#1 Commodore 64 & Amiga spot on X. Daily games, history & nostalgia + a dash of pop culture. Book The Vault Vol.1 out now. Exclusive X-Articles for subscribers.

For all things Commodore👇🔗
If you’re a Commodore fan, this is the book for you. The Commodore Computer Museum presents The Vault Vol.1 — 50 of the strangest, wildest, and least-told stories from Commodore and the Amiga. Inside: • How the Amiga helped create the visual effects for James Cameron’s Titanic • The CIA’s secret use of the Amiga • Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie, and the Amiga • The elephant that got Commodore’s advertising banned …and dozens more you’ve probably never heard. Every sale supports the Commodore Computer Museum.USD $10: commodoremuseum.gumroad.com/… So what's inside the Commodore e-book? 50 Commodore Computer Articles, here are the contents. Part 1 – Hidden Hardware History 1. Commodore V364: The Lost Talking Flagship of the TED Series 2. The Amiga Tele Vision – Commodore’s Forgotten 1988 Mobile TV Studio 3. The Commodore Explorer: When Commodore Sailed into the Record Books 4. Amiga 600 “The computer nobody wanted”? 5. Does the Amiga 4000 deserve its rep? 6. Commodore Amiga 3000UX (UNIX) 7. A Summary of Commodore Business Machines 1962 8. How the Commodore 64 Survived the Great Video Game Crash of 1983 Part 2 – Iconic Games & Near Misses 9. The Great Giana Sisters: The Commodore 64’s Bold Mario Rival That Nintendo Never Released 10. Raid over Moscow: The Commodore Game That (Nearly) Started World War III 11. 10 Facts You NEVER Wanted to Know About LEMMINGS! 12. Commodore 64 game Kung-Fu Master is NOT based on Bruce Lee movie Game of Death 13. The Lost Art of Video Game Mapping: Alien Slime (Commodore 64) 14. Bubble Bobble: A Retro Gaming Classic 15. Are Krusty’s Super Fun House & Rat Trap both the same Amiga Game? 16. Expo ’85 Tsukuba, Japan ‘Lode Runner’ Competition 17. The Secret Story of Hungary’s C64 Games: Iron Curtain Coders Who Conquered the West 18. Commodore Amiga Games That Captured Lightning in a Bottle 19. Commodore 64 Spy Hunter: Secrets & Hidden Easter Egg in EXCEL 20. Eureka! – The Commodore 64 Adventure That Promised a £25,000 Prize Part 3 – The People Behind Commodore 21. Jack Tramiel: The Legend 22. Bill Gates vs Jack Tramiel or Microsoft Commodore or the Infamous Microsoft Easter Egg 23. Irving Gould: The Saviour and Destroyer of Commodore International Ltd 24. Commodore Declares Bankruptcy-29th April 1994! 25. When your Product sounds like a swear word and it was a blessing! Part 4 – Strange Experiments & Real-World Oddities 26. Did you know Commodore Made a Climbing Wheelchair? 27. The Vaisala’s HAWS Commodore 64 Weather device 28. Commodore’s PC Compatibles - The Decision that hurt the Amiga 29. Plug your Running Shoe into Your Commodore 64? (The PUMA RS-Computer Shoe) 30. Commodore Computer’s Patent for Musical Greeting Card? 31. Commodore’s Soccer Sponsorship: 32. $75,000 vs. $910,000: How the Amiga 500 Literally Made Its Own Holiday TV commercials 33. Maureen the Elephant & the Commodore 64: The Banned 64KB RAM Circus Ads 34. Commodore’s Forgotten Energy Projects Part 5 – Pop Culture, Hollywood & Hidden Stories 35. The CIA’s Secret Weapon? The Commodore Amiga! 36. Amiga Connection: How the Commodore Amiga Powered Max Headroom 37. Futurama and Commodore 64 Connections You Missed! 38. Lockerbie Disaster & Amiga 2000? 39. William Shatner is THE Commodore Ultimate Spokesman 40. Commodore 64’s Astro Chase Cover Art...Buzz Aldrin? 41. James Cameron’s Secret Titanic Weapon? The Commodore Amiga 4000! 42. Will the real Joe Pillow please stand up? The Amiga Myth Busted! 43. The Amiga 1000’s Secret Signatures: A Paw, a Pillow, and a Legend. Part 6 – Deep Cuts, Myths & Hidden Details 44. What’s the story, was it ‘Giana’ or ‘Gianna’ sisters? 45. Did You Earn Your Achievement Points from Activision? 46. The Nautical Connections of the Commodore Computer Logo. 47. PaintPic: New Zealand’s Commodore 64: Photoshop before Photoshop. 48. Commodore Amiga Game Enters Byelection... and didn’t come last! 49. Commodore Computer History: Why Was It Called Commodore? 50. Lucasfilm’s Virtual Commodore 64 Afterword: “Commodore Didn’t Die — It Just Went Underground”. Thank you fellow Commodore Computer fans, I hope you enjoy reading The Vault Vol.1 e-book.
