Commodore 64 to reboot as 'Phoenix'

A little late for April 1st ...

This is not a C64, and is not even a real attempt at a reboot, but rather a bunch of crap.

Look at:

Looks familiar?

More precisely, it's just a PC, and a company who produces and designs nothing (commodoreusa.net), but simply resells other people's products, decided to flog it as a "C64" to try and lure in some suckers. They don't even have rights to the Commodore name or logo.

So far they have done a reasonable job of tricking 'tech sites' into publishing their amazing 'news releases'. It's scary to think how easy it is these days for anyone to produce a news release, and then a bunch of 'news sites' will publish it blindly without too much verification.

Regards,

Ross..

I just noticed it has a standard DB-9 serial, and DB-25 parallel port.

I wonder how many peripherals are designed to plug into these types of ports these days.

Cheers Don...

Twin Serial Ports???? It is a 64.

As far as normal consumers go, probably just mid-high end printers. For example my new Brother laser has USB + parallel on it.

However many PC motherboards still have a parallel and serial port and since the machine is just an shrunken PC, it's not that big a shock, in my opinion..

Regards,

Ross..

By consumer, I take it you mean single computer home bods? Otherwise, mid-high end means network port in my experience

These days not many but I still use them a lot for my retro/vintage activities, EPROM burning etc.

On my real C64 and VIC-20 however it's easier to take out the SD card, pop it into my PC and copy stuff onto or off it and then put it back into the Commodore.

Most I have seen still have serial and parallel, usually just as headers on the board that you buy an optional back slot connector with a ribbon cable running back to the header. Other than that you are stuck with a serial card.

Is there somewhere to put my old 4 1/2 inch floppy? Benny

You have a floppy that still works?

I have never seen a 4 1/2 inch floppy.

Big belly?

I know where my 8 inch floppy is... ;-)

No need to mention your boyfriends bits

You could come from Sud Africa and have a 3 1/2 stiffy

Is dat zo?

Ja tis so.....