Commodore producing C64s again

[Steve Elliott]

Commodore

[Baggey]

Commodore

$299 dollars wheres my emoji for laughing and crying 

[Steve Elliott]

Yeah I know he has huge nostalgia for the C64 but I'm not sure how well this will sell.

But I think at £222.29 with a full FPGA solution (which gives a full simulation of the hardware chips in parallel, vs a cheap emulation system) it's a good price and has the official Commodore name on it. Rather than that 'The C64' product with the cheap emulation system priced at £127.75.

But the Spectrum Next has a FPGA that delivers 100% compatibility with the ZX Spectrum hardware and software - and now the C64 too.

However, while being an 8-bit system the Spectrum Next also has enhancements that take it beyond the original and has features that you got on the Amiga like the copper, blitter, 256 colours, hardware sprites and hardware scrolling. And there are quite some titles for the machine!

In comparison this 'official' C64 doesn't seem to have many enhancements so seems to be on par with 'The 64' from Retro Games, all-be-it a more accurate simulation.