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  • Good News For The Retro Goofs

    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jul 19 17:40:22 2025
    Do you want to go back in time to the "good old days"
    of anemic computing? (Why not? You sure as fuck don't
    utilize modern machinery.)

    Good news! The Commodore 64 is back!

    <https://www.commodore.net/>

    Drop those ancient slide rules... er... calculators.

    Now you can indulge in some really lame nostalgia.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


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  • From Borax Man@21:1/5 to Joel on Mon Jul 21 04:33:38 2025
    On 2025-07-19, Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote:
    Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:

    Do you want to go back in time to the "good old days"
    of anemic computing? (Why not? You sure as fuck don't
    utilize modern machinery.)

    Good news! The Commodore 64 is back!

    <https://www.commodore.net/>

    Drop those ancient slide rules... er... calculators.

    Now you can indulge in some really lame nostalgia.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


    Interesting. Weird, though.


    I thought it was a joke, but its real!

    Quite exciting, and it would be good to see the peripherals come back,
    though that is less likely because you can't just create a Disk Drive by
    FPGA.

    I'm tempted to get one, but I already have a working Commodore 64 and a
    few that just need repairs. I'd love for them to create a Vic 20.

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  • From chrisv@21:1/5 to Borax Man on Tue Jul 22 18:14:54 2025
    Borax Man wrote:

    I'd love for them to create a Vic 20.

    Complete with 4 kB of RAM? :)

    Seriously, why would anyone fool-around with a VIC20, if they had a
    C64 available?

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    "There are too many choices of Linux distros right now and for people
    like my mom and my boss in this example, they don't know which to
    choose. They know Windows and OSX fits their needs for the desktop.
    Shouldn't there be one linux distro that fits the needs of everyone on
    the desktop?" - ccretin

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