Commodore C16 8 Bit Home Computer System Review

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A system review of the Commodore C16 8 bit vintage home computer.

Games videos for the C16 can be found in my C16 playlist
http://www.youtube.com/user/SteveBenway#p/c/EA1DA8C2ADB626DC

The C16 page on my website is at
http://www.retrogamingcollector.com/Retro-Computers/CommodoreC16.html
Where among other things, you will find links to buy the C16 from ebay... should you be daft enough to actually want one.

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[gollumondrugs]

Steve, watch this from 7.00 with audio transcribe on!

[SteveBenway]

@gollumondrugs Bwahahahaha!!! Thanks for drawing my attention to that. I laughed my head off :D

[DannyRaw]

Never seen one of these working. I have 4 (and two plus/4's). None of them work. TED chips knack up really easily.

[SteveBenway]

@DannyRaw I have a Plus 4, and true to form, the TED chip on that is dead.

[IrenicusFTW]

Have you read the book: Commodore (A company on the edge) by Brian Bagnall? Highly recommended, it is the whole history, highly detailed and talks about all the famous chips and people. First book ends when Tramiel is booted and second book is supposed to come next year.

[SteveBenway]

@IrenicusFTW I haven't, and haven't heard about it. Thanks for the info.

*logs onto Amazon* :D

[Kahanyah144]

i had one, shitty computer. could barely do anything wiht it except create some 20 line bullshit programs lol

[MMSZoli]

@DannyRaw Hi, they tend to die dute to two reasons:

TOp1: due to joysticks. You have the joy adaptor, and connect an advanced DB9 joystick with Autofire On: it directly linked to TED IC inputs, and quickly kills it.lack of protection in the circuitry.

Top2: overheat: some guys measured in plus/4 hotter TED, and by implementing a spartan alu chipset cooler, it became significantly cooler.

I have 3 working and 3 non working ones. So my rate it better, haha!

[Theshadowsnose]

Hi Steve!

The 116 was available here in Germany and I think, only here. They were dirt cheap, when they were sold off. They cost as much as 10 games from the 1.99 range. The C16 cost as much as 10 games from the 2.99 range. Both bundled with a 1531 cassette recorder.

I got a C116 on a local flea market for 15 Euros with about 15 games on tape. I made a video about it and put it up here on YouTube some months ago.

If you can stand my terrible german accent, maybe you want to watch it...

[Bruce777999]

Was always my fav when it came to looks - love the dark casing.

[Redline748]

this thing pissed me off as I had a plu4 but 99% of software was dumbed down so it would run on this too, thing was I didnt want a plus4 in the 1st place but was bought for me, my mom thinking she got me a C64 for a bargain price. I got a C64 later on

[Rakborsten]

back in the days i had c64, then i sold it and bought a nes instead, but later on i changed the nes for a c64, but then i had a darn error with it, i could not play the majority of games, the game could load and start, but when you touched the joystick in the game, it errorfreezed with the screen all messed up. What was wrong?