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Scout
Registered: Dec 2002
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Tulip announces the Commodore 64 Mini Game Console
Tulip has announced that together with Ironstone they have created a minigame console, based on the Commodore 64. It is called C64 Direct-to-TV. You can easily hook it up to a TV. Users can play 30 popular C64 games (like Summer Games, Winter Games, World Games and The Seminal California Games).
Expected price is 30 euro. The product should be in the shops in the 2nd half of 2004 in Europe and in the US.
The original link (dutch text):
http://www.tulip.com/aboutus/corp_article.asp?nid=145
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
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utterly stupid crap |
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Crossfire
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Seems rather pointless, but maybe I'm missing the point.. |
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Scout
Registered: Dec 2002
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Quote: Seems rather pointless, but maybe I'm missing the point..
IMHO, a product that comes 15 years too late (at least).
On the other hand, I think I'll buy it (64 freak as I am).
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quote: IMHO, a product that comes 15 years too late (at least).
On the other hand, I think I'll buy it (64 freak as I am).
R.
I think I'll get one for my birthday.
Roland, remember that. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
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"It is called C64 Direct-to-TV. can easily hook it up to a TV."
- what an innovation.. you could hook ur c64 up to a TV easily since '82...
"Users can play 30 popular C64 games"
- I can play all games on my c64
And they ask for this 30 euro, this is an invention or whadda shit? They just wanna make $$$, but there's no real market for this. Whoever still wants to play games on c64, already does so with vice, or with the real thing. |
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Scout
Registered: Dec 2002
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Quote: "It is called C64 Direct-to-TV. can easily hook it up to a TV."
- what an innovation.. you could hook ur c64 up to a TV easily since '82...
"Users can play 30 popular C64 games"
- I can play all games on my c64
And they ask for this 30 euro, this is an invention or whadda shit? They just wanna make $$$, but there's no real market for this. Whoever still wants to play games on c64, already does so with vice, or with the real thing.
You're absolutely right.
I wonder if this will be a hit. It could be.
The concept of Direct-to-TV revived dinosaur machines is not quite new.
There's also the Intellivision Direct to Tv (http://www.intellivisionlives.com/retrotopia/direct2tv.shtml) and the Atari 10 in 1 (http://www.backntime.net/Atari%20Interactive/Teninone/Frame10in..).
Agreed, nothing beats the real thing.
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Pixman
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Registered: Dec 2001
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On the other hand, if there's a possibility to connect different (original?) joysticks, it would be a nice toy. Instead of setting up a c64 + floppy (which can be quite unhandy) just hook up the little machine to the tv.
Anyway, let's see what time brings... I doubt any success for this machine though. |
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Sasq
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 156 |
Damn people whine a lot in this forum. This looks like a fun toy and a good birthday-present - I suggest not hazing it until we've actually seen what it is and how it works. It would also be interesting to take it apart and see if there is any chance of making it run other stuff besides what's supplied.
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ThunderBlade
Registered: Jan 2002
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For me, it depends on if it's an emulator inside or not. If it's an emulator like in the web.it, I am not as much interested as if it is some form of the 65xx series CPU (they are common microcontrollers nowadays) that runs the software natively.
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drake
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if you say that there is no market for such toys you better ask someone OUT of this scene. to the people who loves 8bit but don't have space or take the strugling with cables and drives and discs its a nice solution. i know a lot of friends who play nintendo games and other 8bit games and their reactions were very positive. |
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Derision
Registered: Feb 2002
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Oh man, the C64 has been reduced to this?!
Imagine this... you're in a toy store or a game store or something, and you see this little joystick-thing for $10 that lets you play all those (or several of those) games you played on the 64 when you were a kid. Hrmm... to buy or not to buy?
I see these things all over the place here in the US. They're generally for Coleco or Atari or whatever, and they generally sell pretty well... mainly because the aforementioned situation is exactly the audience they're going for. The units are ridiculously cheap ($10 for a trip down memory lane? Sign me up!), readily available... so why not buy them? These aren't displayed with the high-end gaming consoles, mind you... they're not even stuck in with the used Nintendos and Segas -- they're generally bundled in the same aisle with the handheld Yahtzee and Bingo and whatnot.
I've played the Coleco version of it... I don't think it's emulator-based. At least, it doesn't FEEL like an emulator. I think it's more ROM-based, if you know what I mean. |
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hollowman
Registered: Dec 2001
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imagine this: some guy in a suit who is getting bald
and tired of everything thinks back on his childhood
when he still could experience moments of happiness.
everything was much more fun and simple back then, playing lazy
jones and boulder dash on his c64. if only he had not
sold it. it sure would be fun to play those games again.
so he buys a fully equipped c64 on ebay, loads a game
finds it totally boring and puts the whole thing
away in his closet.
while an active coder who is trying to link the last part
part of his demo, realizes that his 1541 just broke down.
have to get another one, but c64 stuff is getting more rare
and expensive these days.
i say, more c64 DTV to the retro wankers,
and more true data for me. but if the dtv device turns
out nice, i dont mind getting one myself also
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Spinball
Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 88 |
I hope this thing will have a real SID and not some lame beeper :) |
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Sasq
Registered: Apr 2004
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Quote: I hope this thing will have a real SID and not some lame beeper :)
Dream on. |
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
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hollowman: you still link your demos on the real thing ? respect =) |
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ThunderBlade
Registered: Jan 2002
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So Oswald you don't? You degrade the real C64 to something like a video cassette player. ;-)
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Oswald
Registered: Apr 2002
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you mean I should watch my demo always till the part Im currently linking ? yeah funny... 3minutes to wait just to see if the 3 byte modify works the way I thought. No way, warp mode rulez =) |
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quote: you mean I should watch my demo always till the part Im currently linking ? yeah funny... 3minutes to wait just to see if the 3 byte modify works the way I thought. No way, warp mode rulez =)
But .. but .. that's cheating!
You're not a real scener unless you see your demo realtime for at least 50 times!
(note to self: use emulator to link from now on) |
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hollowman
Registered: Dec 2001
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Quote: hollowman: you still link your demos on the real thing ? respect =)
ofcourse not, i'd never do such a stupid thing:)
i was thinking of what happened at deadline reloaded,
with poor dane's diskdrive. the punishment for being
oldschool ;) |
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macx
Registered: Mar 2002
Posts: 253 |
such a device with a flashmem should be released in order to have really fast access to your favouritedemos when youre too drunk to run the real deal. honestly, it has happened to me.
atleast in order to save all the c64s from beer (and cider ;)) |
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VoDKa
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 32 |
Macx: Just make sure to have a fresh copy of Opium/Samar ready in the drive before opening the first beer. Just to be safe. |
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chatGPZ
Registered: Dec 2001
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@Oswald: i am suspecting PTV uses a c64 to link metal dust, hence the rapid development :o)
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Richard
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 621 |
Tulip announcing the C64 Mini Game Console? Why? What's the point? I think Tulip should return back to the drawing board and think of something else! Ripping a C64 to pieces and converting to a 30 game console is a lame idea.
RicHARD/CiViTaS
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