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Commodore founder Jack Tramiel passes away

April 10, 2012September 26, 2012 Doug Groves Amiga, Atari, C-64, Commodore, Commodore 64, Jack Tramiel, VIC-201 Comment

Jack Tramiel, who founded Commodore International, passed away this past Sunday at the age of 83. Born in 1928, Tramiel survived Auschwitz and a labour camp in during World War II, and later emigrated to the United States and started building typewriters. He later set up Commodore Business Machines in Toronto for supply chain purposes, and branched into computers with the Commodore PET, which was a staple of computer classes in schools at the time. It was the Commodore PET that inspired me to get my first computer, the VIC-20. …

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Will we see a Commodore 64 in the NHL? Let’s hope so…

July 7, 2011 Doug Groves classic computing, Commodore, Commodore 64, Detroit Red Wings, hockey, Mike Commodore2 Comments

The venerable Commodore 64 has seen a bit of a revival of late, with the release of a new Intel based computer shoved into the shell of the 1980’s 8-bit dream machine. Its reach is extending beyond the computing realm to the world of hockey (only the best sport in the world).

The Commodore 64 lives again, sort of

April 4, 2011April 4, 2011 Doug Groves Amiga, C64, C64s, Commodore, Commodore USA, HTPC, ION2, nostalgia, Nvidia ION2 Comments

Remember the Commodore 64? In its heyday day, it was the best selling computer of all time, and over the years a number of case modders have managed to cram a fully functioning PC inside the case. Now Commodore USA hoping that nostalgia will help revive the form factor with modern internals on a more ‘official’ level.

PC64 aims directly at the nostalgia crowd

September 3, 2010September 3, 2010 Doug Groves Atom, C-64, Commodore, Commodore 64, ION 2, nettop, Nvidia, PC64, portable2 Comments

One of the more oddball computer announcements in the past week or so was Commodore USA would be coming out with the PC64, and all in one computer that will be a 1:1 replica of one of the most successful computers of all time – the Commodore 64. The basic concept is that they’re going to stuff the guts of a modern nettop, complete with an Intel Atom dual core 525 processor and Nvidia ION2 graphics processor into the original chassis, along with a modern variety of ports. The machine…

The Amiga would have been 25 today

July 23, 2010 Doug Groves Amiga, Amiga 1000, Amiga 2000, Amiga 500, boing ball, Commodore4 Comments

The Commodore 64 may have been the first computer to sell over one million units, but it was June 24th, 1985 when Commodore debuted the Amiga 1000, a computer that was, for all intents and purposes way ahead of the computing curve. Computer stores in shopping malls across North America and Europe loved showcasing the now classic “Amiga Ball” as evidence of the power under the hood of this high end machine. Over the next 10 years and multiple iterations, the Amiga computer proved to be a versatile creative tool,…