The $595 price dropped fairly quickly in the US. I remember getting my C64 in 1984 for $199 at Kmart. The 1541 floppy drive was also $199 at that time.
Actually Atari went bankrupt after the Jaguar failure in the early 90s. Yes, there are still atari games made but they are homebrew titles made by 3rd party companies and collectors.
@JakeRyanSimon The facts state the Commodore 64 is still the best selling single personal computer of all time. That means it sold better than Apple II. ;)
What's amazing is that if you look at the production run of the C64 it's clear that the boasting in this commercial is actually an understatement. The C64 remains the best selling single computer model in history.
With today's computer memory, computers are about a million times cheaper. This is incredible! I had an 8 bit Atari at that time. My friend was having a PC and he was amaze by all the things I can do that he cannot do with his big and far more expensive machine.
This is what a computer commercial should be - a side-by-side comparison and an explanation why I should buy their product instead of unfounded mudslinging.
Apple and IBM. Don't make me laugh. IT wasn't either of those two that sank Commodore. The Microsoft monopoly did more to harm them then anything. It was hard to get people to buy Amigas the most amazing computers in the world when they were competing with Microshit Windblowze. And the c64 outsold just about anything in the home market for about 10 straight years. No specific PC model has EVER done that. As well Commodores war of attrition with Atari didn't help matters.
Oh Man! Look at those prices! I had four C64s over the years that they were 'current', and pleased to say I still have one. I never saw a commercial for one in the UK though.
Even through my c64 still works, I have some emulators on my desktop, vice emulator for 64, stellar for atari 2600, freezesms for sega master system, project64 for n64, gens for genesis, and 2 to 3 other emulators. there are many dedicaded emulator/rom sites out there.
I've still got my c64, with a working c64 monitor and 1541 disk drive and c64 printer with games on flobbys.
These are the days when you would stay up half the night playing around with this machine with no cell phone and other stuff like that around etc. These are the old school days when games were all about adventures etc.
Not to mention I use the c64 monitor for my sega master system and the sega joypads would stick in the c64 aswell.
Click my name to view COMMODORE 64 SAMPLES PACK: SFX SOUND EXPANDER IN 'C'. If you click the link below it you are also taken to a special selection of SID sounds and effects taken from famous games and applications.
@kpuc1973 Had a cart slot and nobody really cared too much about LOGO or the crap "turtle" robots. Really the Beeb wasn't a patch on the C64 and I know - I had one.
You are entirely entitled to your opinion. It was an ok games machine in its time, which I acknowledged in my original post. Clearly that's what you looked for and appreciated in the computers of that time.
However, the beeb was in the educational market and had many more things to offer than the turtles (whose batteries were usually flat). Yeah it had fewer games but was still the computer to have.
MIDI-equipped Commodore 64s and SID emulators allow for the composition of sophisticated game-like tunes very quickly. And they don't have to cost much or anything at all.
Free VSTi and the likes of the MSSIAH can do the job for a fraction of the cost of new whizzo software.
Click my name to view TOLERANCE SUITE FOR THE VITRIOLIC ENLIGHTENED!
Jesus I hate you muppets who make the sarcastic comments about how awesome the C64 is and how you must have one. This computer was far more revolutionary in it's day than anything Apple (or any other manufacturer) produces today. Commodore were doing amazng things. I hope you choke on a porno cock.
I still have my 64 with the 1530 datasette and 1541 floppy disk drive. Some of the old cassette games won't load anymore, but the hardware works the same as it did 28 years ago.
Imagine pretty close to zero kids at your school have a computer at home or have used one. The teachers have none. Not even the school. There's nowhere you can loan one except at some "friend's", if you're lucky.
Now imagine your dad bringing one home and it's all yours.
I had a 64 in 1983. It was amazing what it could do on so little memory. I remember using a word processor (with a really slow spell check), playing games, using the print shop and even using a simple animation program over the couple years that I had it. Graphics were crude but light years beyond the non-graphics of IBM or even the Apple II.
