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"How did we use this joystick? My hands are already cramping up! Maybe my six year old hand was more... nubiiiiile!"]]>Apr 6th 2009 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/Apr 6th 2009 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/Apr 6th 2009 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/Apr 6th 2009 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
Bamn!


And a new internet meme is born... Bamn! - the combination of "bam!" and "damn!"]]>Apr 6th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
That's James Woods.


Anything that pays homage to Commodore is cool.]]>Apr 6th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
Does anyone remember Ghostbusters on the C64? I seem to think that was the tits at the time, but after seeing Angry Video Game nerds rundown of it (and most of the other games...) I'm starting to think gaming years ago was a whole sack of gash.

I love retro things but I can't get enough Xbox 360...]]>Apr 6th 2009 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/Apr 6th 2009 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/Apr 6th 2009 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
"Another visitor. Stay awhile. Staaaaay foreverrrrrrr!"
"Destroy him, my robots!"
"Aaaarrrrrrgghhhhh!"
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And truthfully, I really don't care, but thats probably because this was way before my time. I'm way more excited that my new i7 is running at 3.5 ghz quietly with factory cooling. (I'm 2 hours in... no errors yet).]]>Apr 6th 2009 11:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/Apr 6th 2009 7:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
And no, I don't want a Commodore diskette drive either. ]]>Apr 6th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
Ah the old days.]]>Apr 6th 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/Apr 7th 2009 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/maybe there was sublimibal messages in them?]]>Apr 6th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
If you follow his work at all you can see an evolutionary process happening, not only with his building/modding techniques, but in the area of styling in his custom casework.

This really does look the part completely, and if it's anything like his other stuff works spot on as well.

I so want to be this guy when I grow up.

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He should play some technologically interesting games like Bounces or I.M. tho!

M0les.]]>Apr 6th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
Give us more of this, and less of the lame "tech shoved in a toy" crap that you keep showing us, and we'll be impressed.

For the record, the C=64 rocked. Whenever I hear people talk about the "great video game crash" of the 80s, I laugh, because we had the Commodore 64, and the game-trading scene was HUGE. Every C=64 owner had dozens or hundred of games. We played games all through the alleged "crash", and there were some great ones. So the only "crash" was with Atari, Magnavox, Coleco, and Mattel. Commodore gaming was going strong.


]]>Apr 6th 2009 11:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
Mail Order Monsters STILL deserves to be remade. ]]>Apr 6th 2009 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
I want a TI-99/4A laptop.
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http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html

-ambanmba]]>Apr 6th 2009 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/ben-hecks-commodore-64-laptop-mod-like-1982-without-the-feathe/
The c64 was an amazing machine at the time, and there was a metric ton of games to play and enjoy, lots of memories. And I learned assembler on it, got my start on programming.

I could still bust out Bruce Lee (and a mountain of other games for that matter) and have a good time. Some sweet RPGs too.
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