Though he's most notable for putting the latest and greatest gaming hardware in lap-friendly enclosures, Ben Heckendorn's latest project is decidedly retro. Fittingly dubbed the "Commodore 64 Original ...

Editor’s Note 4/10/12: Jack Tramiel died on April 8 and will always be remembered as a computing industry pioneer and founder of Commodore. The Commodore 64 was one of the most popular PCs of all time ...

Unlike consoles, PC precursors largely have to put a bit more effort into running games than simply blowing on a cartridge ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. I experienced some Commodore 64 synchronicity this week. Earlier ...

The Commodore 64 Mini is coming out on October 9. The plug-and-play version of the classic PC system is 50 percent smaller than the original. It comes with 64 built-in games (hooray for branding) and ...

The Commodore 64 Ultimate is the most astonishing retro product I have ever reviewed. I was expecting it to be a straightforward, modern take on the all-time best-selling personal computer. I imagined ...

The Commodore 64 and other classic Commodore home computers are back, roughly 30 years after becoming a watershed in the evolution of desktop entertainment and productivity. Under the aegis of new ...

The Commodore 64 is making a comeback. Koch Media, the German media company that also owns the Deep Silver publishing brand, announced that it is making a tiny version of the classic computer gaming ...

Unlike many of my friends, my first video game console wasn’t the original NES. It was a Commodore 64, which my parents bought as our first home computer. It could do a few useful things, but the C64 ...

Before the Super Nintendo, and even before the original NES arrived in North America, I cut my gaming teeth on the Commodore 64. It was sold as one of the first personal computers, but to many kids of ...

Way back in the Mesozoic era of computing (also known as the early 1980s), we didn’t have slick little netbooks or big, powerful desktops. Businesses that used computers at all generally relied on ...