Commodore 64

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A popular 8 bit computer from Commodore released in 1982.

The C64 community always over-exagerate the C64 sound chip capacities and it's marvelous graphical display, it's avant-gardist sprites and scrollings ability and it's pure awesomness.

But the facts are :

• The SID sound like a chainsaw to the most delicate ears.

• The Amstrad CPC is superior in pure graphism capability, thanks to a colorfull palette.

• The Amstrad CPC was by far cheaper, fully equipped and with a fast Disk player (cpc 6128).

• The Amstrad CPC range sold better in France (err...Not a good argument maybe)

• Only because so many games developped on the Amstrad CPC were puny Speccy ports which didn't really exploited the CPC machines well, C64 games looked like superproductions.

• Yet, Gryzor deeply sucks on a C64...

By the way the C64 remains the best selling computer ever.

Video

Link to a complete video on the C64 :

http://video.google.fr/googleplayer.swf?docid=8933222497028864574&hl=fr&fs=true

Links

More seriously : C64 on Wikipedia