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Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« on: August 31, 2016, 08:35:00 PM »
News from Jens Schonfeld of Individual Computers.:

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After a pause of several years, fans of classic computers worldwide can look forward to a series of Commodore PCs. The company "individual Computers GmbH," based in Germany and well-known in the Retro-Computing community, has licensed the rights of the Commodore trademarks from Polabe Holding N.V.

The first newly branded Commodore products are span-new cases for the C64 computer, using the original injection molds back from the days Commodore Business Machines produced the C64c. Thanks to these new cases a C64 computer can finally be refurbished after all these years. Distribution of these cases is exclusively done via the online shop of Return-Magazine.

With these new c64-Cases, the highest quality standards had to be guaranteed, in line with the high expectations of the name Commodore.

And apparently this is just the beginning:

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Back in May 2015, the new main board C64 Reloaded (C64R) was released by hardware designer Jens Schönfeld and this with a huge success. This main board fits in any C64-case and is fully compatible with the original C64 computer. Two new versions of this main board are now being prepared for production. Technical details will be published shortly.
Full details are available at Individual Computers.
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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2016, 08:57:58 PM »
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« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2016, 09:22:44 PM »
Well done Jens!
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2016, 09:43:26 PM »
Sounds good to me.
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« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2016, 11:47:39 PM »
Glad to see there'll be a new run of C64 reloaded boards. With the cases in production, I assume one will be able to buy a complete system, too!
 

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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #5 on: September 01, 2016, 12:52:59 AM »
Wow!  This is great news.

Finally the licence has been secured by someone who might be able to actually do something with it!
 

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« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2016, 03:41:50 AM »
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Wow!  This is great news.

Finally the licence has been secured by someone who might be able to actually do something with it!


Nice!

I might actually get a reloaded 64 + case myself as I've never had a C64
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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2016, 04:20:55 AM »
That is really good news! Congratulations to Jens and everyone else involved in making it happen :)
 

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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2016, 11:32:42 AM »
This is great! I already have the C64 Reloaded, now waiting for new cases. If I'm not mistaken, Jens even talked about the possibilty of entirely new keyboards. :)
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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2016, 12:44:38 PM »
the Kickstarter cases were 35USD, what's the expected pricing on these?
 

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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2016, 01:02:34 PM »
This, I like very much :)
 

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« Reply #11 on: September 01, 2016, 01:13:54 PM »
Happy. Will enjoy having one.
 

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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #12 on: September 01, 2016, 01:15:43 PM »
Awesome news, so much better than rebranded MP3 players and the crap that came before.


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the Kickstarter cases were 35USD, what's the expected pricing on these?


I suspect they will cost a bit more as they will be a licenced product, and as I recall the kickstarter cases had quite a few complaints from backers on their quality,  
so I'm sure Jens will have much more rebust QA in place.
 

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« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2016, 05:16:45 PM »
A new run of the c64 reloaded is excellent news, hopefully they won't sell out before I get one (and they won't be ridiculously expensive).

As I already have complete c64's that don't really work properly, I'll probably pass on the cases (*). Especially as they are pretty boring colours (essentially a choice of c64/c64c/sx64/c16).

My original c64 is in a breadbox case anyway, I wouldn't want to replace that with a c64c case.

I wish he would do a c128 reloaded.

(*) of course if I get them fixed & bullet proof before the new reloaded then that changes everything....
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Re: Individual Computers to Ship Commodore-branded Products
« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2016, 05:52:39 PM »
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I suspect they will cost a bit more as they will be a licenced product, and as I recall the kickstarter cases had quite a few complaints from backers on their quality,  
so I'm sure Jens will have much more rebust QA in place.


Its a good thing I bought a few of the KS ones, then.
One of the red cases I got had non-uniform color, but it was replaced and all is well.