Commodore is back

Slider · 24-August-08, 06:56 PM

Looks like someone bought the old Commodore name, and is producing some interesting PCs.

Commodore Gaming: High Performance PC's

Hak Foo · 24-August-08, 07:43 PM

Boat missed.

What made Commodore a success was mass-production. The VIC 20 and 64 were dirt-cheap and robust machines, and by selling them by the millions, they created a console-like target for developers.

Nothing about this product achieves these goals.

They're just another boutique PC firm, who bought a famous name. If I want a $4,500 PC with a painting of Deshwitat Rudbich on it, I can get it fifteen other places.

Monsignor Funkibut · 24-August-08, 09:04 PM

It's kind of like the marketing types that keep the Atari name going - despite the fact they have no pre-Warner Bros. employees like Bushnell involved at all.

Still - you would have thought that a company called Commodore would have produced a PC-in-a-keyboard kind of thing instead of a so-so Alienware clone.

Boat missed - and by a Commodore no less

-MF

Dex · 25-August-08, 04:58 AM

Boat missed? Post missed, I think. This was posted monthes ago. They do have some pretty unique designs though, id quite happily take one of those Breadboxes off their hands.

ovalval · 26-August-08, 04:38 AM

C64 was my second (after Spectrum+) computer. It has 64kB of RAM and floppy disc drive capacity of 128kB or 256kB (doublesided?). I think it was 128kB. Somebody remembers?

MRMOBEUS · 26-August-08, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dex


	Boat missed? Post missed, I think. This was posted monthes ago. They do have some pretty unique designs though, id quite happily take one of those Breadboxes off their hands.

Aye I posted about this early last year on A4T. I'ld love to get my hands on one.
Could you even guess at the size of the waiting list for one of these babies to review?
It's BIG.

Paul

DarthBeavis · 30-August-08, 12:51 AM

I hung out with their CTO at Nvision and liked what I heard . . .

24-August-08, 06:56 PM		#1 (permalink)
Slider Ghostrider	Commodore is back Looks like someone bought the old Commodore name, and is producing some interesting PCs. Commodore Gaming: High Performance PC's

24-August-08, 07:43 PM		#2 (permalink)
Hak Foo Apex Elite Tech	Re: Commodore is back Boat missed. What made Commodore a success was mass-production. The VIC 20 and 64 were dirt-cheap and robust machines, and by selling them by the millions, they created a console-like target for developers. Nothing about this product achieves these goals. They're just another boutique PC firm, who bought a famous name. If I want a $4,500 PC with a painting of Deshwitat Rudbich on it, I can get it fifteen other places.

24-August-08, 09:04 PM		#3 (permalink)
Monsignor Funkibut Master VB Pr'hoe'grammer	Re: Commodore is back It's kind of like the marketing types that keep the Atari name going - despite the fact they have no pre-Warner Bros. employees like Bushnell involved at all. Still - you would have thought that a company called Commodore would have produced a PC-in-a-keyboard kind of thing instead of a so-so Alienware clone. Boat missed - and by a Commodore no less -MF

25-August-08, 04:58 AM		#4 (permalink)
Dex Retr-hoe Reviewer	Re: Commodore is back Boat missed? Post missed, I think. This was posted monthes ago. They do have some pretty unique designs though, id quite happily take one of those Breadboxes off their hands.

26-August-08, 04:38 AM		#5 (permalink)
ovalval Apex Techie Wannabe	Re: Commodore is back C64 was my second (after Spectrum+) computer. It has 64kB of RAM and floppy disc drive capacity of 128kB or 256kB (doublesided?). I think it was 128kB. Somebody remembers?

30-August-08, 12:51 AM		#7 (permalink)
DarthBeavis Apex Advanced Techie	Re: Commodore is back I hung out with their CTO at Nvision and liked what I heard . . .

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