Nothing succeeds like success:
The new Commodore 64 went on sale on the company's website for the first time Tuesday and sold out within about 24 hours, though Altman isn't saying just how many have been produced to date.
"We're having a hard-time keeping our online store up, because the servers are getting overloaded from the amount of traffic," Altman said. "That's been a bit of a surprise, too."
With HDMI outputs, new users will be hooking up their C64's to their TV's just like the old days (except they are now LCD/LED's instead of CRT's). This is so "Back to the Future".
Commodore and Amiga have been linked at the hip since the beginning. Without Commodore resources, the Amiga would probably have never seen the light of day.
If they have such success with the Commodore line, I can't wait to see what happens with their Amiga line.
Putting things in perspective, the first Amiga I bought was an A1000 in 1986. It cost me $1295.00. I also bought the 256KB RAM expansion module, external 3.5" floppy and and 1080 color monitor which brought the total to close to $2000.00. And I got TextCraft, DeluxePaint and Seven Cities of Gold (don't remember what I paid for them).
Whether these machines can really capture the essence of the old Commodore/Amiga computers remains to be seen. But they've already done something that all the others since 1994 have failed to do. Create a sense of excitement.
