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| - | ====== The first few weeks with the Commodore 64U ====== | + | ====== The first few weeks with the Commodore 64 Ultimate ====== |
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| - | Only the very astute among you would have noticed that I've been on a bit of a Commodore fanboy high since July 2025 with the resurrection of [[https://www.commodore.net|Commodore]] and the production of the [[https://www.commodore.net/category/computers|Commodore 64U]]. | + | Only the very astute among you would have noticed that I've been on a bit of a Commodore fanboy high since July 2025 with the resurrection of [[https://www.commodore.net|Commodore]] and the production of the [[https://www.commodore.net/category/computers|Commodore 64 Ultimate]]. |
| - | I know there are probably hundreds of reviews out there already. I've deliberately avoided reading any just yet while piecing this article together. But if I happen to wind up covering the same stuff... well, then I do. I wanted to write from the perspective of having used the machine for a number of weeks. | + | There are probably hundreds of reviews out there already. I've deliberately avoided reading any just yet while piecing this article together. But if I happen to wind up covering the same stuff... well, then I do. I wanted to write from the perspective of having used the machine for a number of weeks. |
| I put my order up in June 2025, and being something like 5000th in the queue, true to their word, machines were shipped into the hub in South Australia in late December and distributed around the country. Two days before Christmas, notification arrived that the C64U was waiting at the Post Office. | I put my order up in June 2025, and being something like 5000th in the queue, true to their word, machines were shipped into the hub in South Australia in late December and distributed around the country. Two days before Christmas, notification arrived that the C64U was waiting at the Post Office. | ||
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| It has been quite a few weeks since I've had the C64U now. Has the novelty worn off? I keep it by the TV near the Playstation and it has it's own dedicated HDMI connection and is hooked up all the time. That makes it easy to pass by for a quick go if I have some spare time. | It has been quite a few weeks since I've had the C64U now. Has the novelty worn off? I keep it by the TV near the Playstation and it has it's own dedicated HDMI connection and is hooked up all the time. That makes it easy to pass by for a quick go if I have some spare time. | ||
| - | Mind you, there's not always a lot of that. And yes I don't play it as often as the first month, but I have a few titles queued up to try and complete again. These include Impossible Mission, [[https://www.lemon64.com/game/v-the-computer-game|V]], [[https://www.lemon64.com/game/nexus|Nexus]], and... oh why not... Wizball again. | + | Mind you, there's not always a lot of that. And yes I don't play it as often as the first month, but I have a few titles queued up to try and complete again. These include Impossible Mission (nearly completed the other day), [[https://www.lemon64.com/game/v-the-computer-game|V]], [[https://www.lemon64.com/game/nexus|Nexus]], and... oh why not... Wizball again. |
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| Every detail has been thought of. [[https://www.commodore.net/team|CEO Perifractic]], [[https://ultimate64.com|Gideon]] and all the Commodore staff and creators care about what they have made here. There's a lot of love in this machine. And it's a real Commodore 64, not an emulation. FPGA is real hardware. Everything operates at the hardware level. | Every detail has been thought of. [[https://www.commodore.net/team|CEO Perifractic]], [[https://ultimate64.com|Gideon]] and all the Commodore staff and creators care about what they have made here. There's a lot of love in this machine. And it's a real Commodore 64, not an emulation. FPGA is real hardware. Everything operates at the hardware level. | ||
| - | And there was actually something nice about having to wait for this to arrive, and not to have been an item that was instantly available from some online store. | + | And there was actually something nice about having to wait for this to arrive. That it wasn't an item that was instantly available from an online store. |
| I appreciate having had that experience. | I appreciate having had that experience. | ||
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