The company that hired Jeri had aquired rights to the ROM's and other Commodore IP already. Commodore 8-bit IP is owned by a Dutch company named Tulip.
Emulate a tape drive isn't really accurate. A better way to say it is, rip out the cassette drive code from the C64 ROM image and replace it with new code that triggers the DMA to transfer stuff into active memory.
You can't LOAD "$",1 in a real Commodore 64, you know. Yet that's just what happens in the DTV.
The C64 games are licensed. Jeri said at VCF that they wanted to include more but had trouble securing the licenses. The contract was for 30 games. Not 29, not 31. So they had to extract several (but not all) of the California Games as separate games to make the number be exactly 30.
Tulip owns the rights to all the Commodore 8-bit IP, but they have ignored all the Commodore emulators and ROM images out there on the Internet. They supposedly do monitor comp.sys.cbm so I'm sure if they felt like it, they could probably issue a cease-and-desist order. After all, anything newer than Steamboat Willie will never go out of copyright;-)
But Jeri does have the rights to the C-1 hardware and was duly commissioned by companies that had duly licensed the rights for the DTV joystick.
The Commodore technology and games are duly licensed. IP never goes away; a company called Tulip in the Netherlands owns the Commodore IP and most of the games were licensed from Electronic Arts and possibly one or two other companies that are still around (or have bought the rights to companies that aren't).
Anyone who wants to know more about this device check one of the many "DTV" threads in comp.sys.cbm.
I've met her, and it's a current picture. She just hangs out with Commodore 64 geeks who really do look like that. I think the picture was taken at the recent World of Commodore expo in Toronto.
Can we get off her looks for a minute and consider the fact that she's fucking brilliant and made a really cool toy?
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What brought down the price of VCR's was porn. Video tapes of movies and TV shows were never popular enough to drive the market, but porn was.
Unless this thing can deliver porn, it is unlikely that the VCR analogy can be applicable.
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If you want to carry cargo with it, attach a trailer! It should be a piece of cake to fix a trailer onto the back of the thing, and then it'll be perfect for grocery shopping, etc.
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Escom sold them to Tulip.
That's the same product, not a similar one. The C64 DTV is the 30-in-1 Commodore 64 joystick, designed by Jeri.
The company that hired Jeri had aquired rights to the ROM's and other Commodore IP already. Commodore 8-bit IP is owned by a Dutch company named Tulip.
Yes, it's a great toy. The games are in ROM, not HD. It's got fast DMA to load them instantly into memory, so no delays waiting for the disk.
Jeri also put in a lot of easter eggs, and solder points for hooking up a PS/2 keyboard and a Commodore floppy drive. You can get into BASIC too!
Emulate a tape drive isn't really accurate. A better way to say it is, rip out the cassette drive code from the C64 ROM image and replace it with new code that triggers the DMA to transfer stuff into active memory.
You can't LOAD "$",1 in a real Commodore 64, you know. Yet that's just what happens in the DTV.
The C64 games are licensed. Jeri said at VCF that they wanted to include more but had trouble securing the licenses. The contract was for 30 games. Not 29, not 31. So they had to extract several (but not all) of the California Games as separate games to make the number be exactly 30.
Tulip owns the rights to all the Commodore 8-bit IP, but they have ignored all the Commodore emulators and ROM images out there on the Internet. They supposedly do monitor comp.sys.cbm so I'm sure if they felt like it, they could probably issue a cease-and-desist order. After all, anything newer than Steamboat Willie will never go out of copyright ;-)
But Jeri does have the rights to the C-1 hardware and was duly commissioned by companies that had duly licensed the rights for the DTV joystick.
The Commodore technology and games are duly licensed. IP never goes away; a company called Tulip in the Netherlands owns the Commodore IP and most of the games were licensed from Electronic Arts and possibly one or two other companies that are still around (or have bought the rights to companies that aren't).
Anyone who wants to know more about this device check one of the many "DTV" threads in comp.sys.cbm.
I've met her, and it's a current picture. She just hangs out with Commodore 64 geeks who really do look like that. I think the picture was taken at the recent World of Commodore expo in Toronto.
Can we get off her looks for a minute and consider the fact that she's fucking brilliant and made a really cool toy?
What brought down the price of VCR's was porn. Video tapes of movies and TV shows were never popular enough to drive the market, but porn was.
Unless this thing can deliver porn, it is unlikely that the VCR analogy can be applicable.
If you want to carry cargo with it, attach a trailer! It should be a piece of cake to fix a trailer onto the back of the thing, and then it'll be perfect for grocery shopping, etc.
Your "nicknames" sounds an awful lot like "Internet Keywords". Check out Real Names for more.