Real Commodore 64 Laptop
April 5, 2009
I think I’m in love.
I was browsing around tonight rather bored, and surfed to modder Ben Heckendorn’s site to see if he had posted anything new. Boy did he! His latest creation is a Commodore 64 laptop with real hardware installed. It has a C64C motherboard installed, and includes a cartridge slot. It uses a 1541-III DTV to “emulate” a floppy drive using an SD card. Pretty slick. It uses the original keyboard (the function keys are below it instead of to the side) and has an LCD screen that shows some SD card information. Red LED indicatiors. Volume slider. And a Gamecube power supply instead of the notoriously janky original style.
Check out the whole build with more pictures and video at benheck.com. I want one, Ben. I need one. Much much better than the Windows-based Commodore laptop.
ZarkSeven 
Where are they being sold, and how much.
It was auctioned off by Ben Heckendorn on his site (linked above). It raised $6,000 for Child’s Play Charity.