Commodore adverts

Commodore Amiga - astounding by any stretch of the imagination

The Amiga, code-named "Lorraine", was first demonstrated to a select few at June 1984's CES show in Chicago, by Amiga, a company founded by Jay Miner, one of the original designer...

Never in the history of business systems has so little done so much

Both the "budget" Amiga 500 and higher-end A2000 were announced at the same time during the winter CES show in Las Vegas in 1987. However, Commodore actually managed to start shi...

New Amiga 500 - Now other home computers are just toys

The original Amiga, or A1000 as it came to be known, nearly didn't make it when it launched in 1986, as Commodore was going through some major financial problems whilst its potent...

Europe's best-kept business secret - Now revealed in Britain

It's the beginning of the end for Commodore, as the company is now fully on the IBM-compatible gravy train, leaving behind its roots as the company which launched the world's firs...

PC 20: Now you can master a business computer in just a few simple steps

This advert is almost an epitaph for Commodore as well as the whole early micro industry since the first "modern" personal computer, Commodore's own PET. From those first few ma...

Commodore CDTV - it's nothing short of revolutionary

Launched in March 1991, Commodore's CDTV - not Compact Disc TeleVision, but actually Commodore Dynamic Total Vision - was one of the very first consumer systems to provide video ...

Amiga 1500 - the world at your fingertips

The Amiga 1500 appears to be considered very much the mystery. It was essentially a cut-down version of the existing Amiga 2000, but shipped with an extra - but empty - CPU slot, ...