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Kowalski_GT-R
October 16th, 2007, 09:11 AM
clicky (http://www.commodoreworld.com/world/Devices/3+C200.aspx)


are they gonna make it? :)

curuxz
October 16th, 2007, 09:35 AM
its not commodore, its someone who has brought their brand and has NOTHING to do with the legends that made com64.


They look cool but i wish they would not do that to a great brand! :)

southernman
October 16th, 2007, 09:38 AM
Could it be a typical Redmond move? Stranger things have happened!

Kowalski_GT-R
October 16th, 2007, 09:44 AM
Could it be a typical Redmond move? Stranger things have happened!

interesting theory - it's related to their recent selling of PCs? they sell Os-less pc too...

Matakoo
October 16th, 2007, 10:00 AM
clicky (http://www.commodoreworld.com/world/Devices/3+C200.aspx)


are they gonna make it? :)

The question is...can you load the music on that thing by doing LOAD "*",8,1? That's a must...

starfry
October 16th, 2007, 10:02 AM
If only they would re-release the C64 :)

southernman
October 16th, 2007, 10:04 AM
interesting theory - it's related to their recent selling of PCs? they sell Os-less pc too...

Theory may be a bit to generous. More of a suspicious hunch is all... guess that's a theory none-the-less though eh?

Based on past performance of buying technology and trying to expand their dominant position in the market is the basis for my comment. Apple owns them with the IPOD. Buying and trying to capitalize on the commodore brand, would fall right into line with that past performance of trying to one up the competition.

Again, it's merely speculative at this point.

K.Mandla
October 16th, 2007, 10:10 AM
If only they would re-release the C64 :)
There sort, kind of, was one a few years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV

Jeri Ellsworth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth) was the creator. From what I've read, she's exceptionally talented.

Warren Watts
October 16th, 2007, 10:26 AM
The question is...can you load the music on that thing by doing LOAD "*",8,1? That's a must...
:lolflag:
Brings back old memories.... :-D

daverich
October 16th, 2007, 11:26 AM
Commodore is much like Elvis.

Kind regards

Dave Rich

Tom Mann
October 16th, 2007, 01:57 PM
Just think - if they hadn't screwed up so badly with the Amiga - we could all be running Amiga 8000s or something now :)

EDIT: They had an amazing machine - they just screwed up their business practices...

FranMichaels
October 16th, 2007, 02:24 PM
The question is...can you load the music on that thing by doing LOAD "*",8,1? That's a must...

Just grab VICE for c64 goodness (it's in the Ubuntu repositories)

You can play sids with gstreamer, although audacious has excellent support with its sid plugin, and can handle subtunes and info on the tunes. Also, in the repositories, under audacious-plugins-*.

As for sids, nothing beats
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

:KS

Anyway, I believe the saying about Commodore and its business acuity
"Commodore couldn't sell a glass of water to someone dying of thirst in the desert"

Incense
October 16th, 2007, 02:48 PM
Just grab VICE for c64 goodness (it's in the Ubuntu repositories)

You can play sids with gstreamer, although audacious has excellent support with its sid plugin, and can handle subtunes and info on the tunes. Also, in the repositories, under audacious-plugins-*.

As for sids, nothing beats
http://www.hvsc.c64.org/

:KS

Anyway, I believe the saying about Commodore and its business acuity
"Commodore couldn't sell a glass of water to someone dying of thirst in the desert"

I was just going to ask if there was a C64 emulator in the repos. I used that computer for almost 10 years. It would be pretty sweet to see a new Commodore, but would it be a PC running windows, or maybe an Amiga/Linuix type hybrid? These media player things just don't make me think of Commodore.

forrestcupp
October 16th, 2007, 02:48 PM
Oh yay. We really need another mp3 player produced by a company that bought the Commodore trademark to try to get more sales. That's sacrilege.


Could it be a typical Redmond move? Stranger things have happened!
I hope you don't really believe that. I think some people here are more obsessed with MS than Steve Ballmer is. I suppose Microsoft secretly owns the United Nations, too?


Anyway, I believe the saying about Commodore and its business acuity
"Commodore couldn't sell a glass of water to someone dying of thirst in the desert"
They weren't always like that. If they were, they wouldn't have been the dominant marketshare in home computing with the C64. Everybody had one.

BuffaloX
October 16th, 2007, 10:01 PM
My wife has forbidden me to mention Amiga anymore....
Amiga this Amiga that....
Nothing will ever beat the excitement of the cool Amiga 1000.
I once took off the top, just to see if it was true it was signed by the Amiga team.

Commodore is long gone, the spirit of the time of the C64 and the Amiga has gone.
The Amiga 1000 had the coolest graphics, audio, CPU, OS and system bus, available at the time.
Today Linux is the coolest OS (IMO) but it runs on hardware based on an architecture passed down to us from an ancient past, based on i8088 8bit technology.

swoll1980
October 16th, 2007, 10:12 PM
Commodore rocks!!! :guitar:

skompier
October 17th, 2007, 01:25 AM
Trivia Question...

Who was featured in the print ads for the Commodore VIC 20?

tehhaxorr
October 17th, 2007, 07:40 AM
Has DRM... yuck, thanksno...

forrestcupp
October 17th, 2007, 01:36 PM
There probably won't be too many media players that don't have DRM seeing how most of the downloadable digital media available is DRM-enabled. They don't want to cripple themselves; they want to maximize their base. That doesn't mean you can't use DRM-less media on it, though.

But I wouldn't use any product that is raping the Commodore name. Commodore is the only thing that is about as awesome as Chuck Norris.