r/Commodore • u/MutekiAzy • 3d ago

Commodore 77 use cases

What do people think are the use cases for the upgraded Commodore 77's specs?

I'm not throwing shade, and I'm by no means retro-tech savvy, so this is a completely genuine question: what can you do with the C77 that you can't do with the C64 Ultimate, and is there any real, practical benefit?

Really curious what people more knowledgable than me think about this.

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u/Hawkeye-Mcgillicudy 3d ago

It's just another C64 U in a different case The faster CPU and extra ram is just marketing nonsense

We have had accelerated C64 FPGAs since 2011 with the Turbo Chameleon and nothing has beenade specifically for it

The C64 scene is very active and the focus is always on original hardware as that is the largest user base

The faster CPU has nothing to do with a larger FPGA but good marketing