Commodore to make new PCs

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:59 pm

http://www.pro-g.co.uk/news/06-03-2007-4930.html

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.

"25 years ago, Commodore launched the best selling personal computer of the late 20th Century, the C64, and defined the early computer games experience for millions of people worldwide," said Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming. "We are privileged and excited to bring the Commodore brand back to the gaming community and mark a new chapter in its history with this exceptional machine. We're sure that it will deliver what gamers need and want."

The new Commodore PCs optimised 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.

Commodore Gaming is to make further announcements at the launch and promises that there are still some very exciting aspects of the product still to be revealed.

You know, if they put a 5.25" drive on them and made it so they could play C64 disks, that would be the greatest fucking thing ever. I mean, realistically all you have to do is get something to get those disks into an emulator... and, thinking this over for a second, I realize that an easier solution would be to have the emulator be a boot-up option or something, and just allow people to access their disk images. But still: I'd buy one if it did that, in a second, and I shouldn't be buying anything right now.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:19 pm

Maybe offer a disc exchange; the original diskette for a bootable CD with the emulation done natively.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 4:17 am

Now that is cool! I already have a c64 emulator so I can still play my favorites. Having a Commodore running at 4.0 megahertz would be slick city.

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Worm · Post by **Worm** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:55 am

ack, so basically they're getting on this whole "Falcon Gaming PC" craze while it's still hot?

hygraed · Post by **hygraed** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:44 am

From what I've read about it, these will basically just be high-end Windows machines with the Commodore logo on them.

I agree, though, built-in emulation of legacy Commodore machines would be the bee's god damn knees.