@blacbraun Your memory may be better than mine. My workplace had one, Apple II and I thought it was pretty much text only. At one point the C64 (or was it the 128?) got a GUI that I thought was pretty amazing for the day. I think it was a separate piece of of software (interface not OS).
@Drmikekuna Yes that's right about the GUI, it was GEOS and gave most of the functionality of an early Mac on the C64. They later made it for Apple II I think as well. Ya I think the Apple had a variety of graphic boards and some like at your work were probably mono chrome.
Computers where expensive beyond belief based on this point in time but if you lived in the time period by which these computers where in you would more than likely believe you was getting your moneys worth.
@Uvissiet 64K referred to both operating system and program memory. As I recall, the OS tool up about 24K or so of the memory and the rest was dedicated to programming.
@CoolDude6182 Actually, you could be considered a moron because you have no idea what you are talking about. The Commodore 64 was a computer that had more programs written for it than any other computer in history.
Useless RAM? Again you are a moron. Read the history lest you make more of a fool of yourself.
64k ... my have we come a long way.. My toaster has more than 64k.. What amazes me is how many games and programs could run withing that.. People back then REALLY knew how to code.. not like today's inflated VB or OOP programmable mess..
No doubt that sloppy programming can nowadays be excused by adding more processors or memory to the mix. You're right, everything feels so bloated. At some point programmers are going to have to take advantage of the hardware rather than just up it.
No doubt that sloppy programming can nowadays be excused by adding more processors or memory to the mix. You're right, everything feels so bloated. At some point programmers are going to have to take advantage of the hardware rather than just up it.
What a great machine, my programming career began on that machine at the tender at of 10. Remember the boucing ball code? LOL I had the Vic 20 too. I think both machines are still in the attic at my parents house.
The commercial is accurate. The IBM PC came with 16K of RAM and wasn't even upgradable to 640K at that time, only 256K. For the base price of $1,565 you didn't get a monitor or even a 5.25" floppy drive. Hard drives weren't even supported at the time.
If you wanted to get a PC at the time with 64K, a monochrome monitor and a floppy drive.. it would set you back nearly $3,000. :)
In response to Oneofthem we knew exactly what memory was bcause we were stuck with 3.5kb of memory when we had vic20's but this was all that was needed, check out Jackpot, Its even better than the C64 version. Dont get get me wrong i had a C64 and loved it but it soon taught you how to program efficiently
You can do both, it have a video-out, but it's common to connect it to the TV, into the antenna sockey, then let the TV scan for channels, it will find the C64 as a channel. Two advice: 1. Turn off tv and C64 before connecting the antenna cable. 2. Never EVER touch the pins on the joystick connectors, even if it's an accident, you can actually electrocute the 6581 chip, which is a very valuable chip today (it's way more expensive now than back then)
It only got better... the PC heyday was in the late 80's to mid 90's... Wing Commander, Police Quest.... King's Quest... Quest For Glory... Space Quest... those were the days... PC games are garbage in comparison. Hell, I even liked the Epyx sports line of games and Bruce Jenner's Decathlon!!!
I bet most people back then really knew what memory was, it was damn expensive stuff, and it was the true limit of that time, people focused more on memory than anything else back then.. Now people don't care, since the stuff is virtually free, and anybody can have gigabytes of ram.
memory was important, but most important was the lowest possible price computer you could afford, with a decent, usable, comfortable keyboard. we take it for granted now, but a lot of keyboards back then were simply unusuable. ie, the pets calculator keyboard, the sinclairs chicklet, , the atari 400 membrane keyboard, etc
It was truly a great time. I am 34 and grew up in the 8bit era, and what a time it was. loading games from cassette was a pain, but looking back at my youth, i wouldnt have it any other way.
Here's a fun comparison... In 1991, I wrote a little TurboC program that draws the Mandelbrot fractal in 640x480 HiColor on a 486DX33; a high-end computer at it's time. It took 33min to process. Just for grins, I rewrote the same program on the C64 in Simon's Basic, but I think it was only 320x200res and black and white. It took 44 hours to process!
i still got it haha!
