http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/ Engadget Comments for Commodore Gaming disavows Commodore USA (and its decals) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 12th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 13th 2010 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/
i think they nust go to the telecom market..!!]]>May 3rd 2010 10:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 12th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 12th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Great stuff and they had to cram complete programs into that tiny amount of memory ( and succeeded as well) .And in the early days you had to use that tape-recorder to load games which took forever .That Dutch company simply bought the name Commodore ,they have nothing to do with the old company.

I sure would like to see someone buying the Amiga brand and subsequently release state of the art PC's under that name .


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I still have my Vic-20 as well. I have fond memories of using the cassette tape recorder to store my programs. :-P]]>Apr 12th 2010 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/
Good guy :) Do you?

I started programming with Vic20 with its 2k RAM. The first program was a number guessing game :)

It belonged to my friend and he did not use it until I saw it.

Aaaaaaa! I was a young boy at that time. I am a no more young computer scientist now.

Does your Vic20 work yet?

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Yes, it still works. I just wish I had kept the box it sat in. :-P A few years ago I went back through my cassettes of programs and found that most of them had deteriorated beyond usage, but I did find a simple screensaver program that I used as a school project- The rotating colored bars were timed to rotate to the beat of Journey's "Open Arms". :-P]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 12th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 12th 2010 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 12th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/LOL..You know, I remember typing load "*",8,1 but I cannot for the life of me remember the parameters that ,8,1 represented!]]>Apr 12th 2010 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/I remember typing: left arrow + L + return...

:)]]>Apr 13th 2010 5:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 13th 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/
Load "program",8,1 means load from device 8 (first disc drive) and ,1 means run when loaded. if you just took load "program" it tried to load from tape, and if you took load "program",8 it loaded but you had to write run. ]]>Apr 13th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/
It has been a long time, but I believe the ",1" signified loading a binary file.]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/
addendum:
"and the '1' signifies that the file is to be loaded not to the standard memory address, but to the address where its program header tells it to go—the address it was saved from. This usually signifies a machine language program, as opposed to a BASIC program."
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http://www.commodoreusa.net/amigo.html

The conspiracy theories already abound:

http://twitter.com/freeamiga
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Yeah, I read that and suddenly I came over all peckish.]]>Apr 13th 2010 12:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 13th 2010 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Thanks guys... my name does get some nice comments, specially in the states.... ;) ]]>Apr 13th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Err... yes, I am Taco van Sambeek... Burrito would be my nickname (wonder why? ;)) ]]>Apr 13th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/
In fact, he used to run a BBS on it that was a part of Fidonet's Net 371. Good times indeed.]]>Apr 12th 2010 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 13th 2010 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/12/commodore-gaming-disavows-commodore-usa-and-its-decals/Apr 13th 2010 11:03AM