OT: The Commodore 64 is back

[Adrian C]

In old clothes ...

makes me want to do the same with my BBC Micro. Where is me Angle Grinder :-)

[Rob Morley]

[GB]

I'm lost. It's a modern PC running an emulator. I'm sitting at a modern PC, and I could be running an emulator. So, what are you getting excited about?

[Rob Morley]

It's an Atom/ION in a nice retro package. Have you no sense of style?

:-)

[Adrian C]

Actually at the moment, I'm sitting on a stack of HP thin client PC's frigging around with the linux internals on ideas of repurposing these for other uses, major one is a squeezebox touch compatible thingy using the GPL Squeezeplay source.

The 200Mhz Geode based things have only 32MB of ram, 16MB of flash - and yup, that's fast enough for a BBC emulator - and the board is so small it will fit inside a BBC Micro case with space to spare! Hmm, that could be another project....

[mogga]

Spookily I just started reading this page out to my OH to find him laughing as he's already there. He didn't see the url here!

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Rob Morley writes

I like the way the background image shows through the sliding window.

Will it need one million POKEs to put a few pixels on the screen?

This is a pisstake IMO. The images are so obviously Photoshopped.

[jgharston]

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

They're CGI, not 'shopped, I think.

Oh, ****. I was all sympathetic to the C64 product until I saw what they've done with the Amiga name. Pretty (ugly) cased HTPCs. "Includes... handling gloves".

Cheers - Jaimie

[Adrian C]

:-)

[Jules Richardson]

As a product, it's vapourware, I believe - nobody has one, and you can't buy one. The one on the website is a 3D model, so it's not even clear that a single physical machine exists. In the meantime, it's a picture on a website of something that exists inside someone's head...

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , jgharston writes

hard disc activity LED pins.

[JW]

There are some prototype pics...

[Jules Richardson]

cheers

Jules

[cj]

Memories pouring back. Waiting 35mins for a game to load from tape. Spending hours typing in code to see a blob bounce round the screen. Still got my old vic 20 and commodore 64 in mothballs somewhere trouble is the tape drive is goosed.

oh well loadA 0 sta FFD2

CJ

[Skipweasel]

Have you tried Scratch?

fun, I've been using it with some Year 4 kids lately.

[JW]

Well, not totally corrected. As there have been squillions of prototype computers that never actually got into production. In the olden days ago, though, they seemed really exciting. As a Dragon 32 owner in the early 80s, I found the discovery of things like the Dragon Beta really exciting just four years ago.

[Dr Zoidberg]

Thanks

[cj]

Looks fun thanks for the link. Beats VB 6 hands down (hehe) Have written the same program for every mcn I have owned from my vic20 to the beast I run now .(must finish the beta version for windows 7.) A copy of the old Wadingtons Mastermind. On the Vic it would only support 4 pieces.

64 expanded to 5 with colour & sound. Amiga added go back (last move) and background music. Never published as I was writing stock control programs for the early Amstrad pc and teaching programs for the BBC. Happy days CJ

[Daniel James]

Fits the spec.

I note that the machine is clearly intended to have a hard drive (or SSD) ... "you can install Windows" and all that ... but there's no mention of a drive capacity anywhere in the spec.

Cheers, Daniel.