1
2
11
820
Part 1/3 44 years ago today, Knight Rider premiered. This show was super cool. The Hoff and a talking car. What more did we need in 1982? I was pretty excited as a kid to sit in the driver’s seat of KITT and have a conversation with the car. Years later I found out there was a booth in the display room with curtains around it… and a man. A man was talking to me, not KITT. But at the time, as a Knight Rider fan, it was all KITT. Did you know Ocean Software released Knight Rider on the Commodore 64?🧵👇
1
4
144
2/3 Celebrating the premiere of the legendary Knight Rider TV series today, it seems appropiate to watch the opening intro on my Commodore 64.🎶🧵👇
1
59
3/3 The TV Series, Knight Rider - released 44 years ago today - was 100% fun, but the Commodore 64 game released by Ocean didn't score that well by Zzap!64 magazine. Zzap!64 scored it 16% saying "Surely after sixteen months Ocean could have come up with something better than this." Do you remember playing the game, what score would you rate it?
3
52
What’s the best Thalamus game released on the Commodore 64? (Without saying Armalyte.)
3
1
20
716
Today’s post is simple: power on something old and make something new.
2
10
514
Shadow Fighter, Amiga CD32 33 years ago September 1993 — Commodore put the Amiga CD32 on sale in Europe. During the month of September we are celebrating with an awesome CD32 game each day. Any fans of this game out there on X?
3
3
37
958
They sold it like a supermarket tabloid. “HUMAN-LIKE BEINGS ACTUALLY FOUND LIVING INSIDE COMPUTERS.” That was the box for Little Computer People on the Commodore 64. Not a game, it was a 'research project'. One little guy in a three-story house on your screen. He ate, slept, played the piano, typed you letters, and got mad if you ignored him. Before The Sims, this was the whole idea. Who else had Little People living in their Commodore64?
5
5
53
1,212
Best Amiga strategy game?
18
3
121
2,154
What’s the best Palace Software game released on the Commodore 64? (Without saying Barbarian.)
2
3
38
916
39 years ago today, a grandfather started reading a book to his grandson. It had fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters and true love. Still the greatest fairy tale that isn’t just a fairy tale. The Princess Bride (released 25th September 1987) As you wish. 🧵👇
7
8
42
1,628
The Princess Bride one the greatest movies of the 80s was released this day (25th September) in 1987. Eagle eye Commodore 64 fans would have noticed Fred Savage was playing Hardball! on his Commodore 64! Did you notice this awesome C64 cameo?
1
11
391
On this day in 1986 (Sept 25th) Sega put OutRun in Japanese arcades. Not a race with a podium. A red Ferrari, a girl in the passenger seat, five roads that split, a timer that does not care how pretty the coastline looks. You pick a route, you chase the horizon. Which is why the Michael Bay / Sydney Sweeney movie is such a funny thing. The game barely has a story. Bay’s whole career is story, explosions, sunlight hitting metal. Sweeney’s producing, not even confirmed as the blonde in the car yet, and nobody’s said what the film is actually about. Cannonball Run with a Testarossa? A couple on the run? Two hours of drift and lens flare? I am still intrigued about this upcoming movie. If you played OutRun in the arcade, which 8-bit or 16-bit port actually came closest?
2
20
751
This Commodore 64 game has a 10/10 score. Manic Miner 64DX is a 2019 C64 remake of Matthew Smith’s 1983 ZX Spectrum classic. Graham Axten (Toki) released it on 29 December 2019 as a free disk image on CSDb: csdb.dk/release/?id=185586 Manic Miner was one of the first games I played on a mate’s ZX Spectrum. I couldn’t wait to get it on my C64. Classic, addictive, and frustratingly hard. Have you played Toki’s remake? What did you think of it?
7
10
100
2,548
Pinball Illusions, Amiga CD32 33 years ago September 1993 — Commodore put the Amiga CD32 on sale in Europe. During the month of September we are celebrating with an awesome CD32 game each day. Any fans of this game out there on X?
7
11
133
2,171
Stay 8-bit at heart, even when the world goes 8K.
1
4
50
1,024
Who adored their Commodore 64?
