This can't be happening. #Commodore is back?? https://www.commodore.net/product-page/commodore-64-ultimate-basic-beige-batch1
"Commodore has returned from a parallel timeline where tech stayed optimistic, inviting, and human."
"The first official Commodore 64 in over 30 years is here - a faithful recreation of the original motherboard on FPGA hardware."
I know this news is a few weeks old, but I'm just discovering this. This is the kind of thing I dream about.
It can run in an extended mode with higher speed and more RAM!
And it has an Ethernet port and HDMI. Wow!
I'd happily pay $300 for this. *Especially* if I can play with my own designs on the FPGA. It would be such an amazing testbed for ideas if so.
My programming journey mostly began with JavaScript + ProcessingJS library, and ever since then it's been a journey to get down to writing real software for a real computer. Everything nowadays is too complicated and mysterious, with the Intel Management engine and Web browsers and proprietary software and such (and Nvidia -- don't get me started). But finally I could have a computer that's honest and is just... a COMPUTER.
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[From my YouTube comment on https://youtu.be/S2fGP59mJ5M]
This is a dream come true.
I am too young to have used a Commodore 64, but I have always wanted to better touch the Real Computer inside the case. I've always wanted a simpler computer I could understand, down to the core.