Commodore 65 (C64DX) for sale on ebay

[dougal]

Here is osmething you dont see every day ...

(Not mine.. I wish)


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Commodore-65-Prototype-C65-C64-DX_W0QQitemZ330387963783QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAntike_B%C3%BCrotechnik?hash=item4ceca83f87

[skurk]

Here is osmething you dont see every day ...

(Not mine.. I wish)


http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Commodore-65-Prototype-C65-C64-DX_W0QQitemZ330387963783QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAntike_B%C3%BCrotechnik?hash=item4ceca83f87

Holy mother of...!  I always wanted one of these, but not at all cost.

The C64DX/C65 seem to be emulated and is also well-documented.  Have anyone ever attempted to clone it?

[Pete_Noir]

Wow! Can't believe I never heard about the C65 before!

[A6000]

The speed at which some people put their christmas presents on Ebay amazes me.

[Evillord68]

It´s very interessting. But to expensive for me.

[blakespot]

The speed at which some people put their christmas presents on Ebay amazes me.

LOL.



blakespot

[Dr.Bongo]

The C64DX/C65 seem to be emulated and is also well-documented.  Have anyone ever attempted to clone it?

 Emulated?  I know it's listed in the MESS emulator as non-working and the ccemu program was an april fools. Is there one I'm missing? (hopefully)

Back to the original topic: If I had the money I would be bidding on  it, but I don't

[dougal]

Yeah tried that ccemu program.. hahaha Rickrolled on a C64

[beller]

The thing I find interesting, and I'd never heard of the C65 either, is that the copyrights are 1990.  So, in the midst of attempting to mainstream the Amiga CBM was dumping resources into the next 8-bit machine?  Oh my....

Instead of focusing all their folks on pushing forward, CBM was busy reinventing the past.

[PulsatingQuasar]

My god people. Knowledge about these systems was pretty common. Where have you been that you never heard of it.

As for the price...... when these systems were sold years ago out of the stock of Commodore after the bankruptcy these sold for a lot less. And it's not like there are less then 10 of them either. This price, eventhough it's rather rare, is just way, way too much. But that it Ebay for you. Real value seems to have gone lost with a lot of persons.

For instance. If I look at the prices of new PC hardware here in The Netherlands I can find about 30 webshops here in The Netherlands that are cheaper then EBay.

[orb85750]

Ummm....  The real value is well represented by the bids on eBay.  Have you never heard of the free market?  I don't know how you get more real than that.

[B00tDisk]

The thing I find interesting, and I'd never heard of the C65 either, is that the copyrights are 1990.  So, in the midst of attempting to mainstream the Amiga CBM was dumping resources into the next 8-bit machine?  Oh my....

Instead of focusing all their folks on pushing forward, CBM was busy reinventing the past.

Hell, apple did the same thing with the 2GS.  Atari was slinging out mini 2600's well into the 1990's.  Nintendo was selling the NES (not SNES) in the US until 1995.  

Fact is, well into the Amiga's life the C64 was still being sold and outselling the former.  It was still looked on fondly, and to be quite brutally honest I think a C64-like with a "desktop" OS running at 640x400x256 (which the C65 was capable of) probably would've kept Commodore around longer.

The '65 ran at around half the A1000/2000/500's CPU speed, but had superior graphics, and was just as expandable in the RAM area.  I'm quite sure 3rd party addons would have given the '65 the same oomph that the 500 had.

[takemehomegrandma]

Holy mother of...!  I always wanted one of these, but not at all cost.

The C64DX/C65 seem to be emulated and is also well-documented.  Have anyone ever attempted to clone it?

It never reached a fully developed state. The prototypes sold were all at different stages of development; some were in a semi functional state (but alpha level at best), others didn't even start. So if what you are looking for is a fully functional consumer level product, there wouldn't be much to "clone"...

[quarkx]

The C65 was originally conceived about '88 ,89. They put a person on it that nobody wanted to work with, and let him alone on the project. Bil Herd wanted to come back to CBM and actually finish the C65, but he was told "That would not be a good Idea", for he had a reputation of butting heads with management just to get it out the door..

Unfortunately, it was too little, too late. The 8 bit erra was dead by the time it was ready. It would have only sold to the same market that wants it today. The CBM Die-hards. If it would have come out in 1985-'86, it would have had a chance to make a dent it the market, and really paved the way for 16bit computing, but as all things at Commodore,the management was 4 years behind.

[tokyoracer]

FINALLY! A true 'rare' item on eBay. I have heard about these but never knew it was a concept, what a beautiful machine though although rare it's not worth over £2k to me personally but is looks a very nice computer indeed.

Best of luck and hope he/she makes a bomb from it!