Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!taurus!aldebaran!schweige From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: C64GS games machine console Message-ID: <1489@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> Date: 28 Sep 90 01:02:48 GMT References: <1990Sep27.025839.4287@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger) Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA Lines: 39 In article joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) writes: |es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: | |> |> Commodore announces the C64 games console. |> |> West Chester, PA: CBM International Ltd.'s subsidiary in the U.K. |> has introduced its C64 games system, a C64 based games console |> for western european markets. |> The C64GS comes with a joystick and a port for cartridge |> based software. Cartridges will include four games, a feature |> designed to give the C64GS a competitive advantage against other |> game only computers. The product will be sold in several western |> european countries, including the U.K., which has become a new |> center for C64 software developments. |> Commodore International Ltd., through its operating |> subsidiaries around the world, manufactures and markets personal |> computers for the professional, home/office and consumer markets. |> The company has three product lines: Amiga multimedia computers, |> PC compatible computers and the classic C64 computers. |> [deleted] |Remember...Commodore decided NOT to sell this thing since it'd be too |much competition with the Amiga. Also, remember, that Commodore has |stopped selling 8-bit stuff. | |-Joseph Hillenburg Last time I checked CBM was still selling the C64 in the US. They may be deemphasizing the 8-bit line in the US but they haven't stopped it. Jeff Schweiger -- ******************************************************************************* Jeff Schweiger Standard Disclaimer CompuServe: 74236,1645 Internet (Milnet): schweige@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil *******************************************************************************