…the Commodore 64 is being reinvented. The latest iteration is apparently a case modification with modern hardware. But fear not pixel-fans, with a few emulators and ‘classic game functionality’, you can re-live the glory days of blue & white computing awesomeness!
- Father Maurer
(Apparently they’ve re-invented the Amiga series too. Long live the 1980s!)
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You know father……some of us are showing our generation gap so my response to this post is…..
HUH ???
Lisa
Surely you remember the Commodore 64! It was one of the ‘big’ turning points for personal computers – it was more affordable than the Apple II and more user-friendly.
It was the first computer my family had. My father insisted that if we were going to use it (for games, of course), we first had to learn QBasic (a simple programming code). I remember writing my a calculator program that he had figured out and being so excited that I could type in a math problem and it would be solved without having to write down anything!
Now my cell phone can do scientific equations and graphs – and much better video games. Crazy world.
All I can say is: I want one! I miss my old C-64, even had a C-128 with two hard drives before I entered the seminary. Sadly, in a fit of “get rid of junk”, the Commodores were considered extraneous junk and gotten rid of.
My own experience was with the Radio Shack Color Computer (both the CoCo II and a year or so later the CoCo III). On the CoCo III, I ran the original OS-9 (from Microware), which was a completely multi-tasking system in 128 KB of RAM (expanded to a whopping 512 KB!) with a non-interruptible disc controller, multiple display screens stored in memory (similar to what I have on my current Linux Fedora system), command line concatenation enabling one to write unbelievably powerful but brief shell scripts, and an incredible two-pass ‘C’ language compiler with linker. When I got a commercial job writing a scheduling system I moved from OS-9 to Windows 3 (yes – 3, not 3.1 or 3.11) it felt like a huge leap backwards. Working thru Petzold’s Window’s Programming tome was frustrating beyond belief because the 16-bit Windows system had such limited ability compared to OS-9. Those were the days…