individual Computers supports Commodore One project

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No, this is no joke!! The CommdoreOne has been in development for a few years now. It isn't intended to be a PC or Mac killer, it is meant for the remaining 8bit C= enthusiast like myself.

www.commodoreone.com

That site is down atm :-(  Geocities pulls it every now and then because it gets too much traffic :-(  But it should be up very shortly.

BTW the target price for a CommodoreOne ATX motherboard was $200. Not bad.
 :-o

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BTW I want one of these Commodore ones just as badly as I want my AmigaOne :-D

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1)Redy, it seems that your the only one so far that takes this seriously...

Are you surprised? This is an *amiga* forum, not a C= forum:-) I know the 2 women responsible for the C=One personally so I can tell you it is no fake.

2)Can i ask what the hardware platform is? Is it supposed to be able to run the old c64 games/OS nativly?

It is tested to be virtually 100% backwards compatible to the C64. It has the 65816 CPU clocked at 20Mhz. The same CPU as the CMD SuperCPU accelerator, but without the bottlenecks of the original C64/128.

Before people like mr anonymous here starts bashing the CommodoreOne, you really should read up a bit on it. This is an ALL NEW *CUSTOM* computer. It has ALOT in common with the early Amigas, and in alot of ways BETTER than the early Amigas!
Here's some pics of the early prototypes.

http://www.geocities.com/profdredd/cmdrone.html

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? i can't get to the website youv'e mentioned. is there another source of information about this archaic-and-strange-to-say-the-least computer?

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=commodoreone&hl=en&selm=la0f8.518%24d%254.1563561%40bcandid.telisphere.com&rnum=1

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I can still remember being shocked by the sound and COLOR graphics of my C-64

Absolutely!! When the C64 came out nothing could touch it! The sound of the SID chip was remarkable. Even now the things demo coders are doing with the SID and VIC chips are amazing.

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However, I find it hard to understand why they chose to make it an atx mobo. I mean any old pc running a c64 emulator will outperform it. Imho a small portable (handheld) c64 would have made more sence, but that's just my oppinion.

You miss the point! This isn't simply a stock C64 reworked into a ATX board. This is a NEW computer with tons of new functionality. It just happens to also be backwards compatible.

A C64 emulator on a 2Ghz PC may be faster than the C=One, but it can only run C64 software. The emulator will not have all the new features the C=One has.

Try getting Frodo or any other C64 emulator to give you a 1280x1028 screen resolution:-D

Read up on it with the link I provided above.

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@Peggus

Follow this link:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=commodoreone&hl=en&selm=la0f8.518%24d%254.1563561%40bcandid.telisphere.com&rnum=1

>wich despite crappy operating systems have a lot more functionality than C=one ever will.

Well the C=One is not trying to compete with Windows/Mac/etc. It is meant for coders and hobbiest. Kind of like classic car enthusiast. You buy an old car, pump a little bit of money into it and drive it on the weekends for fun. It won't have all the ammenities of a new car obvilously.

BTW also there *IS* alot of new software for C=ommies like OS'es, IRC clients, TCP/IP, graphical webbrowsers etc. The C=One will make it possible to modernize those programs alot more.

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Hey, if your made of money who wouldn't want an ATX C64 sat there with their others??

Sigh.... :-( I'll say one last time. THIS IS NOT SIMPLY A ATX VERSION OF THE C64. It's a whole new computer.

I could understand someone not being interest, but know exactly what it is first. And for $200, just add cheap ATX case, IDE harddrive, keyboard and mouse and it is a DAMN cheap hobby computer.