The Return of Commodore?

[Loada]

The UK/Europe shipping costs for a £37 joystick are bonkers tho - they need to get a UK/Euro distributor.

[F-ZeroOne]

For the purposes of my own nostalgia, we need a Quickshot II with the trigger and hat on the stick itself.

KlaxonCow, the people who made the Retro Spectrum have already produced a Quickshot II replica, I bought one a few months ago (USB).

[KlaxonCow]

KlaxonCow, the people who made the Retro Spectrum have already produced a Quickshot II replica, I bought one a few months ago (USB).

Ah, didn't know about that.

Although it's a USB joystick, which doesn't work with the C64 Ultimate, which uses the Atari 9-pin joystick connector.

(I wonder if Commodore will ever do a firmware update to support USB joysticks, because it does have the USB ports. So, in theory, it should be possible for the FPGA to support USB joysticks and then pipe them through as Atari 9-pin signals to the C64U underneath. I mean, it does that already with USB storage - loading files off a USB stick - and that's a much more complicated thing to support.)

[snaff]

KlaxonCow, the people who made the Retro Spectrum have already produced a Quickshot II replica, I bought one a few months ago (USB).

Ah, didn't know about that.

Although it's a USB joystick, which doesn't work with the C64 Ultimate, which uses the Atari 9-pin joystick connector.

(I wonder if Commodore will ever do a firmware update to support USB joysticks, because it does have the USB ports. So, in theory, it should be possible for the FPGA to support USB joysticks and then pipe them through as Atari 9-pin signals to the C64U underneath. I mean, it does that already with USB storage - loading files off a USB stick - and that's a much more complicated thing to support.)

No, it would be too complicated to do that. Use a mouster.

[F-ZeroOne]

KlaxonCow, the people who made the Retro Spectrum have already produced a Quickshot II replica, I bought one a few months ago (USB).

Ah, didn't know about that.

Although it's a USB joystick, which doesn't work with the C64 Ultimate, which uses the Atari 9-pin joystick connector.

Ah, okay, wasn't aware of that. Gawd help them if they ever decide to remake the Spectrum +2 then... It sounds like the sort of thing there would be an adaptor for...

[F-ZeroOne]

"I can carry nearly 64K of data..." [1]

https://www.engadget.com/2243450/commod ... 7-edition/

I mean, if you just want the colour then leave an original out in the Sun for a while...

[1] "Johnny Mnemonic" is a great film. Yes, I'm serious.

[KlaxonCow]

Okay, I take it all back. Well, except that he's still a nutter - but, as the old joke has it: "There's a fine line between genius and insanity... and I have finally erased that line!".

As weirdly leftfield as Commodore releasing an anti-social-media phone might have seemed, they got all the press from doing it and have been doing great guns with sales that they've got a nice pot of money to splurge on starting to publish games on Steam and make themed variants of the C64 Ultimate.





So, basically, what the fuck do I know? Apparently, like Jon Snow, nothing whatsoever.