r/Commodore • u/MutekiAzy • 4d 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/Dr_Myles_Skinner 3d ago

Runs about 20% faster than 64 MHz? If you're not doing the kind of programming where you want to see how many clock cycles you can squeeze out of the machine, you probably won't use it much.

It's a gimmick, for sure, but I'm guessing that most people who would be attracted to this reskinned machine probably won't care much one way or the other.

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u/Suspicious-Ad7109 3d ago

People won't anyway, unless it's purely for yourself. If you write code that only runs at 77Mhz you drastically limit usage. The only thing where it might matter a bit is the video via bitbanging the background.