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Commodore 64 To Get 30-In-1 TV Game

Posted by simoniker on from the commie-plus-plus dept.

Lee writes "According to Peek N' Poke, there's an official Commodore 64 30-in-1 'TV game' in development, according to current C64 rights-holders Tulip Computers, who has a Dutch-language news story about it on their site." The Tulip story mentions titles including "Classic Games series from Epyx, inclusief Summer Games, Winter Games, World Games en the seminal California Games", and it's notable that Tulip's partner and exclusive C64 licensor is Ironstone Partners, who also list as a "sister company" DC Studios, software developers of the Atari 10-in-1 TV game.

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  1. hacking it.. by greywire · · Score: 4, Interesting

    will it be possible to hack the unit to allow use of arbitrary c64 software? Would we be able to hook up a keyboard and such to make a mini portable C64?

    hmm.

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  2. Cheap Sid Chips ? by polyp2000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hmmm .... will it have a proper SID chip in it?

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    1. Re:Cheap Sid Chips ? by polyp2000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Oh sure there are good emulators, no doubt about that but they aint quite perfect. That maybe more down to the fact that there was an analog element to the sound.
      The C64 had capacitors which were used for sound filters, this is pretty hard to recreate authentically through emulation. Addtionally no two C64's sounded identical, although I can categorically say that the original brown C64's sounded generically considerably better than the 2nd generation cream colored C64's which had an updated SID and possible different filters which let to a harsher sound lacking in the bottom (bass) end. In a selfless gratuitous way the SID chip was kinda like the Moog of the microcomputer world. You can get close ... but no cigar without the real thing.

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  3. c64 games by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd like to see for classic c64 games, Skate or Die, Bruce Lee, Karataka, Trolls and Tribulations, Exploding Fist, Last v8, into the eagles nest, green beret, turrican, archon, attack of the mutant camels.

    I'm forgetting a game, the battledroid game I think. I couldn't find it on Lemon64.com.

    The 64 had some pretty good games, and in the later years when they started pushing the hardware, some good gfx and sound for an 8bit system.