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[–] barnaclebutt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Feels a little pricey to be successful. A pity.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s an extremely niche product, to be fair. The general public was never going to buy it, and diehards will buy it at a premium price. When you consider the small manufacturing runs they’re probably planning, the price seems less ridiculous IMO.

I wouldn’t pay $300 for it, so I don’t claim it’s a “good value”, but I can understand from a mathematics of manufacturing standpoint why the price is something like that.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Better value than a cocaine or Warhammer habit, probably not as good value as a good chainsaw

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lmfao, what a scale!

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can still get perfectly working original ones for less. Why would anyone want to spend more on a knock off?

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It might not be a “first edition” but it’s definitely not a “knockoff”.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It literally runs on AMD 🤣

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know that an AMD FPGA is not the same thing as an AMD CPU right?

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What are you on about? Did I mention CPU?

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I guess I just don’t understand what it having an AMD chip has to do with anything. I just assumed you thought it was being emulated, my bad if it’s not the case.

[–] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's not the original hardware. If someone makes a Gucci looking bag, but it's not made with the same materials as the original, would you insist it's not a Gucci knock off?

[–] bloup@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

I would not, if the “someone” was Gucci itself, and the materials were only different in how they were made.

This is literally an official commodore product. There are original Commodore engineers involved with this latest iteration of the business. And when they put a 6510 core on the FPGA, that fpga has in a very physical sense become a bona fide 6510.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They cost $2,000 (in 2025 $) when they released in 1982. Sounds like a deal to me!

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yea, just sold to a prominent retro computer YouTuber (though I'm blanking on the name atm) so I think it's in good hands now (though too soon for this product, it was literally like a week or 2 ago they closed the deal)

[–] chellomere@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Perifractic is the name of the YouTuber

[–] loomy@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago
[–] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Song name? I feel like it's way too fucking good to be an ad jingle