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This scratch-built, period-correct Portable Commodore 64 is a love letter to an alternate Commodore history — Noki's cleverly designed homage to the era merges Commodore, Apple, and Raspberry Pi

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Tom's Hardware

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An industrial designer has created a prototype of a Commodore 64 laptop, blending the design of the original C64 with an Apple Macintosh Lisa portable aesthetic. The Portable 64 is a fully functional custom design with modern hardware, including a Raspberry Pi 5 running the VICE emulator. The device features a custom-built keyboard, 10-inch 4:3 screen, and a battery repurposed from a UPS. The finished prototype boots to the Commodore 64 BASIC screen in 11 seconds and allows for loading original software from a 1541 floppy or using an SD card for portability.