That's really fucked up and sad, I mean it's amazing that we will have official Commodore 64s running at 48MHz with all kinds of new mapped storage devices and extra RAM. But it's also sad that this is, probably, the most exciting computer thing to happen since 64 bit became a thing, which in reality didn't actually help anything but large web pages of GARBAGE and lazy multi-absraction gaymes.I would like to see a new computer with 3D capability, amazing sound including hardware dedicated VST host, etc. and fast sprites. Something that doesn't do the modern web but supports online matching and gaming. And you can do it all in BASIC. Interestingly the new Commodore owner has hatched up a dev lab with a lot of the OG Commodore people, Jay Miner heading it up, where they are going to come up with something next-gen that beats Amiga and Commodore times Atari. Now I might not buy a turbo C64 but I probably would buy whatever they ultimately cook up.This computer would dominate. Who would buy a Switch? Honestly it should happen and it would slay.
(((Capitalism))) priced hobbyists out of tech. There's no cool tech anymore unless you beg for gibs on kickstarter and even then 99% of those projects are SBCslop in a 3D printed case. Good luck to the C64 reboot.
PC compatibles replaced C64 for a reason.
>>107543067ZX Spectrum Next is better
>>107543246C64 is much more fun to program.There were like 40 commercial releases for the C64 last year.>>107543329Fuck that garbage. NOT American and not even really a Spectrum. Anyway there is no real plan there, with the new Commodore they are cooking up a NEW fun and easy to program computer.
>>107543246Yes, Commodore management committed sudoku out of sheer incompetence.
>>107543360It's a fresh start without the problems of Commodore in its incarnations. But the old hats are also ALL in. They have said the new C64 is just basically, the thing they are going to sell for now to build up money and such and make a NEW computer. Kind of a successor to the Amiga really more than a C65 type machine. The dude said he doesn't want to compete with any of the current going fan made machines which is cool too.
or just buy a cheap ARM SBC and enjoy vastly superior 2D and 3D graphics, superior sound quality (SID chips can easily be emulated), any programming language (including BASIC) you like and it can browse the internet, cheap SD card storage, loads of GPIO/I2C options for hardware tinkering and run any Linux and BSD OS.Is the genx nostalgia market really big enough to accomplish anything in current year?
>>107543067From what I'm getting the new C64 is just a linux box with extra fluff so eh? It's no different from Chinkware handhelds running Emulationstation.And what you described is just pointless because sadly computers don't work like that anymore. Nobody is losing their minds over 3D rendering, spirets and lol BASIC. You're an autistic 40yo guy with no sense of reality and thickest nostalgia google.
>>107544636>From what I'm getting the new C64 is just a linux box with extra fluff so eh?That was the OLD new C64. The NEW new C64 is a turbo enhanced "real" one with extra stuff onboard like a RAM drive, direct access from BASIC to the SD card, other stuff.It's completely different from emulators.
