Comments on: Hacking the Commodore 64 DTV version 2

By: Scott Houdek

Scott Houdek — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:57:19 +0000

Hi, i am new at this thing called C64DTV(with emulator) and i’ve notice there’s not a good example how to going from Hires to text mode!
it frustrates me to no end!
i like to see a good programming example of that in BASIC! of course you can do it in Asm language too.

Thanks a bunch.

By: phreakabit

phreakabit — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:20:22 +0000

does, anyone know anything about hacking satellite cable

By: crazy cranium

crazy cranium — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:27:27 +0000

Where is this site for hacking the C64DTV pal, I can only find the site for the hummer unit.
I have a C64DTV with a board version EL-C64A2 – 2005/jun/24 . All the sites I find for hacking seem to have a board with a slightly different layout. Please help. I want to hack!

By: David Murray

David Murray — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:13:13 +0000

Hi.. I’m the creator of the site in question. For some reason hackaday has mirrored the site and the mirror works worse than the original. So if you are having trouble seeing it, use the original link:

http://galaxy22.dyndns.org/misc/hummerdtv/index.html

By: loup

loup — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:34:36 +0000

Ah yes, but the board in this is quite small, and it uses very little power. One could concievable make it into some sort of portable system. although, it would still be quite a bit bigger than a psp

By: Scavo

Scavo — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:10:19 +0000

Id rather have my PSP and all kinds of Emulators (commodore, atari,snes,nes,Sega,psx). Especially because its portable :D

By: OrbnLgnd

OrbnLgnd — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:23:55 +0000

Looks like radioshack.com has them for about $20 Not bad for a few weekends of retro fun. As soon as the American version Flash software is fixed, it could actually be a usefull system.

By: Golan Klinger

Golan Klinger — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 05:50:09 +0000

The Hummer is only sold in North America but for those in Europe and Oceania there is a second generation C64 DTV that shares the same core as the Hummer. You can find more information, including where you can buy the DTV from http://www.toylobster.com/toylobsterweb/products_c64.htm and if your idea of fun is hacking toys into retro computers, drop by the DTVHacking forum at http://jledger.proboards19.com/index.cgi where you’ll find lots more info.

By: schism

schism — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:31:26 +0000

This is one of the cooliest mods out there I have a V1 I have hacked and works great, color is a little funny but works awesome, and has some of the best games ever creadted in the 8bit world included.

By: rmiller021

rmiller021 — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:44:16 +0000

#3 goto radioshack.com type in hummer in the search box.
Amazingly enough it will return some items one of which is the item in question for $19.97

Quote from above: “The latest version of the chip is being sold inside a Radio Shack Hummer game”

By: SpartanIV

SpartanIV — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:33:05 +0000

how much does one of those hummer games cost?

By: connor

connor — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:31:14 +0000

i miss my old c64… this may be a portal to my past.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:28:57 +0000

Nice stuff!
We have a demo Hummer game laying around our store. From what I’ve seen it wouldn’t take much to improve the graphics or sound.

The thing is horrible as-is.

By: alio

alio — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:37:06 +0000

old school to the maxx

By: steel maverick

steel maverick — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:10:14 +0000

sweet