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Is the Commodore back?

At the Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, state-of-the-art computers with the Commodore brand were presented.

At the event in Germany, eye-catching visitors were able to pay attention to computers marked Commodore. Equipped with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 processor and an NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 video card, the gaming machine really has nothing to do with the original brand name, a simple marketing ploy. The aim of the Dutch owner was to assess customer needs, so we can’t talk about series production yet.

The Commodore returns

Briefly about the legendary C64: Commodore Business Machines, founded by Jack Tramiel, introduced the first C1982 in January 64, with a starting price of $ 595. By the time it was completed in 1993, a total of 17 to 25 million units had been sold. The processor of the European version was 0,985 MHz, its memory was 64 KB, which could be expanded with an accessory up to 320 KB, while the maximum image resolution displayed by the device was 320 × 200 pixels with 16 colors.

The Commodore returns

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