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uReaders Comments
Commodore Machines Additional
Information By Viktor Varga
I have read all the issues of your
magazine, and in the 4th Issue I read
an article about the machine types.
My additions to these:
1) The SX-64 dies, because the
Commodore markets the SX-64 and DX-64
together (sx-64 with two drive) & lot
of people waited for the better
version. (This resulted in poor sales
of the SX-64.) (if you search the net
for the same stories, this vapourware-
like condition killed the company, who
manufactured the enterprise computer.
They advertised a computer together
with the Enterprise, so the sales was
not good, and they did not get enough
sales to release that.)
2) The Plus/4 and C16 has more sales in
east Europe for two reasons:
- the modern computers like Motorola
chiped Amigas were on the COCOM list.
- they were sold on discount prices,
when the western market said no for
these types of machine.
These were my comments.
About design question :I have read,
what is with the design of the
Commodore. A design was not covered by
the copyright law nowadays, but it
should be a registered product design
like patents. So you should check the
local patent office, is there any Valid
patent about it.
About your magazine
Sometimes I miss the referenced
pictures from the page, and sometimes,
I cant understood, why is missing
something. (for example: in the last
issue, there was an armalyte copyright
in the middle of an article. Some of
the articles are only philosophing,
which sometimes seems tobe agonising.:)
If you want to extend your article why
not the Commodore is the popular
computer nowadays, there are some
simple reason:
1) Pc was modular, you should not get
the whole thing, if you don't have
enough money for it
2) By the time, regarding to evolution
of peripheries, easy to replace the old
part with a new technology
3) There are concurrent manufacturers,
so there are market competition, which
is pushes the price down.These reason,
why cant Commodore stay on the market,
and why Applegoes to the X86 platform.
It enough for today. :) Viktor
COMMODORE FREE
Victor Thanks for the information, but
some of the screenshots from
Commodore free were threatened with
Copyright infringement, even items I
had copies with Vice emulator, the
copyright holder still owns the images.
JOHN
Hi, I just found your website & down-
loaded issues 4 & 5. I see mention that
you had to take off issues 1-3. I just
wanted to ask if you still have them &
if you could email them to me? I'd
love to read the earlier issues and I'm
also sort of a collector so having the
entire set in pdf would be great. :) If
you don't have them, do you know if
they are found elsewhere on the web?
Thanks John
COMMODORE FREE
Again I have had lots of requests for
the earlier articles, but as agreed
with the copyright holders I cant send
them out or have them for download.
Jocelyn I just discovered your magazine
and I want to thank you very much for
this great piece of art. I'm a huge
fan of the commodore 64 (I programmed a
lot in the 80's!) & i'm glad that I
found your magazine. I was searching
for a Commodore 64 dedicated magazine
& this is the only one I found. Thanks
again! Regards, Jocelyn
Commodore Free
Hello thanks for the Comments, you
know what I am going to say, why not
write about your programming exper-
iences from the 80{SHIFT-*}s and send them to
the magazine
Stephane
First off, awesome idea materialized
into an excellent reading experience.
I've enjoyed it beyond my descriptive
abilities. :-). Truly brilliant work.
I have two questions.
1, Since I just noticed commodorefree
.com (via a forum post about your issue
5 being out. I read issue 5 then issue
4. There are copyright at stakes for
issue 1 to 3 & that's really too bad as
I would have loved to read them as well
tremendously. There's no way to get a
copy of those 3 first issues is there? I would really appreciate that alot out
of my own personal interest &
curiosity.
2. I've read what you accept for sub-
missions. Though it didn't quite seem
like an official list of article types
per se ;-). So my second question is
if you would accept a tutorial on some
programming practice on any commodore
computer.
For example: how to program sounds on
the commodore 28 in BASIC 7.0 among
other ideas I have. Stephane
Commodore Free
Any articles would be welcomed,
especially articles related to prog-
ramming, but even experiences with
Commodore machines would be welcome.