- It's an Ultimate 64 https://ultimate64.com/Ultimate-64-Elite-MK2
- I don't feel like there's much novel here-- as in, you could have built one of these in 2022.
The motherboard is a rebadged Ultimate 64 in white: https://ultimate64.com/Ultimate-64-Elite-MK2
Transparent breadbin cases have been out for a WHILE: https://www.retrofuzion.com/products/breadbin-case-set
It's got a mechanical keyboard, which could be a MechBoard64: https://www.retrofuzion.com/products/mechboard-64-fully-back...
The keycaps are slightly novel, in that they have a C= logo on the Commodore key. The guy from CBMSTUFF ran a multi-year project to produce new keycaps. For licensing reasons, his didn't have the C= logo on the Commodore key, but it's reasonable to think that they have taken advantage of his considerable work refining and producing the keys and provided a path to legally using the C= logo. Having one new key printed shouldn't take so much work as he put into getting all the legends correct on the others. https://www.cbmstuff.com/index.php?route=product/category...
Shrug
- bmonkey325 23 days agoThe novelty is in putting this all together into a whole complete system that I can take home and have it work with the TV I own now. Just like in the 1980s when so many C64s were carted home and plugged into tube tvs of all shapes and sizes. Not everyone wants to build a computer from a kit sourced from multiple vendors. I can bolt, screw, snap, plug but am listed as a fire hazard with a soldering iron.reply
- theodric 21 days agoNothing I linked to is a kit requiring soldering. It's a fully assembled motherboard (of very high quality - I can personally attest to that), a case, a keyboard, and keycaps.reply
- Well I don't give a toss about the crowd proposing to buy it, but I also don't care much about who buys the name rights to a dead microcomputer brand from 40 years ago. It's not going to bring back the 1980s, it's not going to bring back Jack Tramiel, and arguably we are better off without both. History is indelible, which is one of the great things about it. What useful things is "Commodore" going to do in 2025? Sell licensing rights for stickers, evidently. What else-- perhaps go after anyone who doesn't pay them for using the IP? If not, why else own the IP? Copyright strikes for having a chickenhead logo on your website? $0.05 every time you type C= ? Rights must be enforced to remain legitimate, right? Suddenly this scenario sounds less like getting the band back together and more like rent-seeking behavior and possibly creating profits for lawyers. I think we could do with less of both. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
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