Commodore

[Bill Lange]

I was watching Squawkbox this morning on CNBC and they said that American company Yeahronimo was buying the Commodore brand from the Dutch company that currently owns it for $33 million. Yeahronimo wants to sell a line of mp3 players and cheap video games.

 

WRL

[Cybernoid]

Interesting.... This is the exact direction I wanted our Ataris to go... if we can redo our 8bits in a single chip, then they can be placed in all sorts of devices, and especially handheld ones...

 

Maybe Atari should release an MP3/Video game handheld...

 

more info: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews...10530250.htm?1c

[kevin242]

Commodre isnt going to use the C64 hardware in the mp3 players.. just

the Commodore logo. I would love to see an 800xl on a stick type

device like the c64 one, but I doubt it will happen.

[Dr. Van Thorp]

Yeahronimo says that they are going to make MP3 players that can also play Commodore 64 games, so they actually are guying Commodore for the computers.

[kevin242]

Yeahronimo says that they are going to make MP3 players that can also play Commodore 64 games, so they actually are guying Commodore for the computers.

 

where did they say that? I read they were going to make Commodore

branded MP3 players and re-issue c64 games (prob devices like the

DTV, maybe a classic collection for consoles and pc's etc...)

 

I think the closest you will see to a new commodore computer is the

c64dtv, which is cool as hell but far from having the ability to play

Mp3's.

[ATARIeric]

i dont own an mp3 player unless i count my jornada 525 pocketpc , but i will deifnitely be buying one of the commodore mp3 players when they are available

 

thanks for the news

[Cybernoid]

Hmmm, it looks like Yeahronimo is mostly interested in the MP3 Players (Mpet and Fpet) that Tulip was producing as well as using the Commodore name for trademark infringement lawsuits... Most likely we will not see any other "C64" hardware other than the C64DTV...

[Dr. Van Thorp]

Do they think that they can make 28 million on lawsuits? They would become another SCO if they tried that.

[kevin242]

They sold 70,000 C64 DTV's at 30 bucks a pop in one day. I imagine they

are good for few hundred thousand, maybe more once they make a

PAL version. That's alot of cash and Im sure there are more on the

horizon. They could make a Commodore 64 compilation like the Atari

greatest hits and Im sure they would sell equally as well... I imagine

they could make 28million if they play their cards right.

[Dr. Van Thorp]

There are currently many devices available that use old Super Nintendo technology. Now that the C-64 on a chip has been developed, it should be ripe for licensing to whoever wants to build a device. It might even have an advantage over the Super Nintendo ship in that many thousands of programmers had early experience with the C-64 technology.

[+davidcalgary29]

They sold 70,000 C64 DTV's at 30 bucks a pop in one day.  I imagine they

are good for few hundred thousand, maybe more once they make a  

PAL version.   That's alot of cash and Im sure there are more on the  

horizon.  They could make a Commodore 64 compilation like the Atari  

greatest hits and Im sure they would sell equally as well... I imagine  

they could make 28million if they play their cards right.

 

Did Commodore ever produce any "signature" games for the 64? I can only think of those awful '84 carts that were quickly superseded by 3rd party efforts, and GEOS, which, aside from also being a 3rd party effort, wouldn't be much fun in a "TV Games"-type product.

[kevin242]

There are currently many devices available that use old Super Nintendo technology.

 

 

like what?

[kevin242]

They sold 70,000 C64 DTV's at 30 bucks a pop in one day.  I imagine they

are good for few hundred thousand, maybe more once they make a  

PAL version.   That's alot of cash and Im sure there are more on the  

horizon.  They could make a Commodore 64 compilation like the Atari  

greatest hits and Im sure they would sell equally as well... I imagine  

they could make 28million if they play their cards right.

 

Did Commodore ever produce any "signature" games for the 64? I can only think of those awful '84 carts that were quickly superseded by 3rd party efforts, and GEOS, which, aside from also being a 3rd party effort, wouldn't be much fun in a "TV Games"-type product.

 

well they own the Commodore name and the rights to the hardware, so

that is where they get their money.

[MacbthPSW]

Did Commodore ever produce any "signature" games for the 64? I can only think of those awful '84 carts that were quickly superseded by 3rd party efforts

That was about it for Commodore produced software. Even some of those games weren't made purely by Commodore, but had the help of H.A.L. Laboratories (who I suppose are the same company that went on to do a bunch of NES and Gameboy stuff?).

 

Mind you, not all those games were crap - though they were simple, a lot of people love some of those titles, like Jupiter Lander, Gorf, Lemans, Radar Rat Race, Kickman, etc. Quite playable, even if the graphics and sound fell far short of the platform's potential.

[Artlover]

Mind you, not all those games were crap - though they were simple, a lot of people love some of those titles, like Jupiter Lander, Gorf, Lemans, Radar Rat Race, Kickman, etc.  Quite playable, even if the graphics and sound fell far short of the platform's potential.

 

Lemans, Radar Rat Race, Kickman.. Awesome titles.

 

Yeah!

[sack-c0s]

There are currently many devices available that use old Super Nintendo technology.

 

 

like what?

 

I don't think it's exactly SNES technology, but a lot of the other DTV style joysticks are 65816 recoded renditions as opposed to emulations.

[Dr. Van Thorp]

Yep, that's what I was talking about. Now that they have the C=64 on a chip, they can license it for that kind of stuff.

[kevin242]

 

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really? I thought they were all NES based.