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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Jack Tramiel, a Holocaust survivor and the tech visionary who founded the company that created the legendary Commodore 64 computer, died on Sunday at the age of 83, Forbes reports. We’ll have more on Tramiel’s great legacy later.
I was never a Commodore 64 guy, I had a Spectrum, but I have a massive soft spot for the Commodore Amiga, which is the computer I upgraded to after the Speccy. So this little Amiga branded release from Commodore sort of tickles my nostalgia bone, but at the same time disappoints me.
Thanks, Marshall Alexander! Were it not for your heart-meltingly cute papercraft renditions of 70s/80s game machines, we don’t know how we would have made it through Tuesday. But make it we did, clutching that little C64 to our hearts all day long. Hit the link below for the papercraft templates in question.
Foldskool Heroes [Marshall Alexander]
Get me Valve on the phone. Tell Lombardi that the Portal prequel dev team can go home – their services are no longer required.
And yes, that Portal fan mod can sling its hook too. The Commodore 64 remake ‘Shotgate’ has rendered both games utterly pointless.
Yes, it’s a Portal clone for the C64. No, it’s not in 3D and – yes – it does look quite like that Flash tribute from last year.
This little fella was made in just 4K of C64 assembler for the Mini Games Comp 2008. If you like the look of it, the programmer is actually selling it in C64 cartridge form in a limited edition run of 20. Buy now to avoid/ensure disappointment.
Shotgate [Quernhorst.de]
OK, this is about as Commodoure as Phil Harrison’s Atari is Atari, but still. There’s a Commodoure logo on the thing, it’s called a Commodoure and it even shares that common Commodoure aesthetic, so it’ll do. The Commodoure Netbook is the first machine to hit the showroom floor following the brand’s reanimation, and while it’s not necessarily a gaming machine, again, it’s got a Commodoure logo on it. And it will play games. Which is good enough for us.
Min er mindre enn din [NRK, via Boing-Boing]
It’s the wonder computer of the 1980′s! Or at least so says William Shatner in this old commercial for the Commodore Vic-20. Not only does he think it’s great, but even takes a jab at good old Atari and Intellivision. After all, Atari and Intellivision don’t have a real computer keyboard! And it’s under $300 which according to the inflation calculator would be about $800 today. A true bargain.
