Re:The Commodore 65
by orionblastar on Monday February 16, 2015 @10:20PM
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It is just a prototype they only made 50 or 200 of them.
It is backwards compatible with the Commodore 64 but runs a different CPU that runs a 3.4Mhz that can go into 6510 mode. Then a Vic-III chip that has graphics like the Amiga but backward compatible with the Vic-II chip in the C-64.
Had they made the Commodore 65 instead of the Commodore 16 and Plus 4 it would have done well. But by 1990 the 8-bit market was bottoming out as the PC Clones took over.
It is backwards compatible with the Commodore 64 but runs a different CPU that runs a 3.4Mhz that can go into 6510 mode. Then a Vic-III chip that has graphics like the Amiga but backward compatible with the Vic-II chip in the C-64.
Had they made the Commodore 65 instead of the Commodore 16 and Plus 4 it would have done well. But by 1990 the 8-bit market was bottoming out as the PC Clones took over.