Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

I was just reminded recently that the Christmas season is a little over 2 months away. With that thought running thru my mind, I was going thru my list of stuff to look at for the upcoming shopping trips.

One of the items I had put on my mental list was products to be marketed by Tulip Computers under the Commodore Logo. Expected to be released during the Christmas shopping season is C64DTV. Announcements of this device happened earlier this year during a press conference held by Tulip. The following announcement is listed on their official website: http://www.commodore.net

The C64 Direct-to-TV unit is the natural evolution of the currently huge demand for "retro" video games and will set a new standard for excellence, with superior sound, graphics and gameplay experiences over the products currently on sale. This entertainment system for videogames is based upon the world famous Commodore 64 home PC, the most famous and well known home computer for videogames and will be brought to the market by Tulip Computers. With a simple and straightforward to use connection to the TV, users of the C64 Direct-to-TV can play 30 popular C64 games. With 30 games pre-installed on the device, the C64 Direct-to-TV product offers significantly more than its competitors. Millions of these games are sold in the past. Included in the device are the classic Games ™ series from Epyx ™ including Summer Games ™, Winter Games ™, World Games ™ and the seminal California Games ™, which arguably created the extreme sports video games genre.

Specifications

- 30 games installed.

- Connected simply to the users'

- TV via RF cables

- Powered by 4 x AAA batteries

- PAL and NTSC compatible.

- 320 x 240 pixel resolution running in full screen mode on TV.

Game download and connected joystick multiplayer functionality not available on this release.

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By the sounds of the announcement, they have future ideas in store for this product, if it is proven successful. Distribution was supposed to start in October. If you see a store locally selling one of these, give myself or one of the other officers a call so we can alert other members of it's availability.

See you at the Cincinnati Public Library, downtown Cincinnati on Sunday October 17th. Keep on Commodoring!