Nice dreaming. However, I'm afraid the PDA market is FAR TOO COMPETITIVE unless you've got $billions$ to invest in your idea. As to a hand-held color video game system, the GameBoy has probably got that market tied-up completely. Unless you have something truly innovative to offer as competition you're not likely to succeed in this area either. I seem to recall that the BLACK/WHITE version of GameBoy beat out even the COLOR products from competing manufacturers. This is the same basic problem that will be faced for EVERY possible variation of re-invented C-64. How do you market it successfully? How many can you sell and to whom? What will they use it for? How much will they be willing to pay for it? While you and I (and many other C-64 enthusiasts) would be willing to pay ALOT of $$$ for a new C-64, that's not really a large enough market to justify the development costs. If someone could find a market into which a C-64 based product would fit, I'd be interested to know about. I don't deny it's possible to make such products, I just don't see how any commercial entity could profit from it. --- "Carlsson, Anders" <dal95acn@mds.mdh.se> wrote: > Ruud wrote: > > > If purchsed we intend to make good use of it for > devices such as > > handhled game units and handheld computing > appliances. > > How would a pocket Commodore 64/128 compare to e.g. > Color Gameboy? Is > the SCPU an invention by CMD (which this Merlancia > would have to buy > a license to use) or is it just the interfacing > solution CMD owns? > > Is there game companies which could be convinced to > produce new games > for an updated platform which died ten years ago, > and would this new > unit use the VIC-II/SID or some updated chips? If > updated, how much > of the C= technology would remain in the game unit? > > Possibly I can see an extreme low-end PDA built on > C= technology, but > it had to be dirt cheap to find any buyers, unless > it will contain > much improved components - and is it then a 8-bit > CBM machine? > > Who owns the rights to the 65xx-series? Did MOS > Technologies go with > Commodore in the deal, or were the rights/MOS sold > many years before? > > /Anders Carlsson > - > This message was sent through the cbm-hackers > mailing list. > To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi. ===== Get a FREE 6Mb webmail box from go6502! - http://www.geocities.com/profdredd As low as 2.99% Intro APR from NextCard! - http://www.nextcard.com/index6.html?ref=aff0074521 PayPal is the FAST FREE and SECURE way to send money! - https://secure.paypal.x.com/refer/pal=profdredd%40yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tml.hut.fi.
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