Commodore 64 ultimate

[ForrestGrump]

Will anyone be getting one?

I myself never owned a commodore 64 back in the day. Having an Amstrad.

The device looks amazing. Ive seen videos where they swap out their original C64 with genuine peripherals and it just works.

I even saw someone take the top case and keyboard off a C64 and it lined up perfectly and just worked.

I love the modern amenities introduced into it. Such as wifi, hdmi, usb. And virtualised tale/disc drives.

im seriously considering getting one to experience what it would be like to own a C64.

im hoping because its the actual commodore commodore making this that they also do an amiga version.

That would be a day one purchase for me.

I used to love my amiga.

Having a legit 2026 amiga would be amazing

 

[ForrestGrump]

An 'official' Amiga is a way off purely down to the splitting of rights from back in the 90s/00s, so the Amiga as we understand it is completely divorced from Commodore.

Yeah, I had a suspicion that was going to be the case. Shame.
However, I’ve watched a few more videos of the C64 ultimate, and I reckon I will pick one up.

It will be a different kind of nostalgia. To see what it would have been like to own a C64. Having an Amiga would be fun and all, but I know everything about that, so Imagine the novelty will wear off quite quickly.

I used to do some crazy Basic programmes on the Amstrad. But it never had hardware sprites. It would be fun to code a few programs with that capability.

And the fact you can simply increase the speed of the machine, negates any issues with Basic being rather slow.

Also, it will be much more fun to play the C64 versions of all the games I used to play.

The more videos I watch, the more I want one. The BBS idea appeals to me as well.

The early internet was out of my reach at that time. And these days I’ve given up on social media, and much prefer forums like this over places like Reddit.

Pretty sure you could run CP/M on the C128. So might even give that a go.

Having written all this, in fact I think it would be better than an Amiga, because all of this is new, yet still nostalgic.

 

[ForrestGrump]

If someone was to tell me in 1984 that I would finally be getting a brand new Commodore 64, some 38 years later, I would have looked at you like you were crazy.

I’m quite looking forward actually.