Anders Hesselbom

The Commodore 65

2010-06-26

This is truly one of those machines you really want to own. The Commodore 65 (or C64DX) never made it to the market, probably because of the huge success of the Commodore Amiga. But what a machine it is.

Better graphics than the Amiga, 128 Kb of RAM (could be expanded 8 Mb) and a Basic interpretator for Commodore Basic 10. Commodore Basic 10 is sort of the same that the Commodore 128 has (Commodore Basic 7) but well improved with added support for mouse programming and genlocking (that is adding graphics to video).

The most amazing feature of the C65 must be that it had two SID chips for sound. This gave the machine 6 channels of fat analogue stereo sound. Like the C64, but more.

There are (illegal) ROM dumps circulating the Internet, and I sometimes get it to run without crashing my PC. I hope to get back to this soon enough.

Categories: Geeky

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