Commodore

Relive the 80s With This Amiga Emulator for Chrome

A nostalgic Google researcher recently flexed his C coding skills and built a fully functional Commodore Amiga 500 emulator for Chrome. You can try the realistic software here. It’s good, geeky fun. Of course, it’s also a handy way to flaunt some of Chrome’s lesser known features. The Amiga emulator was built with Native Client,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Dec 17

Someone Finally Resurrected the Commodore Brand for Something Useful

Various entrepreneurs have tried to bring back the legendary Commodore computer brand for years, all of them inevitably ending up bankrupt. Now a couple of Italian designers think they’ve got the silver bullet solution to tapping into 80s nostalgia: a smartphone. It’s too bad they decided to make it look so boring. The soon-to-be-released Commodore…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jul 14

This 25-Year-Old Computer Just Sold for $23,000 on eBay

The Apple 1 is the most sought after collector piece of computing hardware. It is the Action Comics No. 1 of retro computing. The first appearance of Superman. The one that started it all. But if there was to be a No. 2, it would be this guy—the Commodore 65. Although it doesn’t have the…

Tech News Darren Orf Feb 15

How a Team of Nerds and Artists Uncovered Warhol’s Lost Digital Art

Retro-geeks and artists alike were abuzz last month with the news that the Andy Warhol Museum had recovered digital works of art created by Warhol himself some thirty years ago on a Commodore Amiga computer. A new documentary produced by the Carnegie Museum of Art traces the process of digital archeology that revealed these works…

Tech News Michael Hession May 12

Andy Warhol’s Lost Amiga Computer Art Rediscovered 30 Years On

The Andy Warhol Museum has recovered a series of artworks created by the famed pop artist in the mid-1980s using a Commodore Amiga home computer. Newly retrieved from old floppy disks, they’re now available for all to see. In fact, the images have only come to light because new media artist Cory Arcangel stumbled across…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 24

Commodore’s New Gaming PCs Will Transport You Back to the 80s

There was a rumor back in 2010 that Commodore was planning to relaunch the Amiga. Now the retro computer brand has gone and done it, launching this high-end, small form factor gaming PC—as well as a new reissue of its classic C64. OK, so it looks like a fairly hideous reworking of a Mac Mini.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Mar 22

The NEW Commodore 64 Can Finally Be Yours

Remember when Commodore tried to relaunch their brand with a sterile-looking keyboard PC? Remember when they decided against that, opting to cram modern guts into a retro Commodore 64 shell? Well the latter will be available later this month, featuring the NVIDIA Ion 2 chipset. Unlike the 29-year-old original, this new iteration will have a…

Tech News Adrian Covert Apr 6

You Should Be Able To Guess What iAmiga Does…

The telltale lowercase letter. The word Amiga. Yes, it’s a fully working Commodore Amiga emulator for iPhone and it’ll be launching soon—pending deals with the original software publishers to ensure it’s all 100% legal and legit. Developed by Manomio who has already created a Commodore 64 emulator for iOS and successfully navigated the legal minefield…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Dec 10

The Annual Return From the Dead of the Commodore Brand

The Commodore name still just about lives on, even though the original owners have long since left the factory. The latest product to carry the once-great computing name is the PC64—an all-in-one Atom PC in a C64 case. https://gizmodo.com/commodore-tries-its-hand-at-an-eee-keyboard-like-device-5552322 Inside the authentically beige case is (or hopefully will be) a standard collection of PC parts,…

Tech News Gary Cutlack Aug 27

Commodore Invictus Keyboard-Computer Specs Bests the Asus Eee Keyboard

The Commodore Invictus is picking a fight with the Asus Eee Keyboard for supremacy in the PC-in-a-keyboard with a touchscreen-on-the-side category, and with the specs Commodore is listing, it may just win. Well, if it ever releases. Compare the Commodus Invictus’ 1.6Ghz Intel Atom 330 processor, up to 4GB RAM, 250GB HDD, nVIDIA GeoForce 9400,…

Tech News Casey Chan Jun 3

Commodore Tries Its Hand At An Eee Keyboard-Like Device

It took ASUS over a year to get the Eee Keyboard to the point where it was ready to go on sale, so don’t go pinning your hopes on Commodore’s Invictus keyboard (which thieves most of ASUS’ ideas anyway). https://gizmodo.com/asus-eeekeyboard-finally-available-for-pre-order-at-5-5520983 If the above picture looks familiar, it’s because it’s a more plasticky version of the…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 1

