Rekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoThe Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299www.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up159arrow-down11 cross-posted to: retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
arrow-up158arrow-down1external-linkThe Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299www.tomshardware.comRekall Incorporated@piefed.social to Hardware@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square9fedilink cross-posted to: retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
minus-squareaubeynarf@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·5 days agoThe whole thing is for retro vibes. Otherwise you’d get a $40 raspberry pi and engage in that scene, including homebrew/lofi games
minus-squareAlphane Moon@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·5 days agoI get that (I am assuming you have excellent C64 emulators for x86 too), just for some reason the USB tape deck felt like a bridge too far for me.
minus-squareStupidmanager@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·5 days agoFor those of us old enough to load games from cassette, this is fun. Unnecessary, sure, but fun.
The whole thing is for retro vibes. Otherwise you’d get a $40 raspberry pi and engage in that scene, including homebrew/lofi games
I get that (I am assuming you have excellent C64 emulators for x86 too), just for some reason the USB tape deck felt like a bridge too far for me.
For those of us old enough to load games from cassette, this is fun. Unnecessary, sure, but fun.