80's Commodore 64 UK commercial.

[trueplayer367]

OMG, i bought one of those when i was 15 years old, 1981/2, one of the most expensive things i ever bought as a young lad, and i spent most of my nights glued to the mad games that were the craze:

rem those crazy lama games 'revenge of the mutant camels' class act...

[CBETelevisionNetwork]

i use my c64 for my homework with a printer using mini office 2 and disk drive. i also have, no joke, 542 games on cassete and disk or somthin like that.

[Furetgarcon]

64k back in the day that was Amazing! I still want one even though the machine would be older then me XD But still you know what. You people mock it now imagine in 20 years how your going to be laughing at 1tb of memory space...

[Theretrogamingroom]

I'm going to cry if that elephant drops the commodore 64. {=-(

[TeamRocketReviews]

@Theretrogamingroom I think he is gonna drop that computer.

[janmansde3dede]

@TeamRocketReviews I think he's gonna play turrican.

[TeamRocketReviews]

@janmansde3dede Or Wizball, IK+, The Last Ninja, Sanxion, Monty On The Run, Spellbound, Master Of Magic, Pirates, Defender Of The Crown, Buggy Boy, Hawkeye, Rambo, Mega Apocalypse, or any of the other greats. C64 is the best, screw all the rest!

[andyli916]

64K... Enormous? NO

[maiki60fps]

@andyli916 64 kilobytes was definitely enormous for a home computer in 1982... for instance the VIC-20 only had 5 kBs and Atari 2600 128 BYTES.... and even today, who can actually fill up those 65536 bytes with anything else than graphics and sound data?

[CUR50R]

great quality... THANX 4 THAT!!!

[LBcoyote]

Be aware that coders (that is "assembly language programmers") are still trying to push the Commodore 64 beyond its limits.

watch?v=yFdjWSaDlIo

watch?v=OLP-poYbfos

watch?v=P1feN5Y9jMo

Those are realtime demos released in 2008 and 2009. Remember C64 has an 8-bit cpu running at about 1 MHz (1.02 MHz NTSC version, 0.985 MHz PAL version) and only 64k of memory.

[elbeaver883]

Remember when 64K was Enornous memory... And portable... Today MicroSD cards are so small that make a 16 GB easily possible to swallow if you don't pay attention and youll never notice... it's smaller than a tictac

[patarciepaul]

The C64 I'm using now to write this is a special one with a web browser. For your information out there most old computers can handle an Internet connection including spectrums and BBCs. The internet's been around since the 60s.

[BearBoi69]

@patarciepaul

nuh-uh, my teacher said the internetz came out just a few years ago and it was invented by Bill Gates and that's why every1 has computers now.

[trelard]

the good old breadbox.. I've owned one since the early 80s and still works fine (although I did have to replace the glass fuse of the board from messing about with the cartridge port at the back by mimicking an Action Replay cart with a paperclip)

[JonnoGM]

I still have my C64 ~ after 26 years years it still works. These were great machines in their day.

I notice some silly comments from people comparing modern day PCs to the C64 ~ and sounding quite smug about it.

If it wasn't for the early computers you wouldn't be enjoying the benefits of those 26 years of PC advancements.

And besides wasn't it Bill Gates who once said "no-one will ever need more than 640k in a PC"

[falkerhard]

I think that was IBM. And then we forever suffered with conventional memory.

[JonnoGM]

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" *was* *definitely* said by Bill Gates. He said it at an early microcomputer trade show in Seattle in mid 1981. It is the Microsoft PR machine that has tried over the years to rewrite history and pretend that Gates never made this asinine comment." - actual entry from wiki

640k PC or whatever - I still reckon the Commodore 64 was the best computer ever!

[falkerhard]

wiki....

[enragedlemur]

muahaha i have 4gb RAM

2.4ghz dual core intel processor

Nvidia 8800 GTX something (good)

all the reccomended settings but i can only run it on medium detail with medium low fps (about 25)

its so hard to run well....

[FGP02]

This was my first computer, I thought it was the coolest thing in the world back then ha!

[FuManBoobs]

I wonder if it would run Crysis...

[yoinhell]

LOL!

[VoidKeeper]

I think it couldn't even Spell the title Crysis at the lowest resolution XD

[patarciepaul]

I am using a C64 now to watch this video and type this message.

[BeamerM3sRule]

cool! they can connect to the internet? How much RAM does it have

[jvdthwip]

why, 64K memory of course! <_<

[windowsifast]

If you are you are poor.

[retroglide2000]

and the government still use them with our data - no wonder it gets lost easily lol.

[clubpenguin777]

64k memory? enourmous my ass

i know someone with a 2.4tb computer

[Toggle64]

2.4tb my ass! in the year 2034 that 2.4tb computer will be something to laugh about. face the fact that the home computers of the 80s - especially the c64 - paved the way for the recent computer technology.

[VoidKeeper]

2.4T is already small considering you can get from 6T to 10T using all the Sata ports and about 4 to 6 disks depending on the motherboard.

[huskykid776]

I got a C16!!

[ericaesop]

you lucky s.o.b i got a c64c and a c128

[Mglosk]

In 20 years the computer you are using now will seem like the commodore does to you now.

I remember getting a commodore and it was a lot more exciting then. Now computers are so old hat. Yawn.

[mraaronyuppy]

haha just 64 k back then?...omg... im so glad we have better technology today,but i guess its the cycle of the computing tech world :)

[chevkoch]

Great commercial for the splendid C64.

[mikeys9608]

Guide to buing a C64

64K? Mabey. 1MHZ? Tempting. 8 BITS? I CAN'T WAIT I WANT!

[asphixmx]

64K of memory...but USABLE, 32K available for BASIC programming. Who remembers the load"$",8... list... load"*",8,1... run... and the fun started! :D

[ScorpionHUT]

Wow. 64 kilobytes of memory. What a day and age we live in.

[orangie84]

Why does everybody keep trying to compare a console from friggin 1982 to a computer in 2008!Do these people realize that was more than 20 years ago?!For god sakes, There was only a handfull of tv channels back then no one had cell phones or cable tv.vcr's were huge bulky expensive machines that recorded without stereo and often sounded like crap. To talk to someone on a computer and be able to see them was something that was only on star trek!So please just calm down and try to understand that.

[iluvphones]

64 are u kidding me so much!

[theblackhand2]

Back in the mid 80's 64k was alot of memory for a personal computer. Also back in the day, a person that had a computer with 1mb of memory was a considered the computer geek of all computer geeks. Even though currently 66k is barely enough for an average sized internet image, the C64 was a great computer for its time.

[orangie84]

I remember that too!

You had to go to the secret underground room where you kept your computer so no one knew you were a computer geek..

One would have to of course switch to the dress code white button down shirt black and white running shoes and black frame glasses with tape on the nose piece before booting up.. Well as it booted up a game anyway.. It took 5 minuets to open a game that you died in like 30 seconds in to the game then the game would freeze so you had to reboot the game!! lol

[theblackhand2]

One of my cousins was like that. His computer had 1 mb of Ram. But what made him really cool was he had what was called a Brinoldi (Sp?) Drive. The disks for this drive looked like a 3.5 in floppy disk but scaled up to the size of an LP record and held a couple of megabytes of data. He copied several humnred C64 games and apps for me.

[UkPoliceDan]

wow iv alwayz wanted an enormas 64k memory :O

[CostyBoy90]

enourmous memory my ass :)) dude that's like the size of a .kpg image made with a cell phone cam :))

wow!

[jorgehernan]

I can understand a comparison to computers from early 80's but not computers from year 2000 onwards.

[jorgehernan]

The commodore 64 was launched january 1982. 1982 PC's didn't have sound didn't have graphics and didn't have any Mb ram only 16kbytes or 64 kbytes ram they were junk if you compare them to the commodore 64.

[jorgehernan]

In 1982 Cell phones were heavier than a TV set.

[orangie84]

and cost more than a car!

[RauzaInnovator]

LOL! 64 KB of RAM!!! It's shit of the millenium!!!

[Crimefighter9mm]

Get real, this was the 80`s. It´s just nostalgia

[Ilovenaples2007]

My parents bought it in 1986 (I was 5 years old). I've spent a lot of time to play to incredible games.

6 years later bought Amiga-600. 4 years later bought my first PC (a 486 SX-33 Mhz processor with 4MB of memory).

What memoirs...

[glasgowfranko1981]

wow! a 64k memory??? jeezusss!!!!

[JayWalkingRecords]

64 kb!

Shit that much, lol.

why arent there ommersials anyore where u can lear about the product?

[DoctorMobius]

ENORMOUS MEMORY! Hah!

[oldienea]

I had one of these, with two additional modified operating systems onboard, two floppy drives with parallel wire for faster copying discs and sure the original one-needle printer that was told to be able to print on a one millimeter steel sheet without to get damaged. It was extremly noisy. But I did not have the accustic coupler modem, that was connected to a standard telephone handset for going online.

[Dog328]

Forgott Playstation 3! This is real Hightec! :D

[enigma067]

Yeah, with an 8-bit microprocessor. It wasn't built to last. Manufacturing costs were inexpensive because Commodore didn't use off the shelf parts in its construction. TMS9900 was a 16 bit microprocessor release in 1976 by Texas Instruments, they were way ahead of all the rest.

[damcorp]

i dont get it they only ever show the key board never the tower or the screen, haha 64k memory now days watches come with more than that

[stubbsy1960]

Hi damcorp, they dont show the tower or the screen because there weren't any. The processor was contained as part of the keyboard housing and also gave RF output to connect to a TV by means of a co-axial cable

[TISAC1]

Lost In Space from '66.....

Alpha Centauri was where they were originally headed :)

[TISAC1]

And..... 100 years from now....... Alpha Centauri in only  7 days travel too :)

YEAH RIGHT!! HOLY WORMHOLE BATMAN!!

[andrewduerden]

just wait. In 2o years time we'll be looking back on our quad cores with 2gb ram and 500gb HD and thinking how we ever managed on such low specs

[DeLorean4]

I have a Timex Sinclair 2068, it's less powerful than the Commodore and it used to be alot less expensive. The thing I dislike about it most is loading programs from cassette, it takes about 10 seconds to load 1 kb worth of text and once it's finished, you generally get Syntax errors and "???????????&%%%????" all across the screen.

[warrenholborn]

64K, lol

My TV remote has more power in it

[AccordionManiac]

I once had an Amiga 500. Now I can't even imagine 64kb ram lol

[bondartherobot]

lol 64k memory

[MikeyS9607]

I remember this!