The Commodore Has Returned!

[K.I.T.T.]

@D.O.A.

This is probably already on your radar, but it's too cool to not share.

A YouTuber (and Knight Rider fan!) I've been following for a long time acquired Commodore and it's being reintroduced. Please enjoy this mega-gay cringeworthy video:

Commodore - The Future We Were Promised™

Commodore has returned from a parallel timeline where tech stayed optimistic, inviting, and human. Where it served us, not enslaved us. We’re here to bring that feeling back - retro • futurism, transparent tech, digital minimalism, real innovation.

commodore.net

 

[Ramres]

I know an old fart that used to make games for this and stuck with it, and still makes games for big companies. Had a stupid amount of money when he was 16 because of it. Guy always had great things to say about that job.

Video games had a lot of soul and were fun to work on when you had to mail your game director assets in a floppy disk. For all the same reasons comics had a lot more soul when you were mailing a stack of papers and not just sending it piece by piece online for your director to critique and tell you to change, just because they can. They didn't behave like that back then when it cost time and resources to get what they asked for.

The more the internet improved, the less respect and pay creators got.

 

[LUNATIC666]

i was a zx spectrum guy, lol... they released them again too..

 

[LUNATIC666]

who remembers, manic miner, played that fucker day and night, lol...

 

[Death2U]

No
I had one and no

 

[hedgerow]

i never played a video game in my life seems like a waste of energy to me

 

[djdeeds]

I love to use old tech , Moreso these days as the world rapidly kills off the simple pleasures of the past and replace it with cold emotionless quick fixes. I enjoy making music mixes on old reel to reel tapes and play records, and I remember the old Commodore and game consoles that required cassette games and flimsy discs. I think there's value in holding onto the simple enjoyments from the past. As I literally see 'real' money disappear and society being drained of anything with depth or meaning .. I'm gonna enjoy living out the rest of my life stuck in my daydreamy time warp

 

[Fäthër Cörpsë]

Bring back Kings Quest

 

[K.I.T.T.]

i never played a video game in my life seems like a waste of energy to me

I can understand that. I think for some of us our attraction to videogames and tech in general was partially due to timing. As a kid in the 80's, computers and games were so new and exciting. The tv had just a few over-the-air channels, so when a gadget came along that allowed you to interact with the tv, whether playing games or learning a new language of coding commands, it appealed to those of us with short attention spans especially.

I was fortunate to encounter so many early gaming consoles and computers and to see how it's evolved to the point it is now is amazing. I liken the nostalgia of the old-school tech of my generation to the previous generation's affinity for classic cars.

Guess you just had to be there, man.

 

[DokraOwl]

i never played a video game in my life seems like a waste of energy to me

I couldn't believe how normalized it had become among my friend group for some of them to play games for thousands of hours and well into their adulthood. I remember playing N64 as a child at a friend's house in between playing outside with super soakers or other real world games, bit that's it, as soon as late teens and adulthood came it never really crossed my mind to get into playing video games again. My only occasional video game was an arcade cabinet I restored as a project that had 60 classic arcades games on it, like pac man and donkey kong but these games typically began and ended within a minute or two of staring, I must admit I did become very good at Donkey Kong and once at a bar in South Carolina I saw an old Donkey Kong arcade and showed my friends how it was done with just a quarter worth of credits.

 

[Richard 1986]

I remember a fight game i played long time ago " The way of the exploding fist " perhaps on C64 ...

 

[j.f.🔎]

who remembers, manic miner, played that fucker day and night, lol...

I was the same with Treasure Island Dizzy.

 

[Amalgamation]

The only "C64" I knew growing up, was Command & Conquer for the N64.

By the time I started gaming consistently, our household was on the verge of getting rid of dial-up, and an aunt had an early laptop - one of those gigantic bulky fuckers.

 

[K.I.T.T.]

The only "C64" I knew growing up, was Command & Conquer for the N64.

By the time I started gaming consistently, our household was on the verge of getting rid of dial-up, and an aunt had an early laptop - one of those gigantic bulky fuckers.

We talking something along the lines of a '92 IBM, or older?

 

[j.f.🔎]

"C64" N64

The difference in memory size between the Commodore 64 and Nintendo 64 represents a massive technological leap over 14 years, with the Nintendo 64 having roughly 64 times more system RAM than the Commodore 64.

Apparently that's not where the 64 comes from, (it's the cpu, which is 90 times faster) I just thought it was odd that

(c)64 × 64 = (N)64

Someone gonna be looking at this comment thing I be doing equations n shit...

 

[Amalgamation]

We talking something along the lines of a '92 IBM, or older?

View attachment 983446

Not that old.