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The Commodore Story
2018 · Film · documentary · 120 min
Directed by Steven Fletcher
The story of the Commodore PET, VIC-20, C64 and Amiga from engineers, games developers and how Commodore influenced the first 8-bit generation users.
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Pretty awesome, thanks. I've been bingeing on retro computing documentaries, and this is right up with the best of them.
If anyone else is interested, I'd heartily recommend:
- The entire "From Bedrooms to Billions" documentary series (3x2h pieces, spanning the UK computing scene, the Amiga and the PlayStation, with several discussions on game music and demoscene)
- "The Chiptune Story", which covers the SID chip and the Amiga (there's also "The Commodore Story")
[1] I would not say Commodore has been erased; for example, Commodore is included in the Computer History Museum, which also premiered the movie "The Commodore Story."
[2] Citation? The references I've seen indicate that Apple stopped selling the Apple 2 in 1992 (though a IIe card for the Mac was sold until 1995) and that Apple's revenue increased until 1995 (remaining profitable through 1996) and didn't "crater" until 1997, the year that Steve Jobs returned (and fixed various problems including a confusing product lineup and Mac clones that were eating Apple's lunch.)
(Note: The Apple article on Wikipedia could really use some improvement and some better source references.)