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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
Commodore PET Gets New Life as Windows PC
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Remember the old Commodore PET personal computer from back in the late 1970s? With its trapezoidal built-in monitor, it was the most “futuristic” computer of its time, despite its relatively meager 6502 CPU and up to 32KB of RAM under the hood. So this old computer was just begging for… |
May 9th, 2011
Papercraft Commodore Sx-64 Weighs Much Less Than the Original Luggable
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If you don’t remember the Commodore SX-64, it was the retro computer maker’s first attempt at a portable computer. The beastly box weighed in at a backbreaking 23 pounds. Thankfully, this papercraft version is a little lighter. Erik Schubach created this teensy-tiny “executive” SX-64 entirely out of paper (and maybe… |
November 28th, 2010
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
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
Strangest Media Player Name of the Day
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Commodore, the brand that brought us the Pet, the VIC-20 and the C64 are now bringing us another oddly named device, the Gravel in Pocket…. |
August 31st, 2006
