17 April 2016, 09:19 | #1 |
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Indiegogo: THE 64 – Computer and Handheld Console
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New Commodore 64 computer and handheld console project at Indiegogo. https://oldschoolgameblog.com/2016/0...dheld-console/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/t...console#/story Last edited by Puni/Void; 17 April 2016 at 14:39. |
17 April 2016, 09:47 | #2 |
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So what hardware does this run on actually?
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17 April 2016, 10:01 | #3 |
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Both links go to the same blog post!
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looks fishy..
no real pictures on the campaign page, flexible funding, no spesific information regarding hardware, no games ready atm. "We are already speaking to a wide range of rights holders with regards to including their games on THE 64 ™! " "The core research and development of THE 64 ™ consoles is complete, and we have working prototypes ongoing, concept case models, and software waiting to go into production as soon as practical." And backers are supposed to get their hands on it in december? Handhold version in april next year? It sound to good to be true (which means it probably isn't). Their intentions might be good, but this is something I would never ever give money to up front. There are so many uncertainties. Last edited by Zapotek; 17 April 2016 at 13:05. |
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Some kind of RasPi device or similar and Emulation. Quite pointless, especially the handheld (a lot of C64 games needs a keyboard).
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They do mention that they were involved with the C64 DTV, so perhaps this is based on that design?
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17 April 2016, 22:05 | #8 |
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It's nothing to do with the people behind the C64DTV hardware as they already said via facebook they are not involved.
It's going to be a modern SoC with a custom OS & emulator |
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Sounds like it yes. I think it should be able to boot to the BASIC prompt in 1-2 secs, so they need to find a way to do that. Regular booting of a Linux is definitely not a good solution, but there are ways they could solve that.
I would have preferred that it was a custom ASIC or FPGA implementation of the full C64 hardware so it could interface to regular peripherals. This is one of the reasons that the DTV has a following. |
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I've seen this somewhere else (link for kickstart) and IMHO whole things is open for different interpretation and somehow just sound goofy and fishy...
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18 April 2016, 18:21 | #14 |
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Remember Commodore USA and it's CommodoreOS???
It was shut down when the main man behind the project got sick and died. I still have disc 1 from that OS, Linux + Emulators, but i want disc 2 too, but no one share it over the .torrent network. |
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Oh look, another nostalgia-driven, stupid C64 crowdfunded project.
We can all make our own handhelds with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Pretty sure this kickstarter will use a similar solution. |
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That makes my eyes bleed
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Regarding the games on the Handheld, a lot of games only need keyboard for getting past menu, select this or that.. for that, I guess a virtual keyboard could do. |
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