You can’t throw a 9-pin serial mouse these days without hitting a scaled-down retro gaming system. Two months ago the $80 C64 Mini joined the ever-expanding list. Like the NES Classic Mini, SNES Classic Mini, and Playstation Classic, it shipped with a bunch of pre-loaded games… 64 of them, to be exact. The original Commodore […]
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Lilbits 322: The Red Hydrogen One cometh… later
RED’s first smartphone is an unusual device. It has a rugged Kevlar body. It has a “4D holographic” display. And it will work with modular add-ons including specialized camera lenses. Basically the RED Hydrogen One is an expensive phone aimed at photographers, cinematographers and other enthusiasts. It’s also running late. The phone showed up at […]
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Commodore (sort of) launches an Android phone (with a C64 emulator)
Commodore may have stopped selling personal computers in the 1990s, but after the company went bankrupt, its assets (including the brand name) have changed hands a few times. Now an Italian company is launching a smartphone called the Commodore PET, and it has more than just the name of a classic PC maker. It also comes […]
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Commodore keyboard PC: The Eee Keyboard doesn’t have much to worry about
One upon a time, the Commodore name was synonymous with PCs that fit snugly into a (bulky) keyboard. And if one guy has anything to say about it, the Commodore name will rise again. Commodore USA is a new company that’s working to get the rights to use the name for a shiny new PC-in-a-keyboard. […]
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More Commodore netbook details
Commodore has released some new details about its upcoming netbooks, first announced a few months ago. Tom’s Hardware reports that there will be three distinct lines of Commodore mini-laptops. The Commodore F and J series netbooks will both have 10.1 inch screens ad a choice of VIA C7 or Intel Atom processors. The J series […]
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Commodore announces the UMMD 8010/F netbook
Here’s a blast from the past. Commodore, the company that very well may have made your first computer may be behind your next netbook. I mean, probably not, because, well, look at it. But still, it’s interesting to see Commodore alive and kicking. The company unveiled the new UMMD 8010/F at the IFA show in […]