Commodore 64 Mini Console Announced

[LASER_oneXM]

Classic home computer the Commodore 64 is staging a comeback - this time as a fully-licensed "mini" version.

Clocking in at 50% the size of the original Commodore 64, the C64 Mini is a smaller recreation of the much-loved 1982 console, updated for modern audiences with high-definition output via HDMI, a bundled joystick and two USB ports for keyboards or additional joysticks.


The mini-console also provides some extra bang for your buck with the addition of 64 Commodore classics; Uridium, Paradroid, Monty Mole and Hawkeye are all there along with a pretty wide-ranging selection of other favourites. You can see the whole list on the C64 Mini website.


Designed and made by Retro Games and published by Koch Media, the console is expected to be available in "early 2018" at a recommended price of £69.99/$69.99/€79.99. A full-sized version is also promised "in 2018", presumably following at some point after the launch of the C64 Mini.

The original Commodore 64 was one of the most successful home computers of the 80s, listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-selling single computer model of all time; independent estimates place sales between 10 and 17 million over the original model's lifespan.

Orders are now live through the C64 website.

 

[ElectricSheep]

Do the loads take 5 minutes on a flashing multicoloured screen for "authenticity"?

 

[LASER_oneXM]

^^^....yeahhh... games (and everything else) had to be stored on an audio cassette
or on an big 5.25'' (or small 3,5'') floppy disk (capacity: 700 kb or 1,4 Mbyte). Yes: this may take a while....

back in the 80's i had to use simple cassette recorder to save or load anything that was running on my first so called "Personal computers". My first machines were: "commodore c64", "sinclair ZX81", and "sinclair ZX spectrum plus".

 

[harlan4096]

C= VIC-20, C=64 & Sinclair ZX Spectrum here

 

[Deleted member 178]

Comodore 64 = Asphalt (the madmax type truck game ^^ )

 

[ElectricSheep]

I actually still have my C64 from 1982 stashed in a cupboard somewhere... And it still works!

Had Football Manager (by Kevin Toms) where the entire thing was written in basic. It took HALF AN HOUR to load But I got many hours out of that - then of course there was the 'ported' version of Elite. Loved that too!

 

[boredog]

My first was a Timex Sinclair 1000. Timex Sinclair 1000 computer
I still have my 1985 Apple Mac with printer, disks , keyboard and mouse. Wonder if that is worth anything?

 

[ElectricSheep]

Hmm, might dig my C64 out and open it up so you lot can see what the inside's like

 

[gorblimey]

Nice to see Creatures in the list, but where's Jeff Minter (Sheep in Space etc)? Duke Nukem? And how am I going to put Mayhem up? TMNT? Marble Madness?

A quick shufti at the C64 Mini site shows no indication of customer interaction yet. Fortunately I didn't throw my last real computer, so we can still exhume it and play some real games... I've even got a spreadsheet and word processor

 

[harlan4096]

Revenge of Mutant Camels!

 

[gorblimey]

Revenge of Mutant Camels!

Pure Genius!