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The V8 was detuned to from the original US version, but would receive incremental power upgrades to throughout its time in the Commodore, before finally being replaced by the related Generation 4 in the VZ.

The KERNAL is Commodore's name for the ROM-resident operating system core in its 8-bit home computers ; from the original PET of 1977, followed by the extended but strongly related versions used in its successors ; the VIC-20, Commodore 64, Plus / 4, C16, and C128.

Creative Micro Designs ( CMD ) is a computer technology company which today sells PCs and related equipment, but which started out in 1987 selling self-designed firmware updates and hardware for the Commodore 64 and C128 8-bit personal computers.

It is related to the later 6545 manufactured by MOS Technology ( Commodore Semiconductor Group ) and Rockwell ( in two variations ) and was cloned as the Hitachi 46505 ( which was used in Videx's UltraTerm card ).

The company started to manufacture products related to home computers that were popular in the 1980s such as the Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum.

More notably, Sensible Software made several games for distribution with Amiga Power, like Sensible Massacre ( uses Sensible Soccer graphics, where the player throws grenades at Dutch players, following the loss of England against the Dutch in the USA ' 94 qualifiers ) or Sensible Train Spotting ( related to the hobby ), the last game developed by the company for the Commodore Amiga.

This category caters to all things related to now-defunct computer company Commodore International ( 1976 – 1994 ), and especially its major daughter company, Commodore Business Machines, Inc. ( CBM ) ( 1962 – 1994 ).

This category contains articles related to the Commodore 64 and compatible computers ( e. g. the Commodore 128 ).

This category contains articles related to the Commodore VIC-20 early 1980s home computer.

However, Microsoft had built an easter egg into the version 2 or " upgrade " Commodore Basic that proved its provenance: typing the ( obscure ) command would result in appearing on the screen.

Billie Holiday also recorded for Commodore ( in 1939 and 1944 ), with " Strange Fruit " and " Fine and Mellow " first appearing on that label.

Several versions of a Lethal Weapon video game were released in conjunction with this sequel's release, appearing on the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Amiga, Atari ST, and Commodore 64 platforms.

After its successful launch in the UK, it was then ported to the Commodore 64, with pirate editions appearing in Spanish.

The Commodore was next updated in 1986 as the VL, which had new front and rear styling.

Frémont's California Battalion next moved south to the Mexican provincial capital of Monterey, where they met US Commodore Robert Stockton in mid-July 1846.

NOTE: Games without an explicit platform noted next to them indicate Jochen did both the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST versions.

Commodore BASIC keywords could be abbreviated by entering first an unshifted keypress, and then a shifted version of the next keypress.

Born in Westford, Massachusetts, Abbot entered the Navy as midshipman at the beginning of the War of 1812, serving first on the frigate and next on Lake Champlain with Commodore Macdonough, who, when he asked Abbot if he were ready to die for his country received the reply " Certainly, sir ; that is what I came into the service for.

Colhoun next served aboard the frigate from 1846 to 1847, seeing action in the Mexican War, first under Commodore David Conner in the first attack on Alvarado, Mexico, and then under Commodore Matthew C. Perry at Tabasco, Mexico.

The next model came in 1999, two years after the launch of the all-new VT Commodore from which the new WH was based.

The game ( and next two sequels ) was created by the same developers as the similar Lotus games released earlier in the Commodore Amiga and Sega Mega Drive videogame systems.

By 21 August, Ross had reached Nottingham, and Commodore Joshua Barney was forced to destroy the gunboats and other sailing craft of the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla the next day, and retreat overland towards Washington.

His next series of appointments were as Air Commodore ( Intelligence ) at the Ministry of Defence in 1964, Deputy Commander-in-Chief at RAF Germany in 1969 and Director-General of RAF Training in 1971.

The next day he was promoted to Captain and appointed commander of the German destroyer force ( Führer der Zerstörer ), succeeding Commodore Bonte, who had been killed on 10 April in the first Battle of Narvik.

The next day, it was revealed that a draft document signed by Commodore Bainimarama had originally contained a direct threat to overthrow the government if the bill went through.

France would have no further contacts with Okinawa for the next 7 years, until news came that Commodore Perry had obtained an agreement with the islands on July 11, 1854, following his treaty with Japan.

It was named for Commodore Barry in 1951 due to its location next to the Brooklyn Navy Yard that Barry helped found.

The next day Commodore Jones learned of his mistake, but Alvarado declined to return and instead referred the commodore to Micheltorena.

* In the Commodore directory system, a hard space usually terminated the spelling of a filename, and was replaced with a quotation mark when listed to the user.

The cartridge provided an extension to the Commodore BASIC, which contained several new BASIC programming aids, such as < tt > RENUMBER </ tt >, and several utility commands, one of the most notable of which was < tt > DOS "</ tt > which can be used to give Commodore DOS commands ( e. g. < tt > DOS " S0: UNDESIRED FILE </ tt > to delete a file ), read the error status of the drive ( plain < tt > DOS "</ tt >) or display the disk directory without overwriting the BASIC program in the memory (< tt > DOS "$</ tt >).

The 1541 Commodore floppy disk can contain up to 144 files in a flat namespace ( no subdirectories ); the directory is stored on reserved track 18, which is the center track of a 35-track single-sided disk.

On the Commodore 64, entering will flood the screen with garbage instead of loading the directory into BASIC RAM.

This is because the drive assigns the directory a load address of $ 0401 ( 1025 ), which is equivalent to the start of BASIC for the Commodore PET, but corresponds to the default screen memory in the C64.

A 1983 product called Vanilla PILOT for the Commodore 64 combined some features of LOGO, as did Super Turtle PILOT which was published as a type-in listing in the October 1987 issue of COMPUTE!

The Commodore Semiconductor Group ( formerly MOS Technology, Inc .) was bought by its former management and in 1995, resumed operations under the name GMT Microelectronics, utilizing a troubled facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

In 1995, the company, operating under the name GMT Microelectronics ( Great Mixed-signal Technologies ), reopened MOS Technologies ' original, circa-1970 one-micrometre fab in Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

They made good progress at the beginning, but as Commodore management changed, they became marginalised and the original Amiga staff was fired or left out on a one-by-one basis, until the entire Los Gatos office was closed.

A third station, at Lamokin Street, located approximately a mile east of the Commodore Barry Bridge at the junction of the NEC and the abandoned Penn Central Chester Creek Secondary Branch, was operated by SEPTA as a flagstop station until it was closed and demolished in 2003 due to low usage.

The machine included the Zilog Z80 and various bus features needed to run the CP / M operating system, but placed them inside a " closed " box with a built-in keyboard similar to machines like the Commodore PET, the Commodore 64, and the Atari 8-bit family.

The Commodore closed in 1996, but after $ 3. 5 million in renovations ( including a new hardwood dance floor ) it reopened under the House of Blues banner on November 12, 1999.