For the nostalgic of Generation X, raised in the early eighties in the golden age of the home computer, the ad has earned a tear of emotion. The historic Commodore 64, the computer that has grown an entire race of geeks Western back into production, ready for the world launch by next summer. This is not a clone of Chinese, as happened in the past with many computers and consoles of the past decades, but an official version of renewable technologies, signed by Commodore itself.
The first images of the prototype appear to be extracted from an advertisement for thirty years ago. Externally, the new model is almost identical to the original, with its massive big key keyboard, beige and brown. Inside, however, Commodore has done a complete makeover, putting the technology of a modern PC, dual core processor with Blu-ray.
Our past is back, but for the world of technology is not new. Images when the computer returns Vintage technology. Over the years, the remakes of old computers and consoles have affected almost all the big names in the hi-tech eighties and nineties. Among the most "republished" We are probably the Atari hardware, often come to light in the form of small devices plug & play.
This is the case dell'Atari Classics, a console-controller to be connected to the TV screen, with ten games pre-installed. Or Arcadia Gold, a variant always produced at reduced prices from Jakks. Recently, the Megadrive is back in vogue, with a repeat of the blaze, which has transformed the Sega console in a laptop new concept.
Nintendo and Super Nintendo were exhumed from Innex however, that with his Retro Duo has two hardware together in a single console. Among the historic home computer, long life has had the ZX Spectrum, repeated all over the world about fifty clone versions, mostly produced in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Some of these models, such as ATM Turbo are, nevertheless, remained in production until a few years ago. Commodore itself is currently working on several new remake, including a modern version of his Amiga computer, waiting for the next few months. Champions of the past. When hardware manufacturers do not provide, the fans are to be armed with screwdriver and nostalgia, making even small masterpieces.
They are wizards like Benjamin Heckendorn, the Net has become a celebrity with his hand-made remake of major hardware in the past. His projects have become like the Atari 800 laptop, a Nintendo in a microchip or the PlayStation Portable is not official. Experiments in the middle between the commemoration of the morbid and technological Frankenstein, which earned him the German modder even his own web-show.
Other fans prefer the remake software, as the developers Polish Hipopotam. Their work is all collected on the website Pic Pica, where you can play perfect reproductions of the "schiacciapensieri" or period of Game & Watch. From Italy comes the team instead of ACube Systems, which last year released his Amiga OS 4.1, an operating system that aims at renewing the magic of the Commodore Amiga between lovers.
Commodore, mon amour. Unlike his contemporaries, the new model Commodore 64 will be completely renovated from the technological point of view. The computer will mount a motherboard mini-ITC, with dual core Intel Atom 525 Intel and Nvidia ION2. The hard-disk drive will be 160GB (upgradeable to 1TB), the memory RAM starts from a minimum of 2GB.
Even the chassis has undergone some changes. The left side is occupied by a DVD player, with the option to integrate a Blu-ray. On the right inputs will be installed to memory cards and USB ports. On the back, all connections of a modern PC. The computer will be provided with the operating system Ubuntu 10.04, based on Linux.
Commodore also announced the development of an ad hoc emulator that will play the original system and will be provided along with some vintage video games. The launch of the New Commodore 64 is expected within the next 6-9 weeks, but bookings are already open on the official website. For the base model are needed $ 595 (about 420 euro), while a full-featured price rises to $ 895 (over 600 €).
An attractive investment, given the nostalgic value added. Thirty years of history. It has been almost 30 years since August 1982, when Commodore launched its hardware beige, but the generation that grew up during those years he never forgot the Commodore 64. The original model was discontinued in 1994 after 12 years of age and about 17 million units sold, according to official estimates.
Its software, especially games, however, continued to live in different corners of the technological world. Commodore found asylum applications on modern computers, through emulators like CCS64, Vice and Power64. More recently, instead calling on consoles and smartphones. This is the case of the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console, the online service from which to download vintage video games, which now has a decent selection of titles Commodore.
Or Commodore 64, the iPhone application that allows you to relive the great classics on the iPhone by. Nothing to do with the real thing, of course, who will return to the market by this summer to the delight of Generation X. Nostalgia, now costs only 400 €. 
