New "Commodore" products, should I carry them?

[redrumloa]

New products are very hard to come by in the C= and Amiga market. There retro C= rebranded devices have retro name appeal, should I attempt carry them? The Mini-C64 seems easy enough, though I am leary of how many it will actually sell.

Note I havn't even contacted Tulip/Commodore/Ironstone yet, just considering the possibility. If the products are decent and the price reaonable, the name brand sure has geek factor to it;-)

[Acill]

What other items do they offer? I think some of the more used items may be okay to sell. The CD-R disks and such. Other then that I think its just junk with the C= logo on it. you can get any place.

[vpcs]

If you get a list together with some ball park prices we can have a better Idea ...

[Ilwrath]

There retro C= rebranded devices have retro name appeal, should I attempt carry them?

Well, I'm not really a fan of Tulip...  But, I wouldn't hold anything against a company who decided to carry their products.  So I'd say start small, and I doubt it would hurt anything to try....

[BIG-IRON]

If they will sell, yes why not.

[Linchpin]

Cool :-)

I think yes...

[rawveeda]

@redrumloa

 If the products are decent and the price reaonable, the name brand sure has geek factor to it;-)

I think your last sentence says it all.

The evic looks kinda cool.

[seer]

You're in a risky bussiness, take a risk  :-D

[Jope]

Well, get a sample of their all-in-one joystick first and see if it's really good enough for your standards...

My understanding is, that the games are remakes and the hardware is an eastern nes-on-a-chip, that's similar to the Atari and Namco joysticks. (it's a pity that they don't play the real games either)

[Argo]

I have no idea what they are selling. Most of my page requests on their site gets me their error page. They are either swamped or it's a crappy server. Though the webcast was nice and clear.

[seer]

I have no idea what they are selling.

A MP3 player, some USB memory sticks, and a joystick stuffed with C64 games.. But I suppose they will add stuff to sell.. Commodore toothpaste perhaps ?  :-D

[Jope]

seer wrote:
I have no idea what they are selling.

A MP3 player, some USB memory sticks, and a joystick stuffed with C64 games.. But I suppose they will add stuff to sell.. Commodore toothpaste perhaps ?  :-D

There's been lots of C= branded stuff floating around ever since Tulip got the trademark.. Everything from multimedia headsets/speakers to CD-Rs..

I doubt most of the stuff is really worth carrying, perhaps if they release something that isn't available with some other name..

[Jope]

Jope wrote:
My understanding is, that the games are remakes and the hardware is an eastern nes-on-a-chip, that's similar to the Atari and Namco joysticks. (it's a pity that they don't play the real games either)

I understood wrong.. On the cbm hackers list, I read that it should be close to a real c-64, but with remade hardware..

This is rather interesting. Let's see what happens.

[graffias79]

Jope wrote:

I understood wrong.. On the cbm hackers list, I read that it should be close to a real c-64, but with remade hardware..

This is rather interesting. Let's see what happens.

I wonder how they will handle SID, from what I understand that's not an easy chip to get right.

-Jamie

[weirdami]

A MP3 player, some USB memory sticks, and a joystick stuffed with C64 games.. But I suppose they will add stuff to sell.. Commodore toothpaste perhaps ?  

How about toilets? The could call them Commode-ors. :-D

/me refrains from typing a pun about prophylactics. :oops: