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Commodore 64 TV Game for Sale
KodaK writes "The Commodore 64 Direct to TV is on sale at QVC. QVC bought all available units (250,000 or so) so, for now, this is the only place you can get them. This is a full C=64 in a joystick form factor with 30 games included, meaning you can hack this sucker to add a keyboard and/or other IEC peripherials (like a disk drive). The full BASIC ROM is included. Buy one now and impress your friends. BTW, this was developed by Jeri Ellsworth, the engineer responsible for the C-One. Cool stuff." We mentioned the development of this earlier.
You mean my Vic-20 based games console is already out of date? But it had "Blue Meanies From Outer Space" on it!
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Without that I'm not interested. Playing a game where you get to be a pigeon that shits on cars was the best part of my childhood.
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
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Now there's been plenty of ads disguised as stories on slashdot before, but actually including the text Buy one now and impress your friends is a little ridiculous.
I believe by making the C64 and its SID audio chip open source it would benefit a lot of households in the US, Canada, Mexico, and Iceland that do not have a home computer.
With the dedication, foresight, and marketing-savy of the Open Source Developer Community they could create new custom applications for the C64 such as HDTV media centers, 24-track mixers, webmail appliances, state firewalls, and of course bioryhthm generators. These are elusive markets that have escaped Microsoft, OS/2, United Linux and the fairly-sucessful BeOS.
By using the powerful processor and the ability to POKE and PEEK values in the registers directly, highly efficient code could be generated which would allow us to wrestle away from the stranglehold that Gateway and Alienware have on the blade server market.
Which is nice.
Wearing pants should always be optional.
I've been thinking about upgrading.
./ from my decrepit AMD Athlon(TM) 64 box (which I'm about to trash). My next comment will be from my super-ultra-modern-high-tech Commadore!!!!!!!111
The QVC sales guy says this will run Duke Nukem Forever, this is fucking awesome!
It will take a NVIDIA GeForce 6600, right?
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Just kidding... if they have Raid on Bungeling Bay on this thing, I'm totally buying it!
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Jerry was showing them to me a couple of weekends ago.
you know you play *way* too much Call of Duty when the first thought that enters your head is "hey cool, Germans made it!"
*sigh*
When can we expect a version that comes with 30 different Linux distros preinstalled, so interested folks don't have to meddle with these live CDs anymore? Oh, wait, it would cost 30 x 699 US$ then, right?
Jeez, it's 2:30 in the morning here, now how the hell am I going to get to sleep? Gah.
Buy one now and impress your friends
:D
If you're friends get impressed with a Commodore you (and you're friends) need to get out more often.
But when will I be able to buy Windows in a Mouse so that I can play my old games after trashing my last Windows install?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
MAME cabinets are a pain to build, and are limited to a few free designs
.99 a piece, but the selection would be limited to Oregon Trail and Stickybear titles.
A few free designs? Design your own. It isn't that hard to engineer a big wooden box, after all.
As for this happening to the Apple IIe series, talk to Steve Jobs about it.
If they released such a thing, it'd probably cost $300 bucks, and you'd have to download the games seperately from iGames.
They'd only be
Although, it'd be entertaining to read the endless slashdot articles about how amazing it is and how Apple "invented" the game-in-a-stick.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
It's just going to be too weird to play a C=64 game that doesn't say
+_+ CRACKED BY THE FANTASTIC FOUR +_+
*** CALL OUR BBS FOR MORE! ***
*** TWO LINES! 1200 BAUD! ***
*** JOHN IS A HOMO! HAHAHA! ***
when it starts up. What will the kids of today think about classic gaming? That people actually paid for their games back then? I mean, if we're going for authenticity, let's go all the way, people.
Please, think of the children.
She's the one on the right.
QVC bought all available units (250,000 or so)
250,000 units... imagine a... humm no. won't work.
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stay awhile..... staaaaaaay foreeeeeveerrrrrrr!!!!
DAMN YOU!!!
Now I gotta get my C64 out of the closet and get me some of that action.
*curses and waves fist in what I hope is your general direction*
-FlynnMP3
Ps. Thanks for the good belly laugh.
all this time I tought AOL created that game
It looks remarkably like a Competition Pro 5000. I had one of them (it's probably still in the loft somewhere) and they are built to take some serious punishment. You'd have a job breaking the steel shaft on one of those suckers!
In those heady days only the better joysticks had such advanced features as auto-fire and microswitches. My current joystick is wireless, has 472 buttons, 16 degrees of freedom, four throttles and a Mini-George grill with bun warmer.
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Some day when they come out with an XP3200 in a joystick, you'll hear them scream "I can't believe they didn't include HL2 in this thing."
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athf...you will be missed :(
god bless it...