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CREATING THE COMMODORE 64: THE ENGINEERS’ STORY
c64 hardware development
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Tramiel, Jack
MOS Technology
“We looked heavily into the Mattel Intellivision,” recalls Winterble.
The MOS designers freely borrowed ideas that they liked—sprites from the TI machine, collision-detection techniques and character-mapped graphics from the Intellivision, and a bit map from their own VIC-20. They then packed as many of those ideas as the
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aquarius intellivision (computer by intellivsion)
Spectravideo
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CREATING THE COMMODORE 64: THE ENGINEERS’ STORY
Instead, he decided, the chips would go into a 64-kilobyte home computer to be introduced at the
Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas the second week of January 1982. The computer had yet to be designed, but that was easily remedied.
CREATING THE COMMODORE 64: THE ENGINEERS’ STORY