The life of the classic Commodore 64 again

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Retro computing enthusiasts will soon be able to buy a classic case in modern PC package.

Brigadier is a Windows computer, in a boxy beige case, looks like the original C64 type complexes.

8-bit machine was released in 1982, has 64 kilobytes of memory, to become one of the best-selling computer ever.

Commodore will run an updated version of Windows 7, but there is a simulator games, the ability to write their ancestors.

Commodore has started to take the $ 595 price of the C64x family, order (£ 364), and said it would ship the machine in May and June. Expected to appear in stores later this year.

The machine's internal hardware will be based around the dual-core Intel Atom D525, usually chips in laptops.

The 1.8GHz chip is far faster than the 8-bit 1MHz 6502 processor, Ma On Shan, in the 80's original use.


California Games is one of the most popular Commodore 64 game of the original C64x series will also be used in an integrated Nvidia graphics chip and buyers with a Blu-ray DVD player equipped models of choice.

All machines installed in the keyboard hardware situation.

The first model to sport the same gray-brown as with the "clicky" keyboard familiar to people who use the old C64 or its predecessor, the original 20, along the color scheme of the Vienna International Centre.