Commodore 2. 64 Plus4 TED Series The Beginning of the End. Commodore 2. 64 Plus4 TED Series The Beginning of the End. HomeCommodore Computer Products Commodore 2. Plus4 TED Series The Beginning of the Endby Ian Matthews of Commodore. June 1. 0 2. 00. 3 Revised January 1. On this page Commodore 2. Family History. Commodore 2. Family Manuals Magazine Articles. Commodore 64 Games Pack' title='Commodore 64 Games Pack' />Commodore 2. Family Chronology. Commodore 2. 64 Family Photo Gallery. Commodore 2. 64 History On January 1. Commodore Business Machines president, Jack Tramiel posed for photographers at the Consumer Electronics Show. He proudly displayed the latest Commodore home computers in his hands the Commodore 2. As with almost everything at Commodore, development of this new concept machine with very limited specifications had been ordered by Jack Tramiel himself. However, as the development cycle came to fruition it  was clear that the engineers had developed a more powerful 6. K computer that was right for the small office home office market. Only the hobbled Commodore C1. Jack had originally requested. The 2. 64 series were very interesting concept machines they were to be customized much like new cars are today 2. The key area were emphasizing in software for the Commodore 2. Sig Hartmann, president of Commodore SoftwareThe machine is truly a more business oriented computer with its optional built in integrating software and screen window capability. Imagine working with a word processor and data base or electronic spread sheet simultaneously on the screen. Commodore 64 Games Pack' title='Commodore 64 Games Pack' />This allows writing on the word processor while viewing data from the data base or spread sheet i. With integrating software, data can be exchanged from one program to the other. Data from the data base or spread sheet easily can be inserted into a document on the word processor. The Commodore 2. Hartmann. In other words, by choosing a Commodore 2. If you use your computer to do mostly word processing, you can buy the Commodore 2. If you need financial calculation, you can have a built in electronic spreadsheet. The optional built in software for the Commodore 2. For example, if the machine is purchased with a word processor built in and the owner later decides to purchase the electronic spread sheet, the spread sheet can be purchased on an add on cartridgeCompute June 1. Click HERE for the complete text. Hiren`S Bootcd 9.4 Iso. In 1. 98. 3, a new hire named Bil Herd was given the  task of completing the project. During a 2. 00. 3 interview with www. Four out five households in the US own a video game console. With the halcyon days of the arcade far behind us, video games have entered the mainstream and the. OldSoftware. coms listing of surplus and liquidation priced software, games, and educational programs for old Commodore, Amiga and IBM DOS and Windows computers. Release. Commodore demonstrated the CD32 at the World of Commodore Amiga show in September 1993, promising to sell the console in some cities by Christmas with wider. The Commodore 64 came out in 1982, priced at just 595 in the US the price later dropped to 200. It was the successor to the legendary VIC20, and was tremendously. Commodore 64 Games Pack' title='Commodore 64 Games Pack' />Bill detailed the wacky process in which he became the project manager. TED as explained to me was to cost 4. TimexSinclair which sold for nearly 1. I  started in the middle of the 1. Commodore 64 Machine of Destiny. The 64 began its design life in January of 1981 when MOS Technology engineers decided they needed a new chip project. Super Mario 64 was released in 1996 as a singleplayer video game. Recent mods have let two people play together, but a new romhack allows up to 24 to jump online and. James Bond video games first began development in 1982 with the ZX Spectrum textbased adventure. Thanks for visiting the Commodore 64 serial registry. This page is dedicated to keeping track of the C64s that are still alive and well and in the hands of. TED development, there was a  design but no PCBs, no chips yet. When I showed up they had me slated to work  for Benny Pruden doing disk drive software but he was out that first week. I  had wondered off to the hardware lab and had been exchanging information with  the guy in charge of the TED who was about to leave, and by the time Benny got  back I was more or less in charge of the TED project. Herd said In the days of 2. C6. 4 this sounded like a good idea, and we didnt want to be compatible, at some level of rationalization, with C6. WAS a different, uber cheap little machineThe Evolution of the MAX Machine When you talk to Commodore people about the  MAX Machine, they think, stripped down Japanese C6. However, Michael Tomczyk, former assistant to Jack Tramiel and self described product manager still has in 2. MAX Machine prototype. You will be surprised at the specifications It was a small black machine that was going to revolutionize the home computing field. I had identified the four basic killer apps for home computing word processing, spreadsheets, database management, and graphics. All four apps were built into the HARDWARE of the MAX, along with a terrific 2. I researched and selected the words myself. We also planned to fix any bugs and provide software updates on a plug in cartridge, a very elegant way to do upgrades that addressed the problem of having the software apps on chips in the motherboard. Click HERE to go to our prototype page for more information. The Chips The 2. TED series because it used MOSs interesting new 7. Text EDitor or TED chip. Designed in 1. 98. MOS Technologies Dave Diorio, the 7. CPU was a modified and much faster version of the MOS 6. It ran at 1. 7. 6Mhz while earlier MOS 6. PET, VIC 2. 0 and C6. Mhz.   The difference between the 7. Like the VIC I chip used in the  VIC 2. TED was both a graphics and sound chip While the TED could genuinely produce more colours the  Commodore 6. Sprite graphics which was one of the things that made the C6. It was capable of displaying 4. On the audio side, it had two tone oscillators which  produced two voices. The 7. The Hardware The 2. On the plus side, Commodore 6. Commodores IEC Serial Bus. Monitor and RF Modulator TV connectors were also the same on both products. Further, Commodore 1. VIC 2. 0 and common to the C6. K of RAM, although I have never even heard of anyone  even attempting this expansion. Commodore completed design and started a small production run of 1. Commodore 1. 54. 1 floppy. Its speed came from being connected to the Expansion Port rather than the more traditional Serial Port. On the negative side, Commodore produced only one joystick that would function on a 2. The cartridge slot was brand new so C6. The Software Commodore Microsoft Basic 3. Basic 2. 0 predecessor used in Commodore 6. I am all but certain Commodore never released even on prototype demo machines Basic 3. Perhaps they wanted to indicate that 3. Basic 4. 0 being used in much more expensive Commodore PET CBM II machines of the day. Basic 3. DSAVE, DLOAD. A user could actually gain peripheral access using common sense syntax rather than the near hieroglyphics required on a 6. Graphics commands like, CIRCLE and BOX made it much easier for developers to create on screen images without extensive use of memory PEEKs and POKEs. Basic 3. None of the  2. Commodore had promised. Instead the Plus4 was born when the 2. ROM containing TRI Micros 3 Plus 1 integrated software. The original 2. Commodore development machines. Plus 1 meant a Word Processora Spread Sheeta Data Base, anda Graphing program all in one easy to access package. This software was installed on a ROM chip and the programs could be started by simply pressing one of four buttons located just above the main keyboard. Integrated software allowed for Windowing, in  which you could basically Copy and Paste very limited amounts of data between programs. I have played with it extensively and thought it was pretty damn cool for its time. Commodore had to remove some of the original 31 features to make the program fit into a 3. K ROM but Tri Micro offered diskette based upgrade called PlusExtra which re added features like double triple line spacing and print preview. The idea was fantastic putting what is today 2. ROM was almost revolutionary in 1. The ability to load frequently used programs almost instantly at the simple touch of a button must have seemed very attractive on paper. The problem was quality. The word processor would only handle an embarrassingly small 9.