Toonamik 2 hours ago
@NEdarkoPWNED joking :) i know their memory is really small
plzdonhack 1 month ago
Think we all should thank Commodore for this cool machine. They made our chuldhood and/ or youth!!!
pitbohl 1 month ago
I hear 3d Realms a're porting Crysis to this, now that they've finished Duke Nukem Forever.
afivey 2 months ago
I think Commodore has type wrong , shouldn't it be 16GB instead of 16K XD
plzdonhack 2 months ago
@plzdonhack no, back then the memory was smaller than a a megabyte :O
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reymobilesuit 2 months ago
The $595 price dropped fairly quickly in the US. I remember getting my C64 in 1984 for $199 at Kmart. The 1541 floppy drive was also $199 at that time.
UserError2525 3 months ago
@JakeRyanSimon Thats doing Steve Jobs alot of good now isnt it?
frankmat 3 months ago
Atari still makes games, IBM still has consulting services and Apple still sells computers. Where is Commodore these days?
bryonlape 3 months ago
@bryonlape Commodore makes computers that look just like the old ones, have a built-in emulator and have Core i7 processors. They look awesome.
rinkavideos64 3 months ago
@bryonlape
Actually Atari went bankrupt after the Jaguar failure in the early 90s. Yes, there are still atari games made but they are homebrew titles made by 3rd party companies and collectors.
jcrowley1985 2 months ago
So, $595 TWENTY-NINE years ago for a bread bin with blocky graphics?????
rob424344 3 months ago
@JakeRyanSimon The facts state the Commodore 64 is still the best selling single personal computer of all time. That means it sold better than Apple II. ;)
sableghost 5 months ago
there going to be that price soon, vintage computers are going through the roof on ebay
cdnerds 6 months ago
faster than MAC IIE 1984 and Windows 7!!! ROFL and fuck iPad!!! still getting this in the future!!
danilojrchacon 6 months ago
@BlueIsa7 That's not commodore, it's just some random asshole.
doritostheking 6 months ago
I used to have one of these,it was the first real home gaming computer,the 48k spectrum was poor
jodey1965 7 months ago
i still have its games and data set
faheemboy 7 months ago
you couldn't even.....download anything on that
SuperFluffyCarrot 7 months ago
@SuperFluffyCarrot Yes you could. You could dial into a BBS and download something onto a floppy if I remember right.
thedarkone2134 5 months ago
What's amazing is that if you look at the production run of the C64 it's clear that the boasting in this commercial is actually an understatement. The C64 remains the best selling single computer model in history.
Datan0de 8 months ago
Back in the day, the 64 was the shit.
spiderjerusalem100 8 months ago
Well 64k memory that's huge.
mrdanengland 8 months ago
@mrdanengland In 29 years some one will make you choke on your gigs, with there black cock in your mouth.
bazfanv2 8 months ago
With today's computer memory, computers are about a million times cheaper. This is incredible! I had an 8 bit Atari at that time. My friend was having a PC and he was amaze by all the things I can do that he cannot do with his big and far more expensive machine.
tubetib 8 months ago
Nice legs ! :D
JustAnotherPCGamer 9 months ago
I still have the Commodore 64 that I got for Christmas in 1983. It's funny how the floppy disk drive is actually bigger than the computer.
Vares65 9 months ago
"640K of RAM ought to be enough for anyone." - Bill Gates. Dunno, man...a good game of Space Taxi could be had for a tenth of that.
(then again, Fallout: New Vegas is best enjoyed with 9 gigs and a souped-up video card...)
SimuLord 9 months ago
Loved my C64 and my Amiga 500 =)
They sure did know how to utilize every byte to it's optimum.
tsarrite 9 months ago
Commodore 64 did come back!
Finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/112510/new-commodore-64-nyt#mwpphu-container
howy0udoin 9 months ago
my commodore 1702 monitor will works still works
Larry198s 9 months ago
How I miss seeing PETSCII scrolling at 300 baud...
carsonky 10 months ago
What was that music that Commodore always used in their ads? I'm pretty sure it's Bach, but I don't know the name of the peice.
kallabos 10 months ago
Yes, indeed! I still have mine! :-))
cmMerlin 10 months ago
This is what a computer commercial should be - a side-by-side comparison and an explanation why I should buy their product instead of unfounded mudslinging.
