To ensure a ready supply of inexpensive cabling for its home computer peripherals, Commodore chose standard DIN connectors for the serial interface.

In 1852, when Commodore Perry was entrusted with power to select the officers to accompany him on his famous Japan expedition, he chose Captain Abbot in command of the sailing frigate.

Commodore had a better implementation of BASIC but chose to ship the C64 with the same BASIC 2. 0 used in the VIC-20 to minimize cost.

) It is a mystery why Commodore chose this obscure and unconventional unit of measure, and in any case, Commodore did not implement it properly, dividing the circle into 100 gradians rather than 400.

Commodore later released other Amiga models, both for low-end gaming use and high-end productivity use.

For example, a Commodore 64 user calling an Atari BBS would use ASCII rather than the machine's native character set.

Nevertheless, the 1541 became the first disk drive to see widespread use in the home and Commodore sold millions of the units.

The Commodore 1570 was an upgraded 1541 for use with the Commodore 128, available in Europe.

Initially, Commodore intended to use a hardware shift register ( one component of the 6522 VIA ) to maintain relatively brisk drive speeds with the new serial interface.

The reason why Commodore decided not to use the upper five tracks by default ( or at least more than 35 ) was the bad quality of some of the drive mechanisms which did not always work reliably at the highest tracks.

By the mid-1980s, falling production cost made the 68000 viable for use in personal and home computers, starting with the Apple Lisa and Macintosh, and followed by the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, and Sharp X68000.

Early personal computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, such as those from Apple, Atari and Commodore, did not use RGB as their main method to manage colors, but rather composite video.

The Commodore Amiga was the first personal computer to use a full-featured blitter, and the first US patent filing to use the term blitter was " Personal computer apparatus for block transfer of bit-mapped image data ," assigned to Commodore-Amiga, Inc. On top of the ability to copy and manipulate large areas of graphics, the hardware that contained the Amiga's blitter also included line drawing and area-filling hardware.

The majority of games produced for the Commodore 64 made use of the SID chip, with sounds ranging from simply clicks and beeps to complex musical extravaganzas or even entire digital audio tracks.

* Compiling native code for emulators for older now-obsolete platforms like the Commodore 64 or Apple II by enthusiasts who use cross compilers that run on a current platform ( such as Aztec C's MS DOS 6502 cross compilers running under Windows XP ).

Commodore sold a C16 family-specific cassette player ( the Commodore 1531 ) and joysticks, but third-party converters to allow the use of the abundant, and hence much less expensive, VIC-20 / C64-type units soon appeared.

Even while C64 sales were rising, Commodore president Jack Tramiel wanted a new computer line that would use fewer chips and at the same time address some of the user complaints about the VIC and C64.

Opel went on to use Holden ’ s Rekord-Senator hybrid as a foundation for its new generation Commodore C, slotting in between the two donor models.

As the use of computers that supported color and graphics, such the Atari 800, Commodore 64, Texas Instruments TI-99 / 4A, the Apple II series and early IBM PC compatibles, increased, online services gradually developed framed or partially graphical information displays.

One of the earliest home computers to make use of digital signal processing in the form of sampling was the Commodore Amiga in 1985.

The British Commodore met the captain of the American flagship by jumping onto the dock, and asked him how soon the weather-beaten American ships could be put to use.

The heavy use of the Commodore 64's SID sound chip makes their sound instantly recognizable.

The Navy Department acted favorably on Commodore Sloat's recommendations and Mare Island was purchased in July 1852 at a cost of $ 83, 410 for use as a naval shipyard.

Commodore brand 8-bit computers used PETSCII encoding, particularly notable for inverting the upper and lower case compared to standard ASCII.

At a time when IBM PCs were limited to monochrome ( 2 colors ) or CGA ( 4 colors ), the Atari 800 and Commodore 64 were being used at home to create 16-color art ( see upper half of image at right ).

The port of Hakodate was surveyed by a fleet of five U. S. ships in 1854 under the conditions of the Convention of Kanagawa, as negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry.

With the help of Commodore David Porter, and by sheer force of personality, José Miguel Carrera managed to obtain — on credit — five ships with American crews for the Chilean independence enterprise.

The 2nd Destroyer Flotilla — under Commodore Bernard Warburton-Lee and comprising five H-class destroyers ( ( flagship ),,, and — moved up the fjord in the early morning.

Thorneycroft pointed out that the first five tests had all been failures and this was the reason for the US's concerns, but Air Commodore Arthur Vere Harvey quickly pointed out that the Polaris had suffered 13 failures in its development, and that was what was being offered as a potential alternative.

These alloy wheels were styled similarly to those of the VH Commodore SL / E wheels ( however using a four spoke / four stud design rather than the Commodore's five ).

Epyx Fast Load allowed programs to load from the Commodore 1541 disk drive approximately five times faster than the normal speed.

SIR, -- I have the honor to report, that at the request of Commodore R. F. Stockton ( who in September last assumed the titled of Governor of California ), I consented to take command of an expedition to this place – capital of the country – and that on the 29th of December, I left San Diego with about five hundred men, consisting of sixty dismounted dragoons, under Captain Turner ; fifty California volunteers, and the remainder of marines and sailors, with a battery of artillery.

At La Mesa, the outgunned Californios killed one American and wounded five others in the force commanded jointly by Commodore Robert F. Stockton and General Stephen Watts Kearny.

In September 1915, he became Commodore and commanding officer of the Second Scouting Group of five light cruisers (,,,, ), leading the group during the Battle of Jutland.

In late 1808, the French Navy despatched five frigates to the Indian Ocean to rendezvous at Île de France under the command of Commodore Jacques Hamelin.

During Teen Week, getting all five words in the second round netted a special bonus prize that was different every time it was won, such as a Commodore 64 computer.

The previous year's Commodore serves as the Fleet Commander and Trustee, and there are five additional Trustees on the Board.

They head South for the Caribbean where the five companies joined Commodore Esek Hopkins of the Continental Navy's first squadron on its first cruise.

There were five escorting English ships under command of Commodore Edwards.

Software Creations created five exclusive games for the Commodore 64 package.

By reducing the number of tracks used ( and thus the capacity ), Commodore could further reduce cost-in contrast to the double-density drives used e. g. in IBM PCs of the day which saved 180 KB on one side ( by using a 40-track format ).

Timothy John Follin ( born 1970 ) is a former video game music composer who has written tracks for a variety of titles and home gaming systems, including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, NES, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Dreamcast and PlayStation.

All the tracks feature synth sounds styled after the sound capabilities of the Commodore 64 home computer and other machines of its day.