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c64x Extreme: Commodore 64 Gets Upgraded Specs, Still Won’t Play Crysis
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Last year, a man named Barry Altman founded Commodore USA, LLC and acquired the rights to the Commodore computer brand. His company has since relaunched the brand along with the Commodore 64, the legendary all-in-one computer in a keyboard that inspired a generation of programmers, tinkerers and gamers. It’s latest… |
November 6th, 2011
N.U.T.Z.: the Nuttiest C64 Music Video You’Ll See Today
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The following sentence from the description for this music video for Germany’s Kabelbrand pretty much sums it up… “Godzilla Squirrel attacks Cologne !!!” Got it? Good. Oh, they forgot to mention the part about the chainsaw. So here it is. “Godzilla Squirrel with Chainsaw attacks Cologne !!!” …Sit back and |
August 29th, 2010
Commodore 64 Cake Looks Retrolicious
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In my everyday, I have a hard time passing up retro computers, video games or cake. So when I saw this Commodore 64 cake, I had to at least give it a mention. Yeah, yeah. I don’t remember playing PONG… on my C64 either, and it’s not as sleek or |
August 11th, 2009
Commodore 64 Vs. the iPhone 3gs: Guess Who Won?
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After the arguably unnecessary rejection of the Commodore 64 emulator for the iPhone, Technologizer‘s Harry McCracken – whose last name would be much cooler if it ended with an exclamation point: McCracken! (and started with Zak) – decided to pit the iconic Commodore 64 with the future Hall of Famer,… |
June 26th, 2009
IPhone Sid Player Cranks Out C64 8-Bit Chiptunes
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Miss the classic 8-bit sounds of the Commodore 64? Well thanks to this new app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, you can listen to all of your favorite retro sounds all over again. Software Engineer Michael Lauer recently released SID Player, which emulates the 6581 SID audio circuit from… |
January 5th, 2009
Foldskool Heroes: They’Re Boxy but They’Re Good
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Got mad paper, scissor and tape skills? How about a fondness for old school video games and computers? Then have I got a fun afternoon project for you. Graphic designer Marshall Alexander’s cutout characters includes a veritable menagerie fantastical creatures and critters all made from boxy paper cutouts, but his… |
December 16th, 2008
Midibox Sid: C64 Transformed Into Glowing Midi Synth
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The venerable Commodore 64 is well known among the electronic music community as a synthesizer modder’s dream machine thanks to its robust SID audio chipset. But most of the mods I’ve seen end up looking just like an old C64 and all the cool stuff is going on under the… |
June 8th, 2008
Circuit Bent Commodore 64: Revenge of the 80s
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One of the most popular computers from the 1980s, the Commodore 64, is having a minor renaissance as an electronic musical instrument. The C64′s audio chip is famous for producing an array of warm, familiar 8-bit beats and blips. |
February 16th, 2008
Guitar Hero Hits the Commodore 64
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If you’ve never bothered to get out of the 80′s and upgrade from that old Commodore 64, it turns out you don’t have to miss out on modern video games. Heck, why shouldn’t you be able to play Guitar Hero… on your C64? Toni Westbrook’s Shredz64 project aims to interface |
November 28th, 2007
