Nice Commodore site...

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:29 am

...that I found today:
http://www.commodore.ca/

Very much interesting stuff, for example history and pictures etc...

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:25 am

http://zimmers.net/cbmpics/index.html

Check out the vic-21!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:27 am

ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/vic20/

Includes all the "lost" funet roms...

/Anders

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:48 am

Oh yes, VIC-21. I wonder why Commodore didn't sell bundles of C64 and 1541 under the product name C64D after the C128D had been introduced. Maybe the market was more observant by then.

But Rick Melick's interviews I had not read before. How about the paragraph about Bob Metcalfe held a lecture on Ethernet for the VIC-20 development team, in the middle of their process? Exactly how cool had it been if the VIC not only had been the first affordable colour home computer (cmp. TI/99 and Atari 400), but also had included some sort of early Ethernet interface? It is truly mind boggling.

http://zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/vic/BillSeiler.html

Bacon · Post by **Bacon** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 12:06 am

carlsson wrote:But Rick Melick's interviews I had not read before. http://zimmers.net/cbmpics/cbm/vic/BillSeiler.html

They come from Melick's VIC-20 tribute page, one of the oldest VIC-20 pages on the net. Amazingly it's still around, although it hasn't been updated since 1996

That part about the competing teams got me thinking. If the PET guys' ideas hadn't won, I probably wouldn't have had a VIC (my parents would never have bought a video game), and consequently no C64 and no Amiga. I'd probably have been a TI99 or Spectrum user instead

carlsson · Post by **carlsson** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:34 am

On the other hand, it made less sense for Commodore to sell a video game than a home computer, so maybe the MOS team was easy to talk into extending the concept. Commodore later thought about the video game market with the UltiMAX (and of course much later 64GS and CD32).