The Return of the Commodore 64

Brace yourself, lovers of all things retro, because the Commodore 64 will rise from the dead in all its keyboard form factor glory. It will probably be based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, although I hope it looks like this: https://gizmodo.com/cybernet-zpc-gx31-a-pc-in-a-keyboard-sized-case-371525 Utilitarian clean lines, hefty chunkiness, and glorious beige. That’s the Commodore 64 everybody loves, not…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 18

You’re Never Too Old to Tweet

This Commodore VIC-20 is running software from a cassette tape, has only 5 KB of RAM, and a processor that runs at 1 MHz. Yeah, it’s vintage. But it’s also the first VIC-20 to tweet. Using software called TweetVER (short for Tweeting from a Vintage ComputER), the folks at the PC Museum will be accessing…

Tech News Rosa Golijan Feb 15

What Is This?

Q: What classic computer and Apple II competitor opened its steel case up like a car hood? And was named after a domestic rock toy popular at the time? A: The Commodore Pet Gizmodo ’79 is a week-long celebration of gadgets and geekdom 30 years ago, as the analog age gave way to the digital,…

Tech News Brian Lam Jul 18

Good God, Even the Commodore 64 Has a Twitter Client

After seeing this latest Twitter app offering, I think Commodore 64 availability should be the benchmark to judge whether or not your web 2.0 app has officially “made it.” Yes, there’s really a twitter app for the C64. Breadbox64 runs on the embedded Contiki OS, and lets you tweet and view your friends’ timeline from…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 18

Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today

The blonde bombshell known for her appearance in “Barbie,” the self-titled 1985 C64 game, turned 50 today. Some allege that Barbie is popular for reasons other than C64 compatibility, but we’re not so sure. [Allure]

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 9

Firefox’s Spellchecker Has Four Words for “Gizmodo”

Last night I noticed Firefox didn’t yet have “Gizmodo” in its dictionary. Curiosity led me to right-click over the red line to see what words it suggested I use instead. All four were awesome: Yes, Firefox thinks that, instead of typing the name of our beloved publication, I should instead choose from Gizzard, Quasimodo, Commodore…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Dec 11

The Blip Festival: Like Girl Talk and a Game Boy Had a Baby

Brooklyn’s Blip Festival 2008, which is taking place this weekend, December 4th through 7th, is a celebration of modders, music, vintage game consoles, and graphics. Artists come from all over the world to perform electronic music created with Game Boys, Commodore 64s, and Famicoms, and it’s more than just bleeps and bloops: this stuff is…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 6

Papercraft Retro Game Consoles Will Adorn Your Cubicle With Geekery on the Cheap

If your co-workers don’t already know about the soft morsel of love for late-70s gaming consoles deep in your heart, why not load up the company’s color printer with some heavy-bond and fold up an Atari 2600 to stand proudly by your enterprise Dell (and your HAL 9000). These patterns by Marshall Alexander feature cool…

Tech News John Mahoney Dec 1

Gallery of 101 Vintage Computer Ads

Sure, some of us remember using the Commodore 64, but do any of us recall what the ads for it were like? Boingboing has aggregated a wonderful collection of 101 classic computer advertisements by everyone from AT&T (yeah, I forgot they tried their hand in making PCs too) to Texas Instruments. Aah, to be back…

Tech News Elaine Chow Aug 9

Commodore

Relive the 80s With This Amiga Emulator for Chrome

Someone Finally Resurrected the Commodore Brand for Something Useful

This 25-Year-Old Computer Just Sold for $23,000 on eBay

How a Team of Nerds and Artists Uncovered Warhol’s Lost Digital Art

Andy Warhol’s Lost Amiga Computer Art Rediscovered 30 Years On

Commodore’s New Gaming PCs Will Transport You Back to the 80s

The NEW Commodore 64 Can Finally Be Yours

You Should Be Able To Guess What iAmiga Does…

The Annual Return From the Dead of the Commodore Brand

Commodore Invictus Keyboard-Computer Specs Bests the Asus Eee Keyboard

Commodore Tries Its Hand At An Eee Keyboard-Like Device

The Return of the Commodore 64

You’re Never Too Old to Tweet

What Is This?

Good God, Even the Commodore 64 Has a Twitter Client

Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today

Firefox’s Spellchecker Has Four Words for “Gizmodo”

The Blip Festival: Like Girl Talk and a Game Boy Had a Baby

Papercraft Retro Game Consoles Will Adorn Your Cubicle With Geekery on the Cheap

Gallery of 101 Vintage Computer Ads

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