They're back ....

Bifta · 15-03-2004, 09:44

http://www.commodore-media.com/index.php

Freaky!

Stuartbe · 15-03-2004, 09:47

I loved my c64...

I can remember my dad buying the printer and the disk drive for it. To think that the cpu in the disk drive was faster then the one in the pc

All used to connect together via 5pin din plugs if I remember correctly.....

I used to get 3 games on each disk - we had a little box called " freeze frame " It was cool

erol · 15-03-2004, 10:07

seems like a wierd way to market cd disks to me ?

Ramrod · 15-03-2004, 10:09

The Science Museum has a vic-20 and tape drive on display in it's history of the home exhibition

Gareth · 15-03-2004, 10:26

bah.... was a Speccy fan as a kid, and even when I was a bit older I couldn't afford an Amiga so had to make-do with an Atari ST instead.

(interesting link though ...thanks

)

danielf · 15-03-2004, 10:35

I was kind of expecting another thread about piles here

Xaccers · 15-03-2004, 10:36

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Originally Posted by danielf

I was kind of expecting another thread about piles here

You aren't alone there!

Am I the only one here old enough to have owned a C64, but never actually having one?

I had a BBC B+ and a XT 8088

Bifta · 15-03-2004, 10:42

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

You aren't alone there!

Am I the only one here old enough to have owned a C64, but never actually having one?

I had a BBC B+ and a XT 8088

I had a ZX80, 81, Vic 20 and C64 all around the time of their respective releases, that's what you get with a father "in the trade". I'll never forget the ZX81, I remember typing in an "organ" program from some Sinclair magazine, it entailed detuning the TV slightly and each key play the interference at a different pitch

15-03-2004, 10:44

I can`t see anything on that site that suggests that this is strictly anything to do with the old Commodore, looks to me that they are justing using the name the logo to flog optical media.

Bifta · 15-03-2004, 10:53

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Originally Posted by dr wadd

I can`t see anything on that site that suggests that this is strictly anything to do with the old Commodore, looks to me that they are justing using the name the logo to flog optical media.

It goes through the entire history of Commodore on the site, presumably there wasn't another Commodore with Jack Tramiel as chairman?

erol · 15-03-2004, 11:03

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Originally Posted by Xaccers

Am I the only one here old enough to have owned a C64, but never actually having one?

I had a BBC B+ and a XT 8088

mine in order

(matel intellivision)
Atari 400
Atari 600xl
Atari ST
Amiga 1200

However at computer club at school (wasn't even a subject back then) had access to all sorts - pet, apple2, acorn atom, bbc etc, zx81, spectrum and others.

Then later in life I worked for a while for Domark (UK games company) so had access to 'all' the platforms both console and PC.

Bifta · 15-03-2004, 11:07

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Originally Posted by erol

mine in order

(matel intellivision)
Atari 400
Atari 600xl
Atari ST
Amiga 1200

However at computer club at school (wasn't even a subject back then) had access to all sorts - pet, apple2, acorn atom, bbc etc, zx81, spectrum and others.

Then later in life I worked for a while for Domark (UK games company) so had access to 'all' the platforms both console and PC.

Man .. I remember Domark!

15-03-2004, 11:12

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Originally Posted by Bifta

It goes through the entire history of Commodore on the site, presumably there wasn't another Commodore with Jack Tramiel as chairman?

I can write the entire history of Commodore on a bit of toilet paper, doesn`t mean that the Commodore of old has anything to do with it. Plus given the fact that it doesn`t seem to mention any of the people involved with the most recent serious attempt to revive Commodore (more strictly Amiga), nor their recent projects does not suggest to me that this is any thing to do with Commodore proper.

From what I can glean from the information on the site, this seems at the very most to be something to do with Gateway cherry-picking parts of the Commodore IP when the went bankrupt.

threadbare · 15-03-2004, 11:58

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Originally Posted by dr wadd

I can write the entire history of Commodore on a bit of toilet paper, doesn`t mean that the Commodore of old has anything to do with it. Plus given the fact that it doesn`t seem to mention any of the people involved with the most recent serious attempt to revive Commodore (more strictly Amiga), nor their recent projects does not suggest to me that this is any thing to do with Commodore proper.

From what I can glean from the information on the site, this seems at the very most to be something to do with Gateway cherry-picking parts of the Commodore IP when the went bankrupt.

Escom orriginaly bought commodore to sell branded media and printers which they did actually release. I think when gateway sold Amiga to the pheonix consrtium (or amino or something?) they sold just about everything but shrewdly kept the commodore name as they realised what escom did before them, and that was commodore had an incredible brand loyalty.

i miss my miggy

erol · 15-03-2004, 12:14

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Originally Posted by Bifta

Man .. I remember Domark!

Yep, 'we' brought you such classics (?) (at my time there) as

MIG29
Escape from the planet of the robot monsters
Campionship Manager (sent in 'on spec' by the collyer brothers on a disk! now one of the longest running game franchises ever)
and many others too.

Sadly Domark is no more having been subsumed into Eidos

They were good times for a while - not many offices had the latest Atari Coin-op machines in them, where you were encouraged to play them by your bosses!