The Commodore 64 is back, with Linux

This computer is for a lot of people a source for a lot of memory, i still remember the long time spent waiting for the tape to ... well to load anything.

Although it looks like an unimpressive keyboard-like box, the Commodore 64 was incredibly popular. More C64s have been sold than any other single computer system, even to this day. That's about 17 million systems, according to the Commodore 1993 Annual Report.

So it's not a so big surprise that the Commodore 64 is back on the market. The relaunch was decided in 2011 by U.S. Commodore. The home computer is presented with a look almost identical to that of the historic  C64, but the internal structure is completely different.

To core of the new Commodore 64 is an Intel Atom dual-core D525 1.8 GHz clock speed. The graphics engine is driven by a NVIDIA Ion 2,2 Gigabyte. it miss the old cassette recorder, but the new C-64 is equipped with USB ports, an HDMI connection and Blue-ray player (optional).

Details:

On the left side you'll find the DVD R/W, or the optional Bluray optional, see configurations.

A multi format card reader/writer and a USB slot are provided on the right side of the unit. There are an additional 4 USB slots on the rear of the unit for all your peripheral needs.

You can see also the classic power light, that is now the power button of the computer

On the back you have the other 4 USB, 1 VGA, 1 DVI, 1 PS2 KB/Mouse connectors the 12V DC jack and 3 3.5mm Audio with S/PDIF out

At boot you'll be able to select the C64 icon to boot an 8 bit emulator, there will be also a Commodore OS 1.0 (a custom linux distribution ?), that should become available shortly (at least so write commodore site), but in the while with the PC you get also a Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long Term Support) CD.

So Commodore 64 and Linux, can you imagine something better ;)