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When it comes to computers, the average person usually believes that “newer is better”. After all, you can get more memory, a faster processor, and a larger hard disk, merely by waiting a few months. Old hardware is usually shunned as being of little value. In contrast, the elementary education sector has consistently found traditional educational methods to be superior to the newest, latest, and greatest methods. Some of the most knowledgeable and capable children are produced by the schools that use seemingly antiquated techniques.

So what happens when the world of technology collides with the world of education? Why, the Commodore 64 makes a comeback!

Was it ever gone? :-)

Yeah well uh :)

I've never had one mind you

me neither
was using Amstrad CPC at that time...

Those folks that like C64 games never saw demos. I can't play C64 games as they SUCK BIG TIME.

There. I've said it.

But I LOVE the MUSIC.

i cannot abandon my c64, its filled with some sort of extraterrestrial love <3
...and i am addicted to archon 2 player mode since ages, i just can not stop it

What proportion of kids nowadays know that it's easy to program for a computer versus the proportion back then? I remember the computer coming with a full basic manual, and for home computers like the c64, you had to interact with basic at least once a day, if just to load a game.

What "traditional educational methods" might that be? And in WinXP you have to interact with complex kernal processes if you just want to start Notepad :)

I still have 2 C64's...

thanks _-_ , thats a really great article.

The commodore is keeping up with me.

I want one

Thanks to that and a discussion on OSNews I found a link to the Commodore DTV (A C64 in a joystick... but the later European versions have all the ports AND 2 MB flash memory AND a 256 color mode. The screen is apparently broken, but anyway)

Crusader: you mean This DTV?

Yeah, that one. Eh, I'd be more shocked if I found out about it before you guys...

Just be sure when you get yours not to let it sit for 6 months unmodded, like, oh... these 2...

in mother russia, the commodore keeps up with you!

I can tell you that kids really doesnt complain about the hardware, gfx or sound. My sister's little kids love to play c64 games.

I still have Atari 800 xe... And It still alive!

I killed my DTV by accident by being impatient while resoldering the SMD resistors and pulling before the joint had heated enough to melt, ripping the circuit traces right off the board :(

ouch...

I was going to buy a C64 DTV. But it's a wast of money. Now I'm gonna buy an 1 chip MSX

By my calculations it can handle a SNES.

I was recently performing a C64-tribute-song" on stage which I wrote some years ago. It was of course written on "When I'm sixty-four" and was accompanied live by a real C64, which was at the same time showing some things on the screen fitting to the song text.

Just my way up keeping up...