In order to bring the design to market Commodore International bought Amiga Corporation and funded development.

The Commodore 1541 ( also known as the CBM 1541 and VIC-1541 ) is a floppy disk drive ( FDD ) which was made by Commodore International for the Commodore 64 ( C64 ), Commodore's home computer.

** Commodore Amiga, a family of personal computers introduced to the market in 1985 after Commodore International purchased the original developers, Amiga Corporation

** Commodore 64 ( or C64 or C = 64 ), an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August 1982, the single best-selling personal computer model of all-time

** Commodore Gaming, a 2007 rebirth of Commodore International that manufactures gaming-oriented PCs

** Commodore International Corporation, a Netherlands-based company that bought all the global rights, patents and assets to the Commodore brand in 2005

Commodore is the commonly used collective name for Commodore International Limited and the various national companies that operated underneath it, including Commodore Business Machines ( CBM ), the U. S .- based home computer and electronics manufacturer with headquarters in West Chester, Pennsylvania that it shared with its parent.

In 1962, Commodore went public at New York stock exchange under the name of Commodore International Limited.

Commodore had been reorganized the year before into Commodore International, Ltd., moving its financial headquarters to the Bahamas and its operational headquarters to West Chester, Pennsylvania, near to the MOS Technology site.

Escom paid US $ 14 million for Commodore International, primarily for the Commodore brand name.

Yeahronimo Media Ventures soon renamed itself to Commodore International Corporation and started an operation intended to relaunch the Commodore brand.

In the early 1990s a small number of BBSes were also running on the Commodore Amiga models 500, 1000 and 1200 ( using external hard drives ), and the Amiga 2000, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 ( which had built-in hard drives ).

However the dismasted Tonnant, Commodore Du Petit Thouars now dead from his wounds and thrown overboard at his own request, was unable to make the required speed and was driven ashore by its crew, while Timoléon was too far south to escape with Villeneuve and in attempting to join the survivors had also grounded on the shoal.

The popular Commodore computer magazines of the era also entered the arena with type-in fast-load utilities, with Compute!

The version of Commodore DOS built into the 1581 added support for partitions, which could also function as fixed-allocation subdirectories.

** Commodore Semiconductor Group, also known as MOS Technology, Inc., famous for its various designs for Commodore Internationals range of home computers

Thanks to a well-designed set of chips designed by MOS Technology, the Commodore 64, ( also referred to as C64 ), possessed remarkable sound and graphics for its time and is often credited with starting the computer demo scene.

Commodore also retreated from its earlier strategy of selling its computers to discount outlets and toy stores, and now favored authorized dealers.

The custom-designed and custom-built AGA chipset also cost Commodore considerably more than the commodity chips used in IBM PCs, further reducing Commodore's profit margins.

Commodore is also a title held by the senior captain within a shipping company and by the senior officer of many yacht clubs and boating associations.

In the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, the senior elected officer of the organization is the National Commodore, also there are commodores elected for the individual district commands of the Coast Guard Auxiliary.

The governor also traditionally serves as Honorary and Regimental Colonel in the Royal New South Wales Regiment and as Honorary Air Commodore of No. 22 ( City of Sydney ) Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force.

Sales of the Commodore also fell, with the effects of the 1979 energy crisis lessening, and for the first time the Commodore lost ground to the Ford Falcon.

MINIX 1. 5, released in 1991, included support for MicroChannel IBM PS / 2 systems and was also ported to the Motorola 68000 and SPARC architectures, supporting the Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple Macintosh and Sun SPARCstation computer platforms.

The Commodore Amiga 1200 computer and the Amiga CD32 games console used the cost-reduced 68EC020 ; the Namco System 22 arcade board has also used this processor.

MOS Technology, Inc., also known as CSG ( Commodore Semiconductor Group ), was a semiconductor design and fabrication company based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

Another company, Commodore Business Machines ( CBM ), had invested heavily in the calculator market and was also nearly wiped out by TI's entry into the market.

A port for the Commodore Amiga was also made available in 1998 by clickBOOM Software.

It was also the last version released for the Commodore Amiga platform from which the game originated.

Atari's native character set was known as ATASCII, while most Commodore BBSes supported PETSCII.

The term is typically used to describe a family of fairly well known tricks that can overload the analog electronics in the CRT monitors of computers lacking hardware sanity checking ( notable examples being the IBM Portable and Commodore PET.

The most recent of these were Commodore Ronald Warwick, a former Master of the Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2, who has traversed the Canal more than 50 times, and Captain Raffaele Minotauro, Master Senior Grade, of the former Italian governmental navigation company known as the " Italian Line ".

Jack Tramiel (, Trzmiel means " bumblebee "; December 13, 1928 – April 8, 2012 ) was a Polish-born American businessman, best known for founding Commodore International, the manufacturer of the Commodore PET, Commodore VIC-20, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga, and other Commodore models of home computers.

They were most well known as the processors powering the early Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga, the Sinclair QL, the Atari ST, Sega Mega Drive / Genesis and several others.

However, they became most well known as the processors powering desktop computers such as the Apple Macintosh, the Commodore Amiga, the Sinclair QL, the Atari ST, and several others.

A little known fact is that Hippel was also a good programmer, he created all of his own music tools and also ported most of Thalion's early Atari ST titles to the Commodore Amiga.

Air Commodore Lukis, Air Officer Commanding, North East Area, reported on 28 May 1942, that Pilot Officer Trench, RAAF had inspected the countryside near Portland Roads ( also known as Weymouth Bay ), with Colonel Mills and Captain Herman G. Cox of the USAAF.

The town of Hazard, as well as Perry County, is named after U. S. Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, known for his victory report during the War of 1812 stating, " We have met the enemy and they are ours.

Commodore Mayo held a large tract of land on the South River, known in the early 1900s as " Mayo's Neck " that formerly was the home estate of Captain Nicholas Gassaway the son of Maryland politician Colonel Nicholas Gassaway.

Commodore Rodgers served with distinction during the War of 1812 and is known as the " Father of the American Navy.

Commodore User, known to the readers as the abbreviated CU, was one of the oldest British Commodore magazines.