Commander X16

Hi all,

I came a bit late to the Commodore 64, getting the C64C World Cup Football bundle, which means it must have been around 1990. At age 14, I was already into programming by then and read every BASIC book I could find, but never made anything worth sharing on the C64 itself. A few years later I got a 386SX and the C64 was put away. I have been a software developer professionally for over 20 years, working on everything from embedded to desktop and cloud software. What I like about embedded/microcontrollers is the relative simplicity of the system and peripherals. Having enough ongoing, shelved and future projects to fill several lifetimes, I'm hoping the constraints of the Commander X16 will be liberating.

I have been following the 8-bit guy YouTube channel for a while, but didn't watch the Commander X16 videos until the other day. I had dragged the old C64 and 1541 drive out of the closet. While hooked up to the TV, there was suddenly a bang and smoke came out of the 1541, blowing the fuses in the house, not the drive itself. It looks fixable, since the smoke actually came from the noise filter in the Euro plug socket. Must have been a capacitor in there that exploded. Anyway, this sent me Googling/YouTubing for solutions and I somehow ended up on the Commander X16 videos.

The work that has gone into the Commander X16 is already impressive and I will certainly purchase at least one system when it is available.