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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You mean my Vic-20 based games console is already out of date?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!
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Extra hot grits, please.
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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
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.
Other classic consoles are also available including Atari, Activision, Nameco.
The pins for keyboard data and clock are definitely exposed. Jerry was showing them to me a couple of weekends ago. Disk drive conn.? MM, not sure but I wouldn't be surprised. She's _very_ good at this stuff.
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?
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Gee, thanks...
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Included Games
* 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
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.
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.
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