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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)
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CREATING THE COMMODORE 64: THE ENGINEERS’ STORY
In November 1981, the chips were complete. The original intent had been a game machine, but at this point the personal-computer market was beginning to look promising.
CREATING THE COMMODORE 64: THE ENGINEERS’ STORY