"Rick Weiland and I (Bill Gates) wrote the 6502 BASIC," Gates commented on the Page Table blog in 2010. "I put the WAIT ...

Alongside that compatibility, the new Commodore 64 Ultimate will also support Wi-Fi game transfer and the ability to plug in a USB stick with classic and new games onboard.

However, you don’t need to do things this way. If you’re more old school, you can program your AVRs right from a Commodore 64. [Linus Akesson] shows us how. Programming an AVR isn’t that hard.

According to Techspot, the remade Commodore 64 promises 99 percent software compatibility with its hardware emulation, which means you’ll be able to play more than 10,000 C64 games if desired.

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964.