Commodore 64 Story - The King of Computers! - Gaming History Documentary 

Did you find them enjoyable? I'm interested as you grew up in a different era, one of playstation, super Nintendo and xbox

@@MegaasAlexandros I had a blast with it! Like I said, it was used for every single thing! Games. Homework. Shopping lists. Everything.

Hopefully, it will keep it going. Forever.

Now it needs to come back here. I've heard it's been in jolly old England, now for it's return.

I think that from a technology perspective that crown might belong to the Atari 8-bit range but the C64 certainly blazed the trail for gaming-specific hardware due to its incredible success.

@@Daz555Daz The Atari computers were pretty cool, but the sound hardware of the C64 put it on another level.

@Debiruman1666 & @Daz555 - For music, the C64 was the best but the Atari wasn't that bad. The same goes for graphics. Here's some of the highlights of the C64 : The graphics chip, VIC-II, features 16 colors, eight hardware sprites per scanline (enabling up to 112 sprites per PAL screen), scrolling capabilities, and two bitmap graphics modes. For graphics, the Atari wins over the C64. Now let's look at the Atari 8-bit family : 256 colors, 4 8-bit sprites as well as 4 2-bit missile sprites (that can be used together to make another 8-bit sprite). The sprites have three possible widths and vertically it has the height of the screen. Sprites can also be sliced into may different sprites using display list interrupts - each "new" sprite can have its own width, color, and horizontal position. Scrolling is easier to do on the Atari. While both machines have registers that can move a scan line horizontally by 1 pixel, on the C64 when the register reaches its limit (7 bits), one has to reset the register and then move all the scrolling screen memory which means thousands of bytes. The Atari has the same sort of register but when it reaches its limit you reset the register but only have to increment the screen address points to memory which means only updating a few hundred bytes of memory. The same is true for vertical scrolling. The Atari has 5 character modes and 10 bitmapped graphics modes that can be mixed together.

@@Gamevet Agree 100%. The C64 has the edge on sound. What's incredible about the hardware on the Atari 8-bit range though is that is was released nearly 3 years before the C64. It was trailblazing to have such custom game specific hardware in home computer. C64 remains my favourite 80s micro though. Sits alongside the ZX Spectrum as the defining machines of that era for me.

@@Daz555Daz I wanted one of those Atari 400/800s as a kid. It wasn't until I'd played a friend's C64, that I totally wanted that instead. I did get to play a friend's Atari 800 XL in the late 80s and had thought that it was really cool.

Me too!

Awesome comment

Agreed, This channel needs to be seen by more people. I don't understand why it hasn't more subscribers than it does. It's better produced and presented than many other Retro channels.

LOL I'm 33 years old, I'm not Gen Z, I was 10 when the Internet really became a thing. And you do realise that the biggest cultural gap between any generation is between Millennials and Gen Z due to the reasons you've just stated. My upbringing probably wasn't that far off yours, I mean, flares and platform shoes and Star Wars were all massive in the 90s!

Ahhh thank you Saj x

I hope that was on cassette. The Atari 8-bit family had the same problem with slow loading cassettes. There was nothing sadder than having to wait over 1/2 hour for my Scott Adams text adventure to load than to hear the final beep go bbbeeeeee....... only to have to rewind and restart again.

It is not a good idea to use a Mega Drive controller with a C64 or C128. Did the same, but did not work properly - but there is a risk to destroy the joystick port that way (fortunately nothing happens here on my C128).

Worked fine with my spectrum + and Acorn a3010. Megadrive pads were so versatile.

The Amiga is a much more powerful multimedia and gaming computer, but it has far less software owing to it never taking off the way the c64 did. I never had a c64 but I had an Ami by the time I first encountered one. It's prosaic basic based operating system and chunky pixels seemed quite crude and quaint, but in retrospect I can see how cutting edge it once was

My father owned a few. I may have been a little child back then, but yes! I lived through this. The C64 was what kept gaming going through the video game crash of 1983. With the price war between Commodore and Texas Instruments going on, the Commodore 64 was so cheap that there were just so many of them out that you had to make software for it because there was enough money to be made. With the Atari 2600 obsolete in 1983, and Atari losing tons of money and Apple not following the price war and keeping its prices high, and no one touching the video game console market, the C64 was the choice for computer gaming. The only reason youd want to touch a Commodore 64 is to play the games that were ORIGINALLY made for the C64 (there are too many to name), just because of difference between it and other systems. There is always a difference between the original games and the ports to other systems.

So being middle class wasn't masses? We had a TI in 1983.

I still have a C128D.. bought a tapecart SD recently and it loads games in a few seconds.. so much fun still to this day!

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I loved my Amiga. It was such an awesome machine for the time

Haha thank you! X

I raise you Batman, it was epic. Also New Zealand story had a great tune

Just you wait, Ferret lol I'll tell you on Discord haha