Commodore Returns with New Gaming PCs

JamesO writes "Commodore is a name which will bring memories flooding back to many a gamer and it's been announced that the legendary brand is to return with a new range of high specification gaming PCs. The new Commodore PCs optimized for gaming will be launched at the CeBIT show in Germany on March 15 and attendees will be offered the chance to play the latest PC games using the purpose-built PCs."

Its about time Lionel Ritchie changed career

[Timesprout]

nuff said.

Commadore 64(bit)

[drspliff]

Are these machines 64bit too?
It'd be nice bragging rights: I've got Linux/Windows running on a C64!

Bit Early?

[EveryNickIsTaken]

It's a bit early for Slashdot to start posting lame April Fool's articles, right?

Atari was a better system

[xzvf]

My Atari 800 was way cooler than the C64

Memory ?

[Rastignac]

As Commodore said a few years ago: " 64Ko ought to be enough for anybody. C64 rulez !".
I hope they'll stick more memory in their newest computer.

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Re:Atari was a better system

[pipatron]

That's because no one ever bothered to turn it on.

20th Century PCs

[Otter Escaping North]

"25 years ago, Commodore launched the best selling personal computer of the late 20th Century, the C64"

-- Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming.

There's a CEO with vision for you. Best PC of the late 20th century. Would've been best all time except for getting pwned by the mid-16th century's "Conquistador 200."

Loading games

[nodrogluap]

To load the games, will you still need to do

LOAD "*",8,1
RUN... :-)

Re:20th Century PCs

[slim]

"25 years ago, Commodore launched the best selling personal computer of the late 20th Century, the C64"

-- Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming.

There's a CEO with vision for you. Best PC of the late 20th century.

Best selling, fool!

Is it gonna be called

[$RANDOMLUSER]

the Vic 2.0?

Re:just a hunch

[gEvil (beta)]

I wish I owned ten ATMs. I'd be able to buy just about anything I wanted...

Re:In separate news...

[Anonymous Coward]

Cray is dead.

Netcraft confirms it!

In other news...

[broller]

Abraham Lincoln announced his candidacy for president this morning. Abraham "Honest Abe" Lincoln, a businessman from Chicago announced Tuesday before an invitation-only crowd of "four score and seven" supporters that he intended to "officially throw my stove-pipe hat into the ring." Mr. Lincoln, born Abraham Leibowitz, says that he changed his name last year, "because Leibowitz is hard for voters to spell." His opponents have said that Lincoln is merely trying to capitalize on the popularity of the sixteenth president's name. Lincoln asked that his supporters help to suppress this rumor, adding, "Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed."

Awesome!

[DoofusOfDeath]

I can't wait to play Zork on a 64-bit Athlon 5200+!

And it that gets boring, I can play all of Raid over Bungling Bay in 27 millisecond!

Re:Bit Early?

[rhyder128k]

Seems like the old ploy of slapping a respected old brand name on some unrelated kit. There is a company selling Acorn branded equipment in much the same manner:

http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/artifact1698.html [drobe.co.uk]

I won't consider one of these machines to be a true Commodore until they start to do things like:
Refuse to give the currently running Star Trek series a free machine as a prop forcing paramount to acquire a Mac instead.
Make a cut-down budget machine that is more expensive to manufacture than the regular machine (a600).

When I have some *guarantees* that they are running the business into the ground even though they have massive lead over their competitors, then I'll consider this to be a Commodore. And not before!

Machines optimized for gaming...

[jez9999]

So they're running Linux, right?

Re:just a hunch

[j00r0m4nc3r]

Many will have got bored of tweaking and now be happy to buy a prebuilt machine

You're right about that. There are so many different bus speeds, and CPU types, and memory types, and chipsets, and video cards, and so on and so on... Who wants to keep track of all that shit and build their own computer nowadays just to save $100? It used to be fun back in the day, but nowadays I just feel like, "Sheesh. Just give me something that works already so I can get back to re-drywalling my stupid living room..."

Re:20th Century PCs

[elrous0]

"Conquistador 200."

Hey! Mine still works you insensitive clod!

-Eric

Re:Bit Early?

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll know this is the real C= when all the engineers quit and they axe development of a really cool machine in favour of a slapped together piece of crap that even the Taiwanese wouldn't ship.

Yes I am still bitter about the A3000+, A4000 and the post-AGA chipsets, why do you ask? Medhi Ali can...go do something very rude to himself.

Re:just a hunch

[Hal_Porter]

I have a feeling this is doomed to fail. Anyone who is old enough to remember when Commodore was a decent gaming platform has probably grown into the type of person who builds his own machines. And the Amiga users will just sit there reminiscing about the good old days...

No, they hide in dark places from the Atari users, who've been workin' out since the 1980's. We have Ninja skills, nunchuck skills, firearms skills, benchpress skills.

ATARI POSSE! REPRESENT!

Re:Is it gonna be called

[operagost]

** CBM BASIC V2 **
3583 MEGABYTES FREE

READY.

Re:Loading games

[ElephanTS]

Or am I overanalyzing the joke and being pedantic?

You betcha!

I just had to

[spudnic]

I just had to post to make sure my sig got into this discussion.

Re:Commadore 64(bit)

[sharkey]

I know a genuine Commadore 64 when I see one! And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.

Re:Loading games

[sharkey]

...load into the stack area, which (fortunately) was located south of location "x0101"...

So THAT'S why SuperHuey kept crashing after I turned my desk to face the window. That put the stack west of "x0101"! Sure wish I'd known that at the time :(

Re:Atari was a better system

[Anonymous Coward]

The 800 _was_ superior:

Commodore 64 - could be used as a doorstop
Atari 800 - could be used to break down a door

Re:Bit Early?

[Anonymous Coward]

You work for Sony? ;)

Re:Atari was a better system

[SCPRedMage]

Everyone on Slashdot has a Thing that works, but isn't used much.

I call mine "Playstation 3".

Re:just a hunch

[GrumpySimon]

Since this is sounding like a support group of recovering addicts: Hi, I'm Simon, I'm 27, and I owned an Amiga. It affected me so much that I spent an afternoon recreating the good times in XHTML [simon.net.nz].

Re:Its about time Lionel Ritchie changed career

[MysteriousPreacher]

He designed the case of the Commodore PET and worked on the Commodore 16 ROM. He enjoyed his time at Commodore so much that, after being fire by Commodore for exposing himself to interns, he formed a band called The Commodores [wikipedia.org].

Re:Is it gonna be called

[gregski]

From what I remember of the C64, 3.17yrs to load a game sounds about right.

Re:Atari was a better system

[laffer1]

It works?

Re:Atari was a better system

[AmberBlackCat]

I call mine "husband".

Re:Commadore 64(bit)

[KDR_11k]

Even better if they replaced the Windows key with a Commodore key (or should that be alt?).