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By late 80s the only "enthusiast" C64 users were mostly (and sadly) those who could not afford a better computer. And from what I can remember, even as a kid, t

• vidarh 4y ago
  As an "enthusiast" C64 user in the late 80's, I don't agree. That may have been the case some places, especially in the US where Commodore's sales were dire (not just for the C64). Clearly you're right that some people picked it because it was all they could afford. But I could afford an Amiga, and had one, yet still used my C64 a lot of the time for coding, for demos and for games, and so did many of the people I went to school with at the time. While a lot of people couldn't afford alternatives, a lot of people also could afford them and either had those alternatives but still also used the C64, or could afford something else but had other priorities and saw the C64 price point as just low enough to make it worthwhile. By the time I "retired" my C64 in the 90's, I had two heavily expanded Amiga's. First at that point my C64 saw little enough use to be put aside. From what I saw at the time, that was not unusual - a lot of both Amiga and PC users held on to a C64 for years to scratch itches their other computers did not. When I went to the first The Gathering [1] in '92, while I took one of my Amiga's, there were still plenty of C64's there with people who spent more on peripherals than it would have cost them to buy an Amiga or PC, where it was a clear choice. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gathering_(LAN_party)#Beginning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gathering_(LAN_party)#Begi...