@anniethebruce yeah...
Basically it's been turned into some commercial product.

Amd whilst they can't opensource or share the BASIC & KERNAL they could at least not go out of theor way to prevent others from iterating upon it and buy that ROM through them legitimately.

The #CommanderX16 / #X16 thus is more a toy for #C64 & #C128 fans that want something they can easily hook up to a modern TV.

THE #RC2014 in comparison looks like an open architecture.beyond the ability to make expansion cards.

@dalias @Houl waiting for the #CX16 / #X16 / #CmdrX16 / #CommanderX16 to get orderable!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oYcu43N-lw

And I think that would be really funny to see:

#NeoFloppy on the #X16 / #CommanderX16...
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/NeoFloppy

OFC they won't officially support #HDMI due to #licensing and #cost as well as the added complexity.

Personally, I would've scrapped the idea of making an HDMI-outputing "video card" to save costs and instead make a deal with some OEM to certify compatibility with an #VGA->HDMI dongle which gets powered by the PS/2 port and have it #CommanderX16 / #X16 branded...

Cuz that'll be a cheap-to-make accessory just like #RGB - #SCART cords for 6th & 7th gen consoles were...
https://youtu.be/nyByDNQuMMI?t=1994

Continued evaluation of #commander #x16. I found great apps to significantly improve initial (BASIC) experience with the platform. I also helped the author to fix one of them to work with the latest emulator. One of these apps is BASLOAD (https://github.com/stefan-b-jakobsson/basload) which loads ASCII based BASIC program without line numbers and labeled GOTO expressions into tokenized program, second is the editor (https://github.com/stefan-b-jakobsson/x16-edit) that helps you write ASCII programs on the platform without the need of PC

Commander #x16 is close to be released as I heard. Not that this is easy to believe, but I gave the emulator another shot and I also checked the work already done by the community. Impressive how vivid it still is, considering it takes ages to 8bit guy to realize his vision. #c64

These days we have computer systems which are so overly complex that a single person has no chance to understand or even control them entirely. Instead, we let them control us.
This makes projects like the Commander X16 so important.

#commanderx16 #x16

The Commander X16 has finally arrived! - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AcWqMGju7fk&feature=emb_title

i really hope #the8bitGuy's Commander #X16 is a kit. i wanna build it myself so bad. and i hope the version 1 drops before my birthday in april and that i can get one. #retroComputing

Finally got around to watching the video for the 8-bit guy's new 8 bit computer work in progress.

It is ambitious, and it will take a lot of work to pull it off, but it seems like a pretty solid box.

With the right supporting software, he's about 75% of the way to what I would want as a minimum computer for daily use.

Anyway, the Commander #X16 project looks like it'll be neat.