SkyfireTheFox 10 months ago
I found one of these in my store room when I was have a cleanout and I tried pluging it in and it started to smoke :(
ThePCguy13 11 months ago
595 dollars with internet?
pimpakutya 11 months ago
@pimpakutya About 3/4 the cost of Apple with dial-up internet, 28/38 the cost of Apple for a broadband extension card.
jjovereats 11 months ago
@pimpakutya
Use dialup on a public freenet. It works. LOL ROFL. :-)
summer20105707 10 months ago
And the funny part of all this was....Commodore back in those days thought they had IBM and Apple by their 64K throats....
Gee...look who survived?
texasghost 11 months ago
@texasghost
Apple and IBM. Don't make me laugh. IT wasn't either of those two that sank Commodore. The Microsoft monopoly did more to harm them then anything. It was hard to get people to buy Amigas the most amazing computers in the world when they were competing with Microshit Windblowze. And the c64 outsold just about anything in the home market for about 10 straight years. No specific PC model has EVER done that. As well Commodores war of attrition with Atari didn't help matters.
summer20105707 10 months ago
@summer20105707
Judging from your picture on your profile..you must know a lot about computers....lose some weight..lol.
texasghost 10 months ago
@texasghost
I did. That pictures old. I lost about 65 pounds since then.
summer20105707 10 months ago
@texasghost
Its amazing though isn't it? The one that disses somebody elses old picture doesn't dare to post one of their own.
Bwak chicken shit. lol
summer20105707 10 months ago
@texasghost Guess who made bank in the 80s selling crap-tons of those 64k computers? Commodore was the bomb from 1982-1985!
March 20, 2011 2:43 pm
whattheheck1000 10 months ago
Yep the whole computer was build in the keyboard. How times have changed.
Kaynos 1 year ago
i would still pay that much for one now.
floogulinc 1 year ago
@floogulinc drop me a message, I have a couple left over
hell, for $595 I'll even throw in a 1541
aseglkj 1 year ago
@aseglkj haha LOL
floogulinc 1 year ago
The Commodore 64 is one of the best computers ever made.
thecomputerwhiz1 1 year ago
64k for $600!?!? i can get a dual-core with 4gb for less than half of that
JDTV1995 1 year ago
@JDTV1995 moron, lol
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@JDTV1995 this is in 1982 no 2010. You can not compare
escopeta 1 year ago
Oh Man! Look at those prices! I had four C64s over the years that they were 'current', and pleased to say I still have one. I never saw a commercial for one in the UK though.
Hanglands 1 year ago
Even through my c64 still works, I have some emulators on my desktop, vice emulator for 64, stellar for atari 2600, freezesms for sega master system, project64 for n64, gens for genesis, and 2 to 3 other emulators. there are many dedicaded emulator/rom sites out there.
Vox0707 1 year ago
I've still got my c64, with a working c64 monitor and 1541 disk drive and c64 printer with games on flobbys.
These are the days when you would stay up half the night playing around with this machine with no cell phone and other stuff like that around etc. These are the old school days when games were all about adventures etc.
Not to mention I use the c64 monitor for my sega master system and the sega joypads would stick in the c64 aswell.
Vox0707 1 year ago
When I had my C64 I was spending money for games, which gave me lots of fun. Now, I spending money to upgrade my PC b4 play any games.
exploz2 1 year ago
Thats about US$1,400 today
bradmorris67 1 year ago
@R0H4N11 watch?v=wSvryqhyNLg
pgurugp 1 year ago
@pgurugp thx dude ive been racking my brain thx agian
R0H4N11 1 year ago
People could work with 64k an 1 Mhz. Now, you have 1 GB and you're using an 'obsolete' machine! Damn you computer industry!
nicolunacba 1 year ago
Does NE 1 Know what that classical piece is in the background
R0H4N11 1 year ago
@R0H4N11 Bach Invention No 1
Herbarius 1 year ago
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@Herbarius thx dude ive been racking my brain thx agian
R0H4N11 1 year ago
Respond to this video... wait that aint it thx anyway
R0H4N11 1 year ago
Where can I get one? I need to upgrade from my 32K organiser!
