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They could have used the effort that went into the 128 to beef up the VICII with a TED-like pallette and have a brilliant last C-64 computer to show. The Comm
by einr 4y ago
They could have used the effort that went into the 128 to beef up the VICII with a TED-like pallette and have a brilliant last C-64 computer to show.
The Commodore 65 was going to be that, kind of. It really is a shame that it never saw the light of day. At least now we have the MEGA65 for some alternate history retrocomputing.
- masswerk 4y agoI think, the C65 is another overrated story. It wouldn't have hit the market before 1992, which was then i486/25MHz territory, the same year that Windows 3.1 and Photoshop 2.5 were introduced. (On the other side of the spectrum, it also the year that the cheap famiclone home computers came about, which totally failed to make an impression on US or western European markets, despite their capability to run NES games out of the box. Well, there were probably legal issues involved, as well, but there wasn't even an interested gray market for them.)
- einr 4y agoWell yes, I'm not arguing that it would have been a commercial success (nor did Commodore think so, apparently), just that it looked like it would have been a fantastic computer in and of itself and a worthy swansong for the Commodore 8-bit line.