best videogame / chiptune / 8bit music please follow: www.twitter.com and like: www.facebook.com the c64 remix source: remix.kwed.org The Commodore 64, commonly called C64, C=64 (after the graphic logo on the case) or occasionally CBM 64 (for Commodore Business Machines), or VIC-64,[2] was an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by the long defunct manufacturer Commodore International. Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595.[3][4] Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore PET machines, the C64 features 64 kilobytes (65536 bytes) of RAM, hence the name, and had favourable sound and graphical specifications when compared to well-known contemporary systems such as the Apple II, particularly as the price was well below that demanded by Apple. During the C64's lifetime, sales totalled between 12.5 and 17 million units, making it the best-selling single personal computer model of ! all time.[5][6] For a substantial period of time (1983--1986), the C64 dominated the market with between 30% and 40% share and 2 million units sold per year,[7] outselling the IBM PC compatibles, Apple Inc. computers, and Atari 8-bit family computers. Sam Tramiel, a later Atari president and the son of Commodore's founder, said in a 1989 interview "When I was at Commodore we were building 400000 C64s a month for a couple of years."[8] Part of its success was because it was sold in retail stores instead ...
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