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The PC guts seem boring and will inflate the price. Why not do a reissue with functionality closer to that of the original, based on the C64 DTV [1] which cost
by tesseract 16y ago
The PC guts seem boring and will inflate the price. Why not do a reissue with functionality closer to that of the original, based on the C64 DTV [1] which cost $20 or $25 when it was on the market, and sell it at a $50-to-$100 price point?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C64_Direct-to-TV
- reitzensteinm 16y agoAgreed. This seems like a tween product - too inauthentic to appeal to Commodore 64 fans and too ugly to appeal to anyone looking for a media PC.
- alanfalcon 16y agoAnyone who is interested in this stuff that hasn't heard Jeri Ellsworth's Google Lecture about her life and her experience designing the C64 DTV 30-games-in-one joystick must watch this. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979# http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1053309060448851979...
- kragen 16y agoI am pleased to discover that youtube-dl can successfully download this video.
- tesseract 16y agoAnd if you aren't sufficiently impressed by that, look up her from-scratch pinball machine or her basement CMOS fab or any of a million other things. I am in awe of Jeri's creativity and her ability to find the time to do so much cool stuff.
- tomconte 16y agoYou may also like Michael Steil's awesome "Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk": http://www.pagetable.com/?p=54 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=54 Amazing technical overview of the C64, including the latest in demo effects, in 64 minutes.
- zenocon 16y agoWow -- thanks for that. Great lecture. Little golden nuggets like this are what make HN so great.
- andywood 16y agoThis was incredibly inspiring. Thank you.