The Commodore 64 Gaming Computer
Following on from my lat post about the history of gaming. I have noticed that all recent article and blog posts made on sites these days are all about the current gaming consoles such as the Wii, 360 and PS3. This gave me inspiration to post about one of the old skool computer back in the 80’s. I never actually owned a commodore 64, but did play on one a few times. Back then, they were the envoy of school children throughout the country. Everyone wanted one. See here’s my peice on the commodore 64!! Retro rules!!!
The Commodore 64 was at least in Europe a phenomenon: In 1982 hardly anybody knew about it and even if you read the right magazines, information was thin and the price was high. In 1983 some people bought one, including me. The Commodore 64 was a personal computer produced during the 1980s. Due to its low cost and high availability, the Commodore 64 eventually became the best-selling computer model of all time. The Commodore 64 was only available in one incarnation, the C128 had backward compatibility but it never had any games of note. I am going to focus on the original version of the Spectrum in these reviews as this is the version that most people owned.
The Commodore 64 was the end of an era. The 64, just like the Apple IIe, was based on the 6500 processor, and it was the end of the line for that technology. The Commodore 64 was able to straddle both ends of the Atlantic, a feat that neither the Apple II (basically an American platform) nor the Amiga (Generally a European platform) had ever achieved. The Commodore 64 was at one time one of the most popular personal computers. Part of the 64k of ram was overlayed by the rom which contained a BASIC interpreter and could be paged out.
The Commodore 64 was marketed toward the mass population and this model was the first portable model with a color display. As with previous models and brands, however, it still used cassette tapes as mediums for data storage with an optional floppy disk drive. The Commodore 64 was my attempt to build the absolute minimal system that could be built out of the video and sound chips put together.”. The Commodore 64 was alive: it was a immediately ordered into production which hit full stride by August 1982.
