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9 unusual facts about Commodore International


Bordan Tkachuk

Bought out by Commodore International, he then became their Australian sales and marketing director, rising to become managing director.

Commodore 8280

The Commodore 8280 were dual unit 8" floppy disk drives for Commodore International computers.

Composite monitor

From the late 1970s stand-alone composite monitors came into use, including by the Apple II, Commodore VIC 20/64/128, Atari, the IBM PC with CGA card, some computers compatible with it, and other home and business computers of the 1980s.

Constantin Sotiropoulos

Constantin Sotiropoulos is most famous for being the co-creator (with François Lionet) of AMOS BASIC, a popular beginners programming language for the Commodore Amiga home computer, and STOS BASIC on the Atari ST.

Dieter Hoeneß

After retiring from active play, Hoeneß first took on a position as PR manager with computer manufacturers Commodore International, which were then a major sponsor of Bayern Munich.

Intellifont

In 1991, Commodore released AmigaOS 2.04, which contained native support for the format.

Keef the Thief

The Commodore Amiga and Apple IIGS versions of the game were reviewed in 1990 in Dragon #157 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.

Kelly Sumner

Kelly Sumner was the managing director of Commodore UK, the UK subsidiary of Commodore International, during the early 1990s.

Perry Kivolowitz

In 1985, he co-founded Advanced Systems Design Group which built hardware for the Commodore Amiga.


Amiga 500

The Amiga 500 - also known as the A500 (or its code name "Rock Lobster") - was the first “low-end” Commodore Amiga 16/32-bit multimedia home/personal computer.

History of the AmigaOS 4 dispute

After Commodore filed for bankruptcy in 1994, its name and IP rights, including Amiga, were sold to Escom.

MicroRhythm

MicroRhythm along with MicroDisco, MicroLatin, MicroVocals and MicroTuned was part of a set of music creation software (then advertised as games) developed by Simon Pick (developer of Daredevil Dennis and Rod Land on NES) for Commodore 64/128.

Motorola 68881

Notable computers including 68881 or 68882 FPUs included the Sun 3 from Sun Microsystems, the Macintosh II family of computers from Apple Computer, the NeXT Computer, parts of the Atari family (Mega STE, TT and Falcon030) and the Commodore Amiga 3000.

Non-maskable interrupt

Commodore also connected the MOS Technology 6526 CIA #2 in the C64 and C128 to the processor's NMI line, which was part of the means by which software emulation of the 6551 ACIA was accomplished.

Okimate 10

The Okimate 10 by Oki Electric Industry was a low-cost 1980s color printer with interface "plug 'n print" modules for Commodore, Atari, IBM PC, and Apple Inc. home computers.

Simons' BASIC

Written by 16-year-old British programmer David Simons in 1983, it was distributed by Commodore in cartridge format.


see also

A1000

Amiga 1000, a personal computer manufactured by Commodore International

Amiga Zorro III

Designed by Commodore International lead engineer Dave Haynie, the 32-bit Zorro III replaced the 16-bit Zorro II bus used in the Amiga 2000.