When Commodore Business Machines decided to move from typewriters and calculators to microprocessors, it was a decision that would change home computing forever. After Commodore’s lukewarm introduction of the PET/CBM II series of computers, they quickly progressed to what would be their first real home computer hit, the VIC 20.
While it sold over 2 million units worldwide, its success was eclipsed by their next release, the 12.5-million-unit seller, the Commodore 64. ability to offload both graphic and sound work onto its custom chipset, the VIC-II graphics chip and the SID sound chip. The 64’s VIC-II graphics chip offered 16 colors and 8 hardware sprite objects. Though the sprites were limited in how many colors could be utilized at once, clever designers and programmers were able to do amazing things that rivaled arcade games of the time. With hardware screen scrolling and raster interrupt effects, the COMMODORE 64….
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