4
2
63
1,269
If you’re a Commodore fan, this is the book for you. The Commodore Computer Museum presents The Vault Vol.1 — 50 of the strangest, wildest, and least-told stories from Commodore and the Amiga. Inside: • How the Amiga helped create the visual effects for James Cameron’s Titanic • The CIA’s secret use of the Amiga • Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie, and the Amiga • The elephant that got Commodore’s advertising banned …and dozens more you’ve probably never heard. Every sale supports the Commodore Computer Museum.USD $10: commodoremuseum.gumroad.com/… So what's inside the Commodore e-book? 50 Commodore Computer Articles, here are the contents. Part 1 – Hidden Hardware History 1. Commodore V364: The Lost Talking Flagship of the TED Series 2. The Amiga Tele Vision – Commodore’s Forgotten 1988 Mobile TV Studio 3. The Commodore Explorer: When Commodore Sailed into the Record Books 4. Amiga 600 “The computer nobody wanted”? 5. Does the Amiga 4000 deserve its rep? 6. Commodore Amiga 3000UX (UNIX) 7. A Summary of Commodore Business Machines 1962 8. How the Commodore 64 Survived the Great Video Game Crash of 1983 Part 2 – Iconic Games & Near Misses 9. The Great Giana Sisters: The Commodore 64’s Bold Mario Rival That Nintendo Never Released 10. Raid over Moscow: The Commodore Game That (Nearly) Started World War III 11. 10 Facts You NEVER Wanted to Know About LEMMINGS! 12. Commodore 64 game Kung-Fu Master is NOT based on Bruce Lee movie Game of Death 13. The Lost Art of Video Game Mapping: Alien Slime (Commodore 64) 14. Bubble Bobble: A Retro Gaming Classic 15. Are Krusty’s Super Fun House & Rat Trap both the same Amiga Game? 16. Expo ’85 Tsukuba, Japan ‘Lode Runner’ Competition 17. The Secret Story of Hungary’s C64 Games: Iron Curtain Coders Who Conquered the West 18. Commodore Amiga Games That Captured Lightning in a Bottle 19. Commodore 64 Spy Hunter: Secrets & Hidden Easter Egg in EXCEL 20. Eureka! – The Commodore 64 Adventure That Promised a £25,000 Prize Part 3 – The People Behind Commodore 21. Jack Tramiel: The Legend 22. Bill Gates vs Jack Tramiel or Microsoft Commodore or the Infamous Microsoft Easter Egg 23. Irving Gould: The Saviour and Destroyer of Commodore International Ltd 24. Commodore Declares Bankruptcy-29th April 1994! 25. When your Product sounds like a swear word and it was a blessing! Part 4 – Strange Experiments & Real-World Oddities 26. Did you know Commodore Made a Climbing Wheelchair? 27. The Vaisala’s HAWS Commodore 64 Weather device 28. Commodore’s PC Compatibles - The Decision that hurt the Amiga 29. Plug your Running Shoe into Your Commodore 64? (The PUMA RS-Computer Shoe) 30. Commodore Computer’s Patent for Musical Greeting Card? 31. Commodore’s Soccer Sponsorship: 32. $75,000 vs. $910,000: How the Amiga 500 Literally Made Its Own Holiday TV commercials 33. Maureen the Elephant & the Commodore 64: The Banned 64KB RAM Circus Ads 34. Commodore’s Forgotten Energy Projects Part 5 – Pop Culture, Hollywood & Hidden Stories 35. The CIA’s Secret Weapon? The Commodore Amiga! 36. Amiga Connection: How the Commodore Amiga Powered Max Headroom 37. Futurama and Commodore 64 Connections You Missed! 38. Lockerbie Disaster & Amiga 2000? 39. William Shatner is THE Commodore Ultimate Spokesman 40. Commodore 64’s Astro Chase Cover Art...Buzz Aldrin? 41. James Cameron’s Secret Titanic Weapon? The Commodore Amiga 4000! 42. Will the real Joe Pillow please stand up? The Amiga Myth Busted! 43. The Amiga 1000’s Secret Signatures: A Paw, a Pillow, and a Legend. Part 6 – Deep Cuts, Myths & Hidden Details 44. What’s the story, was it ‘Giana’ or ‘Gianna’ sisters? 45. Did You Earn Your Achievement Points from Activision? 46. The Nautical Connections of the Commodore Computer Logo. 47. PaintPic: New Zealand’s Commodore 64: Photoshop before Photoshop. 48. Commodore Amiga Game Enters Byelection... and didn’t come last! 49. Commodore Computer History: Why Was It Called Commodore? 50. Lucasfilm’s Virtual Commodore 64 Afterword: “Commodore Didn’t Die — It Just Went Underground”. Thank you fellow Commodore Computer fans, I hope you enjoy reading The Vault Vol.1 e-book.
1
2
11
820
I reposted this as the link to the book didn't work. Thank you to those who let me know, the link is now working.
2
2
293
Commodore AMIGA The same machines. The same magic.
1
1
20
878