Commodore

Computing

The NEW Commodore 64 Can Finally Be Yours

9:20AM April 7, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Remember when Commodore tried to relaunch their brand with a sterile-looking keyboard PC? Remember when they decided against that, opting to cram modern guts into a retro Commodore 64 shell? Well the latter will be available later this month, featuring the NVIDIA Ion 2 chipset. More »

Gaming

You Should Be Able To Guess What iAmiga Does…

9:40PM December 10, 2010 | Gary Cutlack

The telltale lowercase letter. The word Amiga. Yes, it’s a fully working Commodore Amiga emulator for iPhone and it’ll be launching soon – pending deals with the original software publishers to ensure it’s all 100 per cent legal and legit. More »

Tricking An Internet Conman Into Sculpting You A Commodore 64

8:00AM September 30, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Internet spamsters are often nigh-artistic with the fraudulent tales they weave – an exiled prince! Hidden treasure! – but scamming them can be even more creative. The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal tells one revenge story of a conman duped into carving wooden sculptures. More »

Cameras

The Annual Return From The Dead Of The Commodore Brand

7:00PM August 27, 2010 | Gary Cutlack

The Commodore name still just about lives on, even though the original owners have long since left the factory. The latest product to carry the once-great computing name is the PC64 — an all-in-one Atom PC in a C64 case. More »

Computing

Commodore Invictus Keyboard-Computer Specs Bests The Asus Eee Keyboard

5:23AM June 4, 2010 | Casey Chan

The Commodore Invictus is picking a fight with the Asus Eee Keyboard for supremacy in the PC-in-a-keyboard with a touchscreen-on-the-side category, and with the specs Commodore is listing, it may just win. Well, if it ever releases. More »

Computing

Commodore Tries Its Hand At An Eee Keyboard-Like Device

1:00AM June 2, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

It took ASUS over a year to get the Eee Keyboard to the point where it was ready to go on sale, so don’t go pinning your hopes on Commodore’s Invictus keyboard (which thieves most of ASUS’ ideas anyway). More »

Computing

The Return Of The Commodore 64

4:00PM March 18, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Brace yourself, lovers of all things retro, because the Commodore 64 will raise from the death in all its keyboard form factor glory. It will probably be based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, although I hope it looks like this: More »

Online

You’re Never Too Old To Tweet

2:20PM February 16, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

This Commodore VIC-20 is running software from a cassette tape, has only 5KB of RAM, and a processor that runs at 1MHz. Yeah, it’s vintage. But it’s also the first VIC-20 to tweet. More »

Computing

What Is This?

3:31PM July 18, 2009 | Brian Lam

Q: What classic computer and Apple II competitor opened its steel case up like a car hood? And was named after a domestic rock toy popular at the time? More »

Gaming

Good God, Even The Commodore 64 Has A Twitter Client

11:40AM June 19, 2009 | Adrian Covert

After seeing this latest Twitter app offering, I think Commodore 64 availability should be the benchmark to judge whether or not your web 2.0 app has officially “made it.” Yes, there’s really a twitter app for the C64. More »