The C64 was the Mac of its day
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Posted: 28/06/2008 1:06 AM
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I remember looking with pity and disdain at my PC owning friends who thought they were on the cutting edge because they owned an over-priced, under-featured PC. How sad, they had green monitors compared to my 16 coloured toy, they had a monotonous speaker that beeped when it booted and I had a 3-voice Sid chip that could play Mozart! They had to spend $100 for a joystick and port while I had two joysticks with a paddle option that I could actually make games for by simple programming! How freakish the world felt when my C64 magazine expired before my subscription did and the obligation was fulfilled by some PC rag. What odd spell did Bill Gates cast upon the mindless hoardes to make them favour his own version of mediocrity over the whiz-bang protoges that promised us a glorious future with their stunning prototypes. Reality is truly stranger than science fiction.
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Posted: 29/06/2008 8:06 PM
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A very nice, little review.
I always get a little misty when thinking back to those glory days when Commodore seemed to be able to do no wrong. Such a shame they failed so disastrously.
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Posted: 30/06/2008 11:06 AM
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"PROPRIETARY" Hardware and software from Commodore and Apple are what gave Bill and his cohorts the foot in the door of global dominance !
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Posted: 01/07/2008 12:07 PM
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No it wasn't. Tying his OS, DOS to IBM x86 architecture, IBM not patenting the x86 architecture because they felt it was already obsolete, and rubbish, which it was, creating a user-dependence on DOS and later windows, systematically buying out competing technologies and closing them down, destroying Netscape by giving Explorer away for free but tying it to the OS, is what did it.
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Posted: 01/07/2008 1:07 PM
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I wish I had had that sort of business balls when I was younger ;-)
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