AtheistAussie 1 year ago
@AtheistAussie try ebay
Herbarius 1 year ago
@AtheistAussie eBay, any local retro computer shop, you can always get the 128 if there's no 64s.
jjovereats 1 year ago
And in the UK, Acorn already competes well.
jjovereats 1 year ago
Hey thats only 9.748.480$ for 1G :)
Shodan82 1 year ago
it's amazing what u could do with 64k.. it puts to shame these bloated PC's with the gigs of ram
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OnlyGoodCommie 1 year ago
Ah the C64 great machine, not too many interfaces included and mainly used for games. The poor kid's BBC micro.
kpuc1973 1 year ago
@kpuc1973 How is it the poor kid's bbc micro?
the beeb had fuck all for games, and shit graphics and sound.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77
Language Timothy!
It had none of the interfaces that the Beeb came with already built in.
It was cheaper (hence poor kid comment).
Yes it was mainly used for games, which if as a parent you don't give a toss whether it's compatible with your child's education it's spot on.
Let's not kid ourselves that the graphics where super though.
Am I to assume that the 3 month delay in your response is due to the 300 baud Datasette drive loading this page?
kpuc1973 1 year ago
@kpuc1973 Had a cart slot and nobody really cared too much about LOGO or the crap "turtle" robots. Really the Beeb wasn't a patch on the C64 and I know - I had one.
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77 Yeah the beeb had a little slot which was nice.
You are entirely entitled to your opinion. It was an ok games machine in its time, which I acknowledged in my original post. Clearly that's what you looked for and appreciated in the computers of that time.
However, the beeb was in the educational market and had many more things to offer than the turtles (whose batteries were usually flat). Yeah it had fewer games but was still the computer to have.
kpuc1973 1 year ago
@kpuc1973 Wasn't the computer to have at all. Other than networking, what did it do that was so special? Look beige?
richardmaudsley77 1 year ago
@richardmaudsley77 Beige was the colour of the 80s. Think boxy cortina mkVs.
Perhaps it wasn't the computer to have in your area - and you have clearly stated why.
However, elsewhere, indeed it was for the reasons stated.
kpuc1973 1 year ago
I kinda miss Commodore 64. I liked it alot when I was a kid but when it was time to move on to the 21st Century my mother threw it away. :(
Quamlen 1 year ago
lol
pater429 1 year ago
i had a 64 now my screen is thinner than that keyboard
suckafree1973 1 year ago
The best selling computer of all time....for a reason
Unknownboi88 1 year ago
My great Grandmother has one of those...Now all I have to do is figure out how to get it before anyone else figures out its there and working.....
GreenJalopy 1 year ago
That background music...isn't that something from Bach?
pingpongpung 1 year ago
The best-selling computer of all time :)
blajsad 1 year ago
64k was storage rom....not ram. the memory was only 8k back then...
hanrinch 1 year ago
@hanrinch wrong... the RAM was 64k ... the ROM was only 20k...
TheTechnikTube 1 year ago
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MIDI-equipped Commodore 64s and SID emulators allow for the composition of sophisticated game-like tunes very quickly. And they don't have to cost much or anything at all.
Free VSTi and the likes of the MSSIAH can do the job for a fraction of the cost of new whizzo software.
Click my name to view TOLERANCE SUITE FOR THE VITRIOLIC ENLIGHTENED!
TheDustpile 1 year ago
"And Acorn will have to halve its memory and increase its price to compete!" - I guess that's why they didn't mention ALL their competitors...
