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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You mean my Vic-20 based games console is already out of date?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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I feverishly search the list of included games.... No M.U.L.E.?!?!! Useless!
Can you really 'add a keyboard' and 'disk drive', etc?
To do that, I would think this device would need a lot of exposed I/O hardware, i.e. pins, etc.
I suspect that rather, this is all embedded in some sort of an ASIC or FPGA.
Can anybody add more info?
"What's the frequency Kenneth?"
After all, MAME cabinets are a pain to build, and are limited to a few free designs. With this, and a switch box, I can legally play all of my favorite arcade games from those arcade-in-a-stick controllers, and now all of my C64 favorites. Here's to hoping that they do the same for the Apple IIe series, because I can't wait to play Wizardry again "Jump down, turn around, and kill a bunch of wights"...and so on.
Remove the spamfreak to speak.
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 . . . . .
Extra hot grits, please.
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Impossible Mission is just crying out for a modern day remake. Excellent game that was ahead of its time. Highly recommended if you have the patience for yestertech graphics.
It's the "Learn More" link. The games are:
* Bull Riding
* Championship Wrestling
* Cyberdyne Warrior
* Cybernoid
* Cybernoid 2
* Eliminator
* Exolon
* Firelord
* Flying Disk
* Gateway to Apshai
* Impossible Mission
* Impossible Mission 2
* Jumpman Jr.
* Paradroid
* Pitstop
* Pitstop 2
* Rana Rama
* Silicon Warrior
* Speedball
* Summer Games
* Super Cycle
* Sumo
* Surfing
* Sword of Fargoal
* Tower Toppler
* Uridium
* Winter Games
* World Karate Champion A
* World Karate Champion B
* Zynaps
Nice idea. Too bad you can't use an AC adaptor in place of batteries. Any idea what the battery life on these units are anyway?
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Problem I see with this is that if you break the unit by 'waggling' to much, you've got a heftyish replacement fee. Maybe that's why QVC are sellin em in packs of two.
On the hardware front, hope it is hackable to a degree, I'd like to see some of the Rowland Twins (or ACP) masterpieces like Creatures, Creatures 2 (LOVE those torture chambers) and Mayhem in Monsterland.
And Park Patrol and Wizball and.....snip!
Shaped like a Competition Pro joystick. I used to like this stick, but I wonder how it holds up now, having played extensively with the XBOX-controller.
Cool, is this like a sequel to Temple of Apshai?
First CRPG I ever played.
(apparently an optimized version)
Belief is the currency of delusion.
...I remember thee well. I always had trouble getting my little brother to give up the C64 he got from my uncle's basement, so maybe this little toy is just what I need to repolish my old BASIC skills. I used to write prime number generators on these things, then let them run for days to see how quickly they could reach 1 million, then try to optimize them. Just how hackable is this thing? Could you easily hook up a keyboard? What about a cassette tape reader?
Has anyone hacked the Atari-in-a-joystick version? I want a level editor for Adventure!
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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.
... she's (the engineer, that is) hot, too. Or at least seems that way from this picture.
Mod me offtopic if you must, but the fact is that should give hope to nerds everywhere who bemoan the fact that there are no female geeks out there who are actually attractive.
Of course, Ms. Ellsworth has probably had a boyfriend (or girlfriend, as the case may be) since she was about 14. People who are that smart who look like that are single for about 5 seconds (unless they choose to remain so, which takes them out of the running anyway).
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Can someone post a link to the keyboard hack and any others that are avaiable?
If I cant start loading raid on bungeling bay before dinner, go have some food with mom and dad, then come back in, cross my fingers, and hope its ready to play... I dont want it!
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Should've included Alley Cat and Gribbly's Day Out. But I guess Uridium and Paradroid makes it go a long way.
Archon, M.U.L.E., Bruce Lee...
And it's been 20 years, and I still can't get that damn Forbidden Forest theme song out of my head.
Damnit, it doesn't include the game I most wanted!