The first images of the prototype appear to be extracted from an advertisement for thirty years ago. Externally, the new model is almost identical to the original, with its massive big key keyboard, beige and brown. Inside, however, Commodore has done a complete makeover, putting the technology of a modern PC, dual core processor with Blu-ray.
Our past is back, but for the world of technology is not new. Images when the computer returns Vintage technology. Over the years, the remakes of old computers and consoles have affected almost all the big names in the hi-tech eighties and nineties. Among the most "republished" We are probably the Atari hardware, often come to light in the form of small devices plug & play.
This is the case dell'Atari Classics, a console-controller to be connected to the TV screen, with ten games pre-installed. Or Arcadia Gold, a variant always produced at reduced prices from Jakks. Recently, the Megadrive is back in vogue, with a repeat of the blaze, which has transformed the Sega console in a laptop new concept.
Nintendo and Super Nintendo were exhumed from Innex however, that with his Retro Duo has two hardware together in a single console. Among the historic home computer, long life has had the ZX Spectrum, repeated all over the world about fifty clone versions, mostly produced in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Some of these models, such as ATM Turbo are, nevertheless, remained in production until a few years ago. Commodore itself is currently working on several new remake, including a modern version of his Amiga computer, waiting for the next few months. Champions of the past. When hardware manufacturers do not provide, the fans are to be armed with screwdriver and nostalgia, making even small masterpieces.
They are wizards like Benjamin Heckendorn, the Net has become a celebrity with his hand-made remake of major hardware in the past. His projects have become like the Atari 800 laptop, a Nintendo in a microchip or the PlayStation Portable is not official. Experiments in the middle between the commemoration of the morbid and technological Frankenstein, which earned him the German modder even his own web-show.
Other fans prefer the remake software, as the developers Polish Hipopotam. Their work is all collected on the website Pic Pica, where you can play perfect reproductions of the "schiacciapensieri" or period of Game & Watch. From Italy comes the team instead of ACube Systems, which last year released his Amiga OS 4.1, an operating system that aims at renewing the magic of the Commodore Amiga between lovers.
Commodore, mon amour. Unlike his contemporaries, the new model Commodore 64 will be completely renovated from the technological point of view. The computer will mount a motherboard mini-ITC, with dual core Intel Atom 525 Intel and Nvidia ION2. The hard-disk drive will be 160GB (upgradeable to 1TB), the memory RAM starts from a minimum of 2GB.
Even the chassis has undergone some changes. The left side is occupied by a DVD player, with the option to integrate a Blu-ray. On the right inputs will be installed to memory cards and USB ports. On the back, all connections of a modern PC. The computer will be provided with the operating system Ubuntu 10.04, based on Linux.
Commodore also announced the development of an ad hoc emulator that will play the original system and will be provided along with some vintage video games. The launch of the New Commodore 64 is expected within the next 6-9 weeks, but bookings are already open on the official website. For the base model are needed $ 595 (about 420 euro), while a full-featured price rises to $ 895 (over 600 €).
An attractive investment, given the nostalgic value added. Thirty years of history. It has been almost 30 years since August 1982, when Commodore launched its hardware beige, but the generation that grew up during those years he never forgot the Commodore 64. The original model was discontinued in 1994 after 12 years of age and about 17 million units sold, according to official estimates.
Its software, especially games, however, continued to live in different corners of the technological world. Commodore found asylum applications on modern computers, through emulators like CCS64, Vice and Power64. More recently, instead calling on consoles and smartphones. This is the case of the Nintendo Wii's Virtual Console, the online service from which to download vintage video games, which now has a decent selection of titles Commodore.
Or Commodore 64, the iPhone application that allows you to relive the great classics on the iPhone by. Nothing to do with the real thing, of course, who will return to the market by this summer to the delight of Generation X. Nostalgia, now costs only 400 €.
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- Atari Finally Sets Up Shop in the iPhone App Store (07/04/2011)
- Sneak peek at the all-new Commodore 64 (images) (04/04/2011)
- Back to the future: New Commodore 64 en route (05/04/2011)
- The New Commodore 64, Updated With Its Old Exterior - NYTimes.com (06/04/2011)
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