On 2025-09-04 22:37:57 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:
On 9/4/25 13:36, Your Name wrote:
On 2025-09-04 18:19:28 +0000, Bobbie Sellers said:
 Hi denizens of c.s.Amiga.misc,
    This is the only way have to reach Robert Bernardo for whom
this item is intended. If anyone else finds it of interest I would be
gratified.
    Well I subscribe to Linux Magazine formerly Linux Pro magazine.
    In this months Issue #299. there is an article on Commodore Vision OS
and the hardware on which it may run. To me it seems truncated. So I went
looking and the copy I was looking at was truncated. It is in the Maker Space
section on page 72 and covers a piece of hardware resembling a C=64, but >>> seems to be a fairly high spec x86 using a AMD Ryzen processor. The keyboard
is not quite as useful as it could be.
  The issue should be on the stands later this month and it has the blurb on
the top of the front cover. It seems to be running on top of a Linux
distribution.
You can buy it online in either digital or if you move fast a paper copy. >>>
    bliss
Yet another pointless in-name-only "C64". Whether it is Raspberry Pi
based or a modern Windows PC, it is *NOT* *NOT *NOT* a "C64" ... it's
just a computer running an emulator, something you can easily do
yourself much cheaper.
Modern tech has moved on. There won't and can't ever be a true new "C64".
Yes modern tech has moved on but some folks are nostalgic for their youth.
Of course, and that's why you either buy a real C64 (or at least a real replica) or do emulation yourself on your current computer. These
pretend things that claim to be a "C64" are simply silly cash-ins by
some greedy person.
I used the C=64 in my middle age and while I learned a few things on it
I hated it because of many factors some relating to my personal deficiencies.
Have you read the article? It is about an emulator which simulates a C=64
using software called Commodore Vision OS. Mr.Bernardo is part of a group which still is interested in 20th Century computing.
There are lots of emulators around. No need to waste money on a fake
"C64" that is really just a Windoze PC running an emulator.
The AmigaOS and computers from Commodore were the best in the World at one time.
They were. We had a Vic20, then a C64, and then an Amiga 500. I was
about to buy an Amiga when Commodore went bankrupt.
I loved those Commodore computers (and the Apple II), and I have run
emulators of them on my Mac computers, but there are too many scam
artists around claiming that they've made the "new C64", which in
reality is just a bog-standard Raspberry Pi or Windoze PC running an
emulator. The fact is that a true "new C64" is simply never going to
exist, and can't be made today.
Many people who live in cultures with less disposability than in the
USA are using Amiga computers and OSes on both original hardware and subsequent attempts to extract profit from Amiga Users.
I am not one of those people, but they are very good people by and large.
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