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I am interested in buying one but where? :?

Looked on ebay and the out look there idn't so good not many there even fewer for "buy it now" and shipping is always high. the lowest I've seen is $18.08.

Any recomended brick-and-morter chains/stores in the north east (USA) that might have them? tried calling EB and GameStops near me but gave up after the first few because when I called they all sounded so incredulous*. I wish they had more older trade in stuff. do they even take stuff like that anymore?


* in retrospect one of the answers i got from a guy at EB was kinda

funny: "No we don't carry any productivity stuff"

He must have been genralizing since he surely couldn't have thought I was actualy going to do office work on the thing! :wink:
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are you looking for a real commodore 64 or a c64 DTV?
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Tip: Ask Amatuer(HAM) Radio Operators. The C-64 had some capabilities and programs which made it capable of translating back and forth between morse code and text when hooked up to a HAM Radio system. Some HAM Radio Operators still use them for this purpose, even though they are 20 years old. That's where I got my Boxed C-64, as well as a BUNCH of software, two disk drives, and a Commodore 1902 monitor. From a Ham Radio Operator. ^^*
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Post by Sir Games-A-Lot »

Yeah I was after the real thing (the tv stick plug-in thingy is an emulater any how). and thanks for the tip MM007 I thought I saw somthing about ham radios on a site about it. Btw has any one ever seen/owned/used an SX-64. its truly a shame it won't work with a tape drive. other wise I would absoloutly hunt one down. hmmm.... maybe I'll make my own.
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Ah, the SX-64, the first full color portable computer. I WISH I had one...there is an Mini-ITX mod of one on mini-itx.com as well as a Commodore and 1541 disk drive ITX mod.

(According to the 1541 mod, the 1541 is a modified Apple drive, so keep that in mind if you can't find a 1541 drive for the Commodore 64 you look for.)

Also, there was a successor to the C-64, the Commodore 128, that was backwards compatible with the C-64, but had 128KBytes of RAM instead of 64KBytes. Keep an eye open for that too, as it can run all C-64 software fairly fast.

If all else fails, look for a Commodore Vic-20. That was the direct predecessor to the C-64, and can run some of the more simple software.
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the joystick isn't an emulator, it is all the hardware of a c64 on one chip, kinda like the nes on a chip. I want to make a c64p one day.
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Post by bicostp »

Try thrift stores/junkyards/yard sales...

Maybe put up want ads in the newspaper if you <i>really</i> want one.
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The DTV isn't an emulator, its the real deal except smaller.

Anyway, I have a C64 with a power supply that I might be willing to sell, how much will you pay?
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Post by Reaperman93010 »

I used to see them in thrift stores regularly--though the thrift stores in my current area probably just throw them out.

I bought mine from a family cleaning their kid's room out after he left. $50 was a bit steep, even back then, but it worked and came with boxes of software--some of which were on disks that still worked...
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jaytee wrote:The DTV isn't an emulator, its the real deal except smaller.

Anyway, I have a C64 with a power supply that I might be willing to sell, how much will you pay?
The DTV is the real deal, it isnt emulation. It's the smaller brother to the Commodore One.
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Post by Sir Games-A-Lot »

Your kidding me right? I thought all those official plugins were Emulator based (kind of ironic if you think about it). Hmmmm..... maybe It is hackable in that case (unlike the phantom Atari-on-a chip). A 128 is good idea and I wish I could get one but there are zero on ebay right now :evil: oh well I will just have to keep my eyes open. MM007 (or any one) I don't know if this is spamming but there is a sx-64 up for auction on ebay and it isn't going for very much (being sold as is/untested do to missing power cord)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... eName=WDVW


P.S. Jaytee i'm affraid I don't realy like buying stuff privetly without an inbetween service like Ebay. Sorry just for security reasons not you personnaly.
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I can always put it on eBay if you really want it, but there's no guarantee that someone else won't get it because they're willing to pay more.
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Just use Paypal, or ask somebody really nice and trustable(like gannon or HK) to be a middle man.
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Post by Sir Games-A-Lot »

Not realy as urgent now that the DTV was brought up :D . I'll probably get one of those for starters and take my time tag sale-ing for a c64 or c128 thanks any way for all the help and the offer though.
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