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Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

wetboxersguy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:33:56 EDT

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Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

ninjamurf — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:40:06 EDT

"but other than their name (and those killer paint jobs) there's nothing these PCs offer that you can't get from say Alienware or Dell."

So what's wrong with having ANOTHER supplier? Maybe a little competition will do both parties good. Just because their name happens to be Commodore doesn't make them any better or any worse than Dell/Alienware. I wonder, when a new video card comes out do you say, "but other than their name there's nothing these ATI video cards offer that you can't get from say Nvidia"?

ninjamurf

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

Atrahasis — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:48:01 EDT

I don't understand the market for these high-end PCs. No self-respecting gamer would ever buy a pre-built rig. In fact, the most fun you can have on a given day would at least involve unboxing lots of little components and methodically assembling them into the most powerful computer you have ever owned.

Atrahasis

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

yogi — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:05:56 EDT

that is definitely who im getting my next pc from as long as they're not as overpriced as dell and alienware!

yogi

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

autonomousgerm — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:55:07 EDT

Coool. I'm getting mine painted like a strawberry!

autonomousgerm

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

bitfactory — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:44:30 EDT

I believe there were semicolons - when printing, I think the semicolons caused the 'printing' to display without line breaks, like this:

Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah! Oh Yeah! (etc...)

Granted, it's been 20+ years since I've touched the stuff - but that's one thing I vaguely remember. :) Whether they were placed correctly is another thing (hard to get ActionScript out of one's mind).

bitfactory

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

Serolf Divad — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:38:44 EDT

Hey, bitfactory... you've got your BASIC mixed up with your Perl. There were no semicolon line delimiters in BASIC.

Serolf Divad

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

ripfire — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:38:41 EDT

Does this mean that we can replace games' music with SIDs?

ripfire

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

Serolf Divad — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:37:22 EDT

Dudes, face it: Commodore is little more than a logo now, like Polaroid. Getting upset about what Commodore's doing these days is like getting upset about your little brother chewing off your dad's head. He's not your little brother any more. That's just his re-animated corpse, the walking dead, a zombie. So blast him with the shotgun and let's get out of here before more of those things are alerted to our presence and start coming after us. And if there really is any small part of your little brother left in that ambulant rotting shell, you'll be doing him a favor anyway.

Serolf Divad

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

aR-Tard — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:37:13 EDT

Thanks an ugly PC.

aR-Tard

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

pcchris — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:28:48 EDT

I welcome those OG's back

will they bring back the spartan so i can run os x too?

pcchris

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

bitfactory — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:08:06 EDT

Man, I loved my C64 - Beach Head was the coolest game.

10 print "Oh Yeah!";
20 goto 10;

bitfactory

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

FredTheCat — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:57:24 EDT

Actually, Commodore made PCs back THEN, too...the PC-10, PC-20, and the Colt. But then, this is far from the same Commodore.

-FredThe(Amiga)Cat

FredTheCat

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

the_caveat — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:56:14 EDT

Price point might be key here folks (but we won't know that till mid April). High end Alienware/Dell computers come at a very steep price. For general gamers who don't know the business end of a phillips head screwdriver, more fish in the gaming-PC pond should be a welcomed addition.

the_caveat

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

atomriot — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:51:07 EDT

They are innovative! I don't see you running around all willy nilly building your very own personal computer / gaming station!

oh....uh...wait, nm. Yeah save a few and homebrew

atomriot

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

AhnyerKeester — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:47:09 EDT

So Commodore is making PCs now? I don't get it.

Oh how I remember the days of the Amiga. They were doing innovative things back then. Now? Meh.

AhnyerKeester

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

Morr — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:46:09 EDT

All it would really take to convince me to order one of these over a dell would be for them to tell me I can talk to someone who speaks english natively when I have a problem.

Morr

Commodore Lifts the Curtain on Its Gaming PCs

HFC — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:45:01 EDT

Dells aren't "Preloaded with a C64 emulator, containing more than 50 classic games."

Can it still plug directly into my TV?

HFC