DdlyHeadshot 1 year ago
Il mio primo!!!!!
marcoi76 1 year ago
LEGEND.
xoen6 1 year ago
wow, fuck my mac book pro, Im getting a commodore bitch!!!!!!!!!
thedjatomix 1 year ago 35
@thedjatomix
Jesus I hate you muppets who make the sarcastic comments about how awesome the C64 is and how you must have one. This computer was far more revolutionary in it's day than anything Apple (or any other manufacturer) produces today. Commodore were doing amazng things. I hope you choke on a porno cock.
SuperCrankyGuy 8 months ago
@SuperCrankyGuy Your name suites you perfectly.
thedjatomix 8 months ago
Who said that the C=64 was dead? The scene is still very much alive, albeit underground. A true legend in the world of computers.
toxicgte 1 year ago
Oh memories.
frankiepdx 1 year ago
I had a Commodore 64. I used it to write college pappers for the first 3 years of college (1985-1987)
EscapeNewJersey 1 year ago
my dad had one of these, but since the 80s all weve got left are the games and the power cable, i want to lern more about this amazing computer
ReeceIsDaWord 1 year ago
@ReeceIsDaWord get one on Ebay and jump over to lemon64 forums. they'll help you out :)
hooker1uk 1 year ago
I still have my 64 with the 1530 datasette and 1541 floppy disk drive. Some of the old cassette games won't load anymore, but the hardware works the same as it did 28 years ago.
1967norway 1 year ago
Imagine pretty close to zero kids at your school have a computer at home or have used one. The teachers have none. Not even the school. There's nowhere you can loan one except at some "friend's", if you're lucky.
Now imagine your dad bringing one home and it's all yours.
1967norway 1 year ago
I had a 64 in 1983. It was amazing what it could do on so little memory. I remember using a word processor (with a really slow spell check), playing games, using the print shop and even using a simple animation program over the couple years that I had it. Graphics were crude but light years beyond the non-graphics of IBM or even the Apple II.
Drmikekuna 1 year ago
@Drmikekuna I love the 64 but come on, graphics were comparable to Apple. IBM CGA however were butt uggly
blacbraun 1 year ago
@blacbraun Your memory may be better than mine. My workplace had one, Apple II and I thought it was pretty much text only. At one point the C64 (or was it the 128?) got a GUI that I thought was pretty amazing for the day. I think it was a separate piece of of software (interface not OS).
Drmikekuna 1 year ago
@Drmikekuna Yes that's right about the GUI, it was GEOS and gave most of the functionality of an early Mac on the C64. They later made it for Apple II I think as well. Ya I think the Apple had a variety of graphic boards and some like at your work were probably mono chrome.
blacbraun 1 year ago
64k...that much memory could fit ONE Firefox extension here.
BoogsterSU2 1 year ago
Commodore should have become the Microsoft of our time.
But mismanagement killed it.
JesusManson323 1 year ago
The C64 is a badass computer
awsomguitarman 1 year ago
$595 Then= $5,950 Now
Computers where expensive beyond belief based on this point in time but if you lived in the time period by which these computers where in you would more than likely believe you was getting your moneys worth.
gunman5550531 1 year ago
I learned Basic, assembly language and C on a Commodore with a cassette tape drive. Still have it, still works great. Fun to see this video, thanks!
jack887 1 year ago
I will go back in time and sell my 80,000,000K memory laptop for $50,000.00. Pound for pound a bargain!
Uvissiet 1 year ago
you mean 8,000,000 K? 80000000 K is 80 GB memory.
whattheheck1000 1 year ago
Did 64K mean operating memory or hard drive space? I was referring to hard drive space. I might have been wrong.
Uvissiet 1 year ago
@Uvissiet 64K referred to both operating system and program memory. As I recall, the OS tool up about 24K or so of the memory and the rest was dedicated to programming.
tomperanteau 1 year ago
@Uvissiet Wouldn't be compatible.
tipoomaster 1 year ago
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CoolDude6182 1 year ago
What? There were a lot of programs available for the C64, more than on any computer in its day.
Believe me you can do a lot with 64kb if you dont code bloatware. ;)
CarolyGen 1 year ago
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CoolDude6182 1 year ago
@CoolDude6182 Actually, you could be considered a moron because you have no idea what you are talking about. The Commodore 64 was a computer that had more programs written for it than any other computer in history.
