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I never actually had a Commodore 64 when I was younger (I was an Amstrad boy myself), but I still think that the computer is an icon of 80s design.  Still, not so useful lately in comparison to laptops – unless of course you hack it into some sort of C64 PDA!

Commodore 64 Laptop

With the serial keyboard from a Jornarda PDA, an ever-handy PSOne LCD display and a variety of other useful bits, Petscii forum member ‘jtwinters’ built this 6.5 x 6 x 1.5 inch portable unit that can run either on external power or its own batteries.

More photos after the cut – including one which emphasises just how small this hack is!

Commodore 64 laptop

Commodore 64 Laptop - ports

Commodore 64 laptop - guts

Petscii Forum Thread [via MAKE]

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4 Responses to “I’ll take my C64 “to go”, please”

  1. Raghavan January 14, 2007

    Hi,

    Can someone tell me the name of the game being shown in the picodore64 in the above image…I remember playing a game like that when i used to be a little kid..

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  2. Matisse January 14, 2007

    It’s “Pitfall” isn’t it?

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  3. Bruce Anderson January 15, 2007

    Yep, that’s Pitfall. Damn, this is cool! I’d buy one.

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  4. Peo February 12, 2007

    Having access to a metal workshop, I’d make the chassis out of something like corrosion resistant steel, eight pounds heavy and strong enough to survive bein run over by a car or dropped from 100 feet! :-D
    (What a pity that workshop doesn’t have a bin for scraps of titanium to make use of!)

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