When I was four years old, my father took me out to a local electronics store and said we were buying a computer. OK, I thought, not really knowing why that was such a big deal. Twenty-seven years later, I now know it was one of the most significant days of my life.
That day we brought home a Commodore 64, my first ever video game system, the device which first kindled my lifelong passion for video games and which, ultimately, has led to who I am and where I am today.
So it's sad to learn today that Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore International, has passed away at the age of 83.
Commodore’s attempt at competing with Apple’s newly introduced Macintosh - 1985’s Amiga was an impressive piece of kit for its time!
Wow that was a poor story. The Amiga CD32 sold amazing in the UK but its issues in the USA stopped them from releasing it over there and was the file blow to Amiga that is only a part of the story like but the USA version of the A32 are like gold dust.
I really regret not keeping hold of my Cd32 now. Despite the horrible pad controller, once you had a joystick and mouse connected, it was a great bit of kit. But by that time it faced much stiffer competition.
I still have mineand get it out every now and again. For me its abit like the dreamcast ahead of its time with some amazing games but the company was not in a good shape when the console came out.
Really poor article that does not render justice to that fantastic machine. The architecture description is limited to its MC68000 Proc, ahaha! This guy does not have any clue about this machine. Where are the co-pro, Lisa, Agnes, AGA,...? The Multi tasking OS ??? Fantastic sound???? Ridiculous article that does not render justice to a beautiful beast from the past.
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Is quite sad, he in a way got me into video games too.
My first system was a Commodore 64.
RIP Jack.
I played Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision, and the TI before I had a C64 but I had a ton of good gaming memories on that system. Mail Order Monsters, Karateka, and Bard's Tale would probably be my top 3 on that system. All on 5 1/4" floppy disks!
I started with Atari, arcades and Game%Watch, but yeah, I loved C64. Had 100's of games.
Last Ninja, where for art thou?
I never had the 64 I had the 16 and loved it and I was using the Amiga 32 until 2000 when I moved to a pc as I was starting collage and the Amaiga had finally died with Amiga Format pulling out too.
I still have my Amiga 32 which comes out every now and then and I have to say it is my favourite gaming device out of all the ones I have had and ive had alot.
Thank you for getting me into gaming and RIP.