Will you be purchasing the Commander X16?
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Will you be purchasing the Commander X16?
Will you be purchasing the Commander X16?
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No, I'll just download the emulator is any good games get made
If it was around $30, then yeah.
This. I can get a riscv SOC with 64mb of ram and an MMU for $5. This thing is crazy overpriced.
This. Hell, I'd order one for $80 excluding shipping if the thing was completely open source
It isn't though, and paying $350 for some closed off device that will have a dead community in 10 years is not worth it.
Nah I have no room left in my house
It's useless and I don't want to give any money to David.
What's wrong with David? (Other than short-circuiting IBMs)
Too expensive.
hell no. but it's pretty interesting.
my cellphone is faster than this, no thanks.
npc
useless
>proprietary software
>proprietary hardware
>no hardware/software clones allowed
>half the computer is virtual chips on an FPGA
Yep, this is the C16 where the C stands for cuckold.
>Commander X16
>From: $349.99
if i had the cash i would buy one.
>proprietary software
>proprietary hardware
true and very unfortunate.
>>half the computer is virtual chips on an FPGA
nah.
>This thing is crazy overpriced.
not really, considering it has the power of a arcade board from the mid-late 1980s it's not too bad.
lame as frick.
>it's obviously not for everyone nor is it really filling any practical niche
david's mistake was not marketing this as an arcade board. i would have released it with a jamma harness connector.
It does have a lot of dedicated stuff, but it also had a bunch of functionality where they were like "y-yeaaaaah uuuuuuuh idk let's put it into the fpga lmao"
>, but it also had a bunch of functionality where they were like "y-yeaaaaah uuuuuuuh idk let's put it into the fpga lmao"
yeah. and with such a small market not everyone is going to be using everything it has. i can think of a few ways to save space and money but they decided to use a slow ass cpu. someone that wasn't brought up eating lead paint would have used a chad 68000 cpu and you could probably move some functions to rom routines.
For what it's worth, they allow discussing hardware clones now, as long as you don't commercialize it.
They currently use FPGA only for graphics but they intend to also do the sound there when they can no longer afford the $10 for the FM chips. Think of their tiny margins!!
hell no
>$349.99
What's the use case of this device? Scam boomers out of $400?
Nah. Retro computers are interesting but I have no actual use for one, much less so for a modern computer with the performance and limitations of retro stuff.
It's exclusively for hobbyists, I don't think it has any general-purpose use case.
it's just someone's personal "hypothetical dream machine" from a specific era of computing, basically what he wished he had in the 80's, it's obviously not for everyone nor is it really filling any practical niche
>hypothetical dream machine
Maybe it should have been a virtual one, a la PICO-8.
bought olimex boards instead. cheaper and better
https://www.olimex.com/Products/Retro-Computers/
See this
Isn't that by the guy who destroyed that prototype computer once and is autistically into open carry?
>is autistically into open carry?
just like me fr.
the 8-bit guy is into open carry?
Yes. He has some old videos with him carrying a Glock. Not surprising, he is from Texas.
No. It's the worst of every world.
It's just an modern day c64 but without the compatibility. And there are already 100% compatible C64 FPGAs that fit in the case and take the keyboard, which makes the commander x16 Superfluous.
So it doesn't appeal to the modern techie because why would it?
And it doesn't appeal to the retro computer enthusiast because it's not retro.
It doesn't have a software market because it's not compatible with anything but it's own ecosystem which hardly exists.
I mean this would be great system back in the mid 80s, but there just isn't a market for it even with retro autists
>paying $350 for a proprietary system that runs an version of BASIC that was shit back in 1984
If it was 80 bucks and it was c64 compatible maybe
>that runs an version of BASIC that was shit back in 1984
that's a big problem in current year if you want to sell something to modern people living outside of caves and in the real world.
>Seems lame to get a "retro" computer with an FPGA on that could do everything else on the board by itself.
you could but it's cheaper to just stuff it all into a chip. my only issue with that is that the fpga isn't open source. chip dies? too bad. you have to rely on david.
Seems lame to get a "retro" computer with an FPGA on that could do everything else on the board by itself.
There are much more interesting projects out there.
No.
I want to see it fail. Along with David. And that douchebag peri fractic
won't be a commercial success - ever - but the paypigs he has will buy anything he's selling
shit, for the cost he's charging you could probably get an FPGA board and implement the entire X16 on a single chip.
I don't want to see it fail, but it makes no economic sense. I feel like he's gone all in on a sunk-cost fallacy
Ultimate 64
And it runs software
No, it's absolutely pointless project for mega autists. It's also far more expensive than he ever protected, I don't know why he didn't just cancel the project.
plenty of emulators if you want to develop shit for some ancient hardware. No need to make a faux retro device.