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No Less of a Memory - The Human Drama of Video Game Sports [Stick Jockey]...as the third period wound down. This is from 1992, after my freshman year of college. By now I had been playing Hardball! on a Commodore 64 with a Wico Command Control joystick for close to five years. We'd gotten it from our next door... In this article: Hardball!, Mets, Yankees, MLB, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Oklahoma |
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True/Slant | 22 hours ago
Yet Another Reason Never to Set Foot in a Microsoft Store
...dollars, this statement was a blatant lie. In fact, I knew of only three families who had ever even owned a computer-and one of those was a Commodore 64. But it was time to graduate from my Intellivision video game system. To continue...
In this article: Microsoft Store, Apple computers, Electronic Games, Betamax, Atari, Commodore, Intellivision, IBM, and Black Eyed Peas
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OSNews | 2 days ago
*Interview: CEO of Kiloo, Maker of App Store C64 Emulator*
posted by Kroc Camen on Thu 19th Nov 2009 20:19 UTC Jacob Moller*, founder and CEO of Kiloo, the maker of the Commodore 64 emulator in the Apple App Store has kindly answered a few of my questions regarding App Store controversies, and...
In this article: Apple, App Store, Iphone, Amiga, Best interests, and Easter egg
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PopMatters | 3 days ago
Joakim: Milky Ways (Review)
...dirge of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man", the atmospheric heaviness of Sub Pop-era Earth, and the soundtrack to an old video game for the Commodore 64 to create something wholly unique in scope and nature. Elsewhere, "Glossy Papers" rides a...
In this article: Milky Way, House music, Chicago, New Wave, Suicide, Iron Man, Sub Pop, Radiohead, and Pavement
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Boing Boing | 4 days ago
Chip Sounds
...memories." Mimicking vintage hardware like the AY-3-8910 (arcade games), POKEY (Atari 400/800) and the legendary MOS Technology SID (Commodore 64), Chipsounds plugs into apps such as Logic Pro and GarageBand. According to the blurb,...
In this article: Atari, Universite de Montreal, and Logic Pro
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | 5 days ago
Official Commodore 64 Emulator Returns To The App Store [App Store]
After being smacked down not once, but twice by the ridiculous App Store approval process, Manomio's fully-licensed Commodore 64 emulator is back in the App Store. Not only is it back and fully compliant with the SDK agreement, C64 is...
In this article: Emulator, International Soccer, and Bruce Lee
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NBC | 7 days ago
Google Invites You to Crack the Code
...bar. Bruce Merry, who codes under the, um, code name "BMerry," brings his own keyboard to the event. It looks like a relic from the Commodore 64 days, but Bruce says it brings him luck. "You never know at a contest what you'll find," when...
In this article: Google, Code name, and Silicon Valley
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New York Times | November 12, 2009
De-glitched, the C64's Up and Running Again
The on-again, off-again Commodore 64 app for Apple is on again in the iTunes app store, now improved over the original version that appeared-but only briefly-in September. The colorful app that mimics one of the world's favorite personal...
In this article: Apple, Itunes, Iphone, Commodore, and Midtown Manhattan
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CNET News.com | November 11, 2009
Wrapping up Speeds and Feeds, part 3: Ruggedness
...degree of ruggedization. In the old days of 8-bit microcomputers, some consumer-oriented systems such as the popular Atari 400 and Commodore 64 were fairly robust due to heavy plastic cases designed to survive casual home use, but these...
In this article: Toughbook, Carbon, CNET, Silicon Valley, Magnesium, Titanium, PC Computing, and Atari
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AppScout | November 11, 2009
iPhone C64 Emulator Returns to the App Store
After a serious game of ping-pong between developer Manomio and Apple's App Store approval process, the iPhone Commodore 64 emulator is back in the App Store. The app originally contained five games--Dragons Den, Le Mans, Arctic...
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Joystiq | November 10, 2009
iPhone Commodore 64 emulator back on the App Store
...Japanese Club Nintendo members Having been rejected, accepted and subsequently removed, developer Manomio has finally gotten its iPhone Commodore 64 emulator back on Apple's App Store. The emulator had originally been rejected by Apple,...
In this article: Iphone, Apple, Monopoly, Wonder Boy III, Street Fighter II', Nintendo, Xbox 360, and PS3
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The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in January, 1982, at a price of $595. Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of memory with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of that time. It is commonly known as the C64 or C=64 and occasionally referred to as CBM 64 (Commodore Business Machines Model number 64), or VIC-64. It has also been affectionately nicknamed the "breadbox" and "bullnose" due to the shape and colour of the first version of its casing.
During the Commodore 64's lifetime, sales totalled 17 million units, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. For a substantial period of time (1983-1986), the Commodore 64 dominated the market with between 30% and 40% share and 2 million units sold per year, outselling the IBM PC clones, Apple computers, and Atari computers. Sam Tramiel, a former Atari president said in a 1989 interview "When I was at Commodore we were building 400,000 C64s a month for a couple of years."
Part of its success was because it was sold in retail stores instead of electronics stores, and these machines can be directly plugged into an existing home television without any modifications. Commodore produced many of its parts in-house to control supplies and cost. It is sometimes compared to the Ford Model-T for bringing a new technology to middle-class households via creative mass-production.
Approximately 10,000 commercial software titles were made for the Commodore 64 including development tools, office applications, and games. The machine is also credited with popularizing the computer demo scene. The Commodore 64 is still used today by some computer hobbyists.
- Type:
- Home computer
- Preceded By:
- Commodore VIC-20
- OS:
- Commodore KERNAL/Commodore BASIC 2.0
- Processor:
- @ 0.985 MHz (PAL version)
- Memory:
- 64 kB RAM + 20 kB ROM
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