Datel (UK company)
Datel (formerly Datel Electronics) is a British computer and electronic products company that was best known in the 1980s for its wide range of hardware products and accessories for home computers .
These included As a replacement keyboard for the home computer Sinclair ZX Spectrum , the PlusD disk interface and the Action Replay - system .
The owner of Datel is the Briton Mike Connors - not to be confused with the US actor Mike Connors .
Datel still uses the reverse engineering process to manufacture gadgets and accessories for the most popular game consoles. There are always legal disputes with the platform owners Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. These take the view that certain accessories - e.g. B. Controllers & Memory Cards - need to be officially licensed by them.
On the one hand, this ensures the security of the platform and is also a source of income for the platform owner.
In November 2009 Microsoft released an update for their Xbox 360 to exclude the use of the much cheaper and much higher capacity Max-Memory cards.
Even after another update in April 2010, it is not possible to access more than 10 GB of memory with official memory cards or USB sticks .
Since January 2010, a new revision of the datel memory cards has made it possible again to address blocks of 512 MB, a total of up to 16 GB, and to exchange them with the PC via microSD cards.
Product releases 2010:
- Action Replay DSi
- Arcade Pro Joystick (multiplatform PC, PlayStation 3 , Xbox 360 )
- PlayStation 3 Space Dock
- PSP Action Replay Online
- PSP TiltFX 1000
- PSP TiltFX 2000 & 3000
- Xbox 360 Max Memory Card 2 GB rev. 2 (after Microsoft Update)
- Xbox 360 Max Memory Card 4 GB rev. 2 (after Microsoft Update)
- Xbox 360 Wildfire Wired Controller (black, white)
- Xbox 360 Wildfire Wireless Controller (black, white)
- Xbox 360 Space Dock
Datel produces its developments u. a. the Action Replay or the Max Memory memory cards as OEM for various accessory brands such as:
- BigBen Interactive
- Hama
- Speed-Link (Jöllenbeck GmbH).
Only a few details on the packaging are changed.
An exception is the Brand-Speed-Link, which sells various Datel products in their own packaging without any specific reference to the manufacturer.
Examples of this:
- Datel Wii Precision FX Pistol = Mr. Smith Double Function Gun for Wii (SL-3437-SWT)
- Datel PS2 Max Memory 16 MB Yellow Pack with 10 Arcade Games = 16 MB Memory Card plus 10 Arcade Games (SL-4052-SBK)