The Amiga provided a significant upgrade from 8-bit computers, such as the Commodore 64, and the platform quickly grew in popularity among computer enthusiasts.

With hindsight, the machine lacked the RAM ( a typical program would need to fit in only around 20 kB once display memory is subtracted ) and processing power to take on the prevailing Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64.

Whilst it may not have been as popular as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amstrad CPC, it did sell in sufficient numbers to ensure that new software was being produced right up until the early 1990s.

Although not as well supported by the biggest software publishers as rivals like the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a good range of games were available for the Electron.

It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe.

The expedition, consisting of the Grafton, 70 guns, Elizabeth, 74 guns, Europe, 64 guns, and the Iphigenia frigate, sailed on 16 January 1783, under the command of Commodore Robert Kingsmill.

Finally, dropping prices of home computers like the Commodore 64 had caused many to believe that buying a home computer was a better investment because it provided more detailed gameplay and could be used for other purposes such as word processing.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

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

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

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 64 and Spectrum versions were made by UK-based Firebird Software, and most of the other computer ports by US-based Novalogic.

Category: Commodore 64 games

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.

In 1983, the 1541 switched to the familiar gray case and a front label reading simply " 1541 " along with rainbow stripes to match the Commodore 64.

There were at least one or two " home remedy " software products on the market during the heyday of the 1541 drive and Commodore 64 computer that could be used to re-align the drive yourself and save a costly trip to a repair center and down time.

As implemented on the VIC-20 and Commodore 64, CBM DOS could transfer only about 300 bytes per second-compare the 300 baud data rate of the Commodore cassette storage system-which translated to about 20 minutes to copy one disk — 10 minutes of reading time, and 10 minutes of writing time.

Category: Commodore 64

** 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

He did, however, condemn recent threats from the Military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, to declare martial law and arrest members of the present government if the bill is passed.

Only three of these ( Sabre Wulf, Underwurlde and Nightshade ) were released on the other major platform of the time, the Commodore 64, however a series of C64-exclusive titles were published by Ultimate:

The port never recovered ; however, the city distinguished itself in the war effort, as Middletown's Commodore Thomas Macdonough led American forces to the victory on Lake Champlain in 1814 which ended British hopes for an invasion of New York.

At $ 669 and up, however, the PCjr cost more than twice as much as the Commodore 64 and the Atari 8-bit family, while inferior to both and the Apple IIe for games ; its price was close to that of the Coleco Adam, but the Adam also included a tape drive, a printer, and software.

The Commodore 64 manual mentions the machine by name, suggesting that Commodore intended to sell the machine internationally ; however, it is unclear whether the machine was ever actually sold outside of Japan.

Commodore, however, used MS BASIC's four-byte mantissa, which made their BASIC much more adapted for business than most other BASICs of the era.

On 2 May 2005, however, Commodore Bainimarama agreed to make a statement to the police about his own role in Mara's resignation.

In the United States, however, disk drives quickly became standard, despite the Commodore 1541 floppy drive costing roughly 5 times as much as a Datasette.

The latter, however, was not released on the ZX Spectrum due to disappointing sales of the original NES version, although a version for the Commodore 64 was finished but never released.

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 ).

In 1990 however, the Sierras were again looking strong but lost to the HRT Holden Commodore of Allan Grice and Win Percy.

Serious Commodore 64 business users, however, were drawn to GEOS.

Not all Commodore 64 users had modems however.

Its digitised sounds, however, won praise from Commodore Users Gary Penn.

By the late 1990s, however, these publications were discontinued, although Loadstar had a continued life as an independent company catering to a cult following of Commodore buffs.

Originally the expedition was first organized under Commodore Jones, however he subsequently resigned the station.

He did however co-drove a Holden Commodore for Rod Nash Racing alongside Tony D ' Alberto in the 2008 Phillip Island 500 and the Bathurst 1000 endurance races.

Additional titles of Fleet Surgeon and Historian are assigned by the Commodore, however, they are not members of the Board of Trustees.

for the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 however was included as a last minute replacement for Wonderland Dizzy.

He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.

The Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors was used in all Amiga models from Commodore.

Applesoft was similar to ( and indeed had a common code base with ) Microsoft BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines.

Front view of the most common version of the Commodore 1541 disk drive, with open disk slot: this version uses a Newtronics drive mechanism, and the rotating lever is used to hold the disk in place

When used together with the C128, it implements faster burst mode access than the Commodore 1571 5¼ " drive.

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.

* Consolidated Aircraft Commodore, a flying boat used for passenger travel in the 1930s

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.

Commodore obtained an infusion of cash from Gould, which Tramiel used beginning in 1976 to purchase several second-source chip suppliers, including MOS Technology, Inc., in order to assure his supply.

Seeing a chance to gain some leverage, Tramiel immediately used the contract to counter-sue Commodore through its new subsidiary, Amiga, on August 13.

This " interpretation " is what Tramiel used to counter-sue, and sought damages and an injunction to bar Amiga ( and effectively Commodore ) from producing any resembling technology.

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 a military rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral.

Although the 1570 was compatible with the Commodore 64, the C64 wasn't capable of taking advantage of the drive's higher-speed operation, and when used with the C64 it was little more than a pricier 1541.

The 1571 featured a " burst mode " when used in conjunction with the C128 ( although not when used with the Commodore 64 or VIC-20 ).

However, booting CP / M was only supported from disks in the standard Commodore GCR format ; the MFM formats could only be used once the system was running.

Because this internal 1571 does not have an unused 8-bit input / output port on any chip, unlike most other Commodore drives, it is not possible to install a parallel cable in this drive, such as that used by SpeedDOS, Dolphin DOS and some other fast third-party Commodore DOS replacements.

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 ).