C64's 20th birthday!

[xS]

Actually, I've never played the Vic 20. I just recently noticed in my older books that some of those 'programs' had similar codes.

[Wildkat]

Lets not forget the ol' 6581 chip. The SID sound synthizer that still has fans to this day.

Back when PC's were beep boop and buzzing, I was listening to full fledged music on my C64.

Its a pity the 128 didnt do as well as it should have, Backwards C64 compatabilty did it in I think.

Over the years Ive had:

Many, Many C64s
A SX-64. (why did i sell this?)
Numerious 1541s, 1541-IIs, 1571s.
A 1581
256k ram expansion upped to 2 MB.
numerious Modems. (any former quantumlink users?)

Still have:
C128D the pc-look alike with the detached keyboard and internal 1571.

Its a pity Commodore died the horrible death it did. Damn Trammels.

[xS]

How did it die?

[NeoZeedeater]

Commodore just couldn't compete against the emerging IBM PC standard. The computer world became dominated by IBM-compatibles with Microsoft operating systems.

It also didn't help that multimedia machines like the CDTV and CD32 were dismal failures, much worse than 3DO.

[Wildkat]

that, and a lot of managment blunders in general. Then they bought the Amiga, which was unmatched in the Computer realm for years after its inception, but never really had the cash to get the marketing going.

They had numerious other prototypes even a C65 which could have been big computers before the amiga even launched, but it sat on the benches for years until the company went under.

PC clones, and its general acceptance by the business world, Commodore never really pushed the Amiga to the business world, with the exception of the TV video production industry.

[sggg]

HB C64!

Anyone who has any interest at all in C64 should find a copy of the song "C64" by the band Barcelona. You won't regret it.



ps. Remotec: Defender of the Crown was re-released for GBA.

[gamevet]

Originally posted by Wildkat
that, and a lot of managment blunders in general. Then they bought the Amiga, which was unmatched in the Computer realm for years after its inception, but never really had the cash to get the marketing going.

They had numerious other prototypes even a C65 which could have been big computers before the amiga even launched, but it sat on the benches for years until the company went under.

PC clones, and its general acceptance by the business world, Commodore never really pushed the Amiga to the business world, with the exception of the TV video production industry.

The Amiga was actually, a fairly successful computer. It had a huge following in Europe and a good portion of the games released in the US came from there.


The Amiga was a gamers alternative to the 8-bit NES. It had great graphics, a bad-ass sound chip and some excellent ports of the arcade games of the time. The only problem was, that Commodore let the market catch up. About the time the SNES came out, you could see the writting on the wall, for the Amiga's future. The latest version's of the Amiga just had more RAM and a faster processor. Then you add in the price of the system itself, and it was doomed to failure. At over $1,000 for an Amiga 3000 and the later 4000, the system became more of a music/video enthusiast's system. People that wanted to play games, were now getting P.C.'s with sound and graphic cards, or getting systems like the SNES/Genesis as they offered better games than the slowly dying Amiga.


It's a real shame that Commodore could'nt forsee what made the Amiga what it was. The price was just too much, for someone that wanted a computer, when a P.C. could be justified for alternate use, like business applications in the home.

[gameoverDude]

Here are some of my favorites on C64:

Speed Buggy
Power Drift- Chris Butler did a good job making it play like the real thing.
720°
Alien Syndrome (definitely better than the SMS and NES versions in game play)
Dropzone
Rush'N Attack (quite a bit harder than the original, since the gun-toting soldiers get rather trigger-happy)
Katakis
Shinobi
Rainbow Islands
Thunder Blade