Source for C64-direct-tv ?

Heck, I must have spaced out when they were released, otherwise I would have snagged one.

Anyone?
 
These are awesome. For those NOT "in the know", they are so insanely hackable. The girl (yes, GIRL) who engineered them wanted to tip her hat to the old school Commodore 64 users and hackers... To the point where they even included empty solder points and SILK SCREENED the PCB to indicate where to connect different points for the hacks (for example, adding a Commodore drive to the unit and/or PS2 keyboard).

Jeri Ellsworth is the brains behind this awesome little gadget.

Edit: Wholly crap, she's standing in front of a Williams Bad Cats pinball in her Wikipedia pic!!
 
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These are awesome. For those NOT "in the know", they are so insanely hackable. The girl (yes, GIRL) who engineered them wanted to tip her hat to the old school Commodore 64 users and hackers... To the point where they even included empty solder points and SILK SCREENED the PCB to indicate where to connect different points for the hacks (for example, adding a Commodore drive to the unit and/or PS2 keyboard).

Jeri Ellsworth is the brains behind this awesome little gadget.

Edit: Wholly crap, she's standing in front of a Williams Bad Cats pinball in her Wikipedia pic!!

I have yet to "hack" mine. Truthfully, I probably won't. I'm just glad it plays what it plays.
 
I don't know how I missed this cool item when it came out. I remember reading about it (and Jeri!) - but must have spaced on it when it released.

I'm watching that auction. Hopefully it won't go for an insane amount.

thanks everyone!
 
I wonder why she put Jumpman Jr. on there, but not Jumpman....

Crap - I was looking for Jumpman!
 
These are awesome. For those NOT "in the know", they are so insanely hackable. The girl (yes, GIRL) who engineered them wanted to tip her hat to the old school Commodore 64 users and hackers... To the point where they even included empty solder points and SILK SCREENED the PCB to indicate where to connect different points for the hacks (for example, adding a Commodore drive to the unit and/or PS2 keyboard).

Jeri Ellsworth is the brains behind this awesome little gadget.

Edit: Wholly crap, she's standing in front of a Williams Bad Cats pinball in her Wikipedia pic!!

I remember reading about all the hacks when I first got mine and it's pretty cool what you can do with them, I have 2 (one in it's box and one for playing) as pointed out by a few people you can still get them pretty cheap on ebay. Living in the UK I guess mine will be a PAL version.
 
I picked up the above one.

I'm a bit disappointed. Mostly my fault. I didn't realize it was Jumpman Jr and not Jumpman. Then, I thought it was Pitfall, not Pitstop. Again, my fault.

Sword of Fargoal is painful. When I attack a monster, my character always moves off (ie, runs) and then is promptly attacked by the monster.

I don't know what I was thinking w.r.t not having a keyboard. For things like Jumpman Jr its not a problem. For Gateway to Apshia and SoF its a bit kludgy.

I guess I'll look into hacking it to see if I can get some other games on there.
 
I picked up the above one.

I'm a bit disappointed. Mostly my fault. I didn't realize it was Jumpman Jr and not Jumpman. Then, I thought it was Pitfall, not Pitstop. Again, my fault.

Sword of Fargoal is painful. When I attack a monster, my character always moves off (ie, runs) and then is promptly attacked by the monster.

I don't know what I was thinking w.r.t not having a keyboard. For things like Jumpman Jr its not a problem. For Gateway to Apshia and SoF its a bit kludgy.

I guess I'll look into hacking it to see if I can get some other games on there.

I don't know...it's good for what it is, but it's a little deceiving that they break out some of the games that used to be compilations on one disc, such as the individual categories for Winter and Summer Games by Epyx. Oh well.
 
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