SiriusHardware
Veteran Member
I'm surprised nobody seems to have mentioned this reboot of the C64 in mini form, see here:
https://thec64.com/
I never had a 64, here in the UK you were usually in either the Commodore or Sinclair camp, or possibly had an Amstrad CPC unless your parents had a bit of money and then you might have had a BBC model B or a relatively rare imported 8-bit Atari. But a friend of mine did have a 64 and the thing I loved most about it was the joyous Rob Hubbard soundtracks which a lot of the games had. Sometimes, I would put the games on just to listen to the music.
So when I saw the blurb about the C64 mini, they almost had me, and then I read this, written in suspiciously reduced-size text:-
-WHY- would they do this? This is exactly why I did not even consider buying the Spectrum Vega, because it didn't have a functional keyboard.
OK, you can plug a USB keyboard into it. But if you are going to put keys on a retro copy of something, for God's sake make them work.
https://thec64.com/
I never had a 64, here in the UK you were usually in either the Commodore or Sinclair camp, or possibly had an Amstrad CPC unless your parents had a bit of money and then you might have had a BBC model B or a relatively rare imported 8-bit Atari. But a friend of mine did have a 64 and the thing I loved most about it was the joyous Rob Hubbard soundtracks which a lot of the games had. Sometimes, I would put the games on just to listen to the music.
So when I saw the blurb about the C64 mini, they almost had me, and then I read this, written in suspiciously reduced-size text:-
Note: The keyboard keys are non-functional
-WHY- would they do this? This is exactly why I did not even consider buying the Spectrum Vega, because it didn't have a functional keyboard.
OK, you can plug a USB keyboard into it. But if you are going to put keys on a retro copy of something, for God's sake make them work.