Commodore Returns with New Gaming PCs 281
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."
Ironically (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Atari was a better system (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't RTFA (Score:5, Interesting)
<sigh>
Re:just a hunch (Score:1, Interesting)
I loved my c-64
Re:just a hunch (Score:5, Interesting)
However, I'm 40, and every machine I own (ten atm) is home built.
I guess you're right then.....
TV output? (Score:3, Interesting)
The original C=64 could output to a TV, and most games for the platform anticipated this. They also were optimized for joystick or joystick+partial keyboard control. But unfortunately, few games for Windows anticipate reading input from two USB gamepads and displaying output on a standard-definition TV. Does Commodore plan to revive the development of TV-friendly computer games?
Re:just a hunch (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Nostalgic name, but that's it. (Score:4, Interesting)
Brand loyalty can be a funny and superficial thing, and I'm not usually a practitioner of it myself, but I still prefer to see it used by those who earned it rather than third parties who scoop up names that others built. As another commenter on this story wrote, it feels pretty much like the retail version of domain squatting.
When Commodore... (Score:5, Interesting)
- returns to making computers that boots in one second -
- creates an OS that has programming languages built-in and ready to go -
- designs a machine that will fit in a backpack -
- invents a clock that keeps time without power -
- does something revolutionary -
that's when I'll buy another Commodore. I'll be damned if I let a group of people manipulate my nostalgia to sell me something as common as air.
Commodore made x86 machines in the 80s & 90s (Score:5, Interesting)
There's also the bizarre "Commodore 64" Internet Computer [zimmers.net].
So this use of the Commodore brand isn't completely ridiculous, just a little bit ridiculous.
Re:Ironically (Score:3, Interesting)
As another poster said, buy an old name, slap it on any old equipment; Commodore's brands have been exploited this way before [theregister.co.uk]. Things is, these tactics seem to get some attention from the press. Does the "new" Napster have any more relation to the original service (or its owners) than any other legal download service? No; but the press hyped up its "rebirth" as if it did. Or perhaps it was just an excuse to write some articles about the download market; whatever. At least new Napster was doing sort of the same thing as the original company.
Personally, I don't mind Infogrames using the Atari name, because the original company is long dead (and was latterly crap). What pisses me off is that- for no reason I can see other than a third-rate designer justifying his salary (FOAD)- they mucked about with the original "Fuji" logo. Yeah, I know, they just changed the middle bar; but the original's brilliance *was* that it was so simple, yet well-designed.