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| From: Richard Atkinson
Date: 1998-09-29
Subject: Chips! Re: SUMPN
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I have found a source of 264 series chips!
http://www.dacomputers.demon.co.uk/dart/c16.htm
Also c64.htm - if anyone's interested in obtaining these chips, please mail me and I'll organise a large order to the firm.
On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Rajnai Almos wrote:
> AFAIK after Commodore's bakrupcy Commodore logo were bought by an
> unknown (at least unknown for ME) company, and they are shelling such
> things.
> But, there are also a "new" Commodore 64 (I don't know the real
> name), which consist of nowadays parts of PC-s. (Ok: it is a PC, but
> designed for "ease-of-use", so it is totally unusable... ;)
> I read an advert of this, and felt a bit cheated... :(
I saw the "new" Commodore 64 at Live '98, England's premier home entertainment show. Basically it's a cheap PC-compatible based around AMD's Web.it processor, running at about the speed of a 486DX266 BUT for all the nasty things I've heard said about it, it does have some nice features:
1) It does actually say "Commodore 64" on the case
2) It has a C= key in the bottom left corner :-)
3) It has no fan to make a horrendous noise
4) It will be incredibly cheap if it ever gets released
5) It's a complete PC-compatible in a keyboard-shaped case, no external tower, etc.
OK, so it runs a licensed copy of CCS64 (and rather slowly), and that is about all there is to the C64 side of it, but I think it would make an excellent dumb terminal, to leave on all day without making a horrible noise. It has a Commodore key, after all! Now if I could get an mp3 player to run on it...
Richard.
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