The Commodore 64 has a Successor (and it's amazing!) | Nostalgia Nerd

I missed out on the whole Commodore 64 computing era, but gosh dang I've always loved that blue screen. I always had an affinity for blue boot colors, I still remember the first time I booted OpenBSD 2.3 and saw the wonderful kernel boot output in blue.

I got my C64 in December 1982. I was a senior in college. I eventually wrote my master's thesis on it!

Oh goodness, that keyboard looks gorgeous.

Thing should have a line in/out cassette interface for masochist retro nerds.

Double shot Cherry MX keycaps with all that PETSCII goodness? They could sell those separately to raise funds..

Even though I was fully invested in the Amiga ecosystem at the time, I would have eagerly bought a C65 if Commodore had brought it to market. Yes, I was, and still am a hopeless nerd.

anyone else notice the Commando theme song playing on the mega maze game...

Very interesting. I love all these retro computers that are making themselves into reality. This, the ZX Next, The C64 Maxi, Commander X16... I love them all. Like Pokemon, I want to catch them all!

If you go onto Amazon you can get Plastic Epoxy, it will repair that crack to almost as good as new. It doesn't glue the plastic, it chemically melts both surfaces so they end up as one single piece again.

SRAM is not serial RAM. The S stands for static i.e. it doesn’t have to be refreshed.

Hardware with limited abilities is just fun. It breeds a different type of creativity from software designers, and software ends up with distinct visuals and audio.

The ESC-T Window stuff was part of the C-128, too. I don't know why everyone ignores that machine. :)

Can't wait to see what the demo scene comes up with

Finally a new product that actually seems like a lot of fun! <3 I definitively want one

I am tempted... Learning to code again, coding some demos, maybe a game. It will be like the 80's reloaded.

It's like y'all forgot the commodore 128 existed. that was the successor.

I'm really looking forward to the consumer release version of this machine.

Man, these FPGA systems are becoming more and more impressive. This and Analouge's Pocket are really exciting to me.

Near the end of the video, I had weird conflicting notions mixed together. One was "Are you going to be developing for this? If not, you need to get this into the hands of a developer!". Another one was "Just buying this provides support for the project, and making a Youtube video review about it gets the message out, neither of which should be denigrated!" Whether you develop for this or not, I hope you maximize your enjoyment of this! And I hope this project prospers. While I don't expect to buy this myself (not even the commercialized version), I really appreciate nostalgia efforts!

I love the impact the c64 continues to have.