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OK old farts - the Commodore is back
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 1:55 pm
by Executioner
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?optio ... 2&Itemid=2
The classic home computer and gaming brand Commodore is back, in the guise of a handheld device sporting downloadable arcade games.
The much-traveled brand is now owned by Commodore International Corporation (formerly Yeahronimo). The company has used CES to detail its new product; the Commodore Combo.
The device is being offered with five 8-bit games included, and another 90 or so available for online downloadable purchase. It comes with a 20GB hard drive running Windows CE, and offers GPS functionality.
Commodore says it wants developers to create content for the devoice, which will then be sold via kiosks in selected retail outlets.
Here is a little bit about Commodore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:42 pm
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
Awesome! I wish I could find a good emulator for the C64.. There were a ton of games on it I used to love playing, not limited to Pitfall and Pitfall II as well as "Ninja" lol
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 5:53 pm
by RaT
cool... a Commodore 64 was my first ever computer!!
Spy vs Spy rules
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:15 pm
by FlyingPenguin
The Commodore PET 2001 was my first computer... predates the C64:
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:36 pm
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
I still have a PET 2000 w/a whopping 16k of RAM!
lol
eGo
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 3:23 am
by NubyCanuby_OFC
Don't make me fire up my TI-99/4A.
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 1:46 pm
by Trianon
yeah, see my sig
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:31 pm
by UberNeuman
I'm more interested in the
GP2X
It's very new, but it's got a large user support. You can play Duke3D and Quake on it. You can play Divx/Xvid on it. and emulators for Commodore, Mame, Snes are working and are being improved on...
Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 3:39 pm
by FanTum
Lol, my first computer was a Vic20...ah the good old days of typing in hundreds of lines of text to save a game on cassette tape!!!!
Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:49 pm
by theophilusmousse
Thats great.
My first was a C64...
those were the days,
Just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
I trashed my first game disk by notching it so I could save the game...
from there it was no turning back, I had saved over the original starting settings!!!
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:52 pm
by DaMaN
Ahh C-64 fond memories.......Pogo Joe, Summer Games and my altime favs...Alternate Reality and The Bards Tale.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:46 am
by MidnightSin
First comp was a TI 99 4A with a cassett tape drive,,, Had to hit rewind if I messed you in a game.
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:47 am
by eGoCeNTRoNiX
My first comp was a C64.. Pitfall II, Ghostbusters, NINJA were a few of my favorites that I can remember the name of. heh..
Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:26 am
by DaMaN
Ya tape drives until we could upgrade to a 1541 5.25" disk drive. was a slow mythodical piece of hardware very sensative and prone to heat so I did my first mod ever by installing a 80mm fan to the top of it to extract hot air away from it. Another cool game i played was 7 cities of gol from EA I beleive.
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 6:42 pm
by b-man1
i had a vic20 and then moved up to a C64. mmmmmmmmmmm...
awesome games. Bruce Lee Fists of Fury, Winter Games, Karateka, and so many others.