<story><title>Introducing the New Commodore 64</title><url>http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tesseract</author><text>&amp;#62; the landscape needs a new &quot;creative computing&quot; competitor&lt;p&gt;I hadn&apos;t really thought of it this way before, but there is one. Arduino.</text></item><item><author>marcusestes</author><text>Cramming a modern PC into a vintage C64 reproduction really is a terrible idea. But as an old Commodore / Amiga fanboy I have to admire Barry Altman (CEO of Commodore USA) for attempting to reawaken the brand.&lt;p&gt;After the sad bankruptcy spiral and eventual shutdown of Commodore the trademarks ended up in the possession of a company based in the Netherlands called Tulip Computers (Now Nedfield) who makes commodity PC workstations. The did a little cheapo licensing of the brand here and there but basically showed no intention of breathing life into the brand again.&lt;p&gt;Mr. Altman appears to have incorporated Commodore USA with the sole purpose of attaining trademark licenses and attempting to tap into the large and very latent Commodore enthusiast market.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t feel like he&apos;s going to succeed. But I applaud him for trying. Now that Steve Jobs&apos; face has taken the place of Big Brother in that 1984 ad, it feels to me that the landscape needs a new &quot;creative computing&quot; competitor. The Commodore brand could be such a cool fit, if they only had a decent product.&lt;p&gt;They should reproduce the 4000 / Video Toaster combo: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>drblast</author><text>Yeah, Arduino does have that same spirit.&lt;p&gt;The nearly direct access to the hardware was what made the C64 so cool.  This new C64 has none of that, unfortunately.</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing the New Commodore 64</title><url>http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tesseract</author><text>&amp;#62; the landscape needs a new &quot;creative computing&quot; competitor&lt;p&gt;I hadn&apos;t really thought of it this way before, but there is one. Arduino.</text></item><item><author>marcusestes</author><text>Cramming a modern PC into a vintage C64 reproduction really is a terrible idea. But as an old Commodore / Amiga fanboy I have to admire Barry Altman (CEO of Commodore USA) for attempting to reawaken the brand.&lt;p&gt;After the sad bankruptcy spiral and eventual shutdown of Commodore the trademarks ended up in the possession of a company based in the Netherlands called Tulip Computers (Now Nedfield) who makes commodity PC workstations. The did a little cheapo licensing of the brand here and there but basically showed no intention of breathing life into the brand again.&lt;p&gt;Mr. Altman appears to have incorporated Commodore USA with the sole purpose of attaining trademark licenses and attempting to tap into the large and very latent Commodore enthusiast market.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t feel like he&apos;s going to succeed. But I applaud him for trying. Now that Steve Jobs&apos; face has taken the place of Big Brother in that 1984 ad, it feels to me that the landscape needs a new &quot;creative computing&quot; competitor. The Commodore brand could be such a cool fit, if they only had a decent product.&lt;p&gt;They should reproduce the 4000 / Video Toaster combo: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nymVNhy4dw8&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evanrmurphy</author><text>Could you recommend resources for learning more about Arduino? Is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arduino.cc/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.arduino.cc/&lt;/a&gt; a good place to start?</text></comment>