So you think you're hard-core?

"You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?"

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/6580

DocJon wrote:"You've gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?"

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/6580

Wow, if C= had done this they would still be on top 🙁

That is way cool.....

This is even cooler....

He replaced the floppy drive with an SD-card reader using a controller that emulated the floppy drive

Man, I miss my C64....

lexx wrote:Wow, if C= had done this they would still be on top 🙁

It's the most amazing part of home-computer history that Commodore isn't where Apple is today, or even where Microsoft is. Consider that the Commodore VIC-20 and C-64 were HUGELY successful, and that the Amiga had a standard, built-in GUI and working multitasking 9 years before Windows 95 came out, and had 4096 colors for 7 years before Apple came out with a color Mac. It had graphics and sound processors separate from the CPU. . .

They had such a deep market penetration in the early stages of home computers, such a technological advantage for so very long, it seems inconceivable that they went bankrupt instead of becoming an 800-pound gorilla.

Someone posted up the history of commodore once though... and it makes it rather clear why things went to the toilet.

What I always get a kick out of is the fact that Bill Gates wrote the Commodore OS. If you ask me, that's the real story for C64.

Atomm wrote:What I always get a kick out of is the fact that Bill Gates wrote the Commodore OS. If you ask me, that's the real story for C64.

After all the things that happened in the early days of home computers, the REAL STORY is who wrote the BASIC? That seems more an interesting piece of trivia to me.

Gates wrote code for Pet BASIC. I think much of that code went on to the Vic-20, C-64, and C-128. I know for a fact the BASIC commands were extremely similar, and a few of the PEEK-POKE in the Pet/20/64 addresses were alike.

It's generally considered that AmigaBASIC is the last software in which Gates personally coded anything.

Video of c-64's 25th anniversary, and yet more proof that Woz is the coolest MF'er in any room full of computer ppl.
http://news.cnet.com/1606-2_3-6222379.html

Bubba, yeah, the history shows HOW it happened. It's just a mystery to me why it happened, why it was allowed to happen, and why a company that had so much going for it would take such MASSIVE, MASSIVE advantages and totally screw the pooch. Well and truly, any company in just about any industry would consider themselves lucky to be in Commodore's position at any given point between 1981-1987. They were even in a good position for a few years beyond that, but I'm sticking with the years that should have enabled them to put the competition away.


Proper advertising, or ANY advertising, during the Amiga years, would have helped.

I remember trying to get a job at EB during the Amiga days. I was so excited to get a chance to work on it, but in the end they didn't hire me because I had not used it.

I don't even know what to say here. I am both sad and elated at the same time.

Damn.......damn damn damn......