Awhile back, Commoodore announced the C64 Ultimate, an FPGA reboot of the Commodore 64, now with USB and HDMI and ethernet ports. The C64 has a long history of reboots and implementations, mostly geared towards the retrogaming crowd. More recently there's been an appetite for a full system version. Various projects have eaten around the edges, which have all culminated in an officially-branded Commodore release.
Good on them, and I hope they're successful.
When I first saw the announcement, my lizard brain shouted "WANT SHINY" as it usually does when presented with new tech. It also poked the part of my frontal lobe that's suspiciously susceptible to nostalgia, which a great many industries and a few political movements also like to do. I thought about the original Commodore 64 that is currently sitting on my workbench, in need of a few minor repairs, but otherwise a better avatar of nostalgia. Pretty sure I got it for the same reasons at the time. Then I wondered to myself: why am I not just fixing the unit I have, and salivating for something I don't have with features I don't really want? Read more…
