The Swedish designer Love Hultèn is known for his retro-futuristic slot machines and consoles that he on their own drawings for themselves and under the order. Inspired by the classic forms of retrocomputers, cabinets and home gaming systems of the 70-80s of the last century, Hulten pleases connoisseurs of retrovideo games and collectors. His latest work is the complete reincarnation of the home computer PET 2001, which was released by Commodore in 1977.
PET De Lux - as the designer called his new computer - is equipped with an original keyboard and datasette, a device for reading information from magnetic mini-cassettes, developed by the specialists of Commodore.
Despite the fact that the design PET looks very authentic, the filling of this device is quite modern. The microcomputer, which is located inside the walnut case, is stuffed with emulator programs that can reproduce not only the games of the times of the original PET 2001, but also 8-16-bit masterpieces from NES, SNES and many other popular and not very consoles.
Enjoy classic masterpieces can be with two customizable wireless controllers, the design of which is inspired by the classic TAC-2 joysticks from the Atari 2600 gaming system.
The computer, as the creator declares, will be unique. At least in the near future, Hulten does not plan to produce other such devices for sale. Nevertheless, the website of the designer has several gaming devices that you can buy for a couple of thousand euros. After payment, the master will make the required device taking into account the individual wishes of the customer. In October last year, Hulten manufactured a portable game console Zette System, assembled very much like a tape recorder. There is a console of 2255 dollars.
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