A Nice Item To Add To Your Collection.

[VirtuaLeech]

Back in 1999 a dutch company released a "new and improved <_< " C64. It was basically a web-tv thingy running DOS 7.0+Windows 3.1+C64 emulator. It flopped terribly (what else did you expect) and not much of them wear sold.

But now some dutch company has found a few in a warehouse somewhere and is selling them on eBay for 39 euros each. If you already have most other consoles and are looking for a cheap addition to you collection this is it.

Although this sounds like a commercial it's not me selling them

 

[Gruntfuggly]

WTF was the logic behind this? Surely in 1999, C64 games weren't going to sell the machine? What a bizarre idea...

Have you tried using one? I can't begin to imagine what Netscape would be like running on one of these things!

 

[VirtuaLeech]

I should have mine in a few days. I will let you know.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

How much are you paying for P&P (assuming you're not in Holland already) ?

 

[VirtuaLeech]

Fortunately for me I am in Holland, so I don't know P&P to other countries.

On his german auction he says shipping to Germany is 13,50 euros. I expect prices to other european countries to be somehwhere in that league.

 

[Ringo]

You mean on of these mentioned a little down in this tread (there are pictures)... Sound a little daft if you aske me... A PC set up to run some sort of c64 emulation

http://www.amigagames.com/modules/newbb/vi...5#forumpost7735

Oh yeah.... And an internet connection :rolleyes:

 

[VirtuaLeech]

That's the one. You don't see them that often, so as a collectors item it's quite nice. Am I going to use it more then one time? Hmmm, don't think so. Then again it does feature a PCMCIA slot so it can be hooked up to a network. Would make a nice terminal Maybe there is still some fun to have with this "console"

 

[Ringo]

Yeah... I would probably also buy it if I fell over it at a garage sales... And it was cheaper (although already cheap).

How about some SPECS?

Wonder if your actually able to run c64 games from else where on it (roms)? Probably not - since they wouldn't be able to justify it back in 1999 (you all the copyright issues)

 

[VirtuaLeech]

From what I understood it's just a software C64 emulator that (almost) runs all C64 games. How (and if) they got around the legal side of things I don't know.

A short but nice interview with one of the people behind this thing can be found here.

 

[raven]

No legal problems, they got a license from Tulip. (short story here) Tulip has been trying to make some money out of their C64 rights for years. Apparently they (Tulip) will be releasing a new console (just a joystick you plugin to the tv) playing 30 classic C64 games soon. Information here and picture and story in dutch here.

 

[rcx21000]

That might be cool....

If you can connect a wirless PCMIA card to it, wich I doubt...

 

[VirtuaLeech]

They say that anything that runs under DOS 7.0 or Windows 3.1 also runs on this thing. So with the correct drivers it should be possible.