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The PC guts seem boring and will inflate the price. Why not do a reissue with functionality closer to that of the original, based on the C64 DTV [1] which cost $20 or $25 when it was on the market, and sell it at a $50-to-$100 price point?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV

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Anyone who is interested in this stuff that hasn't heard Jeri Ellsworth's Google Lecture about her life and her experience designing the C64 DTV 30-games-in-one joystick must watch this.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979...

I am pleased to discover that youtube-dl can successfully download this video.

And if you aren't sufficiently impressed by that, look up her from-scratch pinball machine or her basement CMOS fab or any of a million other things. I am in awe of Jeri's creativity and her ability to find the time to do so much cool stuff.

You may also like Michael Steil's awesome "Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk": http://www.pagetable.com/?p=54

Amazing technical overview of the C64, including the latest in demo effects, in 64 minutes.

Wow -- thanks for that. Great lecture. Little golden nuggets like this are what make HN so great.

This was incredibly inspiring. Thank you.

Agreed. This seems like a tween product - too inauthentic to appeal to Commodore 64 fans and too ugly to appeal to anyone looking for a media PC.

Hardly 'tween' then - more like DOA.

You mean it's a hipster product.

Well... I'd buy one.

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