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News Commodore - one of staples of the early 80s and much beloved of those around at the start of the PC revolution - may be about to get a second lease of life. The Commodore brand name has been bought by a digital music company. [05 Jan 2005]
Technologies Time Forgot: Commodore 64
Comment From its release in 1982 through to the final models rolling off the production line in 1992, estimates suggest as many as 22 million Commodore 64 units were sold worldwide. A prime example of the benefits of Commodore peripherals attached to a... [24 Dec 1982]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
News For part two of this column - our look at the Commodore 64 - click here: http://www.silicon.com/a50951 This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the glamour of Commodore machines. [01 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment For part two of this column - our look at the Commodore 64 - click here: http://www.silicon.com/a50951 This week we hear from Tony Hallett and Jon Bernstein, silicon.com writers who were drawn to the glamour of Commodore machines. [04 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment The Commodore 64 deserved more respect. I probably don't deserve to write silicon.com's eulogy to the Commodore 64 because I have a shameful secret. Although it took the Amiga for Commodore to create the world's first multimedia home computer, the... [24 Dec 1982]
My first computer: The Commodore 64
News Did we know that Commodore was founded in 1954 by Jack Tramiel, a Polish Jew who'd survived six years at Auschwitz and other concentration camps? We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. [03 Feb 2005]
My first computer: The Vic-20
News The Commodore Vic-20 debuted in 1980. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. In the end, the humble Vic-20 was superseded by the Commodore 64 and something horrible in between called the C16. [27 Jan 2005]
My first computer: The Dragon 32
News In fact I spent most of my time round at my mates' houses playing on their Spectrums and Commodore 64s. We are running the full series again to mark the recent re-birth of Commodore. Thus far we've featured the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro, the... [10 Feb 2005]
ZX Spectrum crowned king of computer classics
News In comparison the Spectrum's big rivals of the day, the BBC Micro and Commodore 64, could only muster 15 per cent and 14 per cent of the vote respectively. In the battle of early 1990s gaming machines the Atari ST won out with four per cent of the... [18 Apr 2008]
Editor's Blog: Home computing from Acorn, Amiga and Amstrad, to the ZX Spectrum
Comment That meant beating other classics such as the Apple II, BBC Micro, my own personal favourite the Amstrad CPC464, and others including the Commodore 64 and Dragon 32. Where was the Commodore PET? Here at silicon.com we recently, rather unexpectedly... [22 Apr 2008]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Dragon 32
Comment In fact I spent most of my time round at my mates' houses playing on their Spectrums and Commodore 64s. If anyone had attempted to write an athletics game which required the frenetic joystick waggling familiar to all Commodore users, then the... [11 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Dragon 32
News In fact I spent most of my time round at my mates' houses playing on their Spectrums and Commodore 64s. If anyone had attempted to write an athletics game which required the frenetic joystick waggling familiar to all Commodore users, then the... [08 Feb 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: ZX Spectrum users get dewy eyed
Comment If Commodore had a little more business nous, then it's a distinct possibility that they would own a fairly significant slice of the home user market still, if not the desktop OS market too. But I have to put forward the opinion that the Commodore... [14 Jan 2002]
Best of Reader Comments: Your first computer
News I remember finding it on top of my mother's wardrobe about a week before Christmas and thinking "Bugger, I really wanted a Commodore 64. My first computer was a Commodore Plus 4. Do you remember your first computer? [11 Apr 2002]
Digital Services Developer Launches Handheld Media Player With Embedded System
White Paper Commodore International Corporation (CIC), based in the Netherlands, planned to develop a range of innovative digital media services. One, the Gravel-in-Pocket, aimed to meet the increasing demand for music and video streaming through handheld... [05 Sep 2007]
