YouTuber Christian Simpson has bought the Commodore 64 brand and is releasing a new edition of the classic home computer

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I did some poking around to see if this was legit, considering there have been at least two other entities that have used loopholes in European trademark laws to try and claim ownership of the name for themselves (both selling cheaply rebranded electronics in Italy, oddly enough), and it appears that this is the real deal. Commodore Corporation B.V. was the legitimate owner of the Commodore trademark, so far as I can tell this is the actual brand we're dealing with here.
 
With this and the latest ZX Spectrum Next Kickstarter being live at the moment it looks like we'll be able to relive the early 1980s school playground ZX Spectrum v Commodore 64 wars soon. (The Amstrad CPC seems to be missing in action though.)
 
Will consider buying it only if still using datassette cassette players. Don't want any modern fancy formats like floppy disks or cartridges. Those are for nerds.
 
strela
Will consider buying it only if still using datassette cassette players. Don't want any modern fancy formats like floppy disks or cartridges. Those are for nerds.
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Exactly. If it doesn't require you to watch squiggly lines for 5 minutes while it downloads (and then to swear when it crashes at the end of loading), they're not doing it right ;)
 
sirjim73
Exactly. If it doesn't require you to watch squiggly lines for 5 minutes while it downloads (and then to swear when it crashes at the end of loading), they're not doing it right ;)
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Also remembering to plug in the jack into the output socket and not jumping out of your skin when it played the tape through the speaker.
 
Thank you folks, although I have no interest in any remake of a relic unless it’s firing more power than my current RTX, It’s a wonderful trip down memory lane to reminisce about the screeching, squawking almost pain like sound for many many minutes of a game that may or may not load depending on nothing but blind hope ..
The Spectrum 48k rainbow rubber keys felt like a such a upgrade to my not so trusty ZX81 that I thought it was the zenith of gaming, now I can fly anywhere on the planet in VR in my favourite planes and feel like I’m actually experiencing it, or race on world famous circuits in cars of my dreams with graphical fidelity that we just take for granted.. we are so lucky right now as gamers ..despite EA ( absolute scum pond life )
 
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Thank you folks, although I have no interest in any remake of a relic unless it’s firing more power than my current RTX, It’s a wonderful trip down memory lane to reminisce about the screeching, squawking almost pain like sound for many many minutes of a game that may or may not load depending on nothing but blind hope ..
The Spectrum 48k rainbow rubber keys felt like a such a upgrade to my not so trusty ZX81 that I thought it was the zenith of gaming, now I can fly anywhere on the planet in VR in my favourite planes and feel like I’m actually experiencing it, or race on world famous circuits in cars of my dreams with graphical fidelity that we just take for granted.. we are so lucky right now as gamers ..despite EA ( absolute scum pond life )
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We had 2 ZX81s, the keypad under the front used to gradually move so eventually the keys stopped working or changed from e.g. O to P. I don't miss that...
 

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