Useless RAM? Again you are a moron. Read the history lest you make more of a fool of yourself.
tomperanteau 1 year ago
I wish I had a Commodore 64 :,-(
TheMetroidMurderer 1 year ago 2
lol 64k
vegunited06 1 year ago
64k ... my have we come a long way.. My toaster has more than 64k.. What amazes me is how many games and programs could run withing that.. People back then REALLY knew how to code.. not like today's inflated VB or OOP programmable mess..
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No doubt that sloppy programming can nowadays be excused by adding more processors or memory to the mix. You're right, everything feels so bloated. At some point programmers are going to have to take advantage of the hardware rather than just up it.
Exhalent 1 year ago
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@nanohurtz
No doubt that sloppy programming can nowadays be excused by adding more processors or memory to the mix. You're right, everything feels so bloated. At some point programmers are going to have to take advantage of the hardware rather than just up it.
Exhalent 1 year ago
lol "micro computer"
ffinfinity1 2 years ago
$1,200 is still decent for a comp. My comp was more than that in 2007.
whattheheck1000 2 years ago
What a great machine, my programming career began on that machine at the tender at of 10. Remember the boucing ball code? LOL I had the Vic 20 too. I think both machines are still in the attic at my parents house.
chrisnpd 2 years ago
So who broke that coveted 100K memory milestone, HUH?
Uvissiet 2 years ago
The IBM had the possiblity to be extended to 256 or even 640k at the time. Nearly no PC user stuck with the 16k.
VintageJunior 1 year ago
Commodore 64 C= the Choice of a generation! ;o)
Danish4ever77 2 years ago
Is this a famous song? or was it written for the commercial?
16mmDJ 2 years ago
It's classic, composed by Bach I believe.
Mindman111 2 years ago
64 K memory, no way!
lasercult 2 years ago
So many of today's computer engineers and programmers no doubt grew up on this legend.
The C=64's place in history is safe and secure forever.
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Exhalent 1 year ago
@Webins Linus had a VC-20
jjovereats 1 year ago
@jjovereats I thought Linus (if you mean Linus Torvalds) had Sinclair QL... or both?
ZXRulezzz 1 year ago
@Webins Nah, those guys are too old now and gone.
fuckcomments 11 months ago
Awesome video. Keep on with that good work!
mig189189189 2 years ago
IBM had 640K of ram, not 16K! Plus a 10MB hard drive.
mattsprinter 2 years ago
The commercial is accurate. The IBM PC came with 16K of RAM and wasn't even upgradable to 640K at that time, only 256K. For the base price of $1,565 you didn't get a monitor or even a 5.25" floppy drive. Hard drives weren't even supported at the time.
If you wanted to get a PC at the time with 64K, a monochrome monitor and a floppy drive.. it would set you back nearly $3,000. :)
ZoolTool 2 years ago 4
POKE 53281,0
b6gm6n 2 years ago
hehe awesome ;)
critanime 2 years ago
The colon tells it "Command stops here", it's needed if you're in the middle of some text, it's not needed if you're on a blank line though.
DusteDdekay 2 years ago
Actually it was quite the opposite :) It was amazingly cheap compared to it's more expensive, less capable competitors.
DusteDdekay 2 years ago
That was back when computers could only hold what we NEEDED.
Although Youtube can be concidered a necessity, right?
c3section 2 years ago
Bachs invention #13 c64 style...awesome...
xamos26 2 years ago
geht es auch auf deutsch?
KiimiiSternchenO4O7 2 years ago
ahh the good old days think of a memory card and the size of that hahaha
skipdownstairs 2 years ago
In response to Oneofthem we knew exactly what memory was bcause we were stuck with 3.5kb of memory when we had vic20's but this was all that was needed, check out Jackpot, Its even better than the C64 version. Dont get get me wrong i had a C64 and loved it but it soon taught you how to program efficiently
maxeemum 2 years ago
I'm soon getting my uncle's commodore 64, but do u plug it into a TV or is there like a screen for it?