There used to be an old Spy vs. Spy game for the commadore 64. (Yes the MAD magazine spy vs spy.) I used to LOVE that game. Its a shame this system doesn't have it. I also had frogger for the commadore 64. Its missing too.
I do security
* Impossible Mission
Hahaha. Due to a bug, Impossible Mission actuall was impossible!
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.
So basically, it's got impossible mission and a bunch of shit.
Still a cool thing, though, I might get one for myself, even though I still have a closet full of 64s, 64-C's, 1541s, 1581s, 801s, 803s, and crates of games.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Paradroid, Impossible Mission... good. No Raid on Bungling Bay? Not sure if I can justify the purchase.
Other classic consoles are also available including Atari, Activision, Nameco.
* Impossible Mission
* Impossible Mission 2
Oh there is a God. I definitely need this.
Damn. No Shamus. Not that the game was great, but I never actually did beat it, and that fact has irked me for the last decade and a half.
Someone had to do it.
Possibly the creepiest startging game voice ever. Darnit - not a day goes by where I don't think about that game and the fact that I could 'do' everything in the game EXCEPT figure out how to win! "A solution exists" was no help to me when I didn't know the objective. Of course - a manual might have helped but those were the free-for-all software days where anyone with a disk drive could copy as long as they could tolerate "replace disk A with disk B" about 7-8 times.
It need's to be in a Wico Command Control, or "the Boss" to truly recreate the experience.
Anyone remember those sticks? Solid steel shaft, heavy duty construction, bad-ass leaf switches inside. They were every bit as durable as an arcade stick, hell probably moreso.
Hell, I still have a Command Control that's going on 25 years old. Still as good as the day I got it.
Compare to those "arcade sticks" they sell for PS2/XBox, etc. Cheap plastic pieces of shit that are broken inside a couple weeks. Look inside and see the cheapest microswitches Radio Shack can offer.
I know there are a couple on the market that are made with real arcade components, but they cost a bundle.
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The joystick looks like the classic Kempston Competition Pro 5000. Anyone know if it's got the same rugged microswitches that used to be in these?
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Damn, where the heck are Congo Bongo and Rootin' Tootin'? Loved Gateway to Apshai though. Slime Mold! Aieeee.
I got fed up a few years back of the sheer amount of consoles i had sitting under my tv (nes, snes, mega drive, mastersystem, saturn, N64), the wires were getting some what cumbersome. These individual controllers go a long way to solving the problem but the best solution now adays seems a unit like the xbox or a tiny computer. to be honest i wouldn't play any new games on it, bit of a retro fan, i would mainly stick with emulators, offers a host more functionality, i.e. saving games, screen shots, four player support, and you can more or less drag and drop games as and when you like. For the moment my 300+ cartidges and cd's are very much retired to the loft. Is there really a need for these fancy game console controllers for anyone with a reasonable budget?
"all through my house i set up traps, it seems like the rats have a map, so now i feed the rats crack" - Donald D
No seriously my old C128, packed up and sitting in my closet kicks butt. I still have the add on tape player. hell i still have some games, no tapes tho. I would unpack it and play it a little, but im afraid of braking it.
I never had a C-64; I was an Apple IIe youth. But I had a blast with my friend's C64! It had some kick-ass two player games.
But how do you play two-player games with one stick? Is it possible? Now that I really only play networked games I prefer human competition.
This is awesome because of the technical merits, but also because the developer isn't your run of the mill parent-mooching-freak.
She's an attractive woman.
And, no, she doesn't want to date you.
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And you can probably wrap some duct tape around the box it comes with, find an old broom stick, and have a really fun game!
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Depend's what you mean by finish.
If you shoot the little kid or prostitute then they can't tell you about the stagecoach or bank robberies.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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?
This will be my last comment on
So no IK+, no Mission Elevator, no Blue Max, and no Ghostbusters, no Super Wonder Boy in Monster land. Why should i buy this one again? Oh yeah, and no Space Harrier or Chase HQ.
Or did she do something else to create this thing?
