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The Commodore 64 Ultimate computer is the company's first hardware release in over 30 years — pre-orders start at $299 (www.tomshardware.com)
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[-] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

buyers will also get a spiral-bound user guide, a 64GB USB Cassette Drive featuring 50+ full games, including licensed classics

Is this USB Cassette drive for retro vibes? Why not just have a USB flash drive? Am I missing something?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 20 hours ago

The whole thing is for retro vibes. Otherwise you’d get a $40 raspberry pi and engage in that scene, including homebrew/lofi games

[-] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

I get that (I am assuming you have excellent C64 emulators for x86 too), just for some reason the USB tape deck felt like a bridge too far for me.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

For those of us old enough to load games from cassette, this is fun. Unnecessary, sure, but fun.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Is it an actual cassette drive or just a flash disk shaped like a cassette drive? Because I don’t think cassette drives normally have storage. But I suppose it could be useful to anyone who still has their C64 cassettes, if they haven’t degraded too much!

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