The Bizarre 1999 Commodore 64 Web.it Internet Computer
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Publicado 2023-03-03
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00:00 Look at this weirdness!
01:05 The C64 Web.it Internet Computer
02:10 A web of bankruptcies and acquisitions
02:51 The new Commodore 64 for the 90s
03:14 It's Dutch? But it's German
04:01 Trackpad mouse? Nah, stylus
05:01 Ports and I/O
05:42 Powering on with dual CRTs
06:19 Say hello to embOS from IBM
07:27 A MIDI music test
07:53 Windows 3.1 except not
09:02 No hard drive, it's all flash
10:06 Stuck with preconfigured PC-DOS
10:42 It runs DOOM
11:09 Commodore 64 software
13:21 Dreaming of better hardware
14:22 Eh I'll pretend it's from 1993. This is neat!
16:01 Outroduction
#LGR #retro #computer
Todos los comentarios (21)
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It looks like a manufacturer ended up with a pile of laptop bottom halves and someone in accounting figured out a creative way to dump them.
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Feels like this would have been great in 1993, maybe even as late as 1995. But 1999?!
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I know exactly the kind of market this was aimed at. Plenty of people around that time in Europe only ever bought a C64 as a computer. But the internet was booming and even they wanted to get into that action. So to put out a C64 that had internet capabilities was not that bizarre of an idea. But yeah starting off with dated technology in an era when even a top of the line PC could get pretty much obsolete in a matter of months was probably what killed this.
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Using a PDA screen as a trackpad and that IDE port that's just there with no space in the case to actually be used have to be the weirdest parts of that thing, it's like they just threw together a computer with whatever parts they happened to have laying around.
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Every time you said something about what's actually running on this, my brain started to break. Its OS is a reshelling of Windows 3.1, but made by IBM. And it's running on a machine branded as a Commodore 64, but one that requires a stylus and released a year at most before the Millennium?! Ludicrous. Daft. Brilliant.
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Ah, yes, the days of the Commodore Curse. Those were such... eventful times for those of us with Amigas.
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10:42 Finally, you can run Doom on a Commodore 64.
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The OS intro jingle sounds WAY too epic for its own good and I don’t hate it 😂
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I appreciate that when most tech channels I've seen say they have something weird to show off it's really not all that strange but every time Clint says he has something weird in a video, it's actually pretty bizarre. One of the reasons I keep coming back to watch these, it's always something interesting.
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I’d like to see how bad the “disturbing contents” that lead to the closure of the chatbase were
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Note that despite being released in 1999, this had Netscape Navigator v3 which was already two years old and eclipsed by v4+. 16bit (Windows 3.x) support was dropped after v4.08 which was released in late 1998. When this device was released it couldn't run the latest browser, but they didn't even bother to upgrade it to the versions of v4 that it could run.
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My grandparents had a WebTV. Towards the end, it was impossible to use because of all the spam and it lacked a way to remotely administer it, making it hard to help them with issues!
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After Commodore's bankruptcy, Commodore and Amiga became zombie brands - rising from the grave attached to some harebrained product that would flop, before being sold to a new owner and rising from the grave again. They must be cursed by this point.
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7:03 hit me with a wave of Netscape Nostalgia! Thanks, Clint!
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The shot at 16:05 is just so LGR. Content gold to be sure! 😂
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It has a bit of a Nissan Juke vibe - in as such it looks like it's suffering from the mumps! Have always loved the concept of a "PC in a Keyboard" type thang, so am surprised I'd never heard of this until now. Thank you once again for helping to keep the memory of forlorn tech alive.
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That thing is wild... It "almost" has it, but the lack of a configurable bios and inability to boot to a different OS leaves it seriously crutched.... Still a neat thing to have in the collection.
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It was not uncommon to boot Linux from DOS in this era with loadlin, so it's probably no impossible to run something else on it.
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MIDI support is here! COUNT ME IN!
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I've only vague recollections of "Some company in Germany is trying to resurrect the Commodore name," but haven't actually seen this until now. I gotta be honest. I kinda love this hot mess of a machine. I'd be surprised if there's not a custom ROM floating around which would allow you to boot from an IDE drive.
