The Commodore 64 was a low priced and popular personal computer in the early in 1982. It sold for about $595, and that was a lot less than Apple or IBM computers at that time. A IBM jr in 1984 cost about $1600 to $2500, and a Apple IIe cost about $1400 in 1983. Compared to the other 2 computer companies, Commodore along with Atari offered low cost computers in the $500 to $1000 range. The C64 didn’t come with a floppy drive, it came with a cartridge slot. It also came with 64 kb of ram which was the standard at the time. In 1984, you had IBM XT computers with 640 kb of ram becoming standard feature at the time.
The Commodore 64 had a large library of applications and games, but by 1987 it was totally outclassed. The Nintendo Entertainment System was clearly superior to the C64 in every way. You also had 16 bit computers coming into the market, like the Commodore Amiga 500.
You can still use the C64 in emulator form, and it functions very much like the original. The VICE emulator was first released in 1993, but it was improved over the years. Here are a list of videos I made that will help you setup and run a C64 emulator.
- Vice Commodore 64 Emulator Tutorial
- Convert Commodore 64 NIB files to C64 file with NIB Tools. You need this to extra some types of files.
- Vice Commodore 64 Emulator Run Button
Commodore 64 Vice Emulator Tutorial
Convert Commodore 64 NIB files to C64 file with NIB Tools
Vice Commodore 64 Emulator Run Button