April 23rd, 2007
Commodore Gaming PC Now Available Online
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
No, it’s not a PET, but it is a Commodore. The old brand has been resurrected as a series of Wintel gaming boxes.
The online store will be launching across Europe in mid May, alongside retail outlets in UK, Germany, France and the Benelux. Further details on retailers for European territories will be released shortly.
The online store will supply the higher specification models Commodore gx and Commodore xx, while the Commodore g and Commodore gs range will be made available in retail outlets. Commodore Gaming machines are priced competitively for such high spec components and hand-finished build quality: Source: GamesIndustry.biz
We Say: Those were the days. The Commodore PET, the TRS-80, the Apple II (yes, I’m dating myself, aren’t I? 
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Charles says:
I’m with ya Michael… me and my Timex Sinclair 1000.
Yep, owned a TRS-80 and A Commodore 64 too. Cassette tape drives, dot-matrix printers, woohoo!
April 24th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Lewie says:
And Atari 800 and Amiga and Microsoft Basic on a cartridge. Damn, computers used to be fun!
April 24th, 2007 at 4:24 am
MissingFrame says:
It’s painful to look at that picture of the PET and think how great I thought it was …
April 24th, 2007 at 7:05 am
metermax says:
The C64 was a great thing. I had a Vic-20, then the C-64 a year later. I used my tape drive for both, until the next Christmas, when I got my 1541 disk drive. Mine had the switch-type door instead of the pop-out latch. More 1571 than 1540.
I used that thing from Sophomore year HS 1985 all the way through to graduating college in 1992. It was how I typed and printed my papers, played games, and dialed up bulletin boards for D&D groups.
That is value.
I bought the C64 joystick with the 30 games on it too, and I have a bunch of PC emulators, the SID chip emulator, etc. 8 bit computing was good to me. I’m a programmer now.
April 24th, 2007 at 9:18 am
Charles says:
Awesome… nothing says ‘cool’ like a dial-up connection and a BBS for D&D.
April 24th, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Steve R says:
Wow, the nostalgia here is thick enough to smear on bread with jelly.
I loved my C-64 by the way, and ended up selling it 2 years later for the same price I’d bought it for. Try that now, Mikey Dell!
I also remember the first time I destroyed a computer by spilling hot chocolate into an Apple II keyboard, and found out the motherboard was right underneath.
Question, Michael — is that photo REALLY what the new Commodore game machine looks like? A retro look?
April 25th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Steve R says:
P.S. The silhouette logo on the new machines looks more than ever like a cartoon chicken head.
April 25th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Michael says:
those were the days… i remember waiting for over an hour at my friend’s house for karateka to load from cassette and the floppy drive that sounded like it was literally eating your disks.
i still think that my ibm pc jr. was cooler than the c64. its wireless keyboard and tv connectivity were awesome… kings quest and ultima 3 were the $#1t back then.
April 26th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
LZW says:
“You think your Commodore 64 is real neato. What kind of chip you got in there, a Dorrito?” — Weird Al Yankovic
Retro gaming is real cool… I love downloading old Atari/Nintendo ROMs and the emulator programs that run them in windows!
April 26th, 2007 at 3:14 pm