If they were adding USB or an internal CF connector or some other feature it might be worth it but I'll stick to buying real C64's if I need any motherboards if this brings nothing new to the party. There are still millions of working C64/64C machines out there so it's not like they are going to disappear any time soon.

From what I've seen so far nobody is really impressed. Jens is now talking about adding additional ports/headers for certain expansions.

With Commodore I'm happy with emulation. These old 8 and 16 bit machines are a black hole for money 😀

Interesting product and it warms my heart to see dedication like this for the C64, it's such a classic. I couldn't actually see this available for sale on their website, but 150 euro is pushing it regardless. The major benefit I see here is allowing for easy use of modern PSU's, the original Commodore ones were crap when new and worse now. But there are much cheaper ways to get around that problem. And the original C64's are still readily available, I bought 2 breadbins for spares recently - 35 bucks for both.

@Mau1wurf1977, they can be a black hole it's true - my C64 has been - but they're so much fun! I had my C64 on last night playing some demo tunes for background music and a couple of times I had to stop what I was doing to sit and marvel at how god damn cool it sounded and looked.

For 150 Euro, I'd expect case, keyboard, CPU and SID as well.

Great Hierophant wrote:

For 150 Euro, I'd expect case, keyboard, CPU and SID as well.

Any chance of one of your well researched blog entries on the C64? I was re-reading your NES entry the other day, it's a good one.

I am somewhat at a disadvantage in writing about the Commodore 64 because I have never actually touched a physical unit. I only know it through emulation.