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The Commodore 64 has been reincarnated as a 3GHz quad-core PC with 3D graphics, Gigabit Ethernet, a DVD-RW drive, and a 500GB hard disk. All that's left is the built-in keyboard. And the name. In this case, that 64 can only mean a 64-bit processor - not 64 kilobytes of memory. Memory's up to a decidedly un-1980s eight …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Can I???

    Can I plug it into my telly?

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  2. some dude
    Linux

    Hrm

    Get back to me when they release a quad-core spectrum

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  3. Aron
    FAIL

    nope

    Needed the classic Commodore case and keyboard to sell it to me and a decent graphics card.

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  4. Giles Jones Gold badge

    Custom chips?

    If this thing doesn't have custom chips then what is the point?

    Commodore was all about custom silicon that blew away the competition, from the C64 SID chip that was a 3 note poly hybrid synthesizer (digital oscillators, analog filter) to the ground breaking chips in the Amiga.

    This is just another PC in a odd looking box.

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  5. necwarrior

    Ha Ha @ this BS

    what nonsense. I have had an identical PC from Cybernet for almost 4 years now. Here is the

    link to the website. ofcourse mine had a celeron D processor and windows xp. but they offer C2d in their recent configs. The ZPC (Zero-Footprint-PC) is the name of the model. Here is the link to the website.

    http://www.cybernetman.com/

    So basically someone is just renaming a product that is already been in the market for over 5 years and selling it as a new line. They sure as hell aren't cheap. When my power cord went out I had to shell out almost $80 for a proprietary one from the company. So if you dont want to wait for "The June Launch of the Commodore Store" you can just buy one from Cybernet.

    LoL...

    Amar

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    1. M Gale
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      Plus One to you

      also:

      "The cacophonous pinging of slot machines as hopeful players try another spin, the shouts of exuberant – and exasperated – gamblers as they court Lady Luck, mixed with the myriad conversations, laughter and the calls of dealers and pit bosses all may create the impression that a busy casino is truly a place of chaos. But the Silver Slipper Casino in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, demonstrates how managers in the multi-billion-dollar gaming industry impose order on the apparent madness through meticulous financial controls and state-of-the-art technology to monitor every game, every transaction and every player, win or lose. "

      Did AManFromMars write this site?

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  6. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

    @If only

    Take a look at http://www.mini-itx.com/ modern hardware stuffed into just about anything.

    There are even a couple of C64s in there.

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  7. sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD
    FAIL

    Wow

    Something potentially lamer than an iMac... interesting.

    (It is not wise, in my opinion, to shoehorn everything, I mean everything into one box, unless you're talking laptops for the advantage of mobility. Otherwsie, you have all the disadvantages of a laptop and desktop bound pc with none of the advantages of either).

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    WTF?

    how is it possible...

    ...That so many people here think the apple II shipped without color?! One of woz's big coups was the clever way he did color with very little memory usage. They may not have sold *rgb monitors* but the apple II was color w/ composite output from day one!

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  9. Dave Bell

    Not convinced, but...

    A lot of LCD TVs are usable as computer monitors. It does depend on whether you have a compatible output from the computer.

    It's a niche market, reliability is an issue, and if you want a games machine, get a games machine. But, with USB drives as well, this is a workable idea. One thing's for sure, you only covered this because of the Commodore name, so somebdy maybe had the right idea to buy the rights.

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  10. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Oh really?

    Debuting on July 1st or April 1st?

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  11. Joe Cassara

    Some Corrections

    This article (surprisingly for The Register) gets things wrong. The machine Commodore built instead of buying the Apple design (and hiring those two bozos) was the PET, not the C64.

    As for Woz... That fat bearded revisionist is so full of crap (and himself). Jack Tramiel and the Commodore board wasn't interested in sustaining a business? Of course they were. Steve, what Apple was interested in was gouging consumers with giant profit margins for an inferior line of machines.

    You used to matter, Woz. But since you started drinking the Apple Kool-Aid, you've become just a laughable has-been. Get on your Wheel of Zeus and peddle yourself out of here.

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