Date   : Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:42:41 +0200
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: modern BBC remake

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:17:06 +0200 (CEST), Anders Carlsson wrote:

>John Kortink wrote:
>
>> The C64DTV was thought up by a large toy manufacturer,
>> with projected sales of something like 100.000+ units.
>
>I thought it was the other way around, that Jeri Ellsworth took
>a break from C-One development, found that it was possible to
>recreate a Commodore 64 in FPGA and eventually found partners
>to work with, namely Tulip/Commodore, Ironstone and Mammoth Toys.

No, it was commissioned. I've found a reference here :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Ellsworth

What is actually important, is that it was expected to
sell in high numbers, and so the relevant money was put
in, by a toy manufacturer. Projects like that won't get
that cheap in any other way. I've read somewhere that
they (they being the manufaturers) even tried to scrape
off almost literally cents worth of nigh essential parts
(like decoupling caps).

>They all should be credited, but it was neither the holder of the
>Commodore trademark nor the toy manufacturer who came up with the
>idea to find someone to develop a C64 TV-game.

See above ?

>Regarding the C-One, for unfortunate reasons I believe Jeri and
>Jens went separate ways, and somewhere about there most of the
>C-One development stopped. Credits to Tobias though, who has made
>an excellent Amstrad CPC core and was about to take on PAL C64 too.

The C-One is a great idea but needs a redesign now it's 5
years old, with newer, cheaper and bigger chips. And less
clutter around them as far as I'm concerned. Keep it simple ...


John Kortink

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