Swedish designer Love curator (Love Hultèn) is known for its retrofuturistic slot machines and consoles, which he creates in his own drawings for himself. Inspired by classic forms of retrocomputers, offices and home gaming systems of the 70-80-ies of the last century, curator retroviewer pleases connoisseurs and collectors. His newest work — a complete reincarnation of the home computer, the PET 2001, which was released by Commodore in 1977.
PET De Lux — so the designer called his new computer — equipped with the original keyboard, and datasette device for reading information from the magnetic mini-cassette, developed by specialists of the Commodore.
Despite the fact that designer PET looks very authentic, filling this device is quite modern. A microcomputer that is located inside the nut body, stuffed with software emulators that can play not only the games times the original PET 2001, but the 8 and 16-bit masterpieces from the NES, SNES and many other popular and not consoles.
Enjoy classical masterpieces by using two custom wireless controllers, whose design is inspired by the classic joystick TAC-2 game system Atari 2600.
Computer, as stated by the Creator, will be one of a kind. At least in the near future curator has no plans to produce other such devices for sale. However, on the website of the designer there are several gaming devices, which can be bought for a couple thousand euros. After payment wizard will produce a required device is tailored to the individual wishes of the customer. In October last year, the curator produced a portable game console Zette System, assembled much like a tape recorder. The console is worth $ 2255.
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Designer and video game fan from Sweden has created a custom retrocomputer
Vyacheslav Larionov