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Housing with keyboard locked on, standing Rear Two Commodore SX-64 computers showing their SX-64 BASIC 2.0 startup screens. (Note the white screen background color.) The Commodore SX-64, also known as the Executive 64, or VIP-64 in Europe, is a portable, briefcase/suitcase-size "luggable" version of the popular Commodore 64 home computer and the first color portable computer.
^ A modification could be made to older model Commodore 64 motherboards to piggy-back a secondary SID sound chip to the original SID chip. The resulting modification enabled the Commodore 64 to play sound in 6-channel stereo with the appropriate software. ^ The Commodore 64 had documented cartridge port pins which could be crossed to achieve a ...
The Plus/4 featured a compact plastic casing with a fully-fledged keyboard, although the cursor and function keys were made of rubber. It had an advanced BASIC version 3.5, which made its software incompatible with the Commodore 64. Despite its potential, the Plus/4 was criticized for its lack of compatibility with the C64 and its deficiencies ...
The full-size THEC64 was released in 2019 in Europe and Australia, and was scheduled for release in November 2020 in North America. The console and built-in keyboard are built to scale with the original Commodore 64, including a functional keyboard. Enhancements include VIC-20 emulation, four USB ports, and an upgraded joystick.
The Commodore 64, however, used a slightly re-designed, heavy upper-case font, essentially a thicker version of the PET's, in order to avoid color artifacts created by the machine's higher resolution screen. The C64's lowercase characters are identical to the lowercase characters in the Atari 8-bit computers font (released 2.75 years earlier).
Creative Micro Designs, Inc. (CMD) was founded in 1987 by Doug Cotton and Mark Fellows.It is a computer technology company which originally developed and sold products for the Commodore 64 and C128 8-bit personal computers.
The Amstrad CPC (short for "Colour Personal Computer") is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the ZX Spectrum; it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and the German-speaking parts of Europe, and also Canada.
Also backwards compatible with the Commodore 64, [13] the MEGA65 [14] [15] features Commodore 65 compatible hardware [13] recreated in FPGA and supports newer connectors such as HDMI, MicroSD cards and LAN. [16] In September 2020, the pre-release developer-kit (r3) has sold out and in total 100 systems were delivered by the end of 2020. [17 ...