StupidButler 2 years ago
you plug it in the tv
andytheduck123 2 years ago
You can do both, it have a video-out, but it's common to connect it to the TV, into the antenna sockey, then let the TV scan for channels, it will find the C64 as a channel. Two advice: 1. Turn off tv and C64 before connecting the antenna cable. 2. Never EVER touch the pins on the joystick connectors, even if it's an accident, you can actually electrocute the 6581 chip, which is a very valuable chip today (it's way more expensive now than back then)
DusteDdekay 2 years ago
I touched the pins on both my C=128 and Atari 800 and both still work today... perhaps I'm not that conductive? :-)
MXB2001 2 years ago
It's not like it's a 1:1 chance of killing it, but there is certainly a risk to it.
DusteDdekay 2 years ago
It only got better... the PC heyday was in the late 80's to mid 90's... Wing Commander, Police Quest.... King's Quest... Quest For Glory... Space Quest... those were the days... PC games are garbage in comparison. Hell, I even liked the Epyx sports line of games and Bruce Jenner's Decathlon!!!
JimmyB777M 2 years ago
Back when beige was sexy. Well I was only 12.
annoianoid 2 years ago
i bet most people back then didnt have a clue as to what memory was.
0neofthem 2 years ago
I bet most people back then really knew what memory was, it was damn expensive stuff, and it was the true limit of that time, people focused more on memory than anything else back then.. Now people don't care, since the stuff is virtually free, and anybody can have gigabytes of ram.
DusteDdekay 2 years ago
memory was important, but most important was the lowest possible price computer you could afford, with a decent, usable, comfortable keyboard. we take it for granted now, but a lot of keyboards back then were simply unusuable. ie, the pets calculator keyboard, the sinclairs chicklet, , the atari 400 membrane keyboard, etc
cobrachoppergirl 2 years ago
My how things have changed
phyrstjedi 2 years ago
It was truly a great time. I am 34 and grew up in the 8bit era, and what a time it was. loading games from cassette was a pain, but looking back at my youth, i wouldnt have it any other way.
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chewbarf 2 years ago
Ex owner! :( Lost in war: 1992-1995.
Great personal computer... in that time, great company
Commodore
...:: C=64 ::...
AR147BiH 2 years ago
Hard to believe this was revolutionary at the time
Sonicnathan1 2 years ago
Commore 64 is the number 1 selling computer of the 80's!
Noraschool9 2 years ago
lol, my gameboy advance is more powerful than this.
fruitbag3455 2 years ago
LOL beat psp!!!! haha
ashthepokemonmaster 2 years ago
fruitbag3455 - Only because it sucked the teet of the C64 dry.
97channel 2 years ago
im getting this baby friday 20$ ;)
taltigolt 2 years ago
"Stay a while.... Stay....... Foreverrrr!"
The ever classic Impossible Mission!
IsawaMitaka 2 years ago
IsawaMitaka:
thankx...didn't thought that after 2 years there would be an answer :))))
tausendstein 2 years ago
Along with the AD&D Gold Box series from SSI, Broderbund's RoBB was my favourite C-64 game.
IsawaMitaka 2 years ago
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nintendofreak1230 2 years ago
This is babyish and cute :-) I had the mindbenders pack and bought mine circa 1991
LIVERNIL723 2 years ago
Here's a fun comparison... In 1991, I wrote a little TurboC program that draws the Mandelbrot fractal in 640x480 HiColor on a 486DX33; a high-end computer at it's time. It took 33min to process. Just for grins, I rewrote the same program on the C64 in Simon's Basic, but I think it was only 320x200res and black and white. It took 44 hours to process!
BitNibbleByte 2 years ago
BitNibbleByte: You should compare it to a PC that was created in 1980 as well. Again just for fun ;)
ancalimonungol 2 years ago
I have a commedore 64 and a Atari 600 XL and also an Atari 1050 sitting next to me. can anybody tell me anything about them?
67mustangreg 2 years ago