C64 joystick Plug'N Play thingie

MadHippo · Post by **MadHippo** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:24 am 0

Oooooh.

I gotta get me one of them 1541-iii jobbies!!

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:24 pm 0

Bah! Popped into two branches of Argos in town today, but in both the little stock checker terminals said "item no longer available" or somesuch.

Oh well, I'll order one from teh interweb.

I wonder what Jeri's working on these days?

ravuya · Post by **ravuya** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:12 pm 0

I can't seem to find one here. Lots of Sega Genesis/MD ones here though. With crap games. Jeff should license out his games and do a "C64 DTV Smelly Beast Edition".

Firefox wrote:I wonder what Jeri's working on these days?

The C-One, hopefully.

Mouldy Bob · Post by **Mouldy Bob** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:25 pm 0

I don't rate it - the sticks really flimsy. I bought one & the sodding thing snapped after a few hours 'semi vigourous' play.

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:40 pm 0

I have looked for this C64 stick many places here in California, but can't find it anywhere

tried Target, Walmart, GameShop, Toys'r'us etc etc ..

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 5:41 pm 0

Hello, this doesn't look good! (2nd, 5th-9th posts)

noodles · Post by **noodles** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:20 pm 0

I believe there is a dispute between how many units were produced and sold, and thus how much royalty payment is owed to Jeri...

Some things never change ...

The ghost of raids past · Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:49 pm 0

Got mine from Amazon.uk for 12 quid odd. Its got a dodgy power lead from the batteries though, still it will encourage me to hack it into a small plastic box , add the keyboard and 1541 connections and have a tiny C64 with a flash rom.

dom · Post by **dom** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:49 am 0

There's a nice site here with plenty of information about hacking the DTV (versions 1 and 2, plus the Hummer):

http://galaxy22.dyndns.org/dtv/

Dom

lis0r · Post by **lis0r** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:54 am 0

Mouldy Bob wrote:I don't rate it - the sticks really flimsy. I bought one & the sodding thing snapped after a few hours 'semi vigourous' play.

You're not meant to rate it - you're meant to rip it apart and recase it!

WhiteSpy · Post by **WhiteSpy** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:36 am 0

noodles wrote:
I believe there is a dispute between how many units were produced and sold, and thus how much royalty payment is owed to Jeri...
Some things never change ...

Poor Jeri. Even my miniscule involvement wasnt paid up in full. Bunch of fucking monkeys, the lot of em.

PeeknPoke Lee · Post by **PeeknPoke Lee** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:00 pm 0

found a shop near me selling the things for 4 quid each

bought another one - and its the early edition I dont have - complete with International Karate that does not appear on the official UK edition

Lee

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 8:12 pm 0

The ghost of raids past wrote:Got mine from Amazon.uk for 12 quid odd.

Ordered!

dom wrote:There's a nice site here with plenty of information about hacking the DTV (versions 1 and 2, plus the Hummer):

http://galaxy22.dyndns.org/dtv/

Those howto videos are very good! Couldn't believe the difference the audio and video fixes made.

Teensy bit disconcerting how the last video is really about the Trek-style shuttle he's building in his back garden, though...