recognize the difference between a C64 and some crippled state of the art processor.

[Oceander]

Just to be an idiot but, what, precisely, is the attraction of this thing? They were ugly the first time 'round (I remember, I was there), and age hasn't improved 'em much.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

But it would only be able to play DVDs in slow motion.

[VanDeKoik]

Novelty and Nostalgia.

I’ve even toyed around with putting a modern PC in a beige box from 92 just for kicks.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

This is the equivalent of getting a sailship replica of the Cutty Sark in a bottle. Nice to look at, kind of cool. Put it back on the mantle where it belongs.

[FreeManWhoCan]

Pretty cool of them to do this. I wish they would reboot Atari.

[ShadowAce]

[NativeSon]

still have my Amiga 500, works just fine...

[ExTxMarine]

My Commodore VIC-20 still works and I have the cassette tape drive and a 300 baud modem! They all still work!

[Joe 6-pack]

If this 80’s retro catches on, could reintroduction of the Chrysler K-Car be far behind?

[ExTxMarine]

I have an old Atari 800XL with about 25 game cartridges including flight simulator, duck hunt, word processing and BASIC-PLUS. It still works!

[SJSAMPLE]

LOL.
I had one cartridge game, “Choplifter”.
Everything else was text, like running the “Star Trek” game from a cassete tape.

I spent two weeks of my junior year at Michigan State “reverse engineering” Avalon Hill’s “Midway” game to give my aircraft carriers radar technology.

[j_tull]

Don’t forget little brother VIC-20’s cassette tape storage.