In this video I will check out the C64X - a brand new C64 with a PC inside ... or just the barebones case.

You can find it here: https://myretrocomputer.com/
or here: https://www.mini-itx.com/2022/07/07/t...

The Cooler: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/328260...

Commodore OS Vision 2.0: https://www.commodoreos.net/Commodore...

More Links:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/th...

Here is the mail that Sean send me (to give you all the info in his own words):

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Hi Wolfgang,
Glad you got it but sorry about the problems.
I did send out cases before the campaign from 2020 - 2022 - The injection molds were made in 2010 by Commodore USA and this is the first time there has been a crack detected in that area (EDIT: the crack near the keyboard)!

The slot cover - this is for either the hard drive docking station or dvd/blue Ray drive - I was originally going to have a blank made for the C64x but because we didn't have enough money left - I had to abandon that idea. A fellow backer has designed a 3d printable cover for it though and I have attached this to the email.

We have had no issues about the tolerance around the keyboard - remember the case was designed in 2010. That item inside you refer to (EDIT: the broken of thing inside the case) was for a Wi-Fi aerial but we decided to remove this because it was in the way (again the case/injection molds were designed and built in 2010).
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Regarding the Raspberry Pi compatibility, again because of costings - we had to abandon the idea but I do have Raspberry pi kits available to do this anyway.

We used a crowdfunding agency to handle the crowdfunding and they did 4 months of prelaunch advertising, this enabled them to gather information to predict the amount we would raise and they predicted 1 million US Dollars - so they advised me to have a very low goal (25k) but in reality my goal was like 350k. This was to allow us to reach the goal (25k) within an hour or so and this would make the Kickstarter algorithm work in our favour pushing our campaign to the top of their ranking and generate free promotion/advertising. It worked and within 4 hours we were well on our way to our hidden goal and in line with the agency's predictions but then an Italian company (that have been attempting to take the commodore branding for themselves) - I think they are called Commodore Engineering - contacted Kickstarter and informed them that I was infringing on their IP "Commodore" so Kickstarter took the campaign down. It was down for a week and by the time Kickstarter reinstated the campaign - the damage was done and in the end we only raised 150k.

I had a big decision to make 1 - Cancel the campaign just before it became fully funded or to refund all the backers that pledged for a monitor and see the campaign reach a successful conclusion and honour all the C64x rewards - So I chose to honour the C64x backer rewards and not cancel the campaign. I might add that if I did cancel the campaign, the agency we used would not have been paid so that was a big persuader in the end. So going forward from that point on, I have been attempting to fulfil this campaign on a shoestring budget. So finally, I am so glad to be shipping out all rewards to get the weight of this campaign off my shoulders!
All the best
Sean
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