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And are all the pins/ports available or is 'attaching a keyboard' just not an option here...
Something like this could be put into a 1541 disk drive
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That's what made the all-steel shaft on the Wicos so great. I'd beat the everliving crap out of it in stuff like Epyx' games series or track & field.
And like I said in the OP, I still have it, and it still works. Once after a friend slammed it against the floor in frustration I had to open it up and crazy glue one of the leaf switches back into position. No biggie.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Just kidding... if they have Raid on Bungeling Bay on this thing, I'm totally buying it!
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Provided that these prove wildly succesful, the C-64 installed base will increase by a cool 1/4 million. I know there is still a lot of folks out there that use their C-64 on a regular basis, mostly for games (but not only).
What are the chances that a small software company ("one-man band") will find some financial interest in developing C-64 software? Same goes for hardware: I guess you could make an adapter to hook your existing carts and C-64 periferals to this thingy.
Sigged!
One can only dream....*sigh*
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As described at this link:
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http://c64upgra.de/c-one/s_specs.htm
I recall the SID chip, it was the most powerful music/sound generator chip (built into a microconputer) at the time. Here's my story on it:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=
Tag lost or not installed.
From what I've gathered through Google, it was the Atari 7800 version that was impossible, due to some puzzle pieces that were hidden behind terminals (which can't be searched like the other items).
I can say that the Commodore 64 version didn't suffer from this (or if it did, it was rather sporadic) as I've beaten it over a dozen times. In an interview with Commodore magazine (I don't remember when, but it was quite some time ago), the developer of the game stated this his best time for beating the game was about 45 minutes (of real time, not game time).
My best time is somewhere around the 55 minute mark. Impossible Mission II on the other hand took me over six hours to beat, and I've only done it once. Seeing how difficult Impossible Mission II was, I'd hate to see what they would have done for Impossible Mission III...
-- Joe
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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?
Why not just use the existing machines? One of the neat cases on mini-itx.com was a gutted C64 luggable with the original 5" (or was it 9") CRT screen in it. It was probably the only case conversion where they didn't bastardize it by replacing it with a small LCD screen.
One of the neat things I found out from the entry was that the electrical interface for the video on C64 that exists in RCA component form is basically the same as S-Video (One tip and ring for chrominance, other tip and ring for luminance). The guy took the S-Video TV out on his modern video card and soldered it into the CRT and it worked! He even fired up VICE on it and looked like the real thing.
If you'd really love to play these on a real C64 in front of a big TV, try messing around with soldering an S-Video connector on the end of two RCA component connectors.
Conversely, if you still have an old C64 monitor, try screwing around with sending S-Video to it via a VCR or PVR. Instant TV!
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
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.
Here is photo of Jeri in homage to first love processor of many of the middle aged /.ers.
Many more of Jeri at amiga.org site.
Now I'm the grandest Tiger in the Jungle!
That game (the NES version) actually made it to the ROM Pit on Something Awful. Of course, as an Apple //c kid, I found that C64 users' taste in games was quite weird.
Oh well, one of my favorites as a kid, Mighty Bomb Jack (also NES), showed up on the ROM Pit.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
I think my brother may have coded it out of a "Kit" but anyway we always called it "Droid"... you were this guy with a rocket pack and you had a gun... there were like 3 levels then it loops around and has faster enemies on the first level. you can shoot a bird that is fying and he turns into a cooked turkey and hits the ground and if you get it you get points. The first level was all green, the second was red, and the third was blue and had killer flowers on the bottom platform. I figure I might as well try to steal this post to answer childhood questions.
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.
One of the neat cases on mini-itx.com was a gutted C64 luggable with the original 5" (or was it 9") CRT screen in it.
ARRRGHH. That is not "neat". That is sacrelige. To take such a wonderfully rare piece of computer history, and jam a half-assed plain jane PC into it, it makes steam come out of my ears, I tell ya!
I hook them up and screw around from time to time. I have a homebuilt RS-232C adaptor so I can link it to the serial port on my PC, then use the old VT-100 terminal emulator to "run linux" on my 64.
It's fun to screw with my friends heads when they see me doing Google searches or having IRC chats on a 64.
They make for surprisingly good dumb terminals.
As far as just playing the games, it's easier to grab an emulator and the billions of free disk images across the web.
All my old Commie monitors are busted, no doubt from overuse. They were awesome. I had my old betamax jacked into one as a tuner, and used it for years, and the image was much sharper than a comparably sized TV. I don't see the point in hacking it for S-Video, since I can't see any difference in quality.
They were also great just to quickly set up Nintendo off in the spare bedroom to entertain visiting kids.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Trust me, for Paradroid alone it's worth it. Or at least worth seeking out the rom and an emulator.
Though Karateka and the Archons are sorely, sorely missed.
I'm waiting for the TI 99/4a version.
Parsec!
..Possibly the best game in the history of computing, ever.. for the Vic-20..
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
Duh of course I meant IMPOSSIBLE MISSION - not that silly movie that stole the name.
So when can we expect mods to cell phones?
Please include Bruce Lee.
Also, I remember the Germans were pumping out lots of p0rn stuff for C64.
Any chance to get the dirty Smurf version?
Anyone remember that utility that would make the 1541 belt out a tune by vibrating the heads?
neatest thing!
You could use that on the cellphone vibration device.
If it doesn't include Mech Brigade http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=693 then it's not worth bothering with.
You do realize that Mission: Impossible was a TV show from the sixties, right? Who stole what now?
What's wrong with her? She's slender, has long brown hair and big green eyes and a pretty smile.
(The grandparent's link is not the only picture of her available, incidentally.)
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I find it interesting that QVC bought the initial run of these. It may be of interest to readers here that QVC Studios/HQ happens to be on the very sight where Commodore Business Machines was once based.
I'm sure there was something wrong with the computer that prevented it from starting up.
As for the monitors, I take it that it had a VHF/UHF connector on it as well? One of my friends had a C64 monitor laying around, but I only saw the Chrominance/Luminance connectors on it. After that, our thoughts were, "Let's drop it out of the car while doing 50 MPH, huhuhuhuhuhuhuh!"
And yes, monitors rolling down a backroad at top speed, followed by shattering CRT glass (after the fifth attempt to break it - they don't make 'em like they used to) is extremely funny.
The thought of using Links from a C64 over RS-232 sounds pretty entertaining to me, though.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
I thought "Now that's interesting! What's next? KMart Amigas? WalMart PackardBells?" I want a ColecoVision wristwatch!
"He who throws mud, loses ground." - proverb
No, no UHF/VHF connectors.
A standard composite-in jack for C64s, and the luminance/chrmanance ones for 128s and other commie machines that displayed 80 columns. That's all I can remember.
The 64 was really cool to tinker with, since it's user port was an RS-232 but at TTL voltage levels. It's hard to find a proper connector for it, but little alligator clips work since the lines are nice and fat, and you can POKE/PEEK values straight onto or from it.
You could fry it and it'd be no problem, usually just a resistor or two to be replaced. We used to use them extensively in high school electronics shop for hooking up our gizmos.
Building a 232C adaptor is just a matter of changing the voltage levels. They were en vogue back in the day, since you could use them to interface to PC external modems and obtain ludicrously high speed of 2400 baud.
Sigh... I miss the days when you were not only allowed, but encouraged to hack around with your personal computer. They published a full schematic for the thing in the official Programmers Reference Guide (of which I still posess an extremely well worn first edition).
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Grab a copy of Vice, download the .d64 file, and realize that the puzzle fragments you have to find make up a punch-card that you will use to exit the facility.
Though I personally recommend Power64 for your retro gaming needs, it does kind of need a Mac.
You might be on to somthing, don't forget to include:
Munch Man
Hunt the Wampus
Tunnles of Doom (took 3 minutes to load off tape)
Alpine Adventure
Zero Zap (ok this one was bad.)
Sad thing is I learned to "program" one on a TI-99/a, ahh good old TI Extended Basic.
Wow even as a kid I had no life.
I ran into Jeri at a conference recently and we talked about why certain games are available (or not).
Its often an archeology problem - figuring out who owns the copyrights and getting them to respond.
For example, most of the Bally/Midway games that I was involved with at DNA (Dave Nutting Associates) are in this limbo. My contract with Midway had the game rights reverting to me, and we think that Dave's contract with Midway has the same thing, but he lost all the paperwork, so he does not know for certain. Thus we cannot assure potential distributors that the title is clear. (I actually kept my contract in a file box I was able to dig out, so MAME has Robby Roto).
Its too bad - because we would love to see Gunfight (the first game on a frame-buffer system), Sea Wolf, Gorf, Wizard of Wor, and a host of other titles available on MAME and neo-retro systems like Jeri's.
-- Jamie
While I'm thinking of these things, if anyone wants to meet Jeri Ellsworth in person, try the C64DTV, have a chance to win one in a raffle and enjoy a blast from the past, come to the World of Commdore. Yes, the most important event on any Commodore geek's social calender is back after an unfortunate hiatus. December 4, 2004 in Toronto.
stay awhile..... staaaaaaay foreeeeeveerrrrrrr!!!!
I'm sure QVC is happy it was featured on /.
Most of the games are dogs but Sword of Fargoal? Man, was I ever addicted to that game. I played it so long a few times that the C-64 was as hot as the power supply.
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
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.
Maybe it was: FORT APOCALIPSIS.
It was very addictive and hard finish. I didn't finish it yet!
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I've completed the game, but my version had an issue that killed the player when a robot fired off the left hand-side of the screen. Could either be a bug, or a copy-protection that somehow got tripped.
I've also played Impossible Mission 2 - while the robots have been improved, it feels that there's less strategy in the game because you don't exactly have to search everything.
So there you go - support your local C64 cracking crew. Even though I have a real C64, I might look at this for the convenience when the PAL version hits Europe. But please...Way Of The Exploding Fist! Ghosts'n'Goblins! One Man And His Droid for the music, the Monty Mole stuff...
Cheers,
Ian
Was I the only one who went with the TI 99 4/A instead of the C64/Vic20 at the time? I still have my system -- cartridges and tapes. When is someone going to make a port like this for the TI?
Homer no function beer well without.
Do these things have real SID chips and Filters inside ? If so it would be worth buying a bucket load of these things for those chips alone.
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all this time I tought AOL created that game
that my first computer can now fit in the palm of my hand and run on 4 AA batteries?
Just get a used Dreamcast for $20 and emulate everthing, C64, Atari 800, 2600, 5200, Apple, NES, Genesis, Gameboy, MAME and more.
I'm a little young to be in on the joke. Is this that infamous song?
MIDI file
Ahh...but my SYM-1 had way more class than your KIM-1. WUMPUS, anyone?
I thought I seen these on sale at Urban Outfitters last year for ~$30.
I have a very small mind and must live with it.
-- E. Dijkstra
Aliens, Project Firestart...
:)
ahhh.... the old times...
The game is actually called "Rescue Raiders." It was also one of my favorites.
Ok, if I understand well, I can hack this machine, add a keyboard and get...
...a C64 as we know it, which I can buy at eBay.
Why would I want to do that? Hacking stuff is cool, but in this case, what's the gain?
Z
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."
I've got 101 mod points and you can't have them!
No Suicide Express? No Mega Apocalypse? Monty On The Run? Delta? Rambo? Lightforce? Thing On A Spring? The Ocean loaders?
Guess I'll just have to make do with the remixes
You must think in Russian.
Don't worry! There's Blue Meanies From Outer Space for the PC now!
Yeah. So, one weekend I was really bored, wanted to do an oldie game remake and remembered the BMFO game I used to have on cassette...
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god bless it...
just hearing about this brings a tear to my eyes
good times...good times
> One of the neat things I found out from the entry was that the electrical interface for the video on C64 that exists in RCA component form is basically the same as S-Video
Yes, and as a nice side effect, displays intended for those machiens often amke for very good s-video monitors also.
Hmm.. sticking an itx based system is a SX64 case is a neat idea btw.. maybe I should take a peek at that for my home entertainment system.
Damn, wish I'd kept my old tapes now. I wrote a bunch of games for the C1P because, being 12 I was too poor to actually buy any (I spent every penny I had saved for 2 years to buy the C1P (I saved my lunch money and worked at a used car lot washing cars on weekends)). I did a few chase em games, a half finished space invaders in assembly, a car driving game in assembly, and a 3D maze game using the in-built graphics and a 2D view of the maze which (ahem, due to my small and young brain required you to draw the maze in 2D first) - maze traversal algorithms were a little ahead of me at the time. Only now do I realise I was a huge dolt throwing that machine out after it died (around 1990) and scraping the tapes. Doh!
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I miss Spy versus Spy.
Best video game ever.
Assume I was drunk when I posted this.
You're kidding right? $27 is less than the then cost of a decent joystick anyway. And have you looked at the prices of PC joysticks recently?
Acrhon and mail order monsters comes to mind.
;)
;)
There are several others. I am suprised no one had moded this beast yet and added a little portable screen. It would make a great hand held system.
A portable Amiga 500 would be great too
I want to buy one
The University of Washington's Society of Physics Students has one in stock. Feel free to drop by the lounge (b52?) if you feel like you need a game. Mad props to Ed for tracking it down. (I've since graduated, but as of August, it was chillin' there, waiting for gamers.)
I'm surprised nobody caught this yet, QVC's headquarters has been the Commadore complex ever since they bought it from Commadore's backrupcy sale.
There is a PC emulator for M.U.L.E.
JM
Oink, Oink!!
I was looking forward to this thing for months and these are the games they include?!?! I hope they at least fixed the bug that made Impossible Mission impossible to complete.
There is one room with a big blue square thing you could "search" by pushing forward. It was distincively different from the rest of the searchable furniture in two ways:
1 - It says "Nothing Here" immediately without waiting.
2 - It doesn't dissappear off the screen when it says "Nothing Here".
When you find that room with that odd bit of furniture, make a mental note of where it is. That's the end of the game exit. Once you have all 9 password letters, then you go 'search' that weire unsearchable item, and that ends the game.
(The manual for the game mentioned this, so it's not like it was some super secret thing they were trying to hide.)
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
I guess I should provide the actual link to the page:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/sx64
The guy did end up using it as his HTPC by the way.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Yeah.. having a small builtin screen is what most current home entertainment systems are lacking. I don't want to turn on by big tv screen just for selecting a bunch of audio tracks.
Here we have a picture of Jeri's "hot-grits smile" being completely ignored by a geek who's more interested in the super cool C-ONE "reconfigurable computer" she invented.
How do we know this?
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Not true, at least with my version. I beat the game back on my Commodore 64.
Jeri Ellsworth will be demonstrating the 64DTV and talking about its development at the World of Commodore in Toronto on December 3rd.
Do you have the tech info on how to do this? Pin connections, etc? That would be cool. Even better, we need access to the serial port, (if available) so we can load our own programs. Does anyone have this data, or can provide a link thereto?
;)
PS: I just got the confirmation e-mail from QVC that it's on its way. This is one of the few times that I will NOT be waiting for the warranty to expire, before opening the thing up.
Willie...
Priceless.
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http://www.mymorninglight.org/ham/J64.htm
Willie...
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.
Made me laugh!
-kgj
-kgj
I have visited the website selling these sticks and to my dismay they only ship to US or Canada, and not to Europe. :(
I even tried to order one using an mail address in NJ that ships the goods directly to me, using an jet carrier company to no avail. :(
But then I used my friend that is in US, 'cause of school and he comes home this x-mas and asked him to bring atleast two stick packs here, and he said he will. :)
-- Kimme Utsi