What the heck are they going to run on their media box, anyway? AmigaOS 4? Windows?
In 1985, the Amiga was the best personal computer on the market. Period. Best graphics, sound, OS, could multi-task. It was at least 10 years ahead of its time in terms of technology. Still amazed that it never really took off.
While the commodore 64 was a great little platform and im sure the Vic 20 is still plenty useful, this sounds like a flop to me
Commodore 64, 2 floppy drives, expansion module, printer = $800 in 1984. 300K connection rates if I was lucky.
Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD.
Ahh, the VIC 20, with its trusty "3583 bytes free" greeting at startup. Those were the days ...
Commodore games are available in one of those plug-in-to-your-TV units. Really cool stuff, Paradroid and Impossible Mission 1 and 2 (plus a bunch of other stuff) for 20 bucks. It would be nice to see them comeback, they were the best desktop game environment.
Anybody interested in an old Kaypro or a Coleco Adam??
I remember back in the mid 80's I had a friend who was really in to computers. He had a Commodore 64.
The article's a little unsettling, because whatever else you can say about Commodore, it was never known for its quality control.
I remember the Amiga. Even tried to develop software for it. It was the most crashy computer I've ever seen before or since. Even early Windows looks half-decent by comparison. The screen would slide down and a big red box would appear with a "Guru Meditation" number.
The multitasking worked great, but of course if one application crashed so did the whole environment. That made the multitasking less than useful since you couldn't do anything in the background without having the foreground application crash and kill the machine :-(.
So I can't be too nostalgic for the Amiga, I'm afraid. And I don't see how it would make a Windows CE computer anything other than, well, a Windows CE computer.
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I had the VIC 20, 64 & 128. Matter of fact, I still have the 128 in its box within the confines of my Fibber McGee closet!
Someday, I will get up the courage to open the closet door...
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But will it read my old floppies?
No discussion of oldies is complete without mention of the TI-994A. 16K Ram, 16K Rom and a 16 bit processor. If you had two Radio Shack tape recorders and TI Extended Basic, you were in nerd heaven.
Commodore? NO WAY!!!! Cool. Going to be able to type in the programs out of the back of PC magazine again like we did with the Vic 20? I remember be so tickled as a kid cause my brother in law had a Commodore 64 and we could play 7 Cities on it. Best part of Christmas staying up 30 hours straight playing on the computer.
I bought a used (almost new) C64 in 1984, I think. Played MechBrigade, Kampfgruppe, Crusade in Europe, Decision in the Desert to my hearts content. Those were the days. Anyone else remember those great old games?
Simply amazing.
I still have my VIC 20 in a box in the basement. I took it out this summer when I moved and it still works! I taught myself BASIC and learned a lot about processors and programming with it. What an incredible machine for its time. My 20-something year old daughter thinks it's one of the coolest things she's ever seen. She even remembers watching me playing with it when she was oh-so-little. It's like a family heirloom.
I had a Vic20 and a C64.
Still play some games on it via an emulator to the PC.
Fun stuff.
So help me, when I saw this headline, I thought the Navy was reinstituting the rank of "commodore", instead of using that stupid, "rear admiral, lower half."