* The Color Computers-1979 to 1980 — Excerpt from the book On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore ( 2005 ), Variant Press.

The book also helped turn the former Speaker into a national icon, and O ' Neill starred in a number of commercials, including ones for Trump Shuttle, Commodore Computers, Quality International Budget Hotels, and one for Miller Lite, starring in one with Bob Uecker.

In 1849, he learned about electricity, through the book of the Dutch scientist Van den Bergh, and created Japan's first telegraph, 5 years before the gift of such a telegraph by Commodore Perry in 1854.

In that book, the author referred to Commodore Schley as a “ caitiff, poltroon and coward .” The proofs of the book had been read and approved by various naval officers, among them Rear Admiral Sampson.

* C. S. Forester's Hornblower series of novels are mostly set during the Napoleonic Wars, in particular book 9 of the series, Commodore Hornblower focusing on the French invasion of Russia and the subsequent defence of Riga from the period of 1812 onwards, and book 10 Lord Hornblower dealing with events in France up to the defeat of Napoleon by Wellington at Waterloo.

The musical score for the Commodore 64 version was created by Martin Galway, the different scores are present during the story book and character selection part of the game and there is no actual music in the main game itself.

In 1984, he started developing his first game, Skyline Attack for the Commodore 64 and also co-wrote a book called Quantum Theory ( about the Sinclair QL ).

A text adventure game adaption based on the book was developed and published by Domark, and released in 1987 for the Amstrad CPC, Atari XL, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum computers.

It was referenced in the movie Swordfish, the Robot Chicken Episode Password: Swordfish, the Terry Pratchett novel Night Watch, The Mad Men episode " Six Month Leave ", the book The Sword of the Samurai Cat, the movie Meet the Applegates, the movie Arena, the computer games Discworld, Return to Zork and Quest for Glory, a Commodore 64 computer game Impossible Mission, and the online game Kingdom of Loathing as part of the quest for the Holy Macguffin.

A video game based on the book was released by Puffin Books for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 in 1984.

During the mid-1980s, many sysops opted for the less expensive, ubiquitous Commodore 64 ( introduced in 1982 ), which became popular among software pirate groups.

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 ).

* Blitz ( video game ), a bombing game for the Commodore Vic-20

Ports of the game were released for the Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari ST, MSX, Amstrad CPC, Sharp X68000, PC ( MS-DOS, 1989 and 1996 ), Apple II, FM Towns Marty, Sega Master System, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom Disk System, Sega Game Gear, mobile phone ( Sprint PCS ), Texas Instruments TI-8x series of calculators and UltraCade's Taito Arcade Classics.

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.

With a storage capacity of 800 KB, the 1581 was the highest capacity serial bus drive ever made by Commodore ( the 1 MB SFD-1001 used the parallel IEEE-488 ), and the only 3½ " one.

Commodore generally refers to Commodore ( rank ), a naval rank.

* Commodore International ( also known as Commodore Business Machines ), a computer company founded in 1954 and declared bankrupt in 1994, or several of its products and affiliates, including:

** 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 128 ( or C128, CBM 128, or C = 128 ), a home / personal computer introduced in January 1985, the last 8-bit machine commercially released by Commodore Business Machines

* Commodore ( Star Trek ), a fictional Starfleet rank in Star Trek

* Mike Commodore ( born 1979 ), a Canadian ice hockey defenseman who plays for the Tampa Bay Lightning in the United States.

* Commodore ( rank ), a naval rank

** Commodore ( Royal Navy ), in the Royal Navy

** Commodore ( United States ), in the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard

** Commodore ( Canada ), in the Canadian Forces

** Commodore ( Finland ), in the Finnish Navy

* The Commodore, a Horatio Hornblower novel by C. S. Forester

In the novel The Commodore ( novel ), Parker, a Bow Street Runner, is employed by Maturin and Sir Joseph Blaine to investigate the Duke of Habachtstal.

* In The Commodore, the seventeenth novel of Patrick O ' Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series, Stephen Maturin makes reference to Adanson.

The Commodore ( published 1945 ), a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester, features several actions by British bomb vessels.

In Patrick O ' Brian's novel The Commodore ( 1996 ), Dr. Maturin recites the rhyme when he learned of his ship's destination.

The novel sees Aubrey made Commodore in charge of a squadron of ships sent to take the islands of Mauritius and Réunion from the French, and so protect British shipping interests in the Indian Ocean.

The plot of the novel is very closely based upon a real campaign carried out by the Royal Navy in 1810 under Commodore Josias Rowley.

The Commodore is an historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, written by British author Patrick O ' Brian and published by HarperCollins in 1995.

In 1835 he was assigned to USS Constitution, serving as an aide to Commodore Jesse Elliott in the Mediterranean ; his service aboard Constitution would later become the basis for a novel, Nautilus ; or, Cruising under Canvas, published in 1871.

The Commodore ( published 1945 ) is a Horatio Hornblower novel written by C. S. Forester.

* The Commodore is also the title of a 1995 Aubrey – Maturin series novel by Patrick O ' Brian.

* The Commodore: A novel of the Sea ( 1986 ) is a novel written by Jan de Hartog

Commodore Aubrey checks him, telling him it is bad luck to say that out loud on the way in.

Aubrey is ordered to take command, as the Commodore of a small squadron of ships in Cape Town and sails south from Portsmouth with some of the ships, to the Cape of Good Hope, with instructions to disrupt French interests in the region.

O ' Brian used literary license in making Aubrey a Commodore while still a relatively junior captain.

Aubrey then hastens to meet the French squadron, commanded by the wily Commodore Esprit-Tranquil Maistral, south and east of the point the French are expected to reach ( West Cork ).

* Jack Aubrey – Appointed Commodore