Best wishes and upcoming arrivals!
22 December 2021
Christmas tree for C64
25 December 2021
Christmas has arrived!
I was able to find this beautiful console at a decent price and I finally completed the 2 Commodore consoles from the 70s,
now I only miss the last console, or the C64GS which, however, I can not find anywhere .. well, to be honest it is but at disproportionate prices.
Let's leave this story alone for now and focus on this new arrival !!
What is this stuff?
As you know, Commodore began by producing typewriters and calculators, later it moved on to computers.
In about 1975 this console model came out which is a pong, in this period several companies produced one, they were simple machines and for that time it was a lot of stuff to have a machine with which to play at home on the TV.
This pong has 4 types of play, a tennis to be played with 2 or 4 players, a football (similar to tennis), a squash that you can play alone and clay pigeon shooting (requires a shotgun).
The machine has 4 paddles with a rotary potentiometer of which 2 are housed on the case and permanently connected, another 2 paddles can be inserted using the two jacks on the front panel.
Above we can see that the screen printing was in English / German, there are 2 buttons, one for the service (only if we use the manual service) and a reset to restart the game or to use to change the game, then we find 5 switches of which one is for turning the console on / off, one for selecting the players, the type of service whether automatic or manual by pressing the button and 2 for the level of difficulty of the player on the left or right.
Well finally we find the knob to select the type of game and 2 small jacks to connect other 2 pads.
In the back there is the RF cable to connect the TV, the jack for the 9V dc power supply and 2 jacks for the connection of the rifle.
This is how it works but if you want to see it in action, don't miss this video!
