This is madness
http://www.pcworld.com/article/224722/new_commodore_64_is_finally_herefor_real.html

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"On the other hand, if you'd like to go all out, there's also an $895 "Ultimate" package that includes a Blu-ray drive and a 1TB hard drive."

:laugh:

You're a bit late. ;)

Anyhow, i still think it's a parasite living on the carcass [or in one] of a once good company. With the previous attempts of the new Commodore they finally understood, that the name and the logo is not enough. Now they've added the case. Just let it die. ;)

I have the new C64 homepage bookmarked to keep an eye on things.

Honestly, what I'm more excited about are the new Amigas they're working on. Holy hell, did you look at the case for the Amiga 2000? I'd KILL for one of those cases to build my system into when I get around to it!

This is...sparta?!?

If I had the Mucho Casho I would definitely get one of babies

Dat case

Consider that it was "parasites" that killed the company in the first place. At least they're doing something with it. Bill McEwen's Amiga, Inc. was just sitting on the name (aside from AmigaOS 4) after the failed "AmigaOne", until this new Commodore USA acquired it last year. Besides, what would you expect someone to do with the name? Build new machines with ancient tech specs? The old Commodores and Amigas were superlatively innovative for their time, but to continue manufacturing 68000-powered machines now would be absurd.

If this new Commodore USA can re-introduce the world to compact "desktops" and custom chips, so as to break away from tower PC's the size of flatbed-V8's and the bipartisan monopoly of the CPU market held by AMD and Intel, then they'll have done everything that can be done to uphold the spirit of the original Commodore company.

You're talking about different parasites. I'm talking about people who buy a brand, and use it solely as a nostalgia trick, to get money. Those are different people, with different priorities, and i doubt they give a f* about the brands history and ideas. Tulip showed us that a few years ago, announcing a flash stick called the fPET and a lousy mp3 player called the eVIC. This is as far as these people go with it.
No, i don't believe Commodore should continue to make ancient tech. Don't be absurd. "The new system, which also starts at $595, is a little more modern: it's got a Dual Core 525 Atom processor, an Nvidia Ion2 graphics chipset, 2GB of RAM (upgradeable to 4GB), a 160GB hard drive, and built-in Wi-Fi."
Signs of those custom chips and breaking away from the monopoly of AMD/Intel is clearly evident. It's an overpriced PC, in a nostalgic case. It's not a messiah, it's not bringing any change to the market, and mark my words, it won't. It's gonna die, like all the previous attempts of the new Commodore to enter the 'gaming PC' market.

Guys, if You want a Commodore based case, there's a sh^tload of C64s here in Poland. People sell them for 10PLN [a bit over 3 bucks]. A bit of modding, and You'll save a bit of money.

If anyone make a redition of the old AtariST that is capable of reading the old floppy disks i will buy it for sure.

I should still have my old C64 somewhere... Haven't checked it's state in ages. Seeing this post remembered me about it. :)
I bet that all the tapes are unreadable now. Too bad, I've had a bunch of nice games.

For me nostalgia is not enough to make me buy a C64 remake. To be honest I don't like the looks of the C64 keyboard. I find it inappropriate for a modern computer.

Check, most of mine are, to my surprise, they've been lying without cases all over the place, some near speakers even. I guess i've been lucky. Perhaps You'll decide to connect it to some TV, or a monitor, and play them again.
If anything goes wrong, this little guide is amazing:
[url=http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm.html]http://personalpages.tds.net/~rcarlsen/cbm.html[/url]

Hey, just a thought: how feasible would a GROG (Good and REALLY Old Games) be with titles form the C64, spectrum and such? By feasible I mean technically and legally. Would you be interested in such a thing?

And pay 5.99 bucks for each one? Humm...

IIRC, the AtariST used a PC style floppy controller. I think you can use a special utility program to read them on a PC. Commodore users are not so lucky. :/

Really? :)
http://sta.c64.org/xa1541.html

My brother's a linux user, he played around with that for some time.;)
I think i have the cable somewhere here even.
I wonder if the modern mobos will still support it.