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The Commodore 64 is coming back, in a form that owes a debt to both Nintendo's shrunken Mini SNES and thee[sic] Vega+ Sinclair ZX Spectrum reboot.
The due-in-early 2018 “C64 Mini” matches Nintendo's plan to shrink an old machine, in this case by 50 per cent. Like the Mini and the Vega+ the revived Commodore will pack in pre-loaded retro games, 64 of them to be precise. The device will also ship with a USB joystick boasting 80s styling, HDMI out so it can connect to modern tellies and USB-mini for power.
[...] Price has been set at £69.99/$69.99/€79.99 and the machine will “hit the shops in early 2018” with Koch Media handling distribution
There's plenty of nostalgia surrounding the C64, but is it worth reviving?
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by vux984 on Wednesday October 04 2017, @05:19AM (1 child)
Actually...on that note ... does anyone have a good recommendation for adapters to attach some of these old devices to newer HDMI devices?
I've got a couple old consoles and systems that use various old interfaces that I'd like to attach to a new TV via HDMI.
I looked for some RCA to HDMI adapters for example for one system and they definitely exist... but the reviews are really hit and miss, with people saying they lasted a few weeks then died, or had unusable levels of input lag, no sound, complaints about the power supplies, etc, etc. I want something decent, for a fair price... but I have no idea what's rip off garbage vs a decent product.
I've got an old TRS80 COCO2 and both an original intellivision (the antenna adapter thing) , and one of those intellivision mini-re-releases from a couple years ago (RCA)... that it would be so nice to just be able to attach them via HDMI.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 04 2017, @12:52PM
PCI NTSC capture cards. Doesn't help with direct TV output if you want it, but the older ones at least had no input lag if you didn't mind wasting most of your PCI bus bandwidth.
I had one years ago planning for video editing, but I ended up using it for gaming off my consoles and such instead. Turned out to offer better resolution/quality than my TV and the unencoded stream felt just like watching it live on the TV. The Hauppage one I got later witht he mpeg2 encoder included did feel like the laggy shit you are talking about though.
I think china dropship sites still sell the former adapters. I don't know the exact models of any of the chips however, but one of them was a bt848 or whatever, and I think the other was